S-Clarke

I think after 4 years of incompetence and bad decision after bad decision, the safest assumption to make is the worst one. You'd be foolish to believe there is any sort of good coming out of SR's ownership at any stage. It's inevitable they've ballsed up the manager situation again.

That goal was nothing to do with 'Russball', it was because the opposition stood off and allowed THB and then Armstrong receive the ball in space. That will happen once, maybe twice in a 46 game season. That game does not justify 'Russball' in anyway. What happens when clubs low block and don't leave players in space is what we have now - lots of safe sideways, backwards boring passes because there is no angle to play through. You can't build a philosophy on an approach which may do you well once or twice a season.

Yeah I hated that, I didn't even really take in those puff pieces. It's a shame the media didn't push back and ask why didn't they let me interview you when we were struggling? They used the 5 wins as an opportunity to pat themselves on the back, look at what we've done, hope the fans lap it up nonsense. No, we won't. You've failed. 5 games doesn't change that.

This is just me saying, nothing I know about. But it's fairly obvious in my eyes that they'll be doing this. Jan 10th - 'Stewart back is amazing news, it's like a new signing!!'' - Feb 10th - ''Stewart out for the season''

But that would mean someone calling out their nonsense. It becomes more clear to me by the day that they want someone to control, feed the narrative to and someone who complies with the back 3 nonsense, Bazunu in goal etc. Any experienced/been around the blocks manager will tell them to do one, hence why we've ended up with a kid who is just grateful he has a job.

The club have already fed the media mouth pieces that we won't be doing much/if anything in January. We need a new GK, LB, CB and ST - just to be competitive, but the club won't see that. They're still putting their eggs in the Stewart basket, expect media driven puff pieces around him in the coming weeks.

'The club are happy with the squad, and will only act if a really strong opportunity arises. The club are not planning any major changes' Prepare for this.

Romeu didn't stop the break, as his legs are long gone tbf, but Bazunu's 'attempt' at even trying to save it was non-league. He should have got to both goals today, he cannot save shots on target. I see that with my eyes, but also the stats back it up fairly heavily. (although we have to ignore stats apparently). I actually hate the bloke. He might be a nice lad, but I despise his name when I see it on the team sheet. All he has done is bring me pure misery for 4 years every single week.

It's an ownership profile problem, let's cut to the real truth of the matter. They're the ones who have lumbered us with shite, they are the ones who keep cycling us through managers and DOF's like it's a fashionable activity. It's all on the ownership. Unless they do one, all we end up doing is re-arranging the deckchairs.

I wouldn't say Redmond was a scapegoat really, but Stephens and Bazunu are ridiculed because they are shite. End of. They are both horrific players who do not deserve to be playing at a club or our size earning what they're earning. As soon as we gave Stephens a new contract in the summer you knew it was game over as far as the season was concerned, as we still weren't making big boy decisions.

We were utter, utter shit for the entirety of that game. Did they deserve to win? Probably not. Did we deserve to win? Absolutely not. Am I surprised we lost? Playing that way, no. If we want to spend 80 mins fart arsing with the ball across the back 4 then we're not going to achieve anything at any level of football. It provides the illusion of domination when all it is is absolute wimpy football played by players who are scared of their own shadows, coached by a manager who has no idea if his mum has ironed his top for tomorrow.

He had one approach. Hope the opposition allow THB to receive the ball in space, hope they allow Armstrong to come deep without pressure. That was it. Once the opposition close down Armstrong, shut down Jander and Leo then it's all pretty much done and dusted. There is nothing else to our game under this kid pretend-manager.

He is the perfect summary of the SR era, all wrapped up in popadom wrists. Get this fucker gone.

He was appointed because he wouldn't kick up a fuss with the club selected formation, that much is clear. He won't be here next season and will probably never be seen as a manager again.

The shit against them has got to ramp up, we can't allow them to think that their propaganda nonsense has appeased us. They were out to chat to the press when we won 5 out of 6, but are silent at all other times. It shows you all you need to know about them.

