Midfield

[Jack Halford]

I was very surprised we started with the same midfield that was so poor against Sheff Utd.

Unfortunately I wasn’t & that’s the concern. That midfield Three were clearly overrun last week & needed to be altered. 

We can all see it, why can’t the management team ?

This is what is so frustrating. The run of home games since November has been like Groundhog Day.

We do have the players to change it though. Why bring in Jonhansen and leave him out. He will only get up to speed by playing.

Harper and field should be rotated to keep fresh as they don’t have the experience to start yet. 

Livermore is such a disappointment, I’d ban him from the gym (and Gregs) and have him running round the training pitch until he loses some timber.

When 4 of your midfield squared are Brunt, Morrison, Barry and Livermore you have a problem in a league where you need energy and legs primarily over skill.

God knows what wages they are taking home between them. As much as Morrison has been one of my favourite players he should have been let go at the end of last season as should have Brunt.

We have no players we own in age between Field and Harper and the OAP’s. shocking planning which no business would allow to happen.

[clem4england]

When Barry is good, we're good. When he's bad, we don't have a plan B.

It's as simple as that.

To be fair this sums it up.

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Keith Andrews momentarily picked up on it post-match. He used the word naive to describe it.

Leeds were good, very good, and fully exposed us. But, that's the rub for me, it doesn`t necessarily have to be fully exposed for teams to get the better of a three-man midfield, they just need to get a sniff and see it begin to creak. Just an opposition manager with a degree of acumen and a plan will do.

Pulis, Wilder and now Bielsa - You look at 4--3--3 on paper, draw a bit fat ring around that central three and say to yourself, here, this is where we target them, this is where the game can swing and be won.

You don`t need UEFA coaching badges to see this, its basic manager tit for tat shit.

I’m sure UEFA coaching badges must tell you that if you leave the front 3 up field, one jogs around (Harper) and one is 38 and was pretty immobile at 17 you are in trouble.

[Hopalong]

The fact is this is one area that has been shocking for a couple of years now. It feels like no action has been taken to sort it out. It feels like a situation of NHS 'bed blocking' with the likes of Barry, Livermore, Brunt and Morrison, all highly paid for this level but stopping any development due to the constraints financially. Barnes offered something different, but he seems a distant memory, and Gayle apart, who the present regime appear to stick out wide aside, the other two up front are complete dogshit.

I know some of you absolutely rave about Harper. I see an often languid, slow player who appears to lack that decisive touch and get more nervous the higher up the pitch he goes. He's ok but nothing special.

It's clear, we play a style of play from the back, that our players especially or central defenders aren't good enough to play and despite every man and his dog seeing this, Graeme Jones and his assistant are oblivious, no matter how many matches it costs us.

I feel that what I feared with regard to Big Dave is quickly coming home to roost. He was on a hiding to nothing with this squad and even more so with this owner. The club is very quickly becoming toxic once again and is edging towards a very dangerous position. The Lai/Jenkins era will only head one way and we'll be very lucky to make the play offs on recent performances. Yesterday's season ticket announcement also did nothing to create unity, threatening fans to pay up early or lose their seats.

I genuinely think were on a downward spiral and I can't see this club going anywhere near the premiership anytime soon. The smalltime attitude of the owners on and off the pitch will see us fall behind quite a few of our championship, let alone premier rivals, many of whom appear to have plans to grow and expand their operations.

Moore never was the answer, never will be, but the problems at Albion run deep and I feel he'll become the scapegoat very soon.

Who are fans going to lose their seats to?No one is going to pay ro watch that dogshit