FoxinNotts

Spot on. I don’t think Maresca’s approach would have worked with our squad, if he had stayed. The Championship is a lot more forgiving

If, and it’s a big IF, RM can get a defence in order, not to make individual errors, his approach may just work. It was repetitive individual mistakes at the back which cost him his job at Southampton

Would be a dream

Hope he bags a hatrick

Correct. But if you want to win the game, choose Bounanotte over McAteer

I’d like us the ship out….. Ward Iversen Vesstergaard Faes Kristiansen Hamza Soumaré BDCR Vardy obvs Edouard and Bouanotte to go that should do us for PSR if we got any kind of fee for those sold Id keep the rest

Fair comment. Let’s hope it’s not him then!

I really do look at stats. But, you are right Martin probably is weak. It’s. Just Ruud is so bad, that even other bad managers are better than Ruud 😂

They were just off the top of my head. Think of how many out of work managers there are. So so many, which want to get back in. Probably 70-80% of them are better managers than Ruud. He’s been truly awful. Awful.

Right. And?

Or just a few olds BDCR, Vestergaard and Ward. I think we could still balance up the average age with the number off younguns we have, and still take on a couple of old heads, now Vards has gone too

Don’t you think we have enough youngsters? Monga, Fatawu, Bilal, Evans, McAteer, Nelson, Alves, Braybrooke, Stolarczyk, Thomas (to a degree!)

So basically you are asking who is better than Ruud, and would come to us? Rohl, Martin, Dyche, Hasselhuter, Farke(if sacked) Robins, Carrick (if sacked), Big Sam, Nige, Dean Smith, Gerrard, Benitez, Lennon….. I mean, literally almost any manager which you can name that isn’t secure and happy in there current position, or is out of work, is better than Ruud. Look at the statistics! BTW, this is not a list of who I want!!! (Some of them are awful!) It’s just who could/would come and be better than Ruud (which surely tells you everything you need to know about how bad Ruud has been!)

So so many managers would love to manage us, even with a points deduction

Top class? - genuinely nobody. Better than Ruud? There many many managers better than him. It won’t end up being 12 points either

Mate, thank god. Honestly he’s a fraud. Tactically useless. So out his depth.

Ruud is to blame for losing so many games, and us going a stupid amount of games without us scoring. It’s his selections and tactics Ruud is to blame for selecting, Ward, Faes, Justin, Kristiansen, Vestergaard. Ruud is to blame for criminally under using Bouananotte Ruud is to blame for not giving Monga more minutes Ruud is at fault for not selecting Okoli more Ruud is at fault for not being pragmatic enough to change his formation/ system to match opponents When half way through one of our winless/goalless streaks, why wasn’t he changing things up? He just kept going with Vardy up top, isolated. Ruud was always going to be a gamble. Why gamble?

If Brighton win tonight, Liverpool already on the beach (pun intended), and then Man City win tomorrow, this is a dead rubber game. Hopefully everyone will just play to entertain, and we’ll catch them in a chilled out mood

If it was down to me, I’d stick Ayew up front and have Bounanotte, McAteer and El Khannouss in behind him. Obviously bringing on Monga on 60mins to terrorise for the last half an hour

He should be kept for one reason, in the Championship. He holds the ball up well and then draws the foul, up the top of the pitch. Bring him on at about 70mins, especially if we have a lead. It’ll work a treat.

Would love to go to work, the next day, and say ‘put your passports away lads’. Love it

This would make my year 😂

It will be worse case scenario

Well done Villa over to you now Chelsea

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