Ed Rooney

This - Lemina on his day was the best midfielder we had but unfortunately his day was few and far between Hoedt was highly rated and had just started getting in the Dutch squad. Again didn’t work out unfortunately Gunn was rated highly by those in the game and was signed for potential but didn’t work out. Some signings do not work out, that’s the same at every club

Agree

Yep and we know why, that was very much a panicked decision based on a manager under threat and the club or les Reed pretty much going on a desperate managers word. 90% of signings follow a much stricter period of review

De Ridder was branded the messiah on here following posters watching you tube clips. I have never heard of the guy, but research better than you tube must have been done within the club.

About 30 million too much so would snap their hand off

This

This

Don’t get me wrong, when he played for us 2/3 years ago, whenever it was, I did think he was poor. Pre season though he has been as good if not better than the likes of Theo, Djenepo and Redmond. I know that’s not saying much but I don’t think he will be worse than those

Warwick Davis would have been handy for his corners against Everton

Sounds like what we need from a defender, captain qualities

Agree on 1st 50/50 as one of them should have taken control of the situation, must have been no communication. 2nd we didn’t react to quick free kick and ward prowse was ball watching instead of tracking the run, when he did react it was too late. 3rd Awful frol Stephens, DCL was in his eye line but he jogged back and had absolutely no interest in getting to the cross first. Absolutely no desire or passion and tbh was the goal that pissed me off the most

Yep, but Djenepo, Redmond or Walcott will be in front in managers eyes.

Good

One up at half time with Theo and Djenepo being shite. Winning or not l, the manager has to change it and bring off players who are not performing, it was appalling from the manager. Not pro active at all and you can’t be like that in Prem league awful

Romeu quiet ??? Spent 3/4 of the game covering ward prowse treading water. Yes great block ward prowse but other than that the game passed him by and it was lucky we had Romeu.

Useless cunt of a manager

I’m sure he had such a forward plan considering all those injury problems

Nonsense

Exactly that and I’m not arguing, it’s just unbelievable

Can’t believe people turning their noses up at Dier. A 27 year old with over 200 games for a top premier league side and 40 plus international caps. WTF

It would make a change for us to have a defender that wins headers and wins tackles, rather than the soft shite we have had to put up with. I haven’t seen enough live performances from Phillips to comment on what he is, but if he is a tough defender who can win aerial battles, then I personally wouldn’t be overly disappointed.

Or course he has never been a fan

You could go on forever Clean sheets against Bournemouth, Shrewsbury, Sheff Utd and then the other games Arsenal, Wolves, Liverpool - 1 shot on target in each of those 3. Has he had to contend with a team down to 10 that has given up and capitulated. Ultimately they are both not the best keepers but I for one shit myself less when McCarthy is in goal than I do when Forster is in goal flapping around and falling like a tree.

👍 As we had luckily enough in the first few seasons Fraser played in

Oh here he is... Is Forster not a bad goalkeeper then. Does having a massively better defence mean less goals against When those superb centre backs were gone did Forster’s inadequacy appear almost immediately and the games reduced