Dan Holdsworth

No, I don't recall.
He tends to put things on the players, performance levels. Sometimes that is correct, but he never talks about the tactical approach and how that worked. Or selection decision he made. Just feels like a big gap.

Do you want Stach trying to operate between the lines of a compact low block team? No.
Do you want Stach in the midfield using him as a really useful large space defender as part of the rest defence when we push players forward in games like this? Yes.

Oh we will stay up. I'm just frustrated with how Farke has to be dragged kicking and screaming to the obvious answers.
Sunderland were abysmal, but did we really open them up at all tonight? Did we adapt once the initial game plan started to fail after Sunderland engineered that tactics timeout?

Longstaff - a Newcastle boy who was undroppable before his injury earlier this season - getting 0 minutes against Sunderland, when the players on the pitch were an unchanged set of players running on fumes following Saturday, is one of Farke’s most infuriating flaws. Utilise the squad, ffs #LUFC

Zero self reflection from Farke there. That was an abysmal set up. He persistently picks his favorite lads, when there are probably more suitable tools for games like this.
I mean why do we persist with a defensive midfielder in the forward line in a game like this?

Incredible example to throw in there

There has been ups and downs in our xG and xGA.

But as the trendline shows, our xG and xGA have both fallen slowly across the season. However the xG Trendline isn't falling as much as the xGA is

This is good. We're adapting to the league positively. #LUFC

Temu Declan Rice? I think not. #LUFC

*No idea why Eli Junior Kroupi is here as this was just meant to be MF's

The last saved photo of a celebrity is your therapist.

Whatever you possibly think this could be, it’s even better. All in the delivery.

10 points, no?
Either way, good point.

It's hard, because I've visited other countries with restrictive governments that I don't approve of. Or wouldn't if I gave it serious consideration. So why should the US be any different?
I mean, how much stuff from China do we buy? It's so hard to follow through with these moral convictions.

I think both had a very clear immediate objective that they wanted to tackle very directly. So, the recruitment approach ended up being quite similar.

Genuinely think that only fans is making a living with more integrity than these people

If I could be arsed I would write a long read on my theory that football phone ins directly contributed to the coarsening of our culture by making rage baits and the opinions of morons mainstream

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I literally said he didn't make the difference today. But his limitations were clear. His use should be late sub to see games out and that's it for me. He's too limited on the ball and too far off it physically.

Yea, think so. Today was a day for being physical with Arsenal from the off. We bought Longstaff for games like this, a shame Farke didn't start with him today.

Not that it was the difference between us getting anything and not, but today was a good illustration of why he should not be selected to start games.

Farke agreed with me, just 45 mins too late.

Farke's Gruev thing is infuriating #lufc

In the last 10 games for #LUFC

7th Most Points
8th Least xG Conceded
6th Most xG created

Data from @BeGriffis lovely app , URL below.
football-match-reports.streamlit.app

Big numbers to say we've played Chelsea, Liverpool, Newcastle & Man Utd in this time.

give harry brook as much booze as he wants

Yes, having a preplanned change in mind ready to counter the likely changes the oppo might make could be one way of litigating his residence to change. If it's pre-agreed he might pull the level quicker.

Yea, I give him 8/10 for how he sets us up to start games. 2/10 for how he adapts in game (the scores are silly, but they illustrate my point).

him, does he listen to advice?
All these guys have to have a self confident/stubborn streak to get where they are. The really good ones have that, but also have the drive to adapt and get better. Something about Farke suggests he is quite resistant to that type of thought.

It does, and we have to accept he will always be that way. And of course we are not under the pressure he is under to make those decisions. Easy to say this stuff on the sideline etc.
I'm largely happy with Farke, I just wonder about the voices he has around him. What are his assistants saying to

I think it was an obvious change with an obvious risk associated. My persistent criticism is that Farke over indexes the risk element of making a change and ends up paying for that inaction anyway. It's like he doesn't see the risk in doing nothing, he only sees the risk in doing something.

the pitch. The risk reward assessment is that you lose a CB to gain a player higher up, do you trust the remaining CBs to defend the box with one fewer. Farke agrees with that assessment, the frustration is it takes him too long to see it and he does weird half measure fixes like bringing Tanaka on.

There's not a one size fits all solution. I think de-escalating the Newcastle match would've been the right move and we would've had a better chance of coming away with something. One of the issues last night was our inability to stop Ev down the flanks and we couldn't make the ball stick higher up