Tewksbury

The thing is, you can only turn it around if the players, or at least the senior players want to turn it around. The manager can put the players out and tell them what to do, but whether they do it or not is a different story.

Like the draw with Boro last season when the bloke who scored had Famewo in the Walls of Jericho

Lines up as a 5, Palmer pushes up into midfield to cover for when Bannan loses it after him and Marv tap it between themselves 7175 times on the left touchline.

Messi has the natural talent and is the golden boy. Ronaldo is where he is through hard work and incredible discipline. He has the talent but he's backed it up. Listen to the old Man U players talking about when he rocked up there. There are a lot of players who would have been better than CR had they put in the same effort, but they didn't.

There are plenty that have clubs who are not good enough consistently to warrant the wages they want.

DR did it last season, Palmer coming into the back 3 was much closer to him joining Vaulks behind Bannan as a DM than as a CB. Either way it's dropping a man from in front of Bannan to behind him. If DR wants to play 4 attackers Bannan has to be one or drop him. I do think that DR has prepared for this with most of the new signings also being able to play DM/CB if needed, Valery, Lowe, Chalobah, Charles.

He doesn't like to be pressed and goes into panic mode pretty easily. Give him space and he'll rip you a new one, but how many teams this season are going to let you do that? As soon as he got robbed in the first half it was over for him. He has the weakest mentality of any player I've seen as when he's not on top he just loses his mind, starts flying in and releasing the ball as soon as he gets it like he's scared of it. He'll come alive if you get a bit of pressure but just goes back once you lose it. This is our club captain, the one who's setting an example, the leader.

But look at how they're receiving the ball in the final third. What the fuck is Musaba supposed to do with three players hanging off his back every time he gets the ball as we're playing the same ball to him every time. Bannan gets the ball, mark Musaba. Same, same, same. They're getting most of their joy going up the right and switching into space on the left. Need someone to stretch the right to make space and give another outlet.

I do like to see Gassama, Musaba and Ugbo together. They seem to understand and feed off each other and play better together. Just need a bit of confidence.

We registered 5 goal creating actions last season, 4 for Vaulks and 1 for Pato. We scored only 5 goals all season where one of the 2 preceding actions was a dead ball situation. That includes throwins too.

With the amount of first goals conceded from set pieces last season which ended up in defeat, a set piece coach could be another 10-15 points on last season. Too many games were we on top or competing at 0-0 for a stupid free kick or corner putting is behind and ending with a rout. Look at the Hiddersfield game last season, whoever scored first was going to win and we were looking the most likely till they scored from a corner. Just last season, Preston, Sunderland, Plymouth, Bristol, Birmingham, Ipswich are all games where the first goal conceded was a set piece and ended in defeat. There were more than that, they're just what I remember, as well as 2-3 games where it was a penalty, Hull, Cardiff. With our propensity to win if we score first and lose if they do, getting a grip on this could turn a relegation season into a promotion season.

I look at it this way, we're in transition. The next 2 years after this are the win years. As long as we aren't in a relegation battle at the end, we've succeeded. We have enough to stay up comfortably and get some much needed experience to the core of the side going forward. Young players are going to get plenty of gametime, u21s will get opportunities and at the end of this season we only have 2 loans and a handful of over 30s to replace.

All that running and organisation just for Bannan to ping it off the bloke defending the short corner.

Them being on there isn't an issue, they don't get involved, it's usually just to link something they've done. Staton turning these threads into outrage pieces on FH is an issue.

The main issue is that without any real media coming from the club a large proportion of the fanbase get their news from OT. Then this gets filtered down to X/podcasts/Staton and gets spread further. So when they see an 8 page thread on Chansiri fucking over students with every single post agreeing, that becomes the truth.