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It does look like it's going to be a tough ask to stay up this season, not signing a decent striker has been the biggest issue and it's going to be even harder to attract one in January now. I don't think hiring a manager who's a rookie at this level will help either, might have had a better chance keeping Ralph IMO. Keeping us up would be a hard job for a decent manager with experience let alone someone on a learning curve.

He comes across well in the post match interview, hopefully he is exactly what we need. It all hinges on who we can bring in in January, a decent striker or two and we have the makings of a side that should stay up comfortably.

I get the feeling it’s either going to be a genius appointment or a spectacular failure, if I had to put my house on it I would say the later but what do I know, I thought Poch would be a disaster.

JWP will be better off out of it. It's going to be a shit World Cup and England don't have a chance. I really don't see the point in taking Phillips, he's barely kicked a ball this season so even if he's fit he won't be up to speed.

Especially considering there is a fair chance he will be available again by next March.

That’s fucking schoolboy defending.

I clicked no. He may turn out to be a genius appointment but it just seems to be a pointless gamble to me. For me our best Premier League managers have been Koeman, Poch, Strachan and Hoddle, all of them have played and/or managed at the highest level. It's obviously not a necessity for a manager but it helps. We have a Rookie in goal and probably the youngest back four in the league, we need a manager with some top-level knowhow IMO. There is no wriggle room for a gaffer on a learning curve. I will happily be proven wrong. Jones does seem to be a bit of a character so if he gets the players onside and has some good ideas they buy into it may work.

Maybe when we speak to him we will just be asking him if he knows anyone who would be a decent Premier League manager?

The guy said he didn’t have money to spend, regardless of what their set up was that doesn’t seem to be the case. That was my point you thick gammon twat. A Stoke fans view from their forum: His disastrous tactics and his disastrous signings was the reason it went so disastrously wrong when he was here. He was backed and financed to the hilt by the board

He signed 10 players during his one summer at Stoke.

They probably will get on their high horse because even our shittest players have more experience at the top level than he has. It doesn’t mean he won’t be a success but it just makes his job harder. Howe took Bournemouth up so earned his position in the Prem and Potter had success in Europe so both could speak with some amount of authority. Hopefully he is a talented manager and he will be a success but it is a massive gamble, smacks of trying to be too clever.

Why would that be a good thing?

Wish him well if he gets the job but I don’t hold out much hope. I think with the youngsters we have, the first thing we needed was a manager with some top level experience. Jones hasn’t even played to a high level let alone managed at anywhere near where we are. Massive gamble.

Hopefully Jones will have an assistant who knows what the inside of a Premier League dressing room looks like.

I'd be happier if he had achieved anything above Championship level. Anything.

Like the decision to not bother signing a striker in the summer?

Nathan Jones would be one hell of a gamble, especially considering he couldn’t even hack it at Stoke.

This. I hope I’m proven wrong but I can’t see any manager making our forwards good enough. Che and Armstrong are Championship strikers, Walcott would struggle in the Championship and the French kid is nowhere near ready.

I expect Semmens will get the bullet as well which probably accounts for the delay in making a change. Use the break for the World Cup for a complete refresh.

Fuck me, we can’t even win a fight in our own home end.

As expected really. The sort of shit defending you expect from a bunch of kids. Missed the usual sitters. I expect Ralph will be sacked this week but I can’t see this lot staying up regardless of who’s manager unless we get a couple of decent strikers in the window.

There are legal routes but it is harder for people coming from other countries like Afghanistan, that’s why they resort to taking the risks they do. Like those who come from Ukraine, they probably have good reasons why they didn’t want to stop in France (language, relatives, friends etc). Dr Peter William Walsh, Senior Researcher at the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford, said: “The data show the vastly different experiences that refugees from different countries have reaching the UK. Most Afghan refugees cannot access the UK resettlement schemes, and there is no way to apply to them. That explains why a substantial number of Afghans are coming through the asylum system despite the prospect of long waiting times and recent policies designed to deter asylum seekers. By contrast, where there have been legal routes to seek protection in the UK as in the Ukraine and Hong Kong cases, people have been keen to take them up.”

There are other factors of course, which is why we need the Conservatives fucking things up with their mini-budgets, like a whole in the head. If the Tories decisions made no difference why is Truss out of no 10 and Sunak banging on about mistakes?

Albania is not at war so those are economic migrants so should be sent home (unless they are fleeing persecution for some other reason). The Homes for Ukraine scheme means Ukrainians come here, through other safe countries, by other means. I thought it was quite obvious but if you need anything else explaining I will be here later. HTH