adrian lord

I find it incredible that players who must have dreamed of Premier league football all their lives can "lose interest" after a few poor results. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

Trouble is, I don't think Adkins' vacuous, fatuous ManagmentSpeak is enough to rouse the players at half time - or at any time for that matter - when their back are against the wall. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

There appears to have been a total collapse of confidence and spirit. This season could end up an utter humiliation. Sent from my iPad using Tapatal

Where are the glass half full merchants now? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

It is extraordinary just how wrong it has all gone in a few short months. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

COYs

yea.

Lambert does fit the Stoke mould, it has to be said.

It's th reverse - we are poaching jewell.

(double post)

I have to disagree. The best guide to future behaviour is past behaviour. And if he didn't want to be here from day one, who held the gun to his head?

Redknapp destroyed the last vestiges of confidence in our squad when he came in, constantly talking down the players and the chances of staying up, when he should have been making stirring Churchillian rallying cries. Then, to deliver the Coup de Grace, he signed a load of crocked mercenaries, relatives and miscellaneous journeymen. Do we really want that all over again?

Yea - trouble is we are still there defensively!

With hindsight there were warning signs pointing to our current predicament throughout the last third of last season IMHO. Too often I came away from games feeling we had ridden our luck. We struggled against our promotion rivals in particular, and just limped home second. Don't know the stats for the last third of last season but I suspect they might reveal our emerging frailties, especially defensively.

I'd keep him for now. But there would be some serious stuff going on behind closed doors to sort the defensive shambles out.

Crikey - be fireworks if nothing else....

He must be swatting up on the ManagmentSpeak Manual "explaining a big loss" Chapter urgently...

Cortese has probably got an Italian on stand-by.

Utter shambles.

Hoddle.

Yes. Nigel is like a fatally injured fox - Cortese will finish him off with the jack to put him out of his misery very soon IMHO.

Curtains for Nigel.

Yet more delicious irony.

My worry is we will be so screwed by the window, we won't be able to attract any decent defenders.

When did any Saint? Agenda?