Lighthouse

Really? Everything about this is so mind-numbingly obvious that I’m amazed anyone is anything other than bored.

What an absolute wanker 😂 😂 😂

Please somebody tell me that ABK is injured and that defence isn’t a choice.

It’s got to the point that I really, genuinely don’t care about the relegation fight. When Leeds were 2-0 up last night, I honestly can’t say I was bothered, we’re so poor that it doesn’t matter. Possibly the worst part of it is we’ve just played all our easiest fixtures and lost all but one. Christ knows what will happen when Jones comes up against someone good.

There's no such thing as a manager owning a squad in modern Premier League football and we haven't had a manager like that since George Burley. Sure, every manager gets his own pet right back but squads are built by directors of football with large scouting departments and transfer strategies. Your argument is a non-sequitur, nobody is blaming Jones for the squad he has assembled or our recruitment in general. What we are blaming him for is a complete ineptitude and inability to extract any sort of performance from the players we do have. More worryingly he also seems to be stubbornly refusing to accept he's cocked it up and instead spreads the blame around other people for not being able to play his way.

I would like to believe this post is one of the most brilliant bits of self-aware irony in internet history, I really would.

What do you want, some p*ssed up scumbags smashing the windows by the main entrance, or should we physical assault a few members of staff? I honestly don’t get why people post this crap as if it’s something to be embarrassed about. I’ll leave chasing players down the street to the Scousers, thanks.

Crikey, I didn’t realise he was involved in all this.

I wouldn’t read anything into that.

We were competing just fine before Jones got here and that was without any of our January signings or (for the most part) Lavia. A competent manager can keep this squad up, it’s just a question of whether we get one.

I’m not totally against that kind of thing in principle, I’d just prefer it not to be someone who’s only achievement is keeping plucky, little Luton in the Championship on a shoestring budget, but is completely out of his depth when he steps up to the dizzying heights of Stoke on Trent.

That always happens with emerging clubs, we were similar in the Poch/Adkins seasons. Over the next couple of seasons, as contracts are up for renewal, agents will be demanding wages which match their players performances and threatening to leave if they don’t get them. The clubs will either have to cough up or risk losing out to those around them in the table.

I believe you, pure and simple.

As far as I’m concerned Jones can w*nk off an entire husky sled team and their Eskimo, so long as he keeps us up.

You think that’s bad, last week I dreamt that this forum met up for a social evening at Wickham Park Golf Club. Miserable Old Git and Sad Old Git were arguing about who was the most cantankerous. I probably shouldn’t come on here before bed.

Only a couple of months until Hampshire's season starts again and F1 is back, thank Christ.

Paper cuts are an improvement on land mines.

I was skeptical when we brought him in on loan and even more so when we made it permanent, but many people reassured me that he’d be an excellent, experienced role model for our younger players to learn from. So just be grateful; imagine how sh*te they’d be if he wasn’t here.

I’m genuinely curious, when people say this, whether it’s because they honestly think Ralph was underachieving with that squad or if six wins is not good enough because people just want better. If Sir Alex had a squad of Gasmi, Pekhart, Forecast, Davenport and Bernard in the Premier League, what would be an acceptable number of wins?

Lemina starts for Wolves. Place your bets on which version turns up.

We have Walcott on the bench and Moi starting, I’d at least have him as an option.

Careful, there is a certain mallard assassin who will get a little over excited at that idea.

Have I missed something on Orsic? He played yesterday for the B team and isn’t in the squad today.

I’m not fan of Jones but this is just a baseless straw man argument. I’ve seen nothing from Jones to think he’s just a spineless yes-man and Dyche would be at the mercy of the recruitment constraints of any team he managed.