Ange Postecoglou

This place is bipolar.

Still behind him and Angeball 110 percent.

 

Possibly underestimated Livys ability to defend, otherwise Kyogo would have started. He thought we would have had enough to beat Livy, but the likes of Giakoumakis and Abada let him down badly. He will learn from this.

 

If he’s knackered you can’t really choose which game to rest him. I thought he looked quite tired today.

 

Definition of not learning and adapting.

 

Jota or Johnston should have been utilised instead of Bitton, that was the key for me..

Not nearly enough creativity in the middle.

But, I'm starting to come to terms with it already we move on.

 

This.

He's fine to bring on when it's time to kill a game and see it out. Not when we're up against a team parking the bus and need to move the ball quickly. He's painfully slow, on and off the ball.

Should never see him playing in midfield unless it's 75 mins on the clock and we're a couple of goals up.

 

Awful.

The stats may say otherwise, but if there's one team in this league who I think eat up crosses like that all day long, it's Livi. That's easy for them.

 

Exactly, they'll be delighted at the thought of defending crosses all day.
How can we expect to win a title when we're taking 1/6 from Livi.

 

I just looked there and nearly cried sheepishly saying "McCarthy...?"

 

Not buying the squad depth excuse, if that side isn't capable of beating Livi at home, we'd be better off watching Cricket.

 

Abada has potential but I really think he is some way off being good enough to be our 1st choice right winger. Not saying Ange believes that he is, just pointing out that I think the flying start he made maybe caused us to get a bit ahead of ourselves.

 

Didn’t particularly like what he said in his post match interview, just seen it there. He was asked, ange what’s the message from here to the players, his reply “I didn’t say much to them” that’s his * job to say something after a result and performance like that.

 

I agree with this 100%. James Forrest will be the main man for that position now and its up to Abada to put pressure on him. Hopefully he can do that because Forrest seems to react well to having serious competition for his place, he managed to keep Paddy Roberts out of the team when they were both fighting over a starting slot.

 

Who are all these balls into the box for? We have no forwards who are good in the air or who even look to score from headers.

 

He will have a lot to say about it at some point, maybe it will be left to Monday morning. Im not sure if digging out players in front of their team mates works these days, apparently modern day footballers are fragile flowers. Although there are a few who could do with a rocket up their * after that performance. We werent awful but nowhere near good enough either.

 

Exactly it was especially bad today, pass pass pass then * cross into the box and nobody on the end of it the few times there was a good cross because as you say we have nobody good in the air. Surely the manager can see that and realises that we can’t play like that * me. Today was so frustrating.

 

If that's the case then the manager did nothing to change the players' instructions in game.

 

Our options in midfield are an embarrassment.

Going into the season with James McCarthy as our only midfield reinforcement was always going to cost us.