Galway saint

Most of the players aren’t good enough if we’re honest ( particularly in attack) but it’s whether we want to be relegated with approx 10 points or at least try and make a fight of it. I’m not sure what the club is expecting - it’s not just going to click into place. At the moment we’re not competitive and we have the wrong manager for the current situation and players. Seems pretty obvious but unless there’s someone better waiting in the wings what’s the point ? Ultimately we were shit during our last season in the PL and we are even worse now and you can only lay so much of that on RM. The club is not well run and the recruitment has with a few exceptions been really poor so I hope we don’t piss more money up the wall in January until we’ve got a decent scouting set up but I won’t hold my breath for that

Shea Charles is doing very well according to what I was told by a couple of Owls fans. The prospect of a return for Irelands no.1 is pretty depressing - another total aberration by the club

We will be relegated regardless of who the manager is, but we have lost 9 of 11 games and there is no sign of any improvement. It’s clearly not going to click and the club is kidding itself if it thinks we are within touching distance of nirvana. It’s a flawed philosophy and we are just too easy to play against. Once we are all but relegated ( this could be before Xmas) morale will drop like a stone. We could conceivably lose 30 games + this season ! I can’t see how he survives that whatever great plans they have and this looks like it could be the worst season in our history. Agreed on Fernandes but our recruitment for some time now has been poor and we have wasted so much money

Mclaren and casper ?

basically it would cost a bazanu or a shea charles given our propensity to waste money on shit players seems relatively cheap

bazanu

Looks like we will be effectively down by Xmas as that was last chance saloon today. No shots on target in a must win game. I still think he will be here by Xmas but I can’t see him being here next season whatever guff SR might talk about ten year plans. Once we are effectively down the morale will drop like a stone and we will be on the end of some serious hidings and it will start to get toxic quickly. I just can’t see SR not capitulating before the end of the season.. They won’t of course act when it’s still possible to do something to change the outcome ( albeit with our attack I think most managers would struggle to keep us up) but I can’t se him getting through this season as it’s going to be pretty grim. We’ve already lost 9 from 11 and can anyone see it getting better ? There absolutely nothing to indicate it will. But as we keep saying who on earth will they appoint next. I have no faith in these guys at all and you get the feeling most decent managers will give us a wide berth.

yes - fantastic save at the foot of the post

We won a game in the PL !! Needed a bit of luck and helps having a keeper who can make saves

looks like a championship side

Will this be the day we finally win a game in the PL ? Have lost count but it must be now 23 or so games since we did so. That really is abysmal stuff

Feels like he will be here for a while regardless of results. Wouldn’t be surprised to see him still here next season following our inevitable relegation. He’s being found out this season.. His game management is really poor and it’s clear he’s not one of those coaches who can make the sum greater than the parts. Quite the opposite really. In his defence however he he was given little to work with offensively this season. I don’t know what input he had on signing the likes of BBD and Cornet and even Archer to a degree but we have the worst attack in the PL and if you were the likes of Moyes you would look at that attack and think theres no chance i’m keeping them up. God knows what the owners think to all this but for the fans it’s been a dire season and it doesn’t feel like we will start wining games regularly again until next season and it’s only November.

been following saints since 1982 and he’s the worst keeper in all that time

peak bravery this board feels quiet a symptom of the fact we all know we we are going down (in october)

peak brave

It’s pretty depressing that we are no longer taking about staying up but getting a respectable number of points to avoid embarrassment I wonder if the club has the same approach or if they genuinely believe we can stay up. If they don’t then it might explain why RM is still here

makes sense - in order to get back to where we are now we have to pursue a strategy that first gets us relegated it’s almost impossible to see him turning this around as we need to stop conceding goals and at no point in his managerial career has been able to set a team up to to defend equally there is no point sacking him if we don’t have a good replacement lined up and I’m not sure a top manager will be interested

who are you thinking of ? Dave Basset or Jim Smith ? Someone like that ?

We score .75 goals a game and concede 2.25 goals game I wonder if there is any team in the football league where the gap is as wide as this. I think our forward recruitment was poor but he is a terrible defensive coach and on these numbers we are on to concede nearly 100 goals this season.

In our last 6 games in the PL we have conceded 3 goals in 5 of those. We are clearly not good enough to stay up and have not won a game in the PL for 21 matches but I think the club need to acknowledge that if they stick with RM there’s every reason to think we will be setting new records for the worst Pl season. I think it would be a legitimate question to ask RM if he believes we can actually win a game this season in the PL and if so why when we are conceding on average more than two goals a game and scoring less than a goal a game.

the forward recruitment wasn’t good enough and we bought too many middling players rather than a few stars

he could be both dreadful and waiting for a gig with a bigger club, if he was deluded as to his abilities

‘in all probability’ is admirably optimistic think its more a case of ‘beyond all reasonable doubt’ That was it today - game over it’s just a question now of how embarrassing is this season going to be as at the moment i am finding it difficult to see how we win a game

I think replacing Rasmus has to be the starting point but until that happens we haven’t hit rock bottom

Had to laugh when the third went in - we haven’t won now in the PL for 21 games ( half a season) and we clearly aren’t competitive at this level so there’s not much to say really is there. Seems odd though that the seasons effectively over in October.