S-Clarke

First thing I'd do is ditch the majority of this team. Absolutley hate this group. Ugly team which offers nothing other than struggle and it won't ever change. A tactically inept, physically weak and mentally challenged bunch of individuals.

The IPTV landscape has changed a lot, so I'd stress to never get anymore than a 1 month sub to any provider. What you often see is that the providers are resellers of the bigger arms, and they just vanish and pop back up under new names very frequently. Good one at the moment is Boss Hosting/EpicTV - but I only ever do a rolling 1 month with them.

Technically not true though, as we had our 2nd and 1st best finishes in the league after he left.

It'll be like the Liverpool game, a 'decent' effort but still on the back of a 3-4 niller. Can't see anything less.

Not sure I believe in any of them to be honest, wouldn't be sorry to see anyone go. Rubbish bunch of unlikeable dross.

How are they looking likley to qualify for the Champions league? 11 games gone, only 6 points seperating them and 5th place. It will only look very likley if they're there come 30 odd games.

Unfortunately, this is why I think a relegation is pretty much nailed for us in the coming seasons - if not this year, then probably the following. We're on a Sunderland/Villa/Swansea type slide, changing managers left, right and centre, trying to be clever with cheap signings with no sign of anything changing at the 'Top'. (very similar to Ellis Short at Sunderland, Lerner at Villa, the Yanks @ Swansea). It will be very hard for the entire club to swing around the momentum curve without some very radical changes, which are likely to only come upon a relegation. Sunderland had to have two of them to finally rid themselves and swing the club round, and now they seem to be refreshed in L1.

They're on the brink of a bit of an implosion in my opinion. They had their chance to win stuff but couldn't ever get over the line. Can see this team being broken up over the next 18 months and new management/coaching staff coming in to try and 'reinvent' it all on a 'budget' as they must pay for the stadium. Football can change so quickly, just a little bit of standing still/poor squad management and signs of non-ambition from the top, then you will fall away a lot quicker than you climbed. Apparently, the new stadium has been covered in official banners/club propaganda crap about Tottenham being 'the only place in London to watch the Champions league'. Oops.

Too much being made of our 'defensive' performance yesterday. We were up against a team who didn't attack us, didn't push us, didn't commit and run at us. We didn't have to defend. If we had conceeded yesterday then we should have just given up and gone home, given that they didn't really want to score.

Keep changing the manager all you want, but you will still have to watch those horrible players every saturday.

Painfully slow and weak. Looks like another player totally at odds with where we play and how we play.

Such a huge lack of quality in this team, made worse by such a poor mix of people. I really dislike this team more than any other. Such an unlikable load of dross. Time to start again, it’s gone on too long for us to turn ourselves round now.

He's a drain on society.

He's a good shout for a club at the level of Dortmund, Sevilla etc. We don't have a chance with this sort of quality like we used to.

He'd need a year dedicated on defending to even pass as competent.

The season before last was pretty miserable (the 2nd half at least). The entire of last season didn't get any better and was so much worse, much to everyone’s surprise. And now this season is so far showing up as being worse than last year. Amazingly. And that will therefore equal relegation pretty easily.

Not neccesarily true. Brooks cost £13m, Cook was 10m, Ake was £18m. They signed Rico for 10m (new left back) and Lerma for £26m. They have invested a fair bit in that team, but their recuritment is undoubtbly better. And I think the most important thing is that they have the likes of Francis, Cook, Daniels etc to lead the group and keep everyone levelled. They have a core of loyal players who have gone up the leagues with them and they have supplimented it well with good young talent. It's similar to what we did in many ways. It will all come crashing down for them sooner rather than later though, as per the natrual course of things.

It has been 2 and a half years of losing games. You would have to be mad to not sense a relegation in the distance - maybe not this season, but certainly within the next year. We're on a downward spiral which isn't going to change barring some major dramatic action. When you see stats that state Leicester have won more games at St Mary's than us in 12 months FFS, that tells you all you need to know. A relegation is coming.

Does anyone expect us to go down and start competing in the market we'll need to compete in? 10-20m is now the going rate for decent NPC level players. I can't see us competing at that level, which is why we'll continue to drift and dwindle away - occasionally propped up by some academy gems. Without an owner with an ounce of knowhow, interest or ambition, we’re dead. And they’re not getting another penny from me.

He offers very little. An incredibly limited player and a big part of our loser-infested team.

We're dead. It's gone on too long for this to just swing and for us to be good again, there's a relegation brewing in the not so distant future and there's very little we'll be able to do about it. Not much more to say, other than that we were out of our depth.

Yoshida and Gallagher included I reckon. Probably Gabbiadini, Davis, Armstrong.....

He's one of the worst we've had, for sure. Reminds me more of Jackobson though, leggy, clumbsy and ugly to watch. Jackobson was a bit better though and less full of himself seemingly.

The whole takeover process stunk to high heaven from the start. Gareth Rogers doing a runner under a cloud, the PL rejecting the 'FFP' test initially and then it drags on another 6 months until they seemingly reluctantly agreed. It seems to me as if KL was so desperate to sell to 'Lander' as it was for her benefit, with hindsight now you can see that. It made her the quick buck she was looking for, I don't think any other party was willing to pay the figure she put on the table. In terms of the purpose of the takeover for us, as a football club, it means zilch. Gao is just there as an owner listed on the records, he will be happy to sit there and allow the club to pay for its self with the PL money and transfer fees. I think it's pretty clear now that he has no intentions or plans to do anything with us, maybe a token gesture is creating 1 or two academies in China, but even that hasn't got off the ground. As a club we have lost our entire identity and that all stems from the top because we are owned by someone who doesn't have the knowhow or interest to put an identity on it himself. Ralph's answers in the fans forum about him 'keeping quiet in the background' and letting things 'run themselves' is bull****, and a real **** take to the fans. He has no interest in making a difference and no interest in making decisions, he just saw it as a little bit of a money maker for him and a bit of a profile increase for his company. No more than that. The continuing to run us ‘sustainably’ is also complete bull****. You don’t get success in the top 2 leagues by running a sustainable money in/money out model – you have to gamble and speculate to accumulate, else you will just be left way behind. You could say that staying as a sustainable football club requires you to gamble a little these days – as Fulham showed, and even Bournemouth. It's truly depressing, and I didn’t think she’d do it to us, but KL has sold us up the river for her own benefit. We're a dead club now, just breathing on the final scraps of PL money whilst we stay in it. Once that goes, it's all over unless someone else comes in and buys us from Gao.

He'll need to pay back the loan he used to buy us first. Oh well.