Lighthouse

It's over five months since we played our last PL game and half of that squad isn't even at the club any more. We're 'mentally rebuilding' from PL relegation, not the Battle of the Somme. Still's tactics are sh*t, it really is that simple.

We have a very good squad and no doubt would pay our next manager one of the highest salaries in the league with a view to hopefully getting into the PL again. We're clearly one of the more attractive propositions in this division. I can't get my head around the idea that somehow SR have let Still down, and not the other way around. Still literally said he needed decent wide players to play his system. We went out and signed Mads, Jelert, Fellows and Scienza. Who would we have signed if Still had the 'ultimate say'?

Again, that makes zero sense. A significant number of players have been signed under SR and then moved on when they were deemed not to be up to standard. There is no reason at all to suggest Bazunu is different and no self respecting manager would accept a job where the team is being picked over his head. Downs is on the bench because with Stewart injured there’s nobody else and we’re hardly going to give up on a player after eight games.

Except that both have been dropped in the past and there is zero reason or motivation for this imposition.

How is it ‘unbalanced’? How do Edozie and Aribo not being included in the squad affect things in any way? We’re not short of players anywhere. As for strikers, Armstrong will score you 20 a season in a supporting role, even if Archer or Downes is misfiring up front. Neither of our keepers is ‘horrific’, that’s just hysteria. Baz should have held on to Hull’s first goal and McC had a brain fart tonight but it’s hardly as if our superb outfield play is being undone by howlers every game. I reiterate, they’ve cost us zero points so far. Fellows and Azaz are better players than Edozie and Aribo. That’s why we signed them. Why we aren’t playing them every week is beyond me.

I know what I’d do. Buy him a one way Eurostar ticket back to France. This is bad but Claude is not the answer.

What? It’s stacked with talent in basically all departments apart from a couple of average goalkeepers, and how many points have they cost us this season? Zero. Every season people complain that we sign some quirky, Slovenian U15s, girls, disability inclusivity league player based on football manager stats instead of decent, experienced players for the league we’re in. This year we’ve actually gone out and signed Fellows, Mads and Azaz and brought Charles and Edwards back from loan to complement the bags of Championship experience we already have. On top of that Jander, Jelert and especially Leo have all looked decent like decent signings from abroad. This squad is superb, it’s just appallingly managed and playing nowhere near its potential.

That’s not true, after we went 3-1 we took off a striker. Always one step ahead, Will, I bet they weren’t expecting that.

They’re in the relegation and in dreadful form, so I think we’re going to need to bolster our defence, maybe add an extra CB just to make sure. Keeper (Either one, I don’t care) Wood THB Manning Fraser Edwards Welington Downes Charles Jander Armstrong I know it’s risky but it’s worth a try.

Great to see the Bristol players laughing and joking in the post-match interviews. Isn’t it wonderful that we get to make so many people happy, week after week.

Yeah but that ‘didn’t count’, remember because we only won 18 of them and Ipswich won some games as well.

There is absolutely zero point in sacking Still and replacing him with a man who isn't even a football manager. It'll be like Dodd/Gorman all over again.

You are joking?

17th in a 3 horse race is really quite something.

Wood has had a f**king nightmare tonight.

Absolute fluke of a deflection, McC just watching it gormlessly.

F**k me, now Fellows has been on the chicken tartare at Flynn’s house.

The whistle went as it was leaving his gloves, so hardly.

I reckon if we sub off the entire back five at HT, there’ll be nobody left to play them onside. Gotta think laterally.

To think we signed Archer to play in the Premier League.

Good lad.

I’m going retro for tonight’s lucky mascot.

The last league game we won by more than one goal was against Preston the season we got promoted.

There really could be three established sides going down from the PL this season. Wolves and West Ham look atrocious and Forest are owned by an absolute whackjob.

You don’t think our squad should be higher than 16th?