joey_big_nose

Surely Buckley must come on. Hes not Adam Wharton but he will add a bit of quality on the ball? Really need it in the middle.

The main issue I can see at the moment is JRC wide right isnt working.... need to switch it up. Problem is all our other right options (Weiman, Sigurdsson, Dolan) will all come inside too. No one who really stretches the pitch If we are sticking with 4231 I think Id start Sigurdsson wide right to see how he gets on and use JRC as a sub for the central midfielders or number 10 later in the game.

Yeah vibe i get from JE is he wont take much shit... My gut feel at the moment is he will walk at some point this season if we really have pulled the rug out.

We haven't even signed loan players yet... We invariably end up with 3-4 loans So pretty sure we will hit those numbers. Obviously whether they are the right quality is a different question.

I think in the world of law anything can be postponed for any reason at any time. Bleak House by Charles Dickens writing back in the 1850s... "Jarndyce v Jarndyce drones on. The scarecrow of a suit has in course of time become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes without coming to a total disagreement as to all the premises. Innumerable children have been born into the cause; innumerable young people have married into it; innumerable old people have died out of it. Scores of persons have found themselves made parties in Jarndyce v Jarndyce without knowing how or why; whole families have inherited legendary hatreds with the suit… "

Ah okay... well that makes it a lot more confusing... guess we will all have to wait to figure out what happened.

What number are we up to? Feels like we are all waiting for our McDonalds order to pop up on match day. Any idea roughly how many minutes each case is taking?

85 mins

Feels like it's a lottery on how far down the docket you are as to whether you get seen.... does anyone know how far away we are in the queue?

Are people able to just join and say something over the web meeting?!?

I said keep Travis and get another midfielder also.. so my point was more to switch to a 433 to try and control the game more in midfield. I think Gueye is such a handful that we don't need to a midfield player up so far (as we are doing with Dolan at the moment) and surrender game in the middle.

Hope you are right, I think I prefer any outcome except this dragging on further.

Why do you say that?

Id say the way for us to have the required quality in midfield is to change our system to be more of a 433 with three in the middle. Fitting Tronstad, Buckley and JRC together would help us a lot. Means dropping number 10 from 4231 but I'd do that... At the moment we're quite top heavy pushing four up front. Change to 433 pulls a man back but should give us more dominance in the middle. New GK Brittain. Carter. Hyam. Pickering JRC. Tronstad. Buckley Dolan. Gueye. Hedges. We definitely need to keep Travis for rotation and we need another technical play maker who can rotate with Buckley. Be good if they were left footed as well for balance. That said I think Eustace is happy to not control the ball centrally and push more players up to press instead so I think he will stick with a 4231 with water carriers as DMs.

If Oxford come to be organised and defend deep (not sure if they play this way - just guessing from what others have said) having Geuye could be a real asset. Actually having someone to get on a cross is so important in those games. Also Ohashi is less physically imposing but also heads the ball really well. If we are going to have a lot of the ball I wonder if bringing Buckley in makes sense? New gk (please!) Brittain Carter Hyam Pickering JRC Buckley Tronstad Hedges Geuye Ohashi

Well we do it as much as anybody else, and have done it for as long as football has existed too... Not sure we can blame Palace or indeed Ipswich at the moment for making the best offer for a player to a club whose owners & administrators have decided they need the money.

Wouldn't normally be that excited by a cheap market punt like this. But after signing two seemingly top notch players from nowhere in Geuye and Ohashi I am very intrigued if we can make it a hat trick?

Have we ever made two signings who have made as immediate an impact as Ohashi and Geuye? They both seem absolutely top drawer.

It's very sad to lose Szmodics, but to be honest it's hard to imagine how the new forwards coming in (Ohasi and Geye) could have started much better. Ohashi in particular looks to have a lot of the same attributes as Szmodics, while Geye offers us something we have not had in a very long time. Still a lot to be optimistic about. Particularly if the Szmodics money is spent on a goal keeper and more attacking options.

Does feel like Szmodics could stay... don;t think any Premier League teams apart from Ipswich have been linked? I would have expected more by now if it was going to happen.

Does feel like subs are going to play a big part this season... Good options on the bench both in terms of changing the attacking trio and defenders to let us move to a back 3. Very curious to see if Szmodics appears ... Considering we played him in the cup from the start when there was absolutely no need to I think he will play. Wonder if Eustace has been told just use him like a normal player until a buying club gets serious?

I wouldn't just say attitude... think he has looked tactically a bit lost. Moved around the pitch a lot (false nine, number 10, right back etc), doesn't have a clear role. I think he's the sort of player who needs a clear role as the main ball player in the center of the park.

I don't know... when he's on it he can be really good even against top teams like Newcastle in the cup last season. I think Buckley is one who if a few things clicked could go up significantly in his performance. I am hopeful we will have a consistent player come end of the season.

I dont know.... I can see why Premier League teams will look at him and wonder if he will really cut in at the top level. Not particularly quick, strong or skillful... That there are not many teams in for him tells it's own story.

I like them both separately but playing together I think they lack the ability to find good forward passes and dominate the midfield. Id say play JRC deeper in a three with both of them.