Fabrice29

End of season contract would be poor imo. It would give out the message you’re not convinced by him and also open you up to losing him if he does. Next appointment has to be done with conviction and at some point we as a fan base and club are going to have to stick with a manager when they go through a poor patch.

United were chasing the game so it’s slightly different. But in fairness to the manager, he explained exactly why it didn’t work for them Monday, they played too quick and didn’t recycle possession to drag people out of space. Why he wasn’t able to get that message across well enough is a whole other matter. But I’m glad we’ve stopped hearing endless comments about 3 at the back on here. Was simply never the issue and formation is never the fundamental problem with a team.

These feelings are fine and perfectly normal for any football fan. When will the winning stop and what happens then is pretty much every football fans concern. But I would call out that if whoever your favourite experienced ex pro, strict no nonsense football man had come in and got 4 wins in a row, I don’t think you’d be voicing those concerns.

That’s just not a fair reflection of the U21’s this season at all.

If you had done the actual proper well known quote from the show and/or picked a picture that we could read the words on fully, this would have been some of your best stuff.

Not my first rodeo. It’ll be a lovely moment.

More popular than the people berating and mocking Downs over and over again at a really loud volume just so everyone around them can hear how funny they are. I would hope so yeah.

Agreed.

Had people talking like this around me at the ground last night and I had to point out that football outside of our team does actually exist and Downs has a pretty provable record of being a reasonable footballer.

Jander is German and Downs doesn’t get into the US squad.

We should be appointing a manger the players don’t like ffs Not something he was doing five years ago in fairness. I think he’s just trying to be thoughtful now he knows he’s in the top job and people are listening.

Have we considered taking the perfectly sensible approach of not putting the manager, whoever he is, on a pedestal and making him the sole reason as to whether we win or lose? Maybe just accepting that managers will win and lose some games and he’s not completely brilliant or completely shit either way? As long as he’s respected by the players and has disdain for Adam Blackmore then he’s probably okay and the focus therefore should be on the group of players instead?

That depends on a whole host of unpredictable factors. I mentioned his contract because do I think a club who could pay him more and offer him a better standard will look to spend what it would take to get someone out of a long contract at that age?…I’d say the chances are slim. Unless of course he starts delivering numbers that they can’t ignore.

Don’t think his substitutions have been inexplicable at all given it’s not just Still subbing him off, it’s clearly a combination of a fitness issue and the amount of games we play in a week. You said clubs much bigger than those 4. He’s 27 and on a four year contract. Just can’t see clubs much bigger than bottom half PL clubs seeing any value in him. We’ve got him at his peak.