We have struggled for a long time with the players we have available to create chances from our midfield for our forwards to attempt to take. Creativity has just not been available and although fans cry out for Max to play I think it will take a lot more than that to put out a team who can get past a defence that puts 8 players in the penalty box against us. Just watched Man. city v Watford. In the first half it was like our game today City with all their quality struggled to break down Watford. They did in the end because they possess some of the best players in the world. We do not have that luxury.
What we do have is a team that can defend and break away on the counter,fine for playing away,but not good enough for creating against a 10 man defence at home.
What we need is to keep the core group and add creativity in the midfield to use in the circumstances we faced today.
Do not blame the tactics of our manager you cannot praise him for our wins away and then vilify him for our struggles at home. He can only work with the styl of the players we have.
We will survive COYP

then excuse my french but what the f*** do you want then? less points? jesus wept.

every manager has his favourites...i assume you are talking about jimmy & jeff above max & kouyate.

on paper i agree with you, but jimmy mac runs thru brick walls for the team and i respect that so much, you need that tenacity. and to be fair about schlupp hes done well this season, we are belssed to even be having this conversation as 2 years ago it was mutch & chungy who were the options.

‘Football isn’t instant coffee. You have to work at it. You must grow the bean, grind it.’ Ian Holloway

You read it wrong fella.
You said we had more than any other time.
Teams around us had less back then.
This season there happens to be only two teams already gone.
One place left for one of six.
Including us.
This season we should have more than we have.
I dont want less i want more and yes jeff and mcca are stalwarts but are they the best to start?

Good points well put. I think the question is why Roy doesn't change the team at home with what he has ? Does he genuinely believe it will all turn good sometime soon ? Is he fearful that it will effect our away form ? Is he happy with trying to scrape a point at home and get the wins away ? Does he worry about the sack ? 5 questions just there, probably others have far more.

“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ”
—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld

it does not matter what other teams have, history tells us you need approx a point a game to stay up, we are above that average.

why should we have more points than we have? we havnt had a fit stiker for the 1st 25 games of the season ffs.

also tell you what, i wouldnt drop jimmy mac in a month of sundays.

‘Football isn’t instant coffee. You have to work at it. You must grow the bean, grind it.’ Ian Holloway

That's twice now.