A fair few called it, it's playing out exactly as we knew it would do. Appoint an inexperienced kid after a purple patch, and this is what happens. We have lost 3 or 4 on the bounce away from home, against some god-awful horrific football teams. It's not good enough. He has no idea what to do, although part of me doesn't believe he's allowed to truly put his own swing on things. Where are all the players now after all the sound bites prior appointment? ''He makes it so clear for us to play'' ''his instructions are so clear'' - are they so clear now you bunch of whining pussies? The club are the worst. Driven by propaganda that they hope the masses swallow up. I think they'll be in for a surprise, because we're still not accepting this. The only way out of this loop is new ownership, that is 100% the fact here. That can't happen though as it's so much easier said than done, there's no shareholding or way to force owners out apart from a constant barrage against them for years. That's all we can do. We will very likely slip further down the leagues, but it's the only way we can rid ourselves of this lot. They've destroyed an establish PL club to the point that a lot of us won't ever see us in the PL again in our lifetimes.

pre-season under Martin, prior to our PL season. A 2-0 or 3-0 defeat. But yeah, we have only played them a handful of times - if that - since 1975.

I would say we've had more hits in this window than we've had under SR before, I mentioned this a few weeks back. The scouting overhaul in the summer has had a benefit. Jander, Leo, Fellows, Azaz are really top picks for this level. Standout quality. The most important position was up front though, and whilst we identified the gap early on, we absolutely naffed it up with this guy. Let's forget this saga ever happened and hope they can pull out a Jander/Leo style ST signing, as our new scouts have shown they can see good players.

He's made it to the bottom of the list again then, that's some going.

I note the George Long argument has cropped up again, in that a third choice keeper isn't meant to be better than the 1st or 2nd etc etc. A bunch of you are absolutely missing the point, once again - as you did in the summer, whereby it was proclaimed that 'Bazunu is fine for the Championship'. The original point from the summer still stands. We didn't need a third choice goalkeeper, that's the whole point. We needed/still need a 1st choice keeper. Then McCarthy/Bazunu become 2nd and 3rd choice.

Don't get me wrong, he still had a decent game and is important to us - we do fall apart without him evne more, but....I just sense his wings are being clipped slightly by the more savvy managers in this league, the instruction is not to allow him to drive or be stood in space as the 'easy' out ball on a transition. If I can call our approach out after 3-4 games of the same, then I'm fairly sure every manager in the league now has this sussed and we'll be seeing a lot more sideways and backwards. It's similar to AA, who was coming deep to collect, spin and run - that's also been clipped by oppo managers now. And thus we have nothing else to our game.

Stewart is out of contract at the end of the season, so he'll be free to go at that point. I expect he'll retire, it would be for his benefit and those close to him need to be strongly advising him of that course of action. It's like flogging a dead horse. I'm not counting on him coming back, I wasn't counting on him at the start of this season either. We always needed a proper CF, as Stewart was never going to be an option for us. I was so surprised when people were calling on us to extend his contract after his Sheffield United brace. For once the club didn't make a stupid decision there.

Yeah, LB is a real issue for us IMO. Wellington just isn't up to it, and Manning is Manning. Backup at best is what he should be. Jelert was supposed to be someone who could operate at LB, but that's not gone to plan. Need to re-visit the full back positions in January on both sides IMO, it's a bit of a problem.

We've totally ruined this lad, he had a decent enough rep at Sheffield United and Boro before that - but he's now a shadow of that player, looks L1 at absolute best - maybe lower end L1. We'll do well to get rid, it will be loans until the end of his deal. Adds more criticality to the need for us to buy an actual striker though.

It was a bit square-pegs for no real benefit. We had no fluidity in those final stages due to those changes, as it ruined any shape. 5, 4 or 3 at the back is not the issue really, it was the lack of any real shape in those closing stages. You never saw us winning because we couldn't build up any momentum. More poor in-game management from him I have to say, especially with a 2nd half against 10 men.