Fitzhugh Fella

Yes we are all frustrated and yes the standard of players willing to come here is diminishing, but calling a bloke a joke before actually seeing him play is premature. Spors made some errors last summer, signing Downs and letting Ballard go was just one, and its not surprising confidence in him is low. But I was at Stoke on Saturday and for the first time this season we had round pegs in round holes and boy did it show. Immediately Azaz looked a better player than some on here were giving him credit for, and in Harwood Bellis and Stephens we also had two maligned players suddenly looking like strong central defenders. Good managers and tactics can improve players, I'm going to give this guy the benefit of the doubt although I do agree SR and Spors are dining in the last chance saloon. There is no more room for errors.

Unlike you I place less emphasis on stats when forming an opinion. His minuses have overtaken his pluses this season. We need a complete rebuild and if we can get 15m for him now then that would be a good bit of business as Archer is an adequate replacement for now. What a shame we let Ballard go.

Define prolific and even if he once was he aint now

Because he's not very good, seems to have lost his interest in us and he's a useless captain. And that's just off the tip of my tongue. Hope it helps.

The apathy on and off the pitch yesterday was palpable. Most were too disheartened to boo. My anger has given way to resignation bordering on despair. At least in the Branfoot days we never went down and there were people around the club who had a vague notion of how to run it. And of course we had some players who were proud to wear the shirt. Everywhere I looked yesterday was decay, apathy and malaise. These are tough days.

That Villa game came the week after Russia invaded Ukraine so maybe Putin is to blame?

Our myopic gaslighting manager is telling the Echo he's happy with what we already have.

100% correct, by coincidence I was meeting AH yesterday afternoon on an unrelated matter and the clique thing is not an issue as far as he is concerned.

Its interesting that Downs is still obviously thought highly off in Germany. I just wonder if the blame lies with our coaches/tactics/managers all of which have combined to make him look like a fish out of water (which he has). Something is not adding up

I tell you one thing about Jack having met him etc he may well be a mediocre polayer (he doesn't claim to be anything special) but one thing I can guarantee about him is that he cares passionately about the club (witness the Wembley tears) and always gives his all (even if you don't think that good enough). There's a lot wrong with the club from top to bottom but if I had ti climb into a WW1 tremch JS is still the sort of bloke I would want in there with me.

I find his post match comments insulting and patronising. Having endured the game at Oxford and yesterday it is utter tedious garbage and yet he tells me it's all OK? After the draw at St Andrews he said if we pick up 3 points v Millwall it would have been a good point. After the game today he said if we win at Middlesborough then the point v Millwall there would be positives from the game. It's basically AI generated surely?

I swear to God Tonda is a product of AI.

Gary O'Neil?

I am not sure Ankerson is involved on a day-to-day basis - when I was a guest in the Board room for the Pompey match he was nowhere to be seen. I would be prepared to give Eckert a lot more time if he dropped the "Russball playing it out sideways" tactic. It seriously does my head in.

As usual Glen nails it. I don't know how he gets the energy to write up such a dross performance. I left the Kassam speachless and stayed that way until someone bought me a pint in West Ilsley. If only they let Glen into the pressers we might get some tough questions and some non AI generated answers.