Greedyfly

Ok, his success at Alaves was underpinned by having at his disposal a ton of loanees from Spain's top clubs so his 'success' there was a result of some astute board dealings. He's not had some glittering managerial career so can we stop pretending like he has. He may well be a good coach but the two don't always marry and in his case that appears to be the case. In fact, with the players at his disposal he possibly should have done better there (his team were the third lowest scorers in La Liga - shock) You can also see this the other way, however, in that he can't actually polish the terd that is our first team squad. And for that one part the blame lays elsewhere, it's not his fault he's got the likes of Long and Redmond to work with. However it is his fault he spent 8+ games to start Austin up front instead when it was clear Long was basically ****ing useless. He also appears to be compounding the lack of quality by targeting other equally as bad replacements. It's not all his fault. Granted. But enough of it is to make him complicit in our poor final season standing. I also think whether that is in the Prem or the Championship will be down to how long he remains in the job. He's been shown to be tactically inept, defensively minded (but not defensively organised) and he still doesn't know what his best first team is...or does and thinks that includes some very average footballers, again see Shane Long.

Should it? It's genuinely awful. That defence (minus Bertrand) is the worst I've seen, and Shane Long is still not the answer to any question.

Given recent 'successes' then I'd suggest they take the Wikipedia route from now on.

"Highly rated Paulo Gazzaniga"...I couldn't take him seriously after that line.

And Long stays on and on and on and on and on...

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

At least this week I'm bored BEFORE the match starts. What a truly uninspiring line up with just the dropping of Redmond the only positive. Here's hoping I eat my words.

Firstly I am not picking on you on purpose but this keeps coming up and it's just plain wrong. Whether you are intimately familiar with them or not is irrelevant, the stats speak for themselves. As for the Premier league years quote - you're wrong again. He has, so far, been injured for just one premier league season that he has played (the one with us last year). He is fit this year and he played 35 times for QPR of the three full seasons he's had in the top flight. As for the failed medical at Hull, it was apparently down to a dicky knee...Unfortunately for Hull and fortunately for QPR he signed for Rangers a week later, played 31 games and scored 17 goals....Not bad for a dicky knee. I do agree about your comment regarding 'luck' though. What horse ****. And he should be given a chance with us. Baird of the Land is possibly correct BUT I'd take a few more goals and a lot less movement at the moment over workhouse Long who is what 11 games and counting without a goal and even more if you add in his international performances.

Cracking little myth this. He's made less than 25 appearances, in a season, only once prior to 2016 and the one big injury he got with QPR. Then one injury hit season with us. He has not been, and is not, 'injury prone' nor has 'injury followed him everywhere'.

Lol. Quite.

And winning the corner that came of that goal. And creating a goal scoring opportunity prior to that. But yeah, apart from that!

Thank God. Boufal has been mostly effective as well, so glad to see that

This. All day this. I don't particularly like Long either but he's got to be a better option than Redmond. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41379524

Long did play well yesterday it has to be said, and I am far from his biggest admirer. BUT, Jame's underlying point is still valid in that all those other things he does are great for the team but at the end of the day aren't going to get us goals. So the same issue persists. Long possibly should be starting in place of the ineffectual Redmond with our most natural striker, Gabbi, up front. But that isn't likely to happen either.

Average player, playing averagely. Always has been always will be.

No, no he wasn't.

Yep grumbles aside, this set up suits us much better. So far so good

At least twice

Brilliant. Gets the formation behind the striker correct for a change and drops the main striker for Long. Sigh.

I can tell you one half of the scoreline now if you want? Nil.

Well played.

Will we? ON what basis? Tadic Redmond and JWP suddenly developing some creativity?

This. Just saying 'get better' clearly hasn't worked. The personnel is all wrong.

Do we? I'd strongly suggest that we don't. The midfield hasn't chipped with any number of goals for three years and yet the personnel remains the same or becomes a downgrade on what we had (Redmond)

Dreadful