Lighthouse

He's scored twice in two years and those goals were against Newport in the cup and relegated Fulham. He's not, by any metric, a Premier League player. Saying we should get him back because he's better than Moi is like saying a punch in the face might be a good Christmas present because it's better than rabies.

Because he’s only doing what Armstrong, Vydra, Rasiak, Earnshaw, Akinbeye, Solanke and countless others have done before. Rip it up in the Championship and be absolutely useless in the Prem.

Isn’t it?

Letting him go wasn’t the issue, replacing him with AMN was the issue. We replaced Romeu AND brought in Lavia to play first team football. We’ve still added depth to that position, but we were never going to keep all three. If AMN hadn’t played/trained like a fish up a tree so far, nobody would be missing Romeu.

Whoever we get is going to have to try and avoid relegation with one of the cheapest assembled, lowest quality squads in the league. By all means call for Ralph’s head but if you’re expecting one of Europe’s top managers to come in and take us a big step forward, you’re going to be disappointed.

Nope, that’s different too apparently. Any of the women you have ever fancied in your life could choose to identify as male, so you’re bisexual whether you like it or not. Like I said, there’s no such thing as a straight, gay or lesbian. Next time a bloke tries to tell you he’s gay, make sure you let him know he’s being transphobic.

For £15m I can understand but he would have been our record signing if it’d happened, for a man who’s never played professional, first team football.

About the most positive thing I can say at the moment is that in the four games Lavia and ABK have both played, we scored all of our seven points. When he’s fit again we might start looking like a better team.

Out of curiosity, what would people say is a respectable score, away to Man City with zero respectable CMs?

You think we can get a manager who isn’t?

Personally I’d say it means that they’re being petulant, unprofessional and are completely lacking and kind of game plan or guidance, so have resorted to thuggery as they’re all out of ideas, playing wise. It wouldn’t make me feel better at all.

Do you get extra points for that then?

Death or glory! Slava Saintsi!

This is incorrect, 100% of people are bisexual. Any of the people you’ve been attracted in your life could choose to identify as male, female or otherwise. Therefore it’s clearly not accurate for someone to describe themselves at gay, lesbian or straight. Those terms are redundant.

Under pressure from who? He’s the one driving this, the pressure is on him not to do that, at home and from NATO.

In the good old days we’d send a squadron of Lancasters to drop a couple of Grand Slams onto a target like that. Perhaps we’ve been training the Ukrainians to use them up at Scampton.

I was angry, I thought Adkins was doing a decent job, even at this level. Cortese was however proven right on that one, not because Adkins was crap but because we’d unearthed one of the now top rated managers in Europe. You do realise there’s a bit of a gulf in ability between, "League 1 standard," and, "as good as Pochettino,"?

Nope, Gabbiadini in the cup final and I shan’t hear a word to the contrary.

What? You’re the one who’s been ferociously talking up the idea of him being sacked, for several years. The club haven’t alluded to anything of the sort.

This isn’t as good as the old nostalgia thread.

Vest and Bertrand were first choice defenders here, Leicester fans think they’re dreadful. Can’t get into the squad that’s bottom of the table. Ings averaged 13 goals a season for us, I think he got seven last year at Villa. Then there’s a whole bunch of other players who just ended up at obscure foreign clubs or in the Championship because nobody in the PL showed any interest in them.

And yet none of the players we’ve sold have gone on to show any sign of improvement under a different manager. In fact some have shown a significant degradation in performance.

West Ham have spent an absolute fortune on their squad, enough that they should be competing for Europe, likewise Leicester and Everton. Branfoot left MLT on the bench and had the same group of players playing much worse than they did under Nicholl or Ball. Ralph has been far better than Hughes or MoPe and has pretty much got the best out of whatever he’s had available.

Which strikers do you think have particularly dropped off, goal wise, under Ralph?