indierich06

Can't recall a single good game we've had under him so far. Don't think we can afford to sack him, don't think we'd bring anyone decent in, don't think the players are good enough if we did manage to pull a rabbit out of the hat.

I watched the episode of The Crown which covered Aberfan not long ago, absolutely harrowing and stuck with me for a while.

Thing is, even if Evans came on and was no better than Daka or Carranza, at least there would be a bit of goodwill around him being a young lad. Mind you, knowing this fan base, probably not actually.

I hate how dogmatic managers have become, it's this Guardiola mentality which he has inflicted the entire game. Managers HAVE to have a style, now, and that's the only way they're willing to play - they would sooner lose games playing to their system, than abandon it to win. Football is such a fluid game, opponents are always different, players are always different, it's a game that requires pragmatism - I think Martin is the most extreme example of 'well the system is the system'.

The absolute negligence of not signing a decent striker after JV left this summer is really starting to show. So many shots, so few on target - says we are not getting into areas where we're likely to score, and we're just hitting and hoping. Ayew can't do the job, Daka is a busted flush and Caranza looks to be a baffling signing.

Is Ramsey still suspended for this one?

I would frankly be amazed if there wasn't a PL club interested in taking him on loan in Jan.

I thought we actually looked a lot more fluid in spells? Draw probably flatters them more than us. Some nice attacking movement. Still work to be done, but felt for the first time like we were more in control of a game and less on the back foot - and that's that first decent team we've played too. Still a lot of work to do for Cifuentes, but I think if you swap out Mav for Monga and Soumare for Ramsey, that's a good side.

I think if we started Monga, we win that.

I'm sticking a fiver on whoever they're playing - I'm already in profit 😂 reckon I'll end the season that way too. Got £20 on us to go up, them to go down too - pays out £1000 😎

I actually thought Ramsey looked great for those first 20 mins - and then an overenthusiastic challenge and an easily influenced ref put an end to it.

Honestly we can no longer afford to play Skipp and Soumare in midfield - they are just so awful. We don't even have to - play Winks, play JJ, play Ricardo there, play Page - we can't let these two footballing terrorists get any more gametime.

It was a late challenge but red is extremely harsh imo.

Excellent news, got £20 on us to go up and those willy pullers to go down, returns £1k - this just got interesting

Feels like we've been priced out of this one, which is a shame as I was v keen.

Breums can come true

GERRUM BOTH

Great news if true, will be a very good signing.

Holy ****ing shit, we should be all over this. Please God!

Going to end up with Ox and Bamford on FTs aren't we

Skipp trying to assist the opposition there. Absolute waster.

Genuinely terrible stuff. Unclear what we're even trying to do outside of possessing the ball. Utterly toothless.

Honestly, looking at that starting line up has really hit home how much trouble we're in - yeah it's great to see the young lads, but there's surely no chance this side troubles even the playoffs?

Yeah would sooner have seen Page drop back into CM and then maybe Alves as 10. We are DESPERATE for some new blood.