OldNick

As long as we go for a Johnny Foreigner we will be excited, nobody is any good unless they are

Good point CB. Not sure tht Leeds are shitty but they are poor. The first season the teams that are promoted have done pretty well and not straight back down..apart from Bournemouth. Its difficult to see who will go down, even Palace are a bit inconsistent, but may have got too many points early days to slip in it.

Lol, nice one. Have you morphed into CB Fry or are you him, very much his style of work I did mean season but you have pinned me lol

With us its all hit and miss the target lol I yearn that Big Paul becomes a massive cult here and bags a few goals early matches and the team starts to roll. If not it doesn't bear thinking about. The match thread will be its usual fun with 'The idiot shouldn't be in the team,' 'How didn't he pass that' 'How did he miss that' 'He should have saved that' 'All long ball stuff' this will be just in the kick about before the game

That is fair, I still go back to the case that he has until now, the same failing squad that were dire for the past year. It is quite amazing how we didnt go down last season! Personally we would take a jammywin, bad VAR decision or a massive fluke to get us on track a little. I sense there are a few fans who want to see us tonked so that they can hope NJ is sacked. I cant see that will happen, but if the team sheet comes out like last weeks then he is really in trouble

Im still here.....ohhhh

There will be a team of fans with pitchforks who will be hunting this guy down. lol Interesting, obviously a very cut down version of the clubs fortune

so are you saying the fans expect more than we should do, I think that would be a fair assessment

Lol.

That is interesting how they get Xg. Thanks for that. Perhaps I have over egged the performance re Wolves but it was dire and so have many more games been with this squad for a few seasons. I hasten to add that my dislike for Ralph is more recent, mainly from the last half of the previous season and his tenure this. NJ has been a desperately poor choice and the powers to be should have seen how the fanbase were when his name was mooted!. Very much the same as Benitez for Everton, it was always going to be nye impossible to work as he was not only fighting the pressure of our position but the fans own perception of him. He wont have much shelf life left with the board, who fail to recognise they make a poor choice. I feel sorry for Nj as he took the opportunity and came into a storm he never expected, that Im sure. The gamble I assume was, that he would hit the floor running and soon appease our fears, but the just hasn't happened. I hope he can get 3 points saturday for us, and he has seen the madness of some of his selections. I haven't seen Carr play in the flesh and so cant say if he is the best we have, I thought Bella Kotchop with Salissu could have been the best pairing but CC seems to have the most backing from fans. Anyway, I assume as you understand XG you will be walking away with the Fantasy football league, I myself am having a sticky 2nd season!!! Top 3m lol wheras I finished 200k last time. It must have a bit of a use for that game, especially when you are buying in players for certain gmes, I just go with my own gut feeling, so that tells you a lot. Thanks again for the in depth explanation of XG

Have i missed something?

Steve I'm amazed that you use XG as any barometer. VAR certainly cost us points (Imo) regarding the Villa result, is human error put into XG ?. You are a lot younger than myself and perhaps have faith in such calculations but to me a game of football cannot be filtered into a calculation. I have seen countless games in my supporting life where we have mullered teams and they have one chance and score to win. Ralph for me was a dictator, wouldnt take other advice (imo) and gave us the most dire performances I think I have ever seen, Villa and Wolves away. Villa where we didnt look like scoring or even having a shot, it was a most embarrassing performance played out on the Sky audience. NJ has taken on a squad that were disenchanted and low ebb, that had served up those games I mentioned. I also am flabbergasted that we never had a new manager lift, perhaps the 5 weeks off took that away as the fresh impetus was lost in that time. The results have been poor but the magic wand of stopping a players switching off at set pieces has been difficult. Hence the late defeat at Fulham and the goal v Villa. We do not have a dominant centre half who is brave and clear out the ball from crosses. Connor Coady type defenders are in short supply and we IMO dont have one who for 90 minutes can cope. He cannot also (Ralph had to deal with this as well)not help forwards missing easy chances and one on ones. Your research is in depth and so does paint a bad picture, but football is down to human error or special moments that change games. Not algorisms that are based on different peoples definition of an easy chance or a hard chance. Forgive me if my understanding of XG is not correct, it is alien concept to me

Yep, there would be good reason why we'd be last game on Motd then, lol. Id love to see us on here if we did do. Puel went a few games in the second half of the season and he was hounded as well

Well I've watched it, and for the life of me cannot see why fans are getting het up about it!! Crikey he says its down to him etc etc. Not sure what more he can say. If he was Adkins you'd be lapping it up saying how humble to is lol

In the 2nd half at Newcastle he looked that he developed an understanding down the right and played some intricate passing moves. Recall Gerry Forest joining and I recall the quotes from fans then saying, 'bought him as we are building for Division 1 (before Chammpionship)' I think Bree will turn out ok, he will not be a Lee Todd......hopefully another who followed his manager here

Yep, but I have met quite a few on here when we did the the forum football matches and they all were a sound bunch. I m sure I met Smirking who was a spectator and he was decent, met Master Bates at games and he is also a great lad

People are a lot braver behnd a computer or Twitter etc, face to face they become for more reasoned and polite. Quite truthfully if you if you met 'influencers' in real life you wouldn't take a seconds notice as they are weirdo's in the main. Twitter the world where the unhinged get their say and people listen.

Fair but you do need both. 0-0 for the rest of the season wont give us enough points but nearly enough.

Vestergaard was dong that under Ralph when we were mildly successful under him

That is a very good point. Poch used his pretend inability to not do deep interviews at first, Id forgotten that

I think you will find it was not quite as vociferous as the media were very supportive and good words from Spain

I think that is fair, but to think that fan supportis not important you should listen to Dyche's pre game words last week. Our PR team should have got a proper message out that put Nathan in a good light. He obviously has no training in PR lol.

No i was not. I didn't care for his soundbites

im sure you right with Poch, I was very much shouting for his corner as well. Anywaywe know hwere this is heading and NJ will be part of the tapestry of saints history

all fair points, but it doesn't reflect the shoddy way many fans treated his appointed him from the first moment. He is a dead man walking and I truly hope he can get us 3 points Saturday, not for him to succeed but we as a club get 3 points ffs.Then sack him ut lets not wish a defeat just so he has to go