Lee On Solent Saint

So, what's the club rationale for hiring someone worse than Ralph? They must have thought he was better equipped to keep us up. End of the day, why bother sacking him if the new bloke does an even worse job

Ralph needed to go. No question. It's the complete clusterfuck of giving Jones the job that will see us relegated. Most clubs get rid of a manager to improve them, we must be the only club to hire a manager that has actually made us worse. No mean feat that.

Or new signings. Why bother with making any.

Yeah I agree. It was always likely to be a one nil game. We didn't lose because of the ref was the point I was trying to make. We lost because we were marginally more shit than Villa were.

I disagree. There was still at least twenty five minutes of play after the disallowed goal. More than enough time to win the game. By all means blame the officials for chalking off the goal, but to suggest we lost the game because of the referree is, in my opinion looking for excuses.

I hate it when people blame the ref because of a defeat. If we were any good we should have won the game outright. Winning or losing shouldn't be because of the officials.

Sack him. He would have had more than enough games to save us from relegation. He doesn't inspire any form of confidence whatsoever.

Absolutely fuckin deluded

Absolutely going down with him in charge. No question. Changing formations about six times a game. Regularly makes three subs at a time. Here is a fuckin clue Nathan, pick the right team from the beginning with the right set up. I really believe that an experienced top level manager would have got us out of thus with a decent transfer window.

But then we didn't have Jones in charge

That's not the point I was making. Forest are going for Premier League quality, but we are still scouring the arse end of bollocks leagues either trying to be clever or saving money.

You've really got to laugh at these guys. West Ham and Forest go out and get proven Premier League quality, and yet we are looking at some guy from the Turkish League, who looked in the games that I saw in the World Cup, utter shite.

Those City fans booing at half time ought to try and watch the shit we have put up with over the past 18 months. Talk about plastic fans.

Fuck the game, I just want to know if there is going to be another light show.

Guess we will be moving on from that one.

Irons from two bit leagues and players under 21 no doubt.

Guess that means we weren't serious when we made the supposed enquiry then. You'd think for the price it would be a deal that would interest us. Can only imagine wages were too much for us.

Foam

To be honest, if he scores the goals that ultimately keep us up, the fee and wages will be excellent value

None of the names that we are being linked with in the Championship are really inspiring me. I think I'd take Ings over all of those guys

Agreed. Doesn't help with Sky etc banging on about how great a job Howe is doing. Take away the money and they would be bottom six with us.

Late 80s for me. Inspired by Jason Donovan. Thought it was a good idea back then.

I think the problem was the fixtures. Had we had on paper three tougher games against the top 6, nobody would have seriously questioned if we had lost all three. The fact that the three games were kinder fixtures that we all thought we should get points, and didn't, meant that the pressure from the fans was on Jones almost straight away.

Fully agree. If he keeps us up, he will have fully justified his appointment.

To be fair, I do think he was stung by the criticism. Am thinking he didn't realise just how broken this club is. Am not a fan of his, but if he keeps us up, you can't really argue with the appointment.