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It seems a common theme for sports coaches, in pretty much every one the documentaries I’ve watched they seem to like to scream and shout and the majority swear more than peak Gordon Ramsey!

Not exactly the most inspiring appointment but a massive improvement on Jones mainly because he won’t start by telling everyone he is the best manager in Europe and chosen by god to bring the saints marching up the table! Hopefully he will set the team up to suit the players we have and look to play football not hoofball. I don’t think he has a hope of keeping us up as it would just take to bigger turn around in form which rarely if ever happens I’d be happy with showing some fight for the rest of the season to build a little positive momentum going into next season in the championship, teams that go down with a whimper struggle to get back up as it is hard to reverse that momentum!

Mara isn’t big enough for Jones ball and now we have seen how amazing the fully unleashed front footed aggression if jones ball is I’m sure we are all glad he didn’t carry on with the team from the city game! Today we looked amazing, cut the to shreds and creates chance after chance it was only the impaired backs to the wall performance from wolves and some terrible luck that stopped us winning if they hadn’t had the advantage of fewer players than us we really would have smashed them!! Jones is a joke, how do we end up putting out that team? How do we end up throwing away what should have been the easiest three points in recent history and how is Jones aloud to run away and hide in the dressing room? He should be out on his ear by morning I’d rather see the tea lady pick the starting 11 and just tell them to get on with it, she’s probably get a better response from the players and unless she too is bat shit crazy would get a better response from the fans. Enough is enough, relegation is a certainty but let’s at least go down with dignity.

Direct aggression is the order of the day not possession!

When he manages to stay a) interested and b) on the pitch! Has real quality though!

This simply won't happen and even if it did they will simply appeal to CAS and have it thrown out money talks and City have shed loads of it.

Surely after his post match comments the board have to pull the trigger? If he send a team out on the weekend they are likely to loose on purpose just to get shot of him and if by some miracle we win can you imagine what the puffed up little nobody is going to say to the media then? his fired his bolt, blown the opportunity of a lifetime and should recede back into the lower leagues to make a career out of hoof ball and bigging himself up.

We need to start prepping for the championship and the first step should be brining in the manager who will be in charge of securing it as Jones surely won’t be here come August

And we are down.

The line up is in I reckon we have already lost that game!

Would have taken some serious balls for him to attend, can you imagine the chorus of boo's when he quoted his latest win percentage! The mans a bad joke and sadly despite his stay at the club being almost certainly being a short one it is likely to do significant damage!

Close and competitive? Have you been watching different games? Loosing by one goal doesn't mean the game was close we've hardly had a sniff in most of our defeats and even our cup victories against lower league dross have been unconvincing, Jones makes Mark Hughes look like a footballing genius and that takes some serious effort!

It's nice that w have brought some players without selling the best ones at the club for once and hopefully some at least will be an improvement on what we have, shame we couldn't have got the striker we needed in at the start of the month as we might not b bottom of the league if he'd hit the ground running. Big negative of the window is we still have a manager who doesn't know what he is doing!

3-5-2 whith lyanco at centre half and the new big man upfront trying to pull the ball down from the heavens every two minutes, Jones finally has his target man so expect full on hoof ball, we will go two down then revert to a back four and play the ball sensibly and suddenly look much better rinse and repeat until Jones is sacked of someone beats some sense into him (note I'm not actually advocating someone beats him it's a figure of speach!) as clearly he is incapable of learning from direct experience!

Housing estate surely in that location?

We should do both we need a new striker regardless.

Also tella is free and zero risk if he doesn’t work out we have lost nothing, any other championship player particularly a forward is a risk as many of them turn out to be not quite good enough!

We might well find another one but they key point is we have as much chance of finding one for 15 million as we do 30 and for every Pelle you’ll have to endure a carillo a che and a few failed youngsters!

I haven't said that what I have said is that all this talk of if we put the Aribo etc money in the striker pot then there is no guarantee we would have a striker any better than Che, yes we clearly need a new striker and I'm disappointed we haven't added one but it's not easy and busting the budget is no guarantee of success we are clearly trying to get players in it's just a question of timing and the right player at the right price there is certainly no point blowing the budget just for the hell of it people seem to quickly forget the Carrillo example!

We also have a terrible record when it comes to big money deals, the list of people who were are record transfers makes pretty grim reading! I'm disapointed we weren't in for Ings or couldn't compete on wages with West Ham as he is proven quality, but as you point out any transfer move is a gamble and price is no indication of quality/success big money flops litter the league!

Ings is a still decent and will probably still be more clinical than che long after he has retired! Yes he isn’t the future and may not be quiet the player that left but as shown in the stats he would certainly improve the team. Would be so nice to have a striker who you think will actually score when the chance comes!

Such a frustrating player! Somewhere in there is a top draw player sadly it seems trapped most of the time!

I see no problem with giving him a new contract he is a decent squad player, shouldn’t be starting every week but definitely worth keeping around we will never have a squad full of Mane’s and we need some consistent decent experienced pro’s around!

No point watching it now you've spoiled the match 🤣 although a Mahrez header is a collectors item!

Depends on the game for me, if by some miracle we are winning he doesn't get near the pitch as no manager is going to risk someone who isn't up to speed, if we are getting stuffed he doesn't need to be exposed to us at our worst but if we are a goal down with 10 minutes to go he might just be worth a gamble