Lighthouse

Do you think sacking managers every six to eight games is a good way to run a football club?

Juric has managed other clubs our size with a reasonable degree of success. Neither Rusk nor Lallana has anything on their CV above National League level. This is just people wanting change for the sake of change with no idea of how or why there’d be any improvement. It’d be a pointless waste of money.

Why would you think those two would be in any way an improvement?

Putin is a tyre kicker. He has no interest in a lasting, peaceful ceasefire and will manipulate the situation as best he can to further his military ambitions. Trump is nothing but an extremely useful idiot who may force Ukraine into concessions which benefit Russia.

It proves nothing other than the fact that a system can be played either well or poorly and that some players are better than others. It’s far too simplistic to say that any given system is a ‘disaster waiting to happen’ based on cherry picked teams and results. Our players are so bad that there’s no real point yearning for any particular system, it’s not going to work. Since we ditched that style we’ve seen no improvement in results whatsoever.

Leeds have the highest average possession in the Championship this season and are top of the league.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx2gprz84rlt I’d be absolutely devastated if we responded with tariffs on Coors Light and Budweiser. Devastated.

We were miles off 6th place. In terms of points we were closer to getting relegated than finishing 7th.

This was us at home after we lost Fonte and Virgil. It was sh*t. I watched it, it was sh*t to watch and so were the results. I remember being at the Palace game and even that was a fairly turgid experience.

Koeman followed Adkins and Poch. Poch followed Pardew and Adkins. Neither of their reputations seem to have suffered from the popularity of their predecessor, if you’re doing a decent job in all likelihood you’ll be popular regardless. Losing Fonte and VvD is tough but they weren’t coming back. If Puel couldn’t do anything other than sit everyone back and hope for a 0-0 without them, he wasn’t the man to take us into the next season.

It was, however that’s not the reason people wanted him sacked. That was the football.

We went downhill when VvD got injured, Fonte wanted out and we decided to ‘make do’ with Stephens and Caceres, until we could replace the latter with Hoedt. He wasn’t kicked because of anything to do with charisma, nobody sacks a manager because they give dull interviews. Not that any fans really cared about that either, it’s something of a straw-man argument.

If you put a 5 year old at the controls of a JCB and he then smashes up a bunch of cars and houses, would you say that was ‘his mess’? Personally I’d say that was the fault of whoever was making the decisions above him. Martin has absolutely zero experience of PL recruitment and I don’t really see a man who’s never managed in Britain before and thinks Aribo is a CB being much of an improvement.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c17q9lrl57ro So basically nobody will ever report this kind of thing again. They'll just tell the bloke to run off, so that they don't get fined.

Breaking out a new sponge from the cupboard under the sink.

Makes Olivier Bernard look like Cafu.

Harry Truman? He was a decent president but I think you’re taking it a bit far.

If you're not willing to accept criticism of the worst player, in the worst team in Premier League history, I would suggest a football forum might not be for you.

Generally speaking agree with both of these, particularly the late nineties, hot pants wearing, pointy boobs version (Lara not Poch).

I reckon we’re about 4 days away from Saddam Hussein and Satan jumping up through a fissure in rural Colorado.

Damn, that’s the one thing they’re desperately short of.

If it’s defence you’re going for, I’d rather play with ten men than Sugawara.

We can tell Donny this is real news.

The flip side of that is that right now Juric is the fall guy who soaks up all the bullets. If we put Rusk in the firing line, there’s a risk he loses his authority and respect in the dressing room, should he preside over a couple of absolute humpings.

Absolute nonsense to be comparing Trump to Chamberlain. He’s far more like Oswald Mosley.