Dman

Fully expect us to lose this one still, but you won’t complain if we do. City are a team of super stars. great half from us, a different team to that we have seen under Jones previously. Long may it continue.

People won’t like this, but I’d take a swap deal with United including AWB

I like KWP, I personally think he’s one of our better players and one who is most ‘saleable’. I don’t particularly agree with his height being an issue, but it is important to remember that he was a winger converted to a full back, rather than being an out and out defender. If we’re going to persist with a shitty back 3/5, I’d rather we got a RB who can play RCB (Walker, as an example of someone like that, but obviously not a realistic signing). I think as a wing back, Tino would be better, however I’d rather us play an actual winger to give us more attacking presence. Rather a 343 than 523, if that makes sense. I think KWP would do very well in the United side and has been a good servant. Wouldn’t begrudge him a move.

Honestly speaking, I’d take that if offered now. Horrible feeling it could be a big one tonight.. if city want it to be, of course.

I hope he’s got a strong neck. He’s gonna need it watching the ball sail over him all game.

Fair enough, happy to hold my hands up and appologise. From where I was, it seemed like nothing, but sometimes they can be the worst. Let’s hope it’s not too serious

I can’t imagine that O’Neil has long left. Bournemouth look just as bad as us. Be interesting to see who goes first between him and Frank. Franks saving grace is that Everton don’t have a pot to piss in… might just save him.

I still can’t believe this happened. People give Jones stick for wanting the limelight, but fuck me ralph was as bad as anyone for that. Remember the stupid jazz hands to the fans on the rare occasion we won’t a game.

Hes correct in what he says, but I feel like he’s been watching a different side to everyone else. Long hopeful punts are shit. It was better today, but palace are a dreadful side at the minute and should have put us to bed in the first 30 minutes. Basically, as we were. Jones out.

I think you’re reading a little more into mentioning us in 3rd person than is intended and Tbh, Jones doesn’t strike me as the brightest bulb in the box. I feel sorry for him in the sense of this is a little more sensitive given family connections etc. It’s not his fault we appointed him all reports suggest that this is his style of which we simply don’t have the squad for. He’ll be recompensated very well, but that doesn’t excuse the personal insults towards a man who I’m sure is trying his best. He’ll bounce back I’m sure. Not at this level, likely the championship or L1, but he’ll manage again.

I don’t think he fancies it tbh. Always seems to be getting injured / going down. Looked like he couldn’t wait to come off, but hopefully I’m wrong on that account and that was just his playing style rather than attitude

The Eddie Howe stuff is 100% true. We had him all lined up, we pulled out last minute and stuck with Ralph. I think if I remember rightly we had a slight uplift in form. He then went to Newcastle and the rest is obviously history. To be honest, I’m still amazed it never happened, but things change quickly in football.

Correct. The players are a bunch of cowards and deserve relegation on their CV. However; in this case, they’re not to blame. Jones is so far out of his depth it’s untrue.

If this is true (it’s been pinched from twitter so a grain of salt), and we’re appointing managers based on this ridiculous logic, then I think I’d rather Le Tiss running the national vaccine roll out than have these 2 fucking morons running our club.

He’s on over a 100k a week. Even if the transfer fee is reduced, it’s not a cheap deal and his minimal output doesn’t warrant the outlay.

Possibly explains their desire to be a profitable club, rather than ambition to succeed..?

Where does he go? Other than maybe one of the promoted sides, I don’t see another team in which he starts in the PL. Very average player.

Rasmus Ankersen.

I don’t actually think it would have. We’d have gone into our shell inviting pressure and ultimately still had Lyanco on the pitch making simple 5 year old mistakes and no plan to actually attack other than long ball. Under Ralph, at times, we can blame Che for missing chances costing us games as we had spells where we looked okay, just not for 90 minutes. Under Jones we don’t even have 5 minutes where we look like scoring.

It’d be a way to win the fans over though. It’s toxic at the minute, everyone’s getting it. If they were to come out and say “we got it wrong, we liked Jones for XYZ we think he’ll succeed elsewhere, but not here at this time” I think they’d gain a large amount of respect from the fans. The trouble is, Jones wasn’t wanted by anyone to start with. It was underwhelming and had an upwards battle from day 1, had we brought a preferred ‘bigger’ name and had the same results, j suspect reaction wouldn’t be as strong. That being said, the football has been so bad it’s beyond belief, it genuinely looks like 11 men who don’t train together being thrown out with no instructions. the confidence fall out from this spell is going to take a long, long time to recover from.

Much like it was obvious Ralph’s time was up last season (arguably before), it’s obvious that Jones won’t work. We have a habit of being too loyal to people and clinging on for too long.

It’s not too late, we’re in the gutter, but we have a window to strengthen and it’s a piss poor league. 1. we need to sack Jones before the next PL game. 2. bring someone on who is either proven at this level for a short term (18m contract), Dyce, Big Sam, Rafa. Or someone with a decent style of play (longer term) for us to get an identity again. 3. spent money, big money. it has to be all 3 of the above or we’ll be fucked. Even in the championship.

I’m not Che’s biggest fan and I think he’s a large reason why we’re gonna go down, his composure in front of goal is beyond pathetic. However; you could stick Haaland up top and he’d struggle in this style. What’s the poor bloke expected to do when he’s getting long diagonal punts going over his head all game.

At Brentford he wasn’t the main main. Benham is/was. Brentford fans said this at the time and since he’s gone, they’ve gone from strength to strength. no doubt he’s a very intelligent bloke and tbh, I brought his bullshit, but he’s clueless about football and is going to ruin this club with his wild theories.

Tbf, those data nerds don’t have a fucking clue. We had idiots on here claiming Adam Armstrong was a better striker with more potential than Broja, because of his stats or something. Data can be useful, but as said time and time again, it needs to be used alongside proper scouting.