Midfield_General

Agree with absolutely every word of this. Depressingly, horribly spot on.

Well as I always say, there is nothing in vain, even in old ladies. * Taps nose *

Swap Adams out for a decent new signing at CF, and that side has to be good enough on paper to stay up, surely?

Doesn’t exactly reek of a confident manager who feels he knows exactly how he’s getting us out of this mess, does it. Basically just begging the crowd not to turn on him if we don’t win tomorrow night. Rabbit in the headlights.

Fair point, Charlie. 13 points then.

Jones keeps going on about how his first priority is to stop leaking goals, so I predict he'll set up in a 5-4-1, grind out a grim 1-1 draw where our goal comes from a set piece, and he'll hail it as a fantastic result and a sign that we've turned a corner. Then we'll go on to get relegated with a whimper on 28 points. Happy new year!

Brentford have also been excellent to be fair

Forest having a real go at Chelsea now. Wednesday is going to be a tough game. EDIT: And they've just equalised.

Ings on the bench for Villa again. A suggestion of a six-month loan deal for a decent fee has to be worth at least a phone call

I mean that’s just an outright lie, isn’t it

Leno, with his 12 full caps for Germany, was available for £8m in the summer - roughly half what we paid for Bazunu who is nowhere near ready to be a starting keeper in the PL. But hey, who cares, one day he might be decent and he'd be just great in the Championship. Like Jos Hooiveld. 🤣

Plenty of effort. No quality. Ultimately beaten by an average side who didn't play well. Another of our 'easy run of games' (to quote our CEO) lost with zero points to show for it. Going down.

What the fuck is that 😂

You can add failure to sign a PL quality striker to that list. With that factored in I agree with you that so far SR have had four big tests and, unless Jones somehow manages to step up, they appear to have failed all four of them. Their approach is looking like a dangerous blend of inexperienced naivety and misplaced arrogance, and unless something drastic happens, it’s going to relegate us.

I get the clamour for a 'destroyer' type but the difference is that Romeu came through the La Masia youth academy at Barcelona. He was so much more than just an aggressive physical presence and tackler, he was also unbelievably good at receiving the ball, playing out of tight spaces and making a successful short pass. He knitted our midfield together in a way that none of our current midfielders, with the possible exception of Lavia, who appears to be permanently unavailable, can do. IMO that's a massive component of what we're missing with Romeu gone and Lavia out. I'm sure Lyanco would work hard and try and make tackles, but I'm pretty sure he wouldn't add much in that additional respect. People tended to think Romeu was a thug because he looked like a 16th century gaoler, but he was a bloody good footballer.

That post was going so well until that point

Setting up to play a high line against Spurs, when anyone who had ever watched them play knew that Kane would drop off and keep trying to play in Son to run in behind, was a cause for massive concern. Not changing it while watching Son score basically the same goal four times as a result, was an almost unfathomable level of tactical incompetence from everyone involved - the manager, the coaches and the players. I'd stuck by Ralph up to that point, through the 9-0s and everything else, but that was the match where he lost me. It was just comically inept. An under-10s manager would have changed it after the first few.

There isn’t a single source or scrap of evidence in that story to back up the claim in the headline. FI is a joke of a site and that story is literally made up. By all means let’s criticise Jones for what we see on the pitch, but not for fictional bollocks written by a fantasist who pretends to be a journalist.

An uphill wank, but not impossible

Top of the group after two games. Shite, Southgate out!!!11 Jesus

The forum gazelles breathe a sigh of relief

Everything about this is so artificial and forced. Nothing’s authentic, it’s like watching a reconstruction of what people who have never been to a football tournament think it might be like.

Of the ones I was there for… 1. MLT x 3 vs. Norwich (MLT at his absolute best on a freezing cold night at the Dell) 2. MLT flick up and volley free kick vs. Wimbledon (couldn’t believe he’d tried it, let alone scored it) 3. Wayne Thomas screamer vs. Ipswich (sat right behind it, could see it was going to fly in the moment it left his boot) 4. Horne vs. Bolton (for the pitch invasion) 5. Ruddock last-minute penalty vs. Newcastle (for the celebration) Honorary mention for Clyne’s thunderbolt vs Arsenal at the Emirates as it knocked them out and I know a lot of gooners!

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