James

Totally agree. Has a very 2004/5 feel to it doesn’t it? Time for Reed to swallow his pride and admit he’s made a mistake.

We might as well not have played a keeper. Makes me so angry we gave him that new deal. Utter incompetence from the board, no other way to describe it.

Definitely. Get rid and use the international break to find a manager. The absolute nightmare would be to sack MP and then leave Eric Black in charge (a la Steve Wigley). I fear relegation if MP stays long term.

We dithered and missed Silva who should have been our first choice. Reed probably thought he could get Tuchel, he couldn’t and so we had to feed on the freebie scraps.

Absolutely this. Terrible terrible manager.

Got to be someone out there better than this clown.

Got to go.

Pellegrino has to go or we will be in the scrap this year that’s for sure. Awful manager.

Forster again...there we go.

Didn’t say I didn’t want Austin on. I just didn’t want Gabbi off.

He’s much more likely to score than either Tadic or Redmond who continually stay on.

Burnley going two up top and trying to go for it. We continue in our usual malaise. Says it all. MP out.

Quite.

Astounding isn’t it? How Tadic and Redmond have stayed on and Gabbi has been sacrificed I do not know.

Another MP sub booed. Poor decision by a poor manager.

We must be pretty bad at breaking most teams down then...

To be fair, compared to recent games that can be considered regular.

Southampton nil...

Redmond is garbage. That is all.

Yes but this seems to be a leaf out of the Steve McLaren Middlesbrough coaching manual - throw as many forwards onto the pitch at once as possible and hope for a goal. People are asking for more attacking style and intent (ie not sitting back as soon as we’ve scored) rather than advocating a totally unbalanced side.

Agreed. Some pretty odd decisions being made, it has to be said.

Didn’t think it was possible for us to find a more stubborn manager than Puel but, hats off to Les, he appears have managed it.

Think it was West Brom at home where we tried it, it didn’t work and we never tried it again. Some of our best performances last year were with JWP on the right crossing low for Gabbi. We haven’t tried that yet this year I don’t think.

Exactly. If MP is so worried about our defence then why not stick with it?

Redmond, Boufal and Tadic in the same team will be interesting. More attacking for sure but can see us getting bullied by a hard working Burnley.