VectisSaint

Will they all have their personalised mattress and bed linen when they are away from home again?

2 days to change a picture, I know the Club is **** poor these days but that's a 5 minute job, even if you don't know what you're doing. Perhaps they are having trouble with Mullins bio, trying to cover up his Skate-nish ?

Still can't get any of the teams information (any team) on OS, either on the desktop or mobile site, just get "Sorry! Something has gone wrong." Dead right it has, and not just with the web site.

No mention in the report about who was the Manager/Coach tonight.

Nope, Ward Prowse was going for him then pulled up. Mind you I think the Sky highlights showed Stephens caused the mistake that led to the ball being played wide for the cross,doesn't show on the YouTube highlights. Mccarthy was actually at fault for both goals, needs to learn to keep his legs together.

He was still at Watford yesterday, their u23s beat Ipswich in Professional Develpment League South game. Apparently doing quite well, at that level (the level below the PL2 league).

This, one if the things I detest about out Club these days.

The Skate? Thought he was still at Watford.

U21s preview (Coventry away tonight) on OS, no mention of the the coach. Also OS page about "teams" where players and staff are listed has been unavailable for a couple of days now. Surely just removing Jaidi for one page doesn't necessitate this.

To be fair it was more likely to be our then goalkeeper coach, Dave 'how's my hair' Watson. Hopefully Sparks is sorting him out.

Tend to agree with you actually, just think Doddsy and Williams were poor example. Think things are changing a bit, possibly. Andrew Sparkes, for instance, highly regarded goalkeeper coach brought in, not many internal appointments since Jaidi, Butterfield was an ex player but he joined as coach from Exeter. Will be interesting to see who they bring in to replace Jaidi, if indeed he has been sacked. No mention of it in Monday briefing from the Club (but that's no surprise), and we do have a game tomorrow in the Leasing.com trophy at Coventry.

Williams was never a Dave Jones plodder, he joined with Strachan and didn't stay long. Dodd admittedly played under Jones, but he played under a lot of other coaches as well, some good (Ball, Merrington, Hoddle/Gorman, Strachan) and some awful (Branfoot), gaining a lot of experience both good and bad under a variety of managers, really don't think he was a particularly bad appoinment given our position at the time.

Doddsy and Williams were appointed when we (the 1st team) were in League One, not sure that attracting the best in the world coaches was too likely to have worked at that stage. Thing is, bringing in ex players who want to move into management/coaching is a fairly standard approach by many clubs. Where else do you get started? Not everyone gets the luxury of joining a 1st team without any experience like Gerrard or Lampard. Jaidi is quite highly thought of in coaching terms, was certainly under consideration for the Tunisian national team last season. I suspect if he has been sacked (and at the moment the only source is Manji) then its not based on results, reckon there is something else going on.

Martin Hunter was in charge when we were relegated. If I recall Radhi was assistant but it's unfair to attach relegation to him directly. He had 2 reasonably successful seasons in the PL2 2nd division, with promotion last season.

To be fair, talent such as his is rarely seen in the English game.

Shots on target 4-2. That was a major difference. Gunn wouldn't have conceded 9 if there had only been 4 on target.

Why Fleming? His promotion to 1st team was based on relative success with the u18s last season. Davis and Watson on the other hand.

He's always immense, but usually useless.

and booked

Could today be the day when we get off the mark for this season's most points dropped from a leading position competition.

Would prefer Morgan.

He had an horrific injury record at the time and was I think released by Juve as a result, hence he was a free agent. We need some emergency cover, although in the end we didn't, and let him go, it was a shame but understandable, because he was/is a good player. He wasn't really a CB, quite diminutive, more often played on the right of a back 3. Hasn't played much since, which sort of justifies our decision not to take him permanently. Not many players can claim a 100% win rate in games played, and collect an EFL Cup runners up medal.

Skacel never played in England before his time in Scotland. I'm sure there are better examples.

Don't think we really have a play-maker to make it work.

Ralph's success prior to RB Leipzig were, with the exception of Ingolstadt, at lower league level. Rohl was already at RB when Ralph was appointed and the success during their two seasons was quite astonishing, far exceeding what Ralph had achieved beforehand. Not that he was bad before but success at RB was a different level. Not saying it was all down to Rohl, but clearly Ralph forged a good working relationship with Rohl and they clearly gelled.