hypochondriac

Even that is questionable given that as far as I am aware Mauritius never owned the thing.

He's 100% right about Chagos but completely wrong and frankly nuts about Greenland. I'm hoping it's part of some negotiation and some of the European nations can convince him that they have enough to defend the island without him invading.

Great news if true. Signing a couple of players won't really make a difference but we have to start somewhere. It won't be Stephens or Quarshie so it's THB or Wood.

He's much better than what we have now. One of our problems is we turn our noses up at half decent championship managers because we consider ourselves too good for them.

No to Ralph or Gareth both would be awful.

It wasn't for the sake of it though was it. The idea was that getting the appointment in early would give us a better chance of being ready for the new season. I don't have a problem with an early appointment, I just think we have clear restrictions on the type of manager we want and I think it makes it considerably harder to find someone that sports Republic is happy with that will also allow us to be successful. I don't think they want experience as I've already said.

Is it any better than LBC telling him what to think?

At least it's Sunday so you can enjoy your Saturday beforehand.

Neither are a sect choice but both are effective and have performed better with less high profile players. That's the type of manager I'd be targeting.

If stoke or Millwall fail to go up I'd look to appoint Mark Robins or Alex Neil.

After manning the player left who I'd most like to see never play for us again.

Well done him.

I'm not sure who you arguing with. I wanted us to get Rohl and said so at the time. I can see why we didn't though IF it is true that 5 million was the compensation and the mad Wednesday owner was playing hardball. Bringing the new manager in as soon as possible made perfect sense at the time and Still had the correct profile that the club clearly wants (young, up and coming, they can take the credit if he's a prodigy, less experience so probably more pliable and likely to be happy being a coach rather than a manager, more likely to play the way the club wants which is aligned with the other age groups and fits their philosophy.)

What it boils down to is that Sports Republic in my opinion do not want to win games at any price. They want to play a certain way, sign a particular type of player and get success with a certain philosophy. It is my view that sports Republic would rather lose striving for the type of success they want than essentially admit defeat and do things the 'wrong' way even if it results in being more successful.

Even if we won Wednesday and Sunday can we honestly say that Tonda shouldn't still be sacked? He's clearly not the right person to be in charge and not what we need regardless of the next two results.

Yes but sports Republic haven't.

TBF Blackmore was quite candid yesterday even if he's still being diplomatic because he has to be.

Yep. Fail to win Wednesday and lose Sunday and I think there will be enough in the fanbase to get there even if some never will.

That's why actions are important not just words. I'd be sacking Spors, this inexperienced assistant manager and Tonda of it was me. I'd bring in an old experienced manager for the rest of the season and then look to appoint a proper manager next year and let the run things his way as a manager. If that means simpler tactics and a few older professionals you can't make a profit on then great.

They should but I can also see why they didn't if it is true that Wednesday were demanding five million. Also no guarantee that under our model Rohl would have been successful.

Either that or he's not overly bothered because he's got a load of investments elsewhere. Who knows what goes through the head of a multi millionaire. Personally I'd like to see him step in now, sack Tonda and then put a letter out on the OS saying this has been going o for long enough and that he is going to make the required changes immediately. That would probably give him a bit more time with the fans because otherwise everyone is just going to tell them all including him to get fucked and just leave. I'd rather have no money and no investor but with a bunch of decent honest pros trying their best each week even if that's near the bottom of the league. I felt a much greater affinity to the team with Stern John in it than the vast majority of these wankers.

Of course but everything is easy with hindsight. The majority of the fanbase was calling for Tonda to be hired including myself so we are just as bad.

Maybe things will get so bad that Solak sacks them all and brings someone new in to protect his investment. He can't be happy with how things continue to go. There really is no incentive for Sports Republic to hire someone with nous and experience to essentially tell them they are a load of no nothing chancers who don't have a clue about how to set up and run a football club. No way are they hiring a manager, they want a coach and a footballing philosophy. Not a doubt in my mind that both Still and Tonda have played five at the back- the same way the under 21s play-because of some form of pressure from above even if not explicit. I bet they loved Martin talking about philosophy first and how he would rather lose a game of the stats and the manner of the defeat was the right one. We still have that attitude now with Tonda talking about stats and xg after we've failed to win for seven games. If we keep him I bet he's still talking baoit then when we inevitably slide into the relegation zone.

The mad Wednesday owner wanted a load of compensation for him that we didn't want to pay.

Unless we hit on someone half decent by accident or the fan base make enough of a fuss that they're forced into a change of direction and philosophy. In my opinion, sports Republic want to be different. They don't want to do what has worked elsewhere, they want to be credited with any success. Buying older more experienced players or a grizzled manager that's done it already goes against that. If they manage to get success through developing a bunch of young players from Germany or discovering a new talent under a new manager then they can go to seminars and talk about their new way of doing things and how they are shifting the paradigm or other bollocks. I am sure they want to be known as the next Brentford or Brighton with clubs pointing to them as the ones who know what to do by going against the established order. Having a coach that's done it already or a core of older players with success elsewhere detracts from that.