S-Clarke

It wasn't great, two very, very, very poor sides on show. Somehow, we got over the line with a bit of huff and puff towards the end, but christ it's a painful watch. We were devoid of anything for the majority of that game. It's going to be a very long season, although a win is a relief, it doesn't change my view that we are utterly, utterly dreadful at football in the main.

Basically, this has been said since day 0, and nothing has happened to suggest this is even viable. He has no money. And that shouldn't be his sole focus for ownership, it's about what's on the field. With him in charge, he doesn't give a ****.

They have gone backwards in the last 10 or so months, without question. Some of their fans were questioning if he'd started to lose his way, but I just think the squad had gone a bit stale and needed a bigger refresh - which Levy hasn't really been prepared to do, I mean they went one season without making a single signing to freshen the place up. If you think about it, Poch did a great job there last year. No investement in players, but still a Top 4 finish and a CL final!! Punching well above their station. This season is probably just a reaction to that, and now he gets the chop. Poch will get another big job soon I'd imagine. It won't be here though, as he deserves to be somewhere where he will actually be backed. Just like Ralph deserves the same.

We don't have the players for it. I assume he was hoping he'd be properlly backed to bring in the players who could play that way.

We do this with a lot of injuries, I have no idea why. Keep it quiet in the hope everyone will forget. It's not like he's an important player or a fan fav, so I'm confused by the radio silence.

He's reverted back to type unfortuntley. Been trash since he signed his new contract.

There's no quick return for us when we go down, we will be totally hampered. Clubs in the Champ spend decent $$ nowadays, and the average wage down there is a lot higher than it used to be when we were there. We've been so badly managed that I doubt we'd be able to compete down there. So it will be a continuation of struggle I fully expect. There’s no easy way out of this mess.

I think most were open to the sale. The depressing factor of the sale however was that we needed his money in order to buy Che Adams. A PL club in this day and age shouldn’t need to raise £15m through a player sale. And obviously we then didn't have the money to replace him in the position, hence the utter mess at full back this year.

Then did his shoulder and that was that.

It almost happened last weekend.

Whose bank are we breaking? We're not spending any decent $$ on anything. Christ, we couldn't even sort out a decent fireworks display.

I think you need to look at the entire playing staff - they need to be sacked, all of them. Then let a manager build a team with actual footballers in it.

Current lot is our worst ever. They've been doing this for 3 and a bit years now, without question I hate the majority of them more than I did the 2005 lot.

What a truly pathetic team this is, honestly. I've had 3 and a bit seasons having to endure Romeu, JWP, Redmond, Cedric, Stephens et co try and contribute to a football match. The spine of this team is the worst in the league, there are probably better in the NPC and L1 to be honest. This team will go down as our most unlikable ever, without question. Purple patches from Redmond and Hoj apart, they have been part of this team for too long and haven’t helped. No point in talking about the game as it's yet another defeat at home. I'm bored of it all.

Why did she insist Gao took us over? Even though the PL tried to hard to block it. It was because he was the one offering the most $$$, not his own money I'll add, loads of financed loans, but still the most $$ and it benefited her. Not us, her. She's let us all down.

I don't think he's helping himself, but you still need to look closer to the set of players we have. They are an horrific bunch; I dislike them all. Worst 'team' I think we've ever had. As much as he's tinkering, it's probably to see if he can mould some crystal out of this collective group of ****. It won't happen though, as they're all **** and are an embarrassment to PL football.

He was absolutley diabolical today, so I'm not surprised he ran way - probably in shame. He's always been pretty **** tbf.

I think the opinion comes from the fact that since Davis has been influencing the coaching, we have become undeniably ****. He had no prior coaching experience and just slipped into that roll as he was one of the lads. Not denying that he's obviously good to have around the place and is well respected by fans and people at the club, but he has no coaching pedigree - especially not at the top level.

Losing 0-9 just tells me that our squad isn't good enough for this level, that's been the case for the last couple of years really. Relegation is inevenitable without serious, serious, serious investment and movement in this squad - that won't happen, so relegation it is.

Need to get him signed up on a new deal ASAP then, he'll be a regular for us next year.

They could field 6 players and we'd still lose.

To give us any chance, we need a CB (probably two), two midfielders, and a couple of full backs. Get shot of Hoj, get the money in for JWP, get rid of Vesterguard and Bertrand. That's a start. Will that happen though? Nah, we've heard it all before. We wanted a CB in the summer and ended up with a loan quickie job. We simply will not pay the money that is required to get the standard of player we need; thus we will continue to fall further behind. Look at the mid-table clubs in this league - Everton, West Ham, Watford, Wolves etc - paying upwards of £30m for players. We don't even seem to be prepared to go there, so nothing will change if that remains the case. Even Bournemouth have a higher transfer record than us, it's not right.

We're ready to step in when one of the big 4 has a bad season apparently. One of the big 4 in L1?

How could anyone still keep Gunn? He just shipped 9 ****ing goals, he needs to get the **** out of this side for the foreseable. McCarthy didn't ever do anything wrong if we're honest. But apart from that, we're still forced to select **** as that's all we have.

I think he's pretty average, had a couple of good games and has some decentish ability, but he looses his head too quickly and that's seemingly in his makeup. Loan him out to L1 or something, see how he gets on. Shoudln't be in the PL right now.