Long Shot

“Shifting deadwood” is a skilful and delicate manoeuvre and one not really fully understood by most fans.

Thanks for telling me what I am full of. Sheffield’s total was 25% better than ours and Burnley’s 50%. That would suggest that while not good, both were quite a bit better than we have ended up with this season. You can stay in the denial zone if you want, but I hope whoever takes us over has a better grasp of our predicament than you. That is we were very close to becoming the worst team in the PL history and have also just gone through our most dire season in the 140 years of our existence. To solve a problem you have to understand how serious it is. Anything else is just sticking your head in the sand.

We have 5 very ordinary strikers on our hands. Onuachu, Archer, Armstrong, Brereton- Diaz and Stewart. The first four have all been tried in the PL and failed so I am hoping if Stewart can stay fit he will be the best of a bad bunch. What a mess.

Say his opinion = stir up hatred against minorities.

This is the worry. We are all being slowly programmed to accept garbage as the norm.

It’s quite something that it looks like our two most potent and first choice strikers are two players Russell Martin would have quite happily sold for peanuts. The lesson for me is don’t write players off until you’ve had a long look and given them a decent run in the team. Danso another one we messed around. Hope SAA is not another.

Seriously worried now that whoever is making football decisions hasn’t a clue. SAA is a very promising player who hasn’t been given a fair crack of the whip. Unless someone knows something this does not add up to a sensible move.

Not quite true. Cockerill was manager of Woking and released PP as a youngster

We may be down and out but at the very least we should be in the market for a striker with Brereton out on loan, Archer potentially off and Ross Stewart well who knows? Lack of goals is a glaringly obvious problem that needs fixing before the summer.

THB a ‘crown jewel’? Not in my book. Look at our goals conceded. Obviously not all his fault but for me he has been disappointing.

No the fans were fighting because of the sudden relegation and don’t forget we were very potless back then. This is by far the most inept season in the club’s history in terms of results on the pitch and inept management.

Bringing MLT back into the St Mary’s fold is just another stupid decision by those running the club. Great player but a fucking idiot.

If I had a choice who to pick vs Newcastle, Brereton or Armstrong I would go for the former. Armstrong has been given plenty of chances but not Brereton. Just look how suddenly Sulemana has come into his own. sometimes players just have to be given a hand around the shoulders and a bit of a boost by a manager.

Weird post. Something is obviously bothering you.

Russell “Hokey Cokey” Martin.

Keep still my beating heart

One minute you call out most on here and then you are using their opinion of Delap to justify your opinion. Hmm.

Poor post. Glad you think that funny.

We have a lot of players who “need” to score a goal. Archer, BBD, AA and Stewart ie all our forwards.

Playing Archer as a lone target man

Yep you were right. A positive first half hour followed by capitulation and ineptitude. Pretty shoddy. Martin is not a PL manager. Yes he is a great bloke etc etc but tactically clueless. The penalty fiasco also points to an amateur and confused strategy. United are not the United of old. A half decent team would have beaten them. No point in delaying the inevitable. Get rid of the manager. Potter is available.

I don’t think any reasonable fan is calling for RM’s head right now but something has got to give because already, we’ve got into a routine of giving goals away through an inability to avoid giving the ball away, while complying with the manager’s instructions. Something has to give and if it’s not Martin’s position then he must develop a more flexible attitude.

They’ve put money in but not much intelligence. Why chase a keeper who has missed 190 games in 6 years for instance?

So you are a big fan of Ankerson then and rated what he did for us last time he got involved in our transfer activity?

That’s it then. The final nail is about to be hammered.