VectisSaint

Yeah, just remember how bad it was when Poch was our manager, or when Koeman came in and took English lessons. Both of them were dreadful because of their inabiity to speak English. Puel and Pellegrino actually spoke English better than Poch. It has nothing to do with being able to speak English, it is to do with communicating and getting your messages across, that doesn't need to be by a native English speaker to be effective. Sparky is no more English than any of the other aforementioned managers for that matter. Given the majority of our players are not native English speakers (Forster for instance) it really is not a necessity, but it is nice to have someone who is able to communicate easily from a supporter's pov.

Your first sentence says it all. No hope for you pal.

If you don't understand that Leeds are a bigger club then you clearly know nothing about football history. He said bigger clubs have suffered that fate, i.e. in the past. European Cup Runners-up, Cup winners cup runners-up, UEFA Cup winners twice, Everton have won the Cup Winners Cup, Leeds League Champions 3 times in the reasonably modern era, same as Everton. There was a time in recent memory when Leeds were certainly top 2 or 3 in this country.

Think this is one of the keys. We certainly looked fitter yesterday, the way we set up to play Boscombe meant we needed runners, and they couldn't have done that under the Pellegrino/Puel regime. Its probably taken a few weeks since his appointment for Hughes to be able to get players playing like this, you cannot change fitness levels overnight, but his more intensive training looks like it has worked. If only he had been given the chance to do this a few weeks earlier, not convinced yet we can get out of this mess but at least we have a chance with two tricky but winnable away games coming up.

Hoedt really is a liability. He needs to learn a lot, good player in there, but he really is so naive, too laid back and lacking in understanding the game.

The effect of Puel who managed 1 win and 2 draws in the last 8 games of the season, with 0 goals in our final 5 home matches. You really need to think about what you post. Puel becmae a ****ing disaster who is largely responsible for where we are now. He is heading the same way at Leicester just to prove that his achievement wasn't just a fluke.

Racial stereotyping at its best.

Probably thinks Boscombe is in Dorset as well.

Presumably your retort to a Liverpool fan is that we have the same number of PL trophies. Same as Spurs as well.

Correct. He also won't stick around if/when we are relegated. Bayern's cast-offs do not play in the Chumpionship.

40 million . We will be lucky to get £40, which is about all he is worth these days. Perhaps the price quoted includes Boufal and Redmond in a buy one get two tossers free deal.

Despite the continuing mistakes he makes, costing us goals directly by his casual play. Also gives next to nothing goals wise. He will be a good player eventually but needs to cut out the mistakes. Stephens gets panned on here by some, yet makes very few mistakes, reads the game better, provides a threat up front, people also say he does not head the ball, which h is a complete myth.

Stephens will come back in, the dreadful Hoedt will be rightfully dropped. Hoedt will be good one day, but has a lot to do to get there. Stephens is infinitely better than Wesley.

Quite honestly, there is nothing to suggest that anyone would have turned around the complete shambles that we had gotten into. When we have ended up with such useless tossers as Boufal, Tadic, Redmond, Carillo, Hoedt, Lemina I really don't see that Guardiola, Mourinho or Klopp individually or cleectively would have made any significant difference. I really don't think blaming Hughes is particularly smart. This has been coming since Les fell out with Koeman, and our shambolic ownership and senior management failed to see what was happening and take decisive action.

Yes it does, also misses their match v Swansea, so not good for us.

Think Harry Lewis would be considered backup if we are in the Championship. Has played most of the season for Dundee Utd in the Scottish Championship (though has been relegated to the bench recently) to gain the experience, would be strange not to have him back in the first team squad especially if we are relegated (unless he wants to return to Shrewsbury who will probably be in the same league as us, can't believe that I've just written that). Anyway, does anyone actually know anything about this Westwood guy,? Unfortunate name, does he come with a bell?

How can Forster be a better shot stopper? He has never stopped one (except away at Arsenal last year or the one before). Shot stopping is Fraser's poorest skill. SKD was (probably still is) a better shot stopper that Desparate Dan. :-)

Lemina is Gabonese, he was born there not in France.

Sam Gallagher coiuld have two relegations, Blackburn f'sure and Birmingham not safe yet. Incidentally anyone know why he has not played recently? Injury or out of favour? Not sure if Steven Davis counts, Rangers were relegated from the SPL to the 3rd Division following their insolvency, which resulted in him joining us. Although we should not be looking out to recruit players with this experience it could be handy to have one or two who have experienced the lows and bounced back. They might be able to help some of our delicate petals.

Won't happen while Ms Liebherr remains part owner of the Club. Might happen if Gao buys her out completely and looks around for some help spending his (backers') money, which hopefully he will at some point otherwise we will continue with the current bumbling board.

It was actually taken from more or less the right place.The confusion is because people think that it was given for the first "tackle" by JWP inside the Chelsea half. It wasn't it was given for the second one inside Saints half, as clearly indicated by Dean gesturing to play on at the time. For all his faults, Dean was actually pretty much spot on with this decision and its aftermath (Dermot Gallagher tried to clarify this on Sky, his clarification was awful and confused but it was correct if you could see through his muddled explanation). The problem, as so often this season is that our midfield either don't stop dangerous attacks or give away stupid free kicks in dangerous positions. Then our defenders get blamed for the consequences. In many cases it is not our defenders that are the problem, but our midfield, Lemina, Romeu, Hojbjerg, JWP, Tadic, Davis, Redmond, Boufal all have been quilty often of causing goals by their defensive ineptitude at various times. But the so-called Forum experts blame Stephens, Cedric, Bertie and Hoedt (Hoedt has been guilty several times of awful individual errors of course). Chelsea's second goal could easily have been prevented if Tadic had been marking Hazard instead of standing watching what was going on, hand on hips.

No she did not. She did not get to control the club until the Probate process was completed. Almost as soon as she got control she showed Cortese the door. Poch followed. She was not in control when we rose through the Championship and for the first 2 seasons back in the PL.

But would anyone from the club contact him to let him know?

Problem is that we are so devoid of people with football knowledge now, how do you think Gao will find the right person to appoint? Perhaps Nelly will find the right candidate.

Someone should have followed up about Sam McQueen as well, think he is long term absentee and Hughes seems to forget about him unless asked specifically. Shame cos he could do a job that lets Bertrand played in a back 3 which we know he can do well.