2025/26 David Moyes

[ChesterBlue]

That is one of the grimmest lineups I’ve seen, Christ.

 

[toffeeblue9]

Genuinely honking. Armstrong on the right? Branthwaite at left back? Are we for real here?

I can’t defend that. As I said I think this will be a violent fork in the road moment for a lot of people.

I'm generally a Moyes supporter, but that XI is Walter Smith-esque and if this is a bad result, he will deserve every little bit of criticism heading his way.

Saw this on Twitter which summed it up quite well...

 

[PhilRegan]

Hes lost us this already here

 

[BlueStevie35]

I’m holding any major criticism until half time ngl, it looks horrific on paper but could work once the game gets going

 

[Vagner Love]

4 cbs, get to fuq you dosser

 

[RD2910]

A centre back at wing back while two right backs sit on the bench would be a new low.

Playing the four CBs in a four is a new low. Shunting Branthwaite to LB to accommodate Keane is outrageous. At least O'Brien has played RB before and done ok, and Patterson and Coleman are respectively bad and really old. I could have handled that, but not this.

 

[Mr Mig]

Absolute dinosaur. Nowhere near what our club needs, the quicker he’s gone the quicker we move forward

 

[blueconverse]

We don't need a right back Patterson has been doing great.. doesn't help himself does he

 

[Daytripper]

His quote about Aznou and opportunities yet he plays four centre backs? Why did we buy this lad in the first place ?

 

[Moomin]

That is pure Walter Smithball if I’ve ever seen it. I don’t know why he is regressing further and further into an anti football shell as he gets older, it’s like he thinks that’s the natural rite of passage for an aging British manager, to just become Sam Allardyce.

Been playing too much golf with him and Pulis.

 

[Moomin]

We don't need a right back Patterson has been doing great.. doesn't help himself does he

He has done well but not great.

Disappointing he has been dropped.

 

[The binman chronicles]

Even if we win he's taken the shine off of it. To put Keane straight back in shows he absolutely lost his mind and has the footballing brain of a Yorkshire pudding.

That's before we get on to the two centre backs that should be playing in the middle are stuck out of position.

Imagine if they get injured today...

 

[Vagner Love]

Moving branthwaite to left back to accommodate Keane and tarkowski. Dinosaur

 

[Marius57]

His quote about Aznou and opportunities yet he plays four centre backs? Why did we buy this lad in the first place ?

Fact he hasn’t even made the squad suggests to me the decision has been made and we have a deal agreed

 

[toffeeblue9]

Worth pointing out that I think we have TWO injuries in the whole first team squad today - Grealish and Mykolenko

Somehow that equates with playing no full backs at all and one wide player

Feels like a Dyche game this where I'm angry before the game has even started