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Ditto

Except Fulham are likely to have the iniative to make a bold change and replace Jokanovic. Will Reed make such a move, even if we lose on Saturday, or just let it roll on stagnating as he did last season?

Yes - 2001 after Hoddle left before we moved to St Marys. I think Moyes was offered the job, but wanted to bring his own backroom team of 2 or 3 from Preston. Rupert wouldn't have it so we ended up with Staurt Grey staying on.

For PEH's honest and heartfelt rallying cry see Lundekvan et al in 2005 who used to trot out the same banal crap week after week, then perform at the same low standard the following week.

Wasn't he a goalkeeper ?

Depressing isn't it ? I remember the Branfoot protests they started tamely showing red cards when he came out of the tunnel then escalated; in the car park after the matches, QPR & Port Vale especially were quite lively. I was in my 30's then so a lot more vocal and agile, but the crowd was made up of across the ages including lots of grey haired blokes who you probably wouldn't expect to be involved in such shenanigans . So what's gone wrong ? I've done my bit and am now (nearly) one of the grey heads. It's the younger generation who aren't there , all the cyber supporters, who'd rather pose around doing an interview with one of their mates for Youtube, or a "vlog" ... Hope they prove me wrong.

... and if we can't prise Phil Brown from Swindon, Steve Cotterell's keen... no compo and lives in Poole ... been monitoring him since he was at Cheltenham , non-league... keep this up and we could be again..

Well it's like this Mr Gao, I know Phil Brown would be well up for the job, but Swindon can be buggers to deal with, although I reckon I might be able to get his release for £5m compo.... and he'll come no problem, five year deal and four of his his back room staff. That'll mean another goalkeeping coach but can't have enough of them in my book....Ross & I have tracked him for years...

Question is though, how has he fallen so far over the last two seasons under MP and Hughes ? Speaks volumes for the coaching.

Agreed. Doesn't give you confidence of getting it right does it? Someone else made a comparison with Blackburn's owners, The Venkys, SISU also spring to mind. Unfortunately the Marcus Liebherrs, Vichai at Leicester type of owners are few and far between.

Who will pick their replacement ?

Good idea but will an up and coming manager want to take the risk of joining us in our current state and have a possible relegation on his CV so soon? Potter now at Swansea might have done, who else is out there, not too sure but as Reed and Wilson thought MP II matched this profile it does not inspire confidence. Would like to think we might have put feelers out to Jardim and Hasenhuttl but doubt it. In any case they'll no doubt be looking for something better.

Long term to us now means November - end of season.

Les will do what Les does best, dither, dither, and dither again, until March. Perhaps throw in a catastrophic signing in January that Wilson is currently working on.

Clearly a career that is nosediving fast so as he's out of work looks like a perfect Reed appointment.

Who's that c^nt ?

How's the Maguire-Beckenbauer hybrid doing today alongside him ?

I'll accept 6. But fear a return to the 1970's/early 80's when we'd have a 7 or 8 against us from time to time.

He's hoping to sign Redmond at a cut price deal in January. Obvious.

Our most consistent player over the last 12 minutes. Must be worth a massive pay rise and long term contract to keep him at the club, eh Les ?

Comeback's getting closer. Bring on the nuns.

JWP linked in this article with RB Leipzig (where Paul Mitchell is head of scouting). https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2018/11/02/do-report-southampton-midfielder-james-ward-prowse-could-leave-f/

I'm not a great fan of Redmond by any means but he does offer us some pace, not a particular strength of JWP. Question is, can we afford the luxury of a player who offers something from deadballs, but very little else.

Two years ago some were declaring him a better prospect then the then much hyped Maguire at Hull (having watched them in the same match at St Mary's), and a more outlandish claim was that he brought the ball out of defence in a style not seen since Beckenbauer. Perhaps after a brief lull he's rediscovered his potential !

In a perfect world you would hope and expect a self proclaimed expert who has written coaching manuels, some endorsed by the Football Association, to notice this sort of thing quickly and act upon it. But not Bunsen. Perhaps the FA endorsement is not from the Football Association.