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Lose this and Ralph's record including last season's run-in is screaming for him to be sacked. He's had his nine lives now,

I'm agreeing he won't resign.

I doubt anyone seriously expects Ralph to resign. Maybe more a case of it would be the honourable thing to do in the circumstances but we know you won't do it.

Here we go with the blame the fans routine. Pay them six million a year and then you can blame them.

Not in the slightest.

Maybe we'd have been better off playing out a scrappy 0-0. We poked Everton and they woke up.

Time's up Ralph.

You couldn't make this shit up.

As you were. Same old same old.

What did Ralph change? 🙂

Wonder if Everton will realise at half time that this game is there for the taking.

What about the first half entertainment?

Ralph still more scared of getting a bad beating than going out to win a game of football. Far too negative for his own good and will ultimately cost him his job.

It's called Ralphball - trouble is, it doesn't work. Get him gone.

How has the kid at left back done?

I think the idea that you make that many changes and expect an instant result is pie in the sky. A good manager spots where he needs to make astute changes not wholesale ones. This smacks of him chucking a load of names together, hoping they might gel and then if they don't he'll say what else do you want me to do. The answer Ralph is a lot more than we're getting for your huge salary.

Same as Villa then so Ralph has learned diddly squat.

Time to stop making excuses for Ralph.

Why wait that long. We know his limitations by now.

Didn't make the fast start we needed then.

We'll see. I reckon it's a tad too early for him but we'll find out a lot today.

My thoughts exactly - surprised Ralph has picked him ahead of Perraud and Djenepo. Not sure he looks ready for the physical battle he'll encounter. Other than that, no complaints. Now we need a fast start and to be quick through the midfield - a sluggish start and we'll likely lose.

Don't see much creativity from us. I think it's more the way Ralph sets up now that stifles creativity and so we don't make many chances for the strikers.

Yes, they are very similar in my opinion. Southgate seemed surprised at the improvement in England when they finally took the shackles off and commented that the players would have learned a lot - shame he doesn't learn.

Good article and reinforces my belief that Ralph is so terrified of presiding over more hammerings, he'd rather risk creating nothing and losing a load of games 1-0 than try to press, attack and win games.