Lighthouse

Why on earth would he come here now and be tainted with this absolute sh*t show that’s not of his making and he can do nothing to change. There’s no point ‘assessing the squad’ as a reasonable number of them won’t be around next season. Plus I hope recruitment is being conducted mostly above his head anyway. I’d like to think they have open and honest discussions about the attributes of players needed for his system and then a dedicated recruitment team goes out and finds them. Managers signing players they know and like leads to the utterly laughable situation of a PL club signing Nathan Wood.

Nor at home since 8th December, I think.

The stoppable force meets the moveable object.

Have you actually read any of these posts, or just seen the word ‘Koeman’ and decided to correct a point nobody was making?

Koeman would obviously be one of the most high calibre managers in the Championship (hypothetically, it’s a completely moot point). I was referring specifically to the PL when I posted that, if I’m honest. Generally speaking I wouldn’t go back to managers the same as I wouldn’t go back to ex. Players (see Walcott and Lallana)

Surely we can come up with some amusing garbage based songs for this? "Worse than your bin men, our team is worse than your bin men" etc.

All that really shows is that appointing a manager based on achievements from ten or more years ago isn’t really the best idea. In much the same way I wouldn’t want Adkins or Koeman back now. I don’t have a particular candidate in mind as I don’t really watch enough foreign and lower league football. Rohl sort of feels like he’d be a good fit and I’m almost certain he’d want to come here but then I’ve really not seen much of Wednesday to get a glowing endorsement.

He gave it a go but honestly, nobody was ever going to achieve anything other than 20th with the squad we’ve baffling managed to assemble. Different style, different attitude, same results. Best of luck to him but honestly, the whole thing was just a waste of money from our PoV.

Losing every week like we do has to be very tough emotionally on any player, particularly some of the younger ones. With that in mind I’m glad the fans in the ground have mostly been behind them. There were a couple of times I think they may have downed tools, Spurs and Brentford at home, but for the most part they look like a group of players trying their best in a hopeless situation. Screaming abuse at them achieves absolutely nothing.

Absolutely pointless comparing him to four managers I don’t particularly want next season either but no, the man who got sacked by Everton after failing to score in 8 of his last 10 games is not the man I can’t wait to see leading us into next season.

Controversial opinion but I’d quite like to be a lot better next season. That’s going to need some recruitment of better people at the club than we have now.

We’re better than bloody Dyche.

That Manchester derby was almost as good as the Grand Prix.

I doubt he’ll want to stay and the £40m-ish we can probably get for him should buy three decent Championship players.

If this team wasn’t trying their hardest, they be losing 10/11-0 every game, not 3-1. We saw in the first half of the home game against Spurs how bad this team is when they down tools. Apart from that 45 minutes I’ve seen very little to suggest they weren’t trying. 3-1 is basically a fair reflection of us versus the rest of this league. Against teams of comparable quality we’re P3 W1 D1 L1 GD 0.

Unless his contract has appearance abased clauses, none of that means anything.

I think it’d be nice of you to sell me your house at half its market value.

It’s doesn’t work like that, you can’t build a PL team slowly in the Championship. Anyone PL quality will very quickly get poached and you’ll end up back at square one, minus the parachute payments. The goal has always got to be coming straight back up. We just need much, much, much better recruitment next time.

If I was there, I would applaud them. Most of them have tried their best and the main candidate who I have my doubts about didn’t play today. It’ll come as something of a relief to most of them to be back in the league where they belong next season, rather than being humiliated every week.

Wait, what?! My hope died the day we signed Nathan Wood.

I can think of no greater slap in the face to the fans than to put out the worst team in PL history, get relegated and then drop the very small number of competent players for no reason whatsoever.

I’ve added a multiple choice poll, for arguments sake let’s say you’re allowed three votes. I went with: Lallana - Hasn’t been anywhere near any kind of fitness for years and was so obviously going to struggle to even get on the pitch that I haven’t a clue what we were thinking. Gronbaek - Because he came after all the absolute garbage from the summer, we set ourselves an astonishingly low bar to find someone who was a marginal improvement… and we still failed. Wood - He’s a bottom half Championship defender who even Swansea fans didn’t rate. He is and always has been so far below the standard required at this level, even as cover, I once again haven’t got a clue what we were thinking. What the actual f**k!?!

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I just can’t get my head around why on Earth you’d make so many obviously pointless signings of players who clearly aren’t good enough, just because they’re cheap. There were a solid 8-9 signings this year where we’d literally have been better off just buying nobody instead. Our transfer strategy can be summed up with the sentence, "I couldn’t afford a holiday in Mauritius, so I bought a dog turd for £50 instead."

Because he was cheap, Championship quality squad filler, in keeping with our transfer strategy. No different to Wood, Archer, BBD, Sugawara, Taylor, Lallana and Cornet.