adrian lord

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?

The ones we have could be drilled far better ?

There is an irony in there somewhere.

SSN say we are joint record goal shippers at this stage of season ever in premiership.

Don't think Cortese will tolerate this stuff much longer.

So, we have 3 poor keepers?

Shocking, positively shocking. But not perhaps surprising given the dynamic that we are independently wealthy through legacy, boosted by SKy, and not particularly paying-customer dependent for revenue. They should take example from the Emirates corporate boxes. Superb environment, food and service (only the football lets it down!).

Presumably MLT doesn't say specifics for fear of being sued for slander/defamation/libel.

But will he have the resolution to cope under the microscope of the Premiership? A league which he will only have viewed through the distorting prism of satellite television?

I blame the parents.

The dead legs we all got at school were blows that temporarily paralysed a major nerve innervating the leg, but the Gaston injury sounds more like a large muscle compartment pressurised haematoma that they had to operate on to release the pressure.

It is not, in my judgement, a sign of over indulgent parenting to point out that we are not yet even having a consistently successful crack at the small or medium sized sharks in this division, to borrow the OP's analogy.

I am afraid I agree Canada, although was pilloried for making a similar observation earlier.

The fu king paediatrician deserved it!