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Omer Riza: "With squad rotation. Sometimes squad rotat

Thu Mar 13, 2025 5:43 pm

Omer Riza:

"With squad rotation. Sometimes squad rotation is something that you have to do, because you haven't got the players that you played the previous game. Boys get injured. Boys pick up injuries on the bench before a warm-up.

"These things are all important. We're all working towards the same goal. That's the press. That's me. That's my staff. That's the players. That's the club.“


"So you've got to understand the game like I do and you've got to understand it tactically. You've got to understand strategical things in the game in respect of player positioning.“
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Re: Omer Riza: "With squad rotation. Sometimes squad rotat

Thu Mar 13, 2025 6:26 pm

He’s in no position to lecture people on tactics.

Re: Omer Riza: "With squad rotation. Sometimes squad rotat

Thu Mar 13, 2025 6:36 pm

Want to talk about player positioning, after playing Rubin Colwill left wing while Ashford, Davies, Willock were sat on the bench.

It's obvious to everyone Colwill isn't a winger.

Re: Omer Riza: "With squad rotation. Sometimes squad rotat

Thu Mar 13, 2025 6:37 pm

I found him very condescending at times during his press conference

Re: Omer Riza: "With squad rotation. Sometimes squad rotat

Thu Mar 13, 2025 6:40 pm

I would be having a word with the training staff as players seem to be picking up a lot of the same injuries.

Re: Omer Riza: "With squad rotation. Sometimes squad rotat

Thu Mar 13, 2025 6:47 pm

How patronising is that? he's in deep sh_t and he knows it

Re: Omer Riza: "With squad rotation. Sometimes squad rotat

Thu Mar 13, 2025 7:32 pm

Losing more credibility with every interview. We haven't got time for someone to learn on the job ffs

Re: Omer Riza: "With squad rotation. Sometimes squad rotat

Thu Mar 13, 2025 9:39 pm

He has a system and fits players in to it. Look at the squad, look at the strengths and play that team. Stop playing players out of position.

He spoke about Colwill and creating a box…. What the heck, creating those boxes is not working

He also said he free’d O’Dowda who had his worse game for the first 60 mins and turned backward most of the time.

Alex Robertson is not a ten!!!! And at this point is massively overrated. Potential but overrated.

Left Mannsverk on the bench, what the heck.

Personally, I would play

Ng Fish Bagan as a back three

O’Dowda Robertson Mannsverk Chambers Alves

Salech Ashford up top

Salech wins everything in the air and has nobody near him

Re: Omer Riza: "With squad rotation. Sometimes squad rotat

Thu Mar 13, 2025 9:49 pm

I went to the circus in the city car park last year , it was very good but looking back was Riza the clown from there and he’s escaped into the city ground and talked his way into a job? Stranger things have happened.

Re: Omer Riza: "With squad rotation. Sometimes squad rotat

Thu Mar 13, 2025 11:11 pm

Einstein wrote:He has a system and fits players in to it. Look at the squad, look at the strengths and play that team. Stop playing players out of position.

He spoke about Colwill and creating a box…. What the heck, creating those boxes is not working

He also said he free’d O’Dowda who had his worse game for the first 60 mins and turned backward most of the time.

Alex Robertson is not a ten!!!! And at this point is massively overrated. Potential but overrated.

Left Mannsverk on the bench, what the heck.

Personally, I would play

Ng Fish Bagan as a back three

O’Dowda Robertson Mannsverk Chambers Alves

Salech Ashford up top

Salech wins everything in the air and has nobody near him


Robertson was poor on Tuesday like everyone else, but don't think it's fair to say he's overrated. Been one of our most consistent performers.

I'll admit these things are a bit sketchy, but his rated as our highest performer in terms of stats this season.

Re: Omer Riza: "With squad rotation. Sometimes squad rotat

Thu Mar 13, 2025 11:37 pm

The squad we have right now is better than the 1 that started this season ...

Re: Omer Riza: "With squad rotation. Sometimes squad rotat

Fri Mar 14, 2025 3:22 am

TopCat CCFC wrote:The squad we have right now is better than the 1 that started this season ...

100% correct, Tony! :clap:

Which means the answer to the problem lies elsewhere! :ayatollah:

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Fri Mar 14, 2025 8:29 am

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Fri Mar 14, 2025 8:30 am

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Fri Mar 14, 2025 8:31 am

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Fri Mar 14, 2025 8:32 am

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Re: Omer Riza: "With squad rotation. Sometimes squad rotat

Fri Mar 14, 2025 9:08 am

KBK-13 wrote:Want to talk about player positioning, after playing Rubin Colwill left wing while Ashford, Davies, Willock were sat on the bench.

It's obvious to everyone Colwill isn't a winger.

And he plays O'dowda, the best left winger at the club, at full back, a position he is clearly not cut out for

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Fri Mar 14, 2025 10:16 am

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Re: Omer Riza: "With squad rotation. Sometimes squad rotat

Fri Mar 14, 2025 11:00 am

Tan's decision to appoint a rookie is coming back to bite him and us on the arse.

What experience and previous success is Riza drawing on to get us out of this mess?

Cheshunt & Orient !!!