Saint Matty 76

"Pish. You're not signing him surely? Only thing I can say in his defence is that he was part of a terrible team so that defo didnt help." 😆

Can't say I know anything about him myself, but I'll ask my mate who's a Rangers fan.

Did we not learn with Mark Hughes?

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I know we're not his biggest fan at the moment but is it really worth slamming him for showing some passion? We're always quick to complain when players couldn't give a shit about the club and then slate Ralph for making it clear that he cared on a big day for us. Does anyone here really think that if he was being given the green light to bring in a new keeper, that he then wouldn't? There are clear limitations in place, as demonstrated when we made it clear we couldn't sign Armstrong without selling Ings. There are issues on the pitch which are his fault and others which aren't, but there isn't a name being branded around who I'd want us to have long term over him at the moment.

Based on absolutely nothing.

I think people need to realise that any manager would struggle with the limitations that this club have. He's doing plenty wrong but when the alternatives being thrown around are Howe, Lampard and god forbid Allardyce, maybe it's time to take a breather.

Eddie fucking Howe.

I've always been a fan of Ralph, and I still am, but his failure to make a change until it's too late is unbelievable. I feel sorry for him with the situation he's in having two poor keepers on huge wages, but he does not help himself in games like this. How he didn't make a change in the 20 minutes after the Richarlison goal where the game was only trending one way is beyond me.

I don't know how we constantly manage to lose these evenly matched games so easily. Get out there and buy a proper CB to play every week. We all know we're not going to buy a GK so at least persist with the lesser of two evils in Forster.

We look good here but Djenepo and Walcott are so poor.

He's on the bench isn't he? What a finish that is by the way.

Early days but I can't believe this lad is 18, he looks so composed. Good players are few and far between in this squad and somehow we've got two at right back.

Stu in for Djenepo and I’d have been happy with that. Ralph doesn’t tend to drop Bednarek so hopefully that reinforces the idea that the CB we’re looking to sign will be first choice.

I'm not overly confident but neither are they by the looks of it. Definitely a good time to play them, but I would take a point.

I honestly wouldn't be surprised to hear that. I've played to a decent level and had a search of my name on Twitter after a good game, not sure why it'd be much different further up the rankings. Please sign a DM, and give Tella a new deal ASAP.

I do legitimately wonder if people on the board take a look at this place every now and then. I think it'd be way too tempting. If the last page doesn't suggest we need another signing then I'm not sure what will.

It’s time for me to go. 😆 It wasn’t some sort of privilege to have had you these past three years, Jannik.

I'd be very happy with Kabak (and a DM).

He's really struggling with this part. 😆

He looked like a really good defender in the small sample size but he is useless on the ball, don't really see how this one makes any sense.

Dier would be our highest earner and I very much doubt he'd be available on loan given their lack of CB's currently.

I'll be seriously disappointed if we just bring in one more 3rd/4th choice CB to end this window. Think we've done some good work but will be wasting an opportunity there.

I agree with this 100%. The issue we had last year is we had nobody outside of Bertrand/KWP who was competent. Ralph said yesterday that Tino has played plenty on the left so you'd assume he'd be first choice to come in both sides. If we have two injured at the same time then that's seriously bad luck.

Kamara is definitely somebody you could get excited about. I don't personally think Phillips is.