Rousseau

I've just realised it's the international break. Perfect time for a sacking...

Hassenhutl, maybe? I don't know.

I didn't miss him.

Possibly, but it doesn't mean they're bad coaches. I mean, DeZerbi (Brighton!) failed at Palermo after leaving third-tier Foggia. I rate Potter, Glassner and Hassenhutl quite highly. Garcia has Red Bull experience, too.

Well, yeah, but we can't replace the players just now, can we?

Some managers out of work (some top class, some not so much...), FYI: Graham Potter Dean Smith Nathan Jones Ralph Hassenhutl Javi Gracia Jessie Marsch Oliver Glassner Igor Tudor Dejan Stankovic Lucien Favre Vitor Pereira Vladimir Petkovic Oscar Garcia Slavisa Jokanovic Vincenzo Montella Sabri Lamouchi

I think it's the principles we need to improve... I don't recall them, but that's fair: not being brave enough in the pass can be a player problem. Indecision also comes from a lack of direction. Your examples could highlight both a player and coaching problem.

What about... xG!

It's been like that all season. GK > CB > RB > CB > long ball. Possession lost. We can't build up. Brighton wait for you to press, then boom-boom-boom. A passing combo and they're away. They're waiting for it and they all know what they're doing.

I don't disagree.

Partly, but the coach has to implement the structure where they have the option to make a pass. You can blame the player for not making the pass, but you blame the manager for there not being a pass to make, if you get what I mean. I'm not talking in specifics, just generalities.

And I'm sure if MB shot your dog, you'd blame the gun.

Again, that's coaching, IMO. (I'm not suggesting that the players are compleyely without blame.)

I blame the manager for this: players don't know what they're supposed to be doing.

I'd blame players for mistakes, but it doesn't look like mistakes, per se. To take Goldson's poor clearance: you can blame Goldson for not clearing properly, but you can also blame MB for: the messy defensive live; the fact we need to make a clearance because we can't build-up properly, or press properly, or counterpress properly; the fact there's no players central to win the second ball. There are structural issues, there. You can put all the blame on the players, but that then suggests we need another rebuild next summer. That's scary to think about. For me, we need a better Coach. Just my opinion.

I see what you did there... touché. I don't think you're wrong. I think I'm just more upset at the first half because I expected more. For the second I was prepared for disappointment.

It was his point. I agree with it, however: our players don't look like they know what they're doing. I'm not blaming them. I've not criticised any players this season, other than the odd performance. For me, it's MB that is to blame.

I was talking about our first half.

@CammyF strike that - they did actually have more shots in the second half (4 vs 3).

'Sitter' is subjective, I suppose. I think they should have scored, two, at least one - outwith their goal. We created nothing, excluding the goal that was correctly chalked off... They certainly cut us open in the second half, but they actually had more shots in the first.

I don't think he's blaming the players - he's blaming MB for not giving them a plan.

Kyogo (I think?) had a couple of shots in the box, that he should have scored. I think another one he tried to backheel it, when he just needed to tap it in.

Alright, then it's closed as far as I'm concerned too: It was a foul; goal disallowed correctly. Can we discuss how poor that performance was? I don't think MB knows what he's doing.

I might make a poll!

It's not 'case closed', then, is it?