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Two amazing goals tbh.

Don't like this comment. What does it mean? “For me it’s great. Even Les Reed has been working as a manager. "

He's a bit of a hot head is Jokanovic, but apparently the whispers are that Fulham aren't too happy with the season so far, and clearly he's saying they're not supporting him in transfers......so what do they want etc. Interesting! Good manager though, but a bit mental.

I thought he'd already gone to Sporting.

Walcott wouldn't be a bad addition for us at all, but what worries me is that I can see this dragging on for the next few weeks, I just hope he isn't our sole focus just because he's a former player and would create a bit of a PR Win. We've got Watford, West Brom and Brighton coming up over the next few weeks. These need to be 9 points. We need the best possible squad in place for those games. Let's not do what we did last January with the CB situation, which was nothing short of a farce.

There was a diagram/plan posted on here a few weeks back, it's some sort of 10 year plan to make us Champions League Ready. But it wasn't anything to do with capacity or the surrounding area, it was adding more hospitality/refurbishing the hospitality area's. Nothing the vast majority of us will notice.

He doesn't help himself with the way he speaks, just typical management waffle from a yank. But as has been alluded to above, one thing I think we can be slightly reassured by is that they haven't come in and tried to make brash statements - like the Veny's, Cardiff's owners, Brums owners etc. That's one of the small positives I can take from this whole charade so far. Will be interesting to hear in Feburary, given where we will likey be in the league, those 'Pledges' may change.

Drainage failed. Coudln't have failed at a worse time what with the weather. But yeah, conditions were as bad as I've seen them.

That was a short lived thing I think. There was a temporary outdoors one setup next to 'Watermark West Quay' over christmas, pretty popular by all accounts.

Where's that from out of interest?

TBF Everton haven't completley come out of their crisis yet. Their fans are already calling for BFS out, not joking either.

If the players show effort and start winning games and creating entertainment, the atmosphere will follow. It's a two way thing really. I'm not going to be shouting my support for Tadic whilst he is rolling around the floor holding his broken fingernail after he's passed it sideways for the 5002352052th time. If the players show effort worthy of being supported, then they'll be supported. As long as they keep putting in these disjointed half arsed backwards-sideways displays then the stadium isn't going to get behind them. It's not like we're Huddersfield, being that we have 20 points is an amazing achievement thus far. We have amazingly under-preformed in all area's so there really isn't anything to encourage us as fans. There are certain players who are not playing at their level and need to have a long hard long at themselves before they get prolonged support. There were attempts last night to create a decent atmosphere, but when you see the crap which was served up in the 2nd half you do start to wonder what's the point?

We had such a straight forward start to the season, that's where we needed to accumulate our points to give us a cushion during our normal winter slumber. We didn't, and thus we are now in for a long 2nd half of the season where we will somehow need to perform better and get more points from a tough set of games. It's very worrying.

To a certain extent, but I do think we have a team full of crabs in midfield. Sideways, backwards, no risk takers.

Redmond was the biggest example of a club signing there ever has been. He was signed when we had no manager.

There are goals in this side, the attacking support is non existent though and has been for about 18 months. There also doesn't seem to be any method to our attacks, we pass it in nice triangles at the back through to midfield, but then we seemingly don't know what to do with it. I saw Long making so many runs last night, I see Gabbiadini doing the same, I saw Austin making runs as well, but for me it's a combination of our attacking support players not taking risks and our midfield not being technically good enough to pass the ball forward with any accuracy. As Derry said in another thread, for me we have to play with a midfield 3 of Romeu, Lemina and Hoj. There are two players in there who aren't frightened to take risks and are happy to move forwards with the ball. I'm sorry, but Davis and JWP do not cut it for me when we need to win football matches. Very passive approach play which is ultimately what leads to our bluntness.

Yep, you've called it for me. A lot of what you describe seems to be the clubs philosophy though. We seem to have become obsessed with thinking possession is what it's all about, if we're good at keeping the ball then we will do well - but like you say, it's all well and good keeping it in safe area's, but you still need the risk takers who will ultimately make the difference, not the passers. Mane was a risk taker, so was Pelle to a certain extent. They were replaced by safe players.

The saving grace we have is that this league is utter dog ****, so many absolutely garbage teams (i include us in that). There won't be a huge difference in points between bottom 3 and 10th.

Decent enough player, but one who sums up our current predicament. Filling the squad with decent/average players and then hoping for the best.

My opinion is that the problems are a lot deeper than the manager, we've had similar problems now over two seasons under two different managers. Neither did themselves any favors and MP in particular is looking totally lost, but there is something deeper that is wrong here and as much as we are all calling for a change I'm not sure how much of a difference a change will make. We're in a worrying predicament to say the least. I'm really not sure where we go from here. If there was ever a chance for a January transfer window to change the course of a season this is it...

Calm down.

https://experimental361.com/2017/12/31/2017-league-table/ That league table is pretty galling. That's across two different managers as well. Squad is clearly lacking.

It's alright when you have a decent team and are competitive, but it is an absolute dog fest if you're stuck in a downward spiral. I do not look back at 07/08 and 08/09 with anything other than horror, stuff of nightmares. I don't think Sunderland or Hull are enjoying it by any means.

He's your typical teacher’s pet kind of player, a reliable, trustworthy member of the side who you know will stick to your instructions and not wander off gallivanting. He shouldn't play in games we need to win though.

Sit back and work out how they're going to pay back their loans I'd have thought.