jimsmallman

I feel bad talking ill of the lad as he does seem to care about the club more than most (see his interview after the WBA game) but I'm afraid I'd pick Begovic every day of the week over him at the minute. His inability to deal with crosses and corners and the constant parrying the ball is worrying.

In all the post match chat on Sky, why are they not even bringing up that Marti might get fired? When we beat WBA they wouldn’t stop banging on about Ryan Mason’s job being in jeopardy. Has Marti just got the best PR in football or something? Surely more people than us can see how crap he is.

“I’m here to lead them, and that’s what I’m doing” WHEN, MARTI? WHEN ARE YOU DOING THAT???

Marti looks haunted in his interview. If I hear him say “not the result we wanted” one more time I swear I’m going to go all Michaels Douglas in Falling Down

Love that they’re spending time on Sky talking about why they didn’t celebrate the goal. ITS BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS RUINED LADS

I have spent this entire game writing out invoices, with the game on in the background. I think I've maybe looked up from my computer a dozen times. With a couple of exceptions (the two players who are off the pitch injured currently) I waver between apathy and abject dislike of this team. We are crap. We are not getting better. The insanity of the commentary continuing to insist that we have good players is utterly ridiculous. Awful. Just awful. And my kid is at school with Wrexham fans FFS.

I hate seeing Lampards smug face like he’s some kind of managerial genius. We are crap. Consistently, depressingly crap. Marti is useless. We clearly have players who can SOMETIMES play well for 30 minutes or a half. I have no doubt that an even half decent manager would do a better job, rather than some hipster choice who did nothing at QPR and did passably well in Scandinavia. How do you not capitalize on that first half? Of course, nothing will change and he’ll still be in a job next week. Infuriating.

Taking arguably the hardest working player off for Soumare is certainly a choice

Don’t think BDCR deserves to be subbed that much but happy to see Page. Thank Christ Ayew is off though. It’s like playing fifa with a broken controller watching him drift towards the wing for every attack.

I mean that’ll be because Sky have been saying they’re the greatest and most entertaining team in the history of the Championship all season 😂

What a lovely little assist from BDCR too.

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE JORDAN JAMES

I reckon Evans didn't get on because Marti knows there's a new superstar striker incoming and he didn't want to give the lad false hope because this new lad is going to light the Championship on fire and score 37 goals between now and the end of the season. That can be the only reason, surely.

I don't think you need to worry about that last bit (with you on the first point)

This is certainly a game that happened

Stuck in Ireland working. Does anyone have a link?

Had a great day out there in League One. Battered them. I do not expect the same today.

The fact that West Ham have bought two strikers for forty million ish quid combined this week is insane to me. Both of them looked absolutely garbage last night.

I mean at least if we get Nuno he's already used to working at absolute basketcase clubs.

David De Gea? First name is completely incorrect as he signed a new contract at Fiorientina last season. I do wish everyone would stop quoting AI. He's not been a free agent since 2024.

This has the feel of some Cov or Forest fans on the wind up.

I actually think he’s getting fired and knows it. He wasn’t his usual self in the post match interview and seemed incredibly rattled. More so than Ryan Mason. He might have been told that there needed to be a performance, not just three points - and there’s definitely wasn’t one there. Not even close.

I thought Jakub came across very well in his post match interview. I thought he had a ropey first half but he kept us in it throughout that second half. I don’t think Nelson and Okoli played terribly. Absolute doggo football though, we only scored that second because WBA were so scared of losing again at the end and we could finally attack because they weren’t. I don’t dislike Marti. But he’s not good enough and still has to go.

Vardy’s spirit of sh*thousing WBA lives on in his absence

Can’t stop laughing