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Just the usual risk averse Moyes isn't it, we all knew what he was like. Square pegs, round holes, players out of position, predictable subs, sticking with the same players while there's a bench full of young players who are surely getting fed up of not even getting a sniff of a game.

Would be shaking his hand in the summer on a good job done and good luck in the future

Hoping Moyes finds the winning formula again even if it is by accident if more players are injured or suspended. He’s had worse runs in his first spell and always managed to find a way to turn things around.

If he was fired, I would worry who we replaced him with. It took us 12 years to replace finally replace David Moyes with…David Moyes.

Gash wrote: ↑Mon Feb 23, 2026 10:19 pm Just the usual risk averse Moyes isn't it, we all knew what he was like. Square pegs, round holes, players out of position, predictable subs, sticking with the same players while there's a bench full of youngplayers who are surely getting fed up of not even getting a sniff of a game.

And they're not the only ones.
I'm sick to death of his negative, cowardly anti football.
When you seen the line up tonight you'd swear he was thinking we were playing united still managed by ferguson.
They were there for the taking tonight, but as usual we didn't have the right players or the right set up to have a go at them.
Just the 3 players played out of position tonight.
We are not going down, and we won't have any chance of finishing higher up the table with this negative crap either.
Ffs i just wish he would show a bit of guts, play people where they should play, pick a team to get on the front foot and try to win a game playing decent football.
I know there's still a lot of rubbish in the squad, but we can put out a better more balanced team than the shite he put out tonight.
After saying all of that, we all know that O'Brien will be at right back at Newcastle on saturday.
Fucking sick of it

Just give it Carsley

I just don’t think it’s sustainable to keep hoping to nick away wins.

It's like he picks his favourite 10 outfield players regardless of their preferred positions, and then forces them in to that starting lineup one way or another.

That left side was painful with a CB at LB and a CM wide left midfield. As soon as George came on it improved the balance massively.

It's proper frustrating

Sick of the conservative negative stuff play Patterson play either Rohl or alcaraz try dibling for 20 minutes do something different it was like a rugby team playing for touch near their line

Kerryblueboy wrote: ↑Tue Feb 24, 2026 6:48 am Sick of the conservative negative stuff play Patterson play either Rohl or alcaraz try dibling for 20 minutes do something different it was like a rugby team playing for touch near their line

It was like his back room stats folk had told him he needs to have more players further up the pitch, but they didn’t bother explaining why.

That was awful, but at least the heat-maps will look great today.

I like that we have extra height with Branthwaite at left back and we dont lose anything from dropping Mykolenko.

But we can't have two slow centre backs unless we're low black all game. O'Brien has to come in for Keane.

Garner is our best right back. Move Armstrong centrally where he is best and drop Gana.

The use of Rohl and Dibling needs questioning too, they need more minutes. And George just needs to start every game, he looks our most dangerous player.

Pickford

Garner O'Brien Tarkowski Branthwaite

Tim Armstrong

Ndiaye KDH George

Barry

(Soz for not centralising it)

Those corners were insane btw.

Even if we’d scored from one it would’ve been easy for var to find an infringement to chalk it off.

I know Moyes is famous for bringing a knife to a gunfight, but right now it feels like he's swapped the knife for a bread stick.

Struggling to find the motivation to watch this shite, I know we do not have an amazing squad but Moyes just seems intent on making it even harder.

Those fucking corners, wtf was that all about, embarrassing.

So boring just aiming for par all the time.

The corner thing is madness tark throwing yoro into the goals it’s going to be a free kick to the defending team 8/10 times why can’t we get our big guys running on to a whipped in ball at pace it’s so frustrating the way we are playing especially at home

Imagine being a kids team coach and telling them to do that at corners.
Imagine the confusion on their faces as they try to figure out why you don’t want them to play football and try to score.

Embarrassing.