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He can't be any good cos clearly Ankersen doesn't rate him.

Don't think anyone is creaming themselves over Brighton and Bournemouth and yes, we had a spell when we did sensible business in the transfer market. Unfortunately those times are long gone and we are light years behind the two south coast Prem clubs and now in free fall.

You don't say which season or in which division.

Now that is funny 🙂

Maybe some good experienced pros don't follow the clique like sheep and so the clique gets them moved on.

Love to see a fitness competition between us and Bournemouth. They'd absolutely slaughter us.

Yeah, agree and he's quite a big unit.

Basically any player on the salaries they get that can be seen to be not arsed to work hard or bottling tackles should be read the riot act and warned to buck up. If they don't they should be quickly bombed out.

Maybe you should have a look at the replay from behind the goal. There is a clear opportunity for Azaz to chip the ball just inside the post - it's a very simple chance and Jander was not in the way as you claim. It was probably harder to try a delicate pass to Jander particularly as he should have known this would give the Hull defenders the extra second they used to block his effort. Once again it's just very poor decision making in a crucial moment.

Has he never heard of getting his foot under the ball? - I believe the technique is fairly common and think it might be known as chipping eg 'chip the keeper' I've seen it done and it can be quite effective.

Explains why he constantly wants to interfere.

He'll fit right in here then.

Even if that's what he wanted to do he'd never have been allowed to do it. The clique of players who continue to run things at Staplewood need to be identified and got rid of - I think we know who most of them are. Until Ankersen does that (he's probably the only one who can) and then appoints a respected manager with experience and gives him carte blanche nothing will change. Unfortunately Ankersen will not sort this out because him and his massive ego are a large part of the problem.

Just watched back the highlights. Can anyone explain why Azaz elected to pass to Jander rather then shoot - it's in the first half after Scienza's downward header. Azaz has the ball at his feet about 2-3 yards from goal, their keeper is face down on the floor and rather than thumping the ball high into the net Azaz passes to Jander and Hull have time to put in a block. Madness and an example of players not taking responsibiity.

All spot on but it aint happening while Rasmus and SR are still here.

I would probably agree with you on two conditions; 1) the players respected him and fought tooth and nail for him. 2) there was no influence from within the club and he was allowed to get on and put his own ideas into practice.

Surely his superb books (found in the fiction section of all good book stores) plus his erudite, informative public speeches should be enough to mean he can forego bothering with coaching badges. Plus the history of what brilliant work he's done so far in the sphere of football.

Unfortunately we are a football club 🙂

Here's an idea. Why doesn't Ankersen just appoint himself as manager because he's pretty much doing the job anyway. Guess he's frightened he might have to sack himself after 6 games. What a result that would be for us fans 🙂

It's not just the wins though it's also the standard of football we served up which was almost unplayable for our opponents. You surely can't fluke 6 wins from 8 or whatever the actual figures were. Hard to make sense of it and I get that people claim he's a one trick pony and teams found a way to stop us but surely the fall in levels and results shouldn't have been so extreme.

Can see Downes making sure he gets a red on Wednesday so he can avoid playing at Fratton.

Every coach/manager SR has appointed smacks of someone controlling things and wanting to maintain that control by bringing in those they can easily manipulate. Experienced manager names have been bandied about but perhaps as a smokescreen because they are never appointed and we always end up with a yes man (maybe Juric was the exception) who is weak and will not challenge the status quo. When each one in turn is sacked they obviously sign an ND agreement meaning they are not at liberty to reveal what really goes on at the football club. It is effectively a closed shop with the truth of what occurs behind the scenes never revealed to us fans. We can all guess who is the chump with his hand on the tiller. No idea how we get out of this seemingly endless spiral of doom.

Love the picture comparing Tonda to Jez of Coronation Street 🙂

If you need to ask the question clearly you have not been paying attention 🙂

Sign him up!