S-Clarke

Oh just fuck off Manning. Thick as pig shit, like everyone else in this team.

They are both terrible goalkeepers, but McCarthy is more passable as an actual goalie. The fact is that the club screwed up the recruitment by assuming that George Long is the only competition either of them needed. Neither of these guys were ever good enough for the level we are at.

He needs to retire from football. He can't play it.

Someone who should not be a professional goalkeeper.

''Bazunu is fine for the Championship''

Honest to god, what an absolute mess of a goalkeeper he is. He should never play for us again, I've had enough of this shit all the time.

He's quality, defo the only player we have with that bit of x factor.

We did a goal? Fortunate to say the least, but it was positivity from Robinson to battle for that ball and put pressure on it. Need more players to do that.

Probably the same as happened to Dibling in our PL season. Talented young player dropped into an horrific toxic group, and eventually gets ground down.

It's good to know that they've come out in the 2nd half much better.

Maybe we need Dominc Calvert-Lewin and Tom Davies?

If anyone sums up the current era for the wrong reasons, it's probably him to be honest. Good lad, but he makes me cringe as much as the football team.

Absolutely, we're long past the 'project' phase at this point. The entire football club is broken and it needs leadership at all levels, but a key part is a manager who can garner respect immediately and call out the bollocks, not more 'yes' men who are happy to go with the status-quo. Will SR allow that though, as they seem to want to push their dictact on any manager they appoint. And you'll never get anyone with any gravitas coming with that behind them.

Fabrice will be along soon to tell you that's all nonsense, and the players are fine.

We do, but the partner still needs to inject pace and movement into the team. There is simply no pace to our game, I'm not talking about players being quick - it's just that quick of mind to move and play the ball quick on the run. Jander did that at the start in his first few games, but it's all gone now.

Are you having a fucking laugh? This has been as bad as anything I've seen. In other games you could at least put up some annoying/frustrating missed chances, lack of clinicalness etc. But we haven't even got into their box. This is as bad as it's been.

The problem is that they cannot pass forward, they are passive and self preserving. They are looking after themselves and are too wimpish to play a forward pass at the fear of losing the ball. That's why the likes of Leo is out on the pheriphery as no one can get the ball to him. Downes = safe ball, because he's all about self preservation - just like his dad. Jander is catching the same elements of his game. In the CM you need players who can 1) break the game up and 2) stamp their foot and move/drive with the ball. We have neither, they just play it safe. As long as we continue to do that whatever we have wide is irrelevant.

This is as bad as the Wotte and Port era without question. Not sure where we go from here, as we all knew before - the problems are way bigger than any manager. For us to recover any sort of competitiveness this year we initially need someone who can shake the shit out of these losers, drop a load in January, stabilise and then go from there.

Aren't we known as 'The Lunatic Fringe' ? I'd personally stick Wade Garett on that advisory board.

Exactly trousers, weak as piss. That's all they are.

So this Fan Advisory board nonsense, how about they just communicate to everyone? Why hide behind these vetted people? Wimps, the lot of them. Come out and own your mistakes to the masses, don't hide behind those who you know will kiss your arse.

I mean muscle memory is part of it, but the question is why move stuff around when it was perfectly fine where it was. There are also some really, really odd stretch issues with some of the panels and how they overlap if you play window mode. It looks an utter mess to be honest. As I said, the graphics are better....but it's not as revolutionary as I thought it was going to be. For 2 years to wait for this - it's a bit flabbergasting really.

That argument dies a death when you look at what they've wasted over the last 4 years, pretty much every window they've presided over has been a catastrophic mess. They've wasted money. We have no idea where this money is coming from or if they're racking up debts to make these mistakes, no idea. But I'm past the point of giving them any slack because of this reasoning now. You can spend all the money you want, but if you just continue to make the same mistakes then you are putting that environment into financial turmoil. You wait - next summer when we inevitably are still in the Championship, you'll start to hear all of the nonsense about finances and how we need to look after the club, reduce cash outgoings etc etc.

I get that people hate change, and the automatic way to react to change is to downvote the heck out of that thing - but they've really made what was a solid experience absolutely horrific. The match engine is better, but it's not an enormous graphical advancement - it just looks a bit more polished. The UI though looks like something out of a kids tablet, it's terrible. It's not just cluttered, but they've moved stuff around into the most un obvious places for no real benefit or reason at all. I used to play previous games in windowed mode, but that is pretty shit too as it stretches out the UI to make it look even worse. It may get better once the modding community get involved, but it's a good few months away from being anything worth playing I think. Cheers for nothing @Matthew Le God (joke by the way).