Pamplemousse

We beat Crystal Palace away in Roy Hodgson's first game in charge. The managerial bounce tends to come a couple of matches in.

Alex Gross did work at Leeds Rhinos, so it's not like he has no background in professional sports. But yes, I do agree with you that we should have a dedicated fitness coach, and leave Alex Gross to the sports science side of things.

He's not a bad manager but I think it's pretty obvious that he wouldn't be an improvement on Hughes.

There's a lot wrong with this. One, that a millionaire "deserves" a multi-million bonus. Two, that this is merely loose change for the club.

Those two positions should have been addressed at the time of their departures, Mané in particular, he left two years ago!!

We will win, they're under just as much pressure as we are. Away from home, we'll get the three points. BELIEVE

Top of League 1 and they have delusions of grandeur all of a sudden. They're in for a shock next season, no doubt their fans will want to emulate our back-to-back promotion success but I reckon they'll find things a bit tougher.

Possibly. I was just trying to make sense of what was an odd post.

I really don't know why they're bothering in all honesty.

The only thing I can pick up on is the fact that Gao became the owner after Puel left, so therefore Reed wouldn't have had those discussions about replacing him because Gao wasn't here at the time.

They've got a tricky run of games in December, let's see where they are at the start of 2019. I'm still sticking to my prediction that they'll only make the play-offs.

Lol, forgot Cortese had piled on the pounds

I think a lot of what Ings does well is off the ball, his movement is better as is his closing down. I think him not being on the field helped Watford in an attacking sense.

I'd take Erwin Koeman right now I think, assuming Ronald is a little busy with the national team.

Go on admit it, you'd snap you hand off for 8th and a cup final right now

Nope, nobody was duped, just willing to give him a chance. We could be top of the league and you'd still be unhappy.

Nope, doesn't prove you right at all. What you were saying, and indeed have been saying, wasn't based on any insightful knowledge but an odd predisposition.

As I've said before, it's pointless even mentioning Allardyce's name. The club would NEVER, in a million years appoint him. And K Billy I think confirmed that a couple of weeks ago when some muppets suggested him.

I'd rather have Redknapp than have Allardyce anywhere near our club.

Definitely. I think we should sack him because I can't see us moving forward under him long-term, but will we go down under him? No. As poor as we are... we still haven't been in the relegation zone all season. We'll beat Fulham next, they're truly dire, and we still have Cardiff and Huddersfield to come next month, we'll get at least one win there too. By the end of the year I can see us 14th-15th position. Not good enough really, but still, we'll survive.

The problem IMO was the midfield. Hojbjerg had a stinker today, and in general the passing was poor from both teams. I think in those situations you need to bring on Romeu, instead we brought on JWP.

We know fitness levels declined once Pellegrino came in, but when Hughes came in and judging by the words he said on his arrival, I expected there to be more intensity in training. I don't know if it's simply down to Pellegrino's training methods totally destroying the fitness levels and us needing time to get them back up again, or if more needs to be done at the moment

I'm only responding to your inane posts. You don't like Hughes, fine, neither do I particularly, but you derail every thread with what appears to be nothing but vile and hatred, and you just come across as bitter and twisted, which isn't healthy for anyone.

I'd get rid of Hughes anyway because it's obvious he's not the long term option and with Reed going, we can get a proper structure in place where the first team coach suits the new director of football. It's the international break so it'd be the perfect time to do it.

I don't think we played that badly, after they scored we lost our way, but if that was 2-0 we would've seen the game out. First half we were better than the second, but it wasn't a terrible performance.