hypochondriac

Next year- "the second year after relegation was always going to be a challenge. Changing this many players in one summer after all our loan signings returned to their clubs would always mean a lot of upheaval. Trust the process."

"it's hard playing in the Premier league, we are lucky to be here and shouldn't expect too much" "it's hard recovering from relegation. It's a process and we shouldn't expect too much so early on after all the upheaval and scar tissue". What's the next excuse?

He means that Charlie Wayman posts with wildly opposing styles, sometimes from post to post and speculation is that it's more than one person using the same account.

Agree. My main issue with the comments Martin made were that he muddied the waters regarding what his issue with Alcaraz was. Not following instructions and not being able to trust him is completely different from him having a tough time in his personal life. You shouldn't be conflating the two IMO and certainly he shouldn't be going into details about his family unprompted.

Poch Was our most successful or second most successful manager since promotion. His appointment was universally disliked by the fans when he came in and had a giant mountain to climb and he made a difference immediately and got the fans on side straight away. It's a complete fallacy that the fans clapping the current situation like mindless seals would result in any other outcome other than what is occurring.

Great idea. If it goes to plan we should only lose 2-0.

Adam Armstrong has been our biggest ever disappointment in recent years for me compared to how often he has played. At least Carillo and tall Paul barely played a game befor leaving. I have to endure Adam Armstrong stinking out the place every single week now he's assured a place in the first eleven and is inexplicably captain.

I'd have him in charge over Martin tbh even though I think it would be a horrible idea to have him.

Great post and actually very true. New managers have little choice but to buy into a project if they want to be given a chance unless they're a sexy foreigner. You'd be better off going abroad and having a go there if you're British if you don't want to get on board the bullshit train. One thing is for sure, you're not going to see the next generation of Mowbrays, Hughtons, Wilders or Warnocks being given a chance unless they happen to make a small club successful. Meat and potatoes football that gets results just isn't favoured by the supposedly intelligent football clubs.

Absolutely. If this continues over the next couple of months- as seems likely- everything should be geared towards next season and stabilising us enough this year to keep us in the division and looking for promotion next year. The only positive with all this is I genuinely couldn't care who we get rid of other than it might be nice to keep Edozie, Stephens and She Charles who has some promise but everyone else can just fuck right off and start from scratch. We have one more chance next year before everything gets increasingly more difficult so we need to make the most of it.

Sulemana, Edozie, Alcaraz and S.Armstrong should be on the pitch most games to be honest. Alcaraz has been underwhelming but we know what he can do and he certainly deserves more of a chance than the likes of Smallbone, A.Armstrong and Fraser who shouldn't be starting games.

KWP THB Downes Manning Adams A. Armstrong All of those players have played much better in this league than they are now. That's over half the team seriously underperforming. At least with the others and the youngsters, you could argue that they've never been in this league or shown much pedigree before. You're right that we are incredibly soft and just seem happy to let teams score or perform against us and sort of shrug our shoulders when it happens. What we would give for the equivalent of a Craig Bellamy, Lee Bowyer or a Robbie Savage. Just a nasty bastard who would get in people's faces and wind them up and piss everyone off. It's actually incredible that we've gone through another transfer window without addressing this.

Apparently doesn't trust him.

Less of a trial than taking on this poisoned chalice tbf.

Personally I'd give Warnock the job for the season.

The problem is that everyone called for Downes and Charles to be played together and now that hasn't worked we don't really have any midfield combinations left to try.

Genuinely don't know where we go from here.

Don't worry mate I can see you were positive. We all have hope at the start of a campaign but everyone can see this isn't good enough.

Something needs to change. This can't possibly continue. There's no sign of any improvement to hold on to.

This is ridiculous. Martin needs to go for me. 3 losses in a row and possibly 4 with another disgraceful performance this is appalling management.

Just fuck off. Sick of this.

That's probably enough of Holgate for me. Gave him the benefit of the doubt but I'm not sure he's up to it. Give Bree a go maybe.

Very very fortunate not to concede.

If it stays like this, Martin can't then say the players are learning, this is a totally different style. I'm glad because I didn't think he had it in him.

You need to be itk