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The Forren one is a mystery to me. After Yosh had a poor one today should he get a game? If not now then when?!?

Start of the season, true. But we had looked to have turned a corner (for the most part!) before NA was sacked, agreed? Lambert drifted and interchanged well with Punch and Al to create space with clyne and shaw getting beyond defenders.

Spot on. Priority number one is survival and our squad should be good enough to do that. It does not have to be pretty.

Bore off.

Ok im not going to go overboard but it seems like the manager has no plan b. Im not saying he wont eventually come up with one and his managerial talent may be wonderful but look how long it took NA to start getting the tactical balance right for the opposition? Surely today is the kind of thing that points out the terrible timing of replacing the manager at such a crucial point of the season? I know it's very easy to talk in hypatheticals but, in my opinion, we would have been better off points wise with NA still in charge. If he wasnt going to be NC's man going forward post season would've been the time, give Poch time to deal with this kind of stuff.

We seem to be losing more then we're winning since nc wielded the axe ...

On what evidence? They've scored two in six before this. They have taken chances well but lets not overhype them!

Get yourself a pop up blocker. Basically anything you click on other then close and play will take you elsewhere.

This. Mr consistant. Honestly hard pushed to think of a better playing dm in the premiership right now.

Cracking jay rod, little flash of brilliance from ramirez, more of the same please!!!

Fox was at fault but boruc could've done better and there was no pressure on the ball.

Leadership needed on the pitch. Time for players to stand up and be counted, we need to calm down, tighten up and keep the ball!

Link two on first row pretty decent, one was poor quality.

I 200% disagree.

Boring boring wind up merchant. Always posting something negative. Get your reaction elsewhere.

Long shot but does anybody know when the tickets are likely to be on general sale for this one? Thanks

Seriously? Are you on the wind up? Can only hope so, the academy is our pride and joy. Even IF we lost a few of the better players (or grapes!) it wont be on the cheap and thats the kind of money that sustains the academy and allows us to be relatively "self sufficient" (long term). Besides it's simple math, lose some keep some, if there is enough quality the chances are we'l come out with a number of good first team players.

For me its certainly too soon to be contemplating accepting a loss.

Thats silly money! Even if we potentially have the next ronaldo on our hands i'd bite hands off for that and worry about whether he goes on to be a world beater later!

Perfectly fair point but i'd just highlight the words "so far". Big IF but should mayuka fulfill his apparent progress, jay rod continue the steady progress he's made since december and ramirez turn his flashes of flair and ingenuity into being a consistant and core part of our attacking play it might seem like we've got rather good value for money (as the going rate is!).

Your opinion is that he will get worse, thats certainly not a fact. In fact a new manager has been known to get more out of players ... that IS a fact. I didn't say im happy with his performances and think he should be doing better or will be replaced but do you seriously think playing a gk at lb is a better option...?

99% DONT agree they'd rather see a keeper at lb. Fox was decent last season, has had the odd good game this. It's not an embarassment to have him on the bench and thats utter nonsense. Is he good enough? Maybe not. If we were in the prem at the time would we have signed him? Again probably not. But he was a big part of the squad that took us up so calm yourself down and stop spouting such dross.

Till today Hoiveld had looked to have turned a corner. Players should be picked on form for the most part. Wouldn't be surprised to see him on the bench for qpr with fonte back in the first eleven ...

On current form, agreed. If he shows something else in the last few games he might deserve a look in, MP might be able to get more out of him? Im doubtful but would love to be proved wrong about fox, clearly a committed player.

We were unlucky, the ref wasn't great, they scored a wonder goal but still ... we didn't keep the ball well enough, didn't make the right changes and were undone by some poor defending again. Let's hope we learn from this going into the qpr game and take the positives from the three points against city!