CB Fry

It's not one poor result, it's three. 2 points from those three games is pathetic.

Signed a good week before deadline day, incredibly well known by the manager and clearly tracked for a while. And we desperately needed forwards at that point. If anything we signed him six months late because he was the striker we needed in the summer. So the opposite of a panic buy.

This year we signed no one. Last year we refused to sign any pacy wingers and nearly went down. Season before we refused to replace Fonte and had the worst second half of a season in living memory with a dreadful run of home games in the stretch. Yeah, not signing people and not having horrible horrible panic buying is absolutely a winner.

As a club I think we will have done fewer panic buys than any other club in Britain. This has come up recently and still I can't see anyone naming an actual "panic buy" we've made. We spend entire transfer windows popping champagne corks because we HAVEN'T signed players and "do things a different way" and not being held to ransom and blah blah blah. Literally the opposite of panic buying. Maybe a couple of impulsive buys now and then would stop having shi tfest transfer windows over and over again.

We clearly had been planning the exit of Cadric and Gabbiadini for weeks before the window even opened, so organising for replacements for a similar time would not have been "panic buying".

I thought we would do better in these three games than this. I also thought that the transfer window was a clusterf uck. Pretty easy to think both things. Danny Ings currently injured. Obviously we could only know that would happen this season with the benefit of hindsight

It's not hindsight to say that window was a disaster. It clearly was and here we are bottom 3 having completely blown a lovely run of three very winnable matches winning zero. Total fu ck up has consequences. Pretty much the opposite of hindsight.

Squads of "experienced, top flight pros" get relegated every single season. What's your point?

I about three weeks we've gone from hopefully looking up the table and dreaming of a decent second half of the season to the thumping dreadful realisation that we are the same sack of sh it team we were under Pellegrino and Hughes. The only thing we've got to celebrate is yay, yay, yay we've got rid of some players let's all high five each other and yay yay yay we're playing a cluster of a Championship at best level players but hero worship them because they happen to be young. Hopefully we will still do enough to stay up, but losing to Cardiff home and away does not suggest we are capable of doing enough.

Two draws in a row against Palace and Burnley is hardly some stellar run we've been on. The Leicester result was a great backs against the wall job but since then it's relegation form again.

He wanted to go because he wasn't going to get any game time under this manager. It would have been easier to keep Gabbiadini - for scenarios exactly like today - then to flog him and hope for the best, i.e. Ings never being injured and/or pulling a replacement out of the bag. Whether people like it or not, this was a decision made by our manager. Shane Long was chosen ahead of Gabbiadini.

So we recruit a high-profile top manager on a decent wage and to much fanfare. In his very first window we immediately sell a striker that was central to his plans completely against his will. That's what you are saying? You really sure about that? Because Gabbiadini himself doesn't seem to think that.

If Hasenhutl had wanted Gabbiadini to stay ha'd be here and playing.

If we had conceded an equaliser in the last minute, we would have collapsed and conceded a winner too. How the f uck we managed to score the effing equaliser and collapse ourselves beggars belief.

Young players are brilliant because they are young.

Was he sold against the manager's will, then? Because I think Ralph made a decision to chose Long over him, which is why Gabbi was sold.

At least we can get back to the old "well, you can't expect us to get anything against Arsenal/Spurs etc" routine.

Pretty shameful how we have thrown away three of the most winnable matches we had left. We now go into a tough run nowhere near the points we should have on the board. The laziest, most complacent, suicidal transfer window in our history may well just come back to bite us very badly. Sh ite.

Today's result has got Eric Black written all over it.

Thank god we got rid of all that deadwood, because we're fu cking brilliant now.

Jesus wept. Jesus effing wept.

In fairness to the forum, who could've predicted that Pilchards would miss a very obvious joke?

Not everyone on the forum, no.

"Panic buying is what we've been doing in the last couple of years" is what you said. But you can only name one player from the last "couple of years", Carillo. So haven't been doing it have we. We've signed one player you don't like and tried to extrapolate a trend from it. One player does not a trend make. You then throw in Austin so going beyond your "couple of years" but on every measure, from every angle, Austin was not a panic buy. Obviously, patently not. If Pelle wasn't a panic buy by your definition, how on earth can Carillo or Austin be one? Carillo was far younger than Pelle for a start. Austin was also younger than Pelle. You're all over the place. Or, put simply, you're making stuff up. It's fu cking hilarious you think I have an "agenda against the club" when half the forum think I'm an grovelling apologist for Krueger and the club management for many years. So as well as having zero understanding of basic English words and phrases, you don't pay much attention do you?

You haven't answered my question about Pelle. Panic buy yes or no? Why are you going on and on about panic buying when by your own admission we don't really do it. To recap, by your own definition: Winter window 2019 - zero Summer window 2018 - zero Winter window 2018 - one Summer window 2017 - zero Winter window 2017 - zero Summer window 2016 - zero Winter window 2016 - hilariously, one Summer window 2015 - zero Winter window 2015 - zero Summer window 2015 - zero Winter window 2014 - zero Summer window 2013 - zero Winter window 2013 - zero Summer window 2012 - zero 2 panic buys (not that either of them are) in 14 windows and you're still blathering on about it. Lastly you need to look up the word "panic" in the dictionary. Any person or business can decide to deviate from their normal behaviour in a perfectly considered way ("tell you what, let's got to Disneyland next summer", "I've done the numbers and I think we should invest more in magazine advertising for this campaign", "Charlie Austin is available for £4m, we can afford it, he wants to come and oh look and it is January 13th") without it needing to be a "panic". Seriously, learn what words actually mean.