benjii

I don't rate him and don't think there was any point in signing him particularly (although his goal against norwich may prove vital). However, whilst reserving the right to get frustrated and slag him off during games, my considered opinion post-event is that I will not judge him fully until I see him play upfront with a decent strike partner. Same goes for McGoldrick. Unfortunately, I doubt this will happen any time soon.

On another point - the reason Palace "played ugly" was because they found themselves 2-0 up without breaking into a sweat and, having played two days earlier, there was no point busting a gut to put on a show when it was glaringly obvious they could win at a canter.

Yeah, but they don't have a Revolutionary New Coaching Set-Up so the joke's on them.

A subtle distinction, I'll grant you

It's better than some of the bad stuff last year for about 20 minutes a match. It's nowhere near as good as under Redknapp or Burley prior to last season or some of the performances last season under Pearson.

Down banal man, down!

I've made some amendments for you.

I forgot about that actually.... well if Derby would let us have him for 20% of his wages... why not?! I'd rather have Stern back though TBH (and a new manager).

He's on about £20k a week! Can't see it personally.

I still think he has more ability than most of our players and could be a very good player at this level. He would benefit by playing upfront with a strike partner who knows how to be a striker in professional league football.

I reckon he might bail soon...

I thought James was one of our best players tonight (until the error!). I feel really sorry for him though. This crazy experiment is seriously threatening to damage his career prospects.

Ok - I thought he just said he'd "done some research" but I may not have been listening carefully! I would be surprised if Lowe had said that, as it would kind of fly in the face of his entire raison d'etre at the moment and would point the finger of blame squarely at himself.

Agree generally, however he did unfortunately choose to miss-control the one good ball he was played by Wotton. He was much more dangerous than any of the other attacking players though.

Whilst I respect his comments, I think the dodgy system may have something to do with that as well, however we were so slow to the second ball today. Where was the interview, out of interest?

Even if that were true, which it may be, then that is precisely why you should play a simple formation. One that is capable of producing simple goals from straightforward basics (see Crystal Palace tonight for an example of a slow, fat bloke achieving success).... not a complete shower that is threatening to wreck people's careers before they've even got going.

Lallana definitely. However I would sell both if it meant we could get Stern John back (and play 4-4-2 not the current nonsense).

I don't think he actually said that Lowe told him that, did he?

Is this a serious question? Do you honestly think that we would have trouble finding numerous suitably qualified candidates for the role of PLC chairman? He's not even the chief exec - he's just the ****ing figurehead (or at least, he's supposed to be) (and we could also find numerous suitably qualified people for the chief exec role if we wanted). If there's no one out there it's because Wilde, Lowe and Crouch can't work together and therefore we're stuck with one of those... I know which one I'd want and it sure isn't Lowe.

Limp, fetid, boring, uninspiring garbage.

Didn't Lowe own Woolworths, Enron and WaMu too?

Aww... bless 'im. I hear the Scoobs recovery is actually going surprisingly well.

I've read this from a lot of posters on here but I can't remember one of them ever explaining why? Lowe is in power because Wilde had a panic attack, it is not because of his remarkable business recovery skills.

If McGoldrick was playing alongside Stern John he would have probably scored many more goals perhaps IMO I think maybe.

Sounds like some sort of error to me.