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We've been playing it out from the back all season. Maybe not successfully, but short passing across the back four and down the line has been there the whole time. Was the difference that we got it into the central midfielders and between the lines more? TE got what, Monday and Tuesday and Thursday and Friday to train the players. I'd imagine Thursday training was pretty light, after a game the night before, so the idea that he was able to change the way we play in that short period is unlikely. Individual and collective performances are often about confidence and belief. The manager can be positive and give pep talks, but confidence comes from players playing well and teams winning games.

could not agree more. Can't stand him. The channel 5 documentary revealed everything.

Has he got another envelope at the ready? What a twat.

Yet to see anything from Edwards to make me want to pick him at right back or Cb.

Why does the recency matter? Is that because he might still be getting paid by them so wouldn't take another job on? I was wondering if we could go for Pereira...or is his stock too high for a championship job?

I'm not worried about losing there with GON at the helm, im worried about losing there full stop. So, let's get the right fucking guy in to give us the best chance of winning there...and everywhere else too. Is that GON? I'm not sure, but my memory of his previous jobs was that his sides competed well and Wolves were very hard done by by the officials. The question we should be asking is, is he the guy you think can galvanize the squad and turn them into a runaway train? That might be hard to imagine at this point, but a couple of tweaks, a striker in January...and then who knows. Personally, I like the idea of turning a skate into a Saint and removing a 'legend' from them. I would love seeing him win at their place. A big smile on his face as the fourth saints goal goes in.

If they have already given him the job, then 'Gone in Sixty Seconds' might work

If your team is worse than the majority of opponents, won't the football have to be counter attacking?

GONe when loses many

I have no idea how Spors operates and whether he stretches the truth or not. Mysterious? It's simply a focus group from which the club can learn from. The club are lucky to have people like them willing to give their time for such things free of charge. I hope they all get a free ticket every now and then for their troubles.

For Spors to use the words "actively interviewing" to the FAB, you'd imagine that means they have spoken to at least one or two people/agents this week already, so we must have started the recruitment process at least a week ago or longer.

The Wolves job would have to be a real poison chalice for him to turn it down and then join us. The PL kudos and wages must far exceed what we can offer?

To be honest, I am amazed at just how quickly football clubs appoint new managers. Forrest took one day to announce the last three managers. How on earth they (both parties) get lawyers to check the contracts so quickly is beyond me. I presume they were working on each for a period of time beforehand?

Why should the club waste it's time telling people that MLT is not going to be manager? It would be really poor form for them to announce that 'there is no interest in appointing Russel Martin'. Better to say nothing. Do other clubs comment on managerial non appointments in advance of making an appointment? Fan's desperation for communication seems to be reaching new levels. OK, so we haven't immediately appointed someone, but that's not unusual. Spors has said they are "actively interviewing people", so they may have spent the last couple few weeks making enquiries and arranging those interviews. Getting the right person is more important than getting a person today.

A bit strange O'Neil turning down Wolves. Did he pull out or did they? If he did, then I wonder what can we offer that Wolves can't?

Is it? I've hardly had a good word to say about THB since he joined, but you must have better eyesight than me to have seen evidence of him not wanting to be here last night. He might make mistakes and poor decisions and generally not be great, but you can see from his reaction after the win when he came down the tunnel that he was very happy with the result.

I see Baz is getting all the blame for the goal, but where the fuck were the defenders? It was a great pass, but three CBs were nowhere to be seen.

spot on. what the fuck were we doing? Just push up and compete. Horrible to watch the last 20 minutes.

Should fans ask fans what fans want? Can't they just say what they want as they are fans? With eleven of them, that seems like a decent number of potential different viewpoints.

Jan? Is Bednarek coming back too?

There was an article in the Athletic in April 2023 that said SR had invested £48m in 2022, with the issue of new shares that diluted Katrina's remaining 20% holding and then a further £15m of shares were issued in April 2023. Looking at the accounts for 2023, shares were also issued to the value of £4m in May 2023 and £18m in June 2023. I'm no accountant, but that £85m appears in the share premium account, which means its not available to supplement general day to day operating expenses. I think it could be used for capital projects, like a stadium expansion.

We have a reasonable idea. Just look at the club financial statements, all be it the financial year ending June 2025 doesn't come out until March 2026.

Steve Coppell (Reading) and Lee Clark (Huddersfield) had long unbeaten runs as managers. Coppell got Reading promoted with a record tally, while Clark got the sack - his run was spread over two season and too many draws saw them fail to challenge for promotion.

The one thing in Tonda's favour is that the side hasn't developed a specific style of play or tactic under Still that needs undoing. Five months after he took over, I don't think anyone knows what the plan was! Two days isn't going to be enough to implement significant changes, but perhaps he can at least encourage players to show the intensity needed at this level.

Quarshie isn't going replicate Paul Warhurst. It's fine for the last few minutes of a game, but he's technically one of weakest players we have in the squad, yet we will be asked to play, control, create and generally do things with far less time and space than he ever has at CB. It won't work. He'll win the odd header...and that's it. He needs to be playing at CB.