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Dominic Solanke

if son is playing, we need to set him up to chase down the ball and give him the space and freedom to be able to cut in and shoot.

if ange does not change his system now to suit remaining players who are available - there is no more denying he is a poor coach
 
Lemonade Money said:
You've had a lot of feelings recently.
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Feelings is all we can go on at this point. And emotions are not always logically as we all know.

If I could override my feelings....common sense will tell me to pick another team or just stop watching football altogether! But I can't so I don't so I end up doing groundhog day with moments of greatness!!
 
Legohamster said:
Someone made the excellent point a few weeks ago regarding Dom and rotation.

Even if bringing on Lankshear for 20/25 minutes towards the end of a game meant a drop in standard for that game, it's better than losing Solanke for weeks through injury.


Another poor decision by the manager.
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Although I read he got injured in training? Not sure how true
 
harr1984 said:
People trying to compare our injury situation to other teams such as Bournemouth is utterly ridiculous. We have been hit consistently throughout the season with the spine of our starting eleven, and constantly had injuries topped up to that week after week all whilst having to play European games aswell. Bournemouth and anyone else's injuries have not been close to comparison.

Can claim it's an excuse all you want, it's a legitimate one - that doesn't mean Ange can't be criticised but making out he should just deal with it and other managers have had it this tough is wide of the mark to say the least.....
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I think the comparison with Bournemouth is that they have had to find a way to deal with their injuries and remain competitive while arguably having, player for player, a less competitive squad. In areas where we have had injuries up till now, it’s mainly the CBs that have hurt us. We have had rotational options elsewhere for European games such that we could have rested even Solanke for some games. Every team suffers a drop in performance when juggling Europe with the league games but the form that has us 15th in the league with our only recent win being Southampton is really not acceptable even taking into account European games.
 
Legohamster said:
Someone made the excellent point a few weeks ago regarding Dom and rotation.

Even if bringing on Lankshear for 20/25 minutes towards the end of a game meant a drop in standard for that game, it's better than losing Solanke for weeks through injury.


Another poor decision by the manager.
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Why Lankshear? Why not swap Son into the centre forward role for some games? With Maddison number 10? He was our top scorer last season. Do you remember when him and Maddison were unplayable at the start of last season before Madders got injured against Chelsea? What the hell happened to both those players?
 
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Robspur12 said:
Why Lankshear? Why not swap Son into the centre forward role for some games? He was our top scorer last season.
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Son who is broken and can’t even play wide forward?
We need a presence up top. It’s exactly what went wrong in the cup last week
You can’t build form the back without engaging the opposition centre backs. Son shies away form any physical battles
Lankshear would at least do that
 
Bedfordspurs said:
Son who is broken and can’t even play wide forward?
We need a presence up top. It’s exactly what went wrong in the cup last week
You can’t build form the back without engaging the opposition centre backs. Son shies away form any physical battles
Lankshear would at least do that
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He and Maddison were unplayable only at the start of last season playing up front. If it meant some rest time for Solanke then that’s what needed to happen.
 
Robspur12 said:
I think the comparison with Bournemouth is that they have had to find a way to deal with their injuries and remain competitive while arguably having, player for player, a less competitive squad. In areas where we have had injuries up till now, it’s mainly the CBs that have hurt us. We have had rotational options elsewhere for European games such that we could have rested even Solanke for some games. Every team suffers a drop in performance when juggling Europe with the league games but the form that has us 15th in the league with our only recent win being Southampton is really not acceptable even taking into account European games.
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It's not a comparison when they have longer preparation time tactically and physically to prepare for games every week. We don't have that luxury, and it's not just been the CBs at all. Ange has had to deal with Bentancur missing for ages due to stupidity who is our best CM, Bissouma doing his best to get suspended as often as possible, our best quality forward Richi who could have rotated with Solanke and other wide forwards injured as always, our young exciting wingers in Odobert and Moore who were already getting first team opportunities out for ages...need I go on? All well and good saying Ange should have rotated here there and everywhere weakening the team and then there will be complaints when we are knocked out of cups.

My heart bleeds for Bournemouth that they have a few injuries at the moment, let's see how they are still coping after a couple of months of it and even then they wouldn't of had all the midweek football we've had to endure.....
 
Robspur12 said:
Better than being 15th in the league I’d say.
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Will have to disagree mate. I'd take winning a cup and finishing 15th over finishing 4th 5th or whatever all day long now - it's meaningless. Of course if we get knocked out of the cups and finish 15th that's a different conversation....
 
harr1984 said:
Will have to disagree mate. I'd take winning a cup and finishing 15th over finishing 4th 5th or whatever all day long now - it's meaningless. Of course if we get knocked out of the cups and finish 15th that's a different conversation....
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I want to win a cup too. But the league form is what measures year to year improvement. Just look at what happened to Ten Hag at Utd.
 
harr1984 said:
People trying to compare our injury situation to other teams such as Bournemouth is utterly ridiculous. We have been hit consistently throughout the season with the spine of our starting eleven, and constantly had injuries topped up to that week after week all whilst having to play European games aswell. Bournemouth and anyone else's injuries have not been close to comparison.

Can claim it's an excuse all you want, it's a legitimate one - that doesn't mean Ange can't be criticised but making out he should just deal with it and other managers have had it this tough is wide of the mark to say the least.....
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There might be some good points to be made wrt how our situation is different to Bournemouth but it's pure hyperbole to say comparing our situation to the next most injury hit team is 'absolutely ridiculous' taking such a needlessly dismissive stance doesn't really encourage a discussion.


Iirc Saudi Sportswashing Machine last season had a comparable injury list, while they were in Europe as well, so maybe someone could have a look there to see how Eddie Howe coped? @SteveAWOL 😇
 
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harr1984 said:
People trying to compare our injury situation to other teams such as Bournemouth is utterly ridiculous. We have been hit consistently throughout the season with the spine of our starting eleven, and constantly had injuries topped up to that week after week all whilst having to play European games aswell. Bournemouth and anyone else's injuries have not been close to comparison.

Can claim it's an excuse all you want, it's a legitimate one - that doesn't mean Ange can't be criticised but making out he should just deal with it and other managers have had it this tough is wide of the mark to say the least.....
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That is fair comment but there are two counter points.

1. We still shouldn’t be this low in the table. And I think that point cannot be disputed.
2. There is an argument, less clear cut than point 1, that many injuries have been caused by Ange’s style of play and his gross mismanagement of the squad
 
Robspur12 said:
Why Lankshear? Why not swap Son into the centre forward role for some games? With Maddison number 10? He was our top scorer last season. Do you remember when him and Maddison were unplayable at the start of last season before Madders got injured against Chelsea? What the hell happened to both those players?
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Son has been poor enough on the wing , he's been poor when through the middle

But the general point is the same
 
billyiddo said:
There might be some good points to be made wrt how our situation is different to Bournemouth but it's pure hyperbole to say comparing our situation to the next most injury hit team is 'absolutely ridiculous' mybe try making your points without taking such needlessly dismissive stance, because like i say there's some good points in there but it doesn't really encourage a discussion.


Iirc Saudi Sportswashing Machine last season iirc had a comparable injury list, while they were in Europe as well, so maybe someone could have a look there to see how Eddie Howe coped?
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Even if you can't compare you can look at Bournemouth and praise a team with 10 injuries (including the replacement player for Solanke) and manage to get a 4-1 win away.........I mean that is something
 
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