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Not surprising. Slow running back, slow with the ball costing us a goal and slow getting up almost costing us another. And now 2-1, FFS. A couple of plus points the few times we've got forward but we just seem all over the place.

Dropping Stacey is a strange one, unless he had a knock or something. Any issues recently haven't been down to him. Will be interesting to see if we keep the same formation or if this is more of a 433. Whatever it is, it kind of feels like it has to work for Wagner's sake and ours.

And made worse by going into the season with only 3 strikers, which people said at the time was too few. Especially because it turned out we play with 2, when we can. But then we have to leave ourselves desperately short in one position each season and it's caught us out quite a few times now. Still never mind, Dodo Dave has assured us that we have adequate cover and plenty of options for the support striker role. But lets cross Gibbs out finally please - for that position anyway.

This is true, and the other post saying he looks and sounds like a loser is correct. The doubt about Wagner had obviously been increasing every week, but this game was the tipping point for me. Something obviously clicked with him at Huddersfield for 2 seasons, before crashing spectacularly but no blame could probably be aimed at him for that. He's failed ever since and it's becoming obvious why. Our players seem to be judged and picked, on how much they run around after the ball, even if it is like a headless chicken. As someone else pointed out, we were promised the fittest team in the league - which seems to be complete b*****ks despite our so called tactics needing it and our team looks completely knackered after an hour, every game. His substitutions are weird, and pretty much every single game there has been a noticeable drop in performance after he has made them - even in our first game against Hull, we were drawing but all over them, he makes a load of changes and performance wise we suddenly went to s**t. Luckily we did get the winner right at the end. But it has been the vast majority of times that this has happened. He's said himself that we play the way we play and don't adapt depending on individuals within the team, well that's just stubborn and absolutely stupid. No wonder we are dropping like a stone. His so called "tactics" may have worked for a couple of years at Huddersfield, who don't forget had some bloody good players. Could he have done it with the team Huddersfield have now? No chance. Springett may come good, but is just not good enough YET, and how Wagner can't see that is mental especially as we have plenty of Wingers. Against Leeds, pace down the left was causing them huge problems, so why remove the only real threat we really had? If Hernandez had to come off, why not replace him with Placheta? Unless he viewed Springett's defensive contribution as superior which would be bizarre so more than likely true. After all Placheta has been touted and must have had training, as a left back, so you would think he would have been ideal to replace Hernandez in the circumstances regarding both attack and defense. The constant nonsense in his post match interviews, "good shift" when we've just been beaten by a team nearer the bottom, "good performance" again the other day after he and we have just been made to look completely ridiculous. Rowe's comments seem correct, criticising "game management", but who's was he actually referring to? The man's turning into a joke, and very quickly. No one would be happier than me if I can look back at this post and see how wrong I was, after Wagner turns it around and we at least get in the playoffs. It's possible after all with Barnes and Sargent coming back, and apart from the top 2 it is all very close at the top. I just don't see it with him in charge, unfortunately. I remember seeing, I think on YouTube or somewhere rather than reading it, and back not long after Farke joined us, how Dortmund 2's noticeably improved when Farke took over but also how the style of football was much better. Of course Wagner was having his 2 seasons of success, so it was put in a "Farke even improved what David Wagner had started" kind of way. But below are the stats and it would be obvious who's would be who's, even if the dates had been taken out. PWDL Borussia Dortmund II 1 July 2011 31 October 2015 164 57 47 60 34.8 Borussia Dortmund II 3 November 2015 25 May 2017 56 29 21 6 51.79

Yes this has happened a few times already. Even in the Hull game we went from controlling the game to flat after the subs, but of course managed to get the winner (just). The Faasnacht substitution was just weird.

Probably for the same reason we weren't picking Aarons.

Anis Mehmeti is at Bristol City. Bought from Wycombe who he signed for after being released by us. Fair play to him. Got no where near anything here and not long later was playing in the Championship, first with Wycombe.

Who would be negotiating this? Is it Webber still? Around the 8m mark and decent add-ons (Leeds promotion etc) doesn't seem too bad. Hopefully the initial fee is around that mark and we are not low balled too much. Either way I hope there is a decent sell on %. Particularly as Farke could get the best out of him like he has before (if he doesn't get sacked of course).

With the team performing as it should is the best time to judge players, especially relatively young ones and we haven't (edited! obviously we haven't) played well for 2 seasons. With hindsight a loan away would probably have been best but circumstances have probably meant us keeping him as back up. The way Adam Idah reacted and changed the angle of the nudge into the net yesterday to avoid the goalkeeper was brilliant and far better than just a "tap in". Last season in one of Farkes games he shoved one of the opposition centre backs out of the way like he wasn't there when they were both running for the ball and since then known there's a good player in there somewhere because you never see a Prem CB bullied like that. Hopefully this will be his season. We still may be one striker light, especially if we are playing with 2, albeit one dropped slightly deeper. I wouldn't be surprised if we sign one on loan, but Adam must be higher in the pecking order. If Idah is on the pitch, with either Barnes or Sargent - Idah should be used as the more advanced one out of the 2 (imo) because he seems to have the poacher instinct (again imo anyway, and I'm not just going by Hull game) and the strength to be a real problem for defenders in and around the box. Time will tell.

Steven Gerrard? Maybe...

Was thinking along those lines. It makes more sense to mark Raphinha out the game than play a forward there. With more freedom for Aaron's on the right maybe.... Assymetrical - like our formation under Worthington kind of was. Perhaps. (Probably confusing their because not with fullbacks under Worthington - but the wide midfielders)

What's one of those? Even better..... follow the County too 😜

This was pretty much going to be my first post on this board (long long time lurker!), and definitely agree regarding Rachica (rather than with your mate), there were just so few options when we did break away. Farke seemed to like the "bigger" #10 in Stiepermann (spelling? sorry forum police not going to check) at times before so we might see Sergeant there, personally I hope so and think it's the way to go. Easy with hindsight, but wished we had gone with that yesterday in fact, with him looking lively when he came on. I guess that's football - Farke gets criticised for not adapting against the "better" teams in the past, but yesterday (hindsight again, no criticism) we may well have got more from the game with our usual formation/tactics. Of course its hard to tell when already 3 down (were), but there was definitely was a spark there towards the end. Encouraged either way.