Posh build up

Don't you agree we seemed worse without him on Saturday, possibly his experience helps in midfield even if he's not playing that well?

If he does play and we're still poor then we may as well just give up!!

So you'd rather watch a defeat under Barton than a win under Taylor??

I wasn't the only person that didn't hear it. Another poster on the East Terrace said they didn't hear it.

I heard an embarrassing boo at the end.

Not that the sentiment was embarrassing, the execution was embarrassing.

Barton’s man management was poor and he certainly made some very strange substitutions at times. Barton had more of a character than Taylor which isn’t all nice given we are talking about a marmite character. He turned it around when it seemed impossible for our promotion season. Taylor I have heard from some behind the scenes is a very dry and dull person, his interviews bore me and at the moment his tactics are too. For a manager who said he wants to play attacking football it certainly isn’t looking that way at current. I stand by my prediction before the start of the season, he will be gone by December.

No genuinely I don’t. I’m not just trying to be argumentative (honest 😜).

He’s been really poor and I have no idea what he’s going to offer particularly in a midfield if it includes Lindsay and Conteh.

Saturday (first half) we actually played some half decent combination play. We broke their press several times and got into good areas. The problem Saturday was once we’d done that it came to nothing and that was largely down to complete ineffectiveness of the front two.

Possession stats mean nothing of course but it was no surprise to me that without Ward we had some very good possession. The challenge is how we convert that into chance creation and end product and how we find some cohesion between the attacking players.

My own personal feeling is we won’t do that chopping and changing the players and unsettling the very type of players we’re moaning about not having or having and them not performing.

We do have them and we need to play them and allow them to come up with the moments that matter.

Creative players need time, trust, belief from themselves and their manager. They will undoubtably make mistakes and wrong decisions but within that they will create moments that win games.

I worry that MT doesn’t place that trust in creative players and ends up creating situations where they doubt themselves and become indecisive and hesitant in what they do.

Hmm….not sure that’s true…

Hutchinson was in the team, then not even coming off the bench, then suddenly starting, then hooked at half time…

McCormick was very much on the outside pre season, then forced some appearances off the bench as a forward, before suddenly starting in CM….then he didn’t even get off the bench….

Kofi didn’t make squads, then appeared off the bench at 2-1 down and dying for a goal, and then didn’t even make the bench again!! What’s the odds of him being thrown in from the start Saturday!

Garrett didn’t appear at all, then was shockingly bad v Tottenham, then suddenly starts two in a row and went from being hero to zero in a week! My bet is he’s bombed it Saturday!

I’m not going to lie it comes across as a bloody shambles!

We’ve literally not had the same midfield combo more than twice in a row yet it’s the most important part of the pitch and the one that needs the most understanding tactically of its components.

I’m not sure what evidence there is to support us being better this season with Ward in the side.

We can only consider an offer that is made - if nobody was willing to offer more than Huddersfield’s final offer then it was a simple choice. The owners either cash in at what was proven the highest offer (we can’t get opposition CEO’s in a headlock and make them pay more) or force him to see out his contract. I guess it’s easy to say let him go for nothing in 12 months when it’s not your money. 

By the way according to at least one poster he was a scouse cancer that we needed to get rid of at any cost !! 

I enjoyed watching him while he was here and he will always be one of my favourite ever gas players. Class act. 

…….but how much lasting damage to confidence? The players looked broken and drained of confidence in the second half last week and that might prove hard to rebuild. Might need a visit from a Sports Psychologist and Motivational Speaker !!!

Finley would be injured
Evans would down tools again

Realistically both had to go.