Steve Earle

It’s not looking at all like 1 January…

Shame. He’d had a good half until that moment. But that moment was unacceptable from a professional footballer.

So four games and out for you? I’m giving him the benefit of the doubt for now. He has a poor squad with not a single Premier League defender (leaving Mads to one side) to rely on, and missing two crucial players in Ricardo & Fatawu. I’m not sure a Tuchel-Slot-Guardiola coaching team could do that much with this shower. Recruitment has been one of the main issues since we won the FA Cup, arguably longer than that.

Statistically he’s right: fewest shots conceded so far. Score first in that game and anything could’ve happened. Littered, I grant you, with horrendous individual mistakes.

Speaks really well. Imagine a Cooper press conference in the same circumstances!

Wait a minute! You have a job as well??!?

Dan Ashworth as Sporting Director anyone?

Poor sod

We absolutely do need a Huth/Wasilewski figure (Bob Hazell for older readers) to bring some authority and organisation to the back four. Who? I don’t know, but saw Ben Mee mentioned somewhere. If fit, I’d take Jonny Evans too (tho will now absent myself from FT for an hour or so while the anti-Evans brigade get stuck in!).

True story: met Warnock at a Torquay game a couple of weeks ago. He is a character and a half! He said to me ‘no offence but I hope you get relegated’. Asked why, he said Cooper had screwed him over three times: ‘I hate the bloke’!

Faes out! He’s dreadful. Coady or Vestergaard with Okoli surely the way to go until January when hopefully we sign an upgrade on him

Literally every thought and touch after the penalty was crap. There’s nothing in this team to give one hope.

Faes being sold?

A Premier League quality back four.

I’m joining in. With some reluctance. But relegation is inevitable without a change of manager. We have 27 games to go & will get bu**er all from the 14 against the big 6 + Newcastle, Villa & Brighton. This manager isn’t capable of getting the 20+ points we’d need from the other 13 fixtures.

Does that imply we’re on our way back to the Championship?

That’s very interesting. 10 points from 10 games has been great, on the face of it, but we’ve only played 2 games against the Big 6, meaning 10 of the next 28 are against them. And 5 of the other 18 are against Newcastle, Brighton & Villa. I don’t see too many points coming from those 15 fixtures, and if we perform as we have done this far in the remaining 13 fixtures, we’ll be relegated.

That we didn’t buy him?!?

No. Madness we didn’t sell in the summer when there was a level of interest in him from the Championship. That’s the best level he’ll reach consistently, if that.

We played Wolves first home game of the season a few years’ back (2018-19). We were in Copenhagen that morning, flying back to Manchester and due in at about 11.00 - obviously the trip had been planned before the fixtures were released! If the flight left on time, landed on time and there were no delays at Manchester Airport, I’d be home for 12/12.15 with time to do the 2 hour drive to Leicester. Went like a dream! 2-0 by the way. Apologies for the slightly off topic post.

£600M spent on his own players and they’re worse than when he took over. The FA Cup win was, like ours, an against-the-odds miracle and quite clearly stopped Ineos sacking him then. They’d seen enough and let emotions get in the way of acting prudently

We’ve seen enough to know he’s not a Premier League player. The rest is gossip.

I remember the oh-so limited Paul Reid with affection, but for him to be one of anyone’s favourites from any era just made me feel for you @Claudio Fannieri 🙁

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