OldNick

the same could be said of VVD as it was in the media for a long time we were after him

that's what he said, but things may have deteriated since. I did post the comments up just after I was told some weeks ago I

The thing about Long rails against what he said to somebody that has a business near where Shane lives. It was some weeks ago but he said the players loved CP and he was the best he had played under! Im not saying VFTT is wrong but the words were from Long himself. Perhaps people are jumping at the conclusion both at Long is one of the unhappy players

well i was listening to 5live talkin last night and the Everton fan said they were outsung for 80 minutes until they scored

or Leicester, and Stoke are playing better football than us.They also haven't had 10ms of income on player sales

Not sure who Evans is, but it doesn't matt r the players reaction but the West Ham player left the ground with both feet. Had that tackle been made against a Saints player I would want a sending off. No doubt the player rolling on the ground did reinforce Deans decision to send the player off. Yes the 2nd was way offside

I think a lot of fans are frustrated as the penny has dropped that although players like VVD have signed long contracts the club are lining up to sell. Add to that the fact we lost the major goalscorers from the team we didn't fully replace those goals. They then come out and indicate that Austin was Pelles replacement, but not when he was bought. We were short of forwards before the 2 left let alone after

As much as I feel Dean is having a poor time reffing , to my mind the West Ham player had both feet off the ground, and thought that was a red card offence.

how many goals did he score for us? we need a goalscoring midfielder, a striker and suspect can find another ball winning midfielder elsewhere in the world.

It was an unfortunate quote and has hampered Redmond.

Perhaps we missed Redmonds pace, desire and guile

I was frowned upon by at least one of the above posters on here when I was critical of the club not investing in replacements. Tough times coming up in the next few months

God this is the type of thing I really dislike in modern day football

WBA will be very difficult to beat, and dangerous at set pieces, something we were poor against the other night. Draw at best IMO, but I hope to be wrong

RK knows his reputation has already been tarnished going there and will look for an excuse to bail out IMO

Yep all valid, perhaps though the club should not give fans higher expectations than they are prepared to fund.

In with no second thought

I still think the problem lays with the goalkeeping coach. Frazer has a massive advantage of height and bulk, he should be taking the crosses and I suspect most forwards will get out of his way rather than be smashed by him. Perhaps watching Pat jennings as a kid and the likes of Schmichael and Grobbelaar may skew my opinion. I do understand that Grobellar was reckless at times but Liverpool made sure they had defenders on the line when he dominated. Watson should be working on dominating the area, but as he was a small keepe he probably never left his line as he didnt want his hair to get ruffled

I just sent a cheque to the addres in Howard road that i found on the site

I dont think that the Spurs fans appealed for a penalty at the time. If you watch it they are just disappointed with the miss

I see that the FA couldnt decide if it was intentional. At the time the gaqme had stopped and there was no need for him to carry on the way he did

sadly most of out support lay on their backs and get their tummy tickled by the club and trot off happily. When we have season on season taken in massive fees, we could have used that advantage over other clubs who didn't, by buying other players who would have made us a decent side. Now the league is shaping up to normal order and the top 6 are going to keep the rest out for ever, our chance is gone to break into the top echelons of the game. Personally I believe had Marcus been here the club would have achieved more and invested more to get us where he believed we could get to. Your mindset of us being a minor club is part of the problem, whilst we stay small minded that is where we will stay. If the club needs to sell £20 m plus worth a season to survive then our business plan is not very good. Poch and Kpeman were right leaving as they can move and actually build, any manager at our club has to rebuild every 12 months, Koeman says that he is going to strengthen in January, I can't imagine any manager of ours saying the same. At the end of the day, it is Katrinas business and she can do as she likes.

We underinvested in the summer and as a club complacent that we can use boys to do a mans job. The focus on making 20M plus players to sell instead of making us a team for the fans to watch can only send us in a downward spiral long term. Each season we are looking less competitive, and whilst fans point to us getting higher positions each season we are deluding ourselves as we have had a few seasons where the top 5 teams have underperformed, hence Leicester winning the title

You are wrong about those players IMO

Dave Watson is at fault IMO. Not one of our keepers has improved under his watch. None command their area and sadly when you watch him on the pitch coaching he is more interested in pushing back his golden locks than coaching.