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I'd like 2 up front maybe Guido and Long but we all know he'll stick 1 up front (no goals Long) and go balls out for the goalless draw. West Brom will smell our capitulation and come at us, they'll huff and puff and eventually score. He'll put on a 2nd striker with 2 minutes to go and claim we won the possession stats and are showing continual improvement. He's pathologically wedded to defence, literally cannot envisage actually going for another team's throat. Oh, and he won't be removed. All aboard the kamikaze express, choo choo......

Been following SFC since Lawrie Mac and he's the worst. Worse than Wigley, Gray, Portaloo and What?, Redkanpp etc and even the dreaded Branfoot. Infact he's so bad I'm starting to wonder if this is some kind of malicious act to get him sacked and off with the loot. It's beyond bad and it's going to relegate us. His selections are utterly mad, 1 up front at home to BHA and the 1 is a player that never scores. Guaranteed no goals, mental stuff. Meanwhile we have a load of attacking players on the bench. More mental stuff. I'm really starting to wonder about the guy's motives - no one is that bad.

No regrets atall, he was a dull manager (with one or 2 exceptions) and I personally wasn't bothered to see him go. Was it 6 home games without a goal? Didn't blame the board for giving him the boot. However I will give you he's a world beater compared to the current incumbent if that's what you're fishing for. Doesn't mean I want Puel though.

Well I believe we're stuck with him so all we can do is enjoy our ride on the kamikaze express. I'm sure the vast majority of fans would like to get more behind the team but they've got to do their bit and play some entertaining football. This soul sapping stuff that has been on display for the last couple of seasons now is enough to suck the life out of anyone. It's supposed to be entertainment, anyone told him that?

I thought it was done on a Monday lunchtime? Not an easy draw, WBA looked good against Pool and look to have their tails up.

Brighton are limited but well organised and determined, they aren't going down without a big fight, quite right. Can't see us breaking them down very easily. Feels like a 0-0 or 1-1 draw to me and MP remains. Kamikaze stuff.

Good win and great to be in the cup despite the manager's utter negativity. It was a half baked Watford team - not Barcelona - but MP yet again shut up shop and invited pressure that didn't previously exist. Relegation is a coin toss with this guy in charge, he has absolutely no idea about seizing the initiative.

He needs lots of crosses and plenty of shots\balls into the area. He looks fine in the air and pretty efficient in converting any easy chances in the 6 yard area. Dump the negativity MP and tell the players to give him the support he needs - if you do I think he'll get enough goals.

Looks like he's got a new career......

That guy had so much talent and p*ssed it all up the wall. Could have been a great at SFC if his head wasn't so screwed up.

From the videos he seems to get a few goals from picking up rebounds from other player's shots. Also looks decent enough in the air. So need to start pinging in a lot more shots to see if he can capitalise + get crossing. Overall he reminds me of Pelle, if he's anywhere nearly as good then he'd be more than useful. We'll see.

Have to say a point against Spurs is nothing to be sniffed at, I thought we'd get thrashed so well done the players and egg on my face. Got to keep it going now, still a steep hill to climb. Manager isn't going anywhere so got to hope we can pull out of this.

Fantastic point considering I genuinely feared what Spurs would do to us. Got a bit lucky with a subdued Spurs performance but take nothing away from the players, really good effort. Now please sack the manager.

The big draw for me is that Silva appears to be an impact manager which is exactly what we need right now. Loyalty is a bit iffy but so what, get him on a 'till the end of the season' deal and see how it goes. He's not the greatest but that's not important right now - the only question is can he keep us up and I think he can. One thing's for sure, I'm pretty sure our strike force would finally start firing and Gabbi would take a much bigger part in things. Also I think he'd be able to get Tadic and Redmond fired up - should be enough to keep us up. That said I'm not atall convinced the board aren't preparing to go kamikaze and stick with the current guy. Ego, hubris and a rudderless ship may save MP's job at least till the end of the season. Long term I'd love Ron Koeman or Martin O'Neill but that may be wishful thinking.

Definitely new manager but the current guy isn't going anywhere. Not saying the players have covered themselves in glory but until you get someone in charge who knows what they are doing it's very hard to judge them. Redmond for example gets a lot of stick but who knows - maybe with a more attack oriented manager he could be a very decent player? He certainly has the attributes. If I'm right and MP stays till the bitter end then relegation becomes a real coin toss this season.

Don't blame him atall, Gabbi needs a strike partner but the manager has no intention of playing 2 up front. If\when he goes it will have been a huge waste of talent. The solution is to get a manager that believes in him and believes in 2 up front.

Spurs are going to surgically open us up and disembowel us. I truly fear this could be the biggest beating we are going to take this season. Really hope I'm wrong.

First half we were great, just shows we do have the players to get out of this mess when they go for it. However after half time talks Watford came out like lions and we came out like mice. I can only presume it was another genius talk from our defeatist negative cowardly manager. Inevitably the team goes into its shell and we drop 2 points. If we go down this season it will be the biggest act of self harm this club will have committed in my time of following, mind numbing stuff really. Please just get rid of him - it's painful to watch.

This one's going to stink out Vicarage road so bad they're going to have to call in the fumigators. 1-1 and Captain Clueless stays at the helm. #WeLimpOn

Yes, the Camara goal was the loudest I've heard. SMS was like a pressure cooker as the game ebbed and flowed - thought the roof was going to blow off that afternoon.

Yes he was the best of Harry's desperate deals in that 'swing Lowe from the Itchen bridge' train wreck of a season. The rest of them were chuffing sh*te though, Davenport? Bernard? Jamie 'pay day' Redknapp? It really was do or die kamikazi stuff. That's what happens when you're down the bottom and looking desperate though.

Threads like this give me horrible flashbacks to 04-05 when we were like a drowning man flailing around desperately using anyone who vaguely expressed an interest in getting a big pay cheque, Camara and Redknapp spring to mind but I'm sure there were others.

Just like Black was, or VVD? Manager picks the team, manager sets the tone. The manager didn't pick Austin for an eternity and wondered why we weren't scoring goals. The manager is still utterly fixated on 1 up front from the start even though it's been a complete flop, not even a glimmer of hope that he might try something different. His influence permeates throughout and it's a defensive, cowering one. Take a 1-0 lead and defend, invite pressure and invariably concede. Players heads have dropped, Gabbi looks a shadow of his former self and the lack of spearhead has screwed up the whole 11. Les Reed is to blame as much as he hired this guy and still appears to refuse that he isn't up to it, but the bottom line is MP has taken an adequate squad and wrecked it. Maybe he's a nice guy - unfortunately being a nice guy doesn't necessarily make you a good manager.

Agreed - I think the majority of fans would like to see him back here, see what he can do. Looks like the Brum fans are starting to warm to him now their manager is playing him as a CF. Why are we thinking of spending good money on an iffy looking striker when we already have one that looks promising and plays in the same role? Not saying we shouldn't get a CF in - we absolutely should - but get a proven one that we know can do the business and if we aren't prepared to do this then at least recall what we actually have got.

Player agrees to go on a deal, buying club backs out because they think they are paying too much - as is their right. Player's contract runs down, buying cub comes back a few months later and agrees a cheaper deal. Not sure what he's getting worked up about.