J. James

Someone posted that we are likely to get a proper hammering when a team engages second gear against us - owtte. 

Well these are prime candidates looking at the table, they are -7 goals compared to Chelsea...

8-0 loss anybody?

City are being linked with Rohl in a few articles I've seen recently, but our clowns prevaricate about the bush so much that we'll probably be too late even if he was interested. 😕

Saturday 16th August

Home to Birmingham

L. 1-3

We score a consolation in the last 5 mins - (can't be specific on the minute, that would be a guess) 😐

7 minutes ago, whetstonefox said:

I assume he will be gone the day after relegation is officially confirmed. There must be a clause that allows for this in his contract. That can be the only reason he is apparently under no pressure and does not show as he knows his nightmare reign is nearly at end. Such a strange period where he is performing terribly but everyone else is pretty apathetic about it. 

Are you confident that the clowns who negotiate contracts at our club would have included such a clause?

I'm afraid I'm not, they have made bad errors every time there was a contract negotiation so his is probably no different.

The club is at least consistent - indescribable, appallingly bad on and off the pitch!

1 hour ago, SecretPro said:

At half time I went out to the shed and put my nob in the chain of my bike and asked my wife to peddle as fast as possible. It was preferable. 

I'll bet it was hard for her too. 😐

Working away in Southampton when all seater stadiums first came in, never been cold at a match till l was persuaded to go watch them in a cup tie, but then I'd never sat down at a match before.

Cant remember anything about the game, the hypothermia has erased the memory!

15 hours ago, ClaphamFox said:

Who is going to look at his record here and offer him a ‘better job’? That’s very unlikely to happen and I don’t think he’ll quit , meaning the only way he’ll leave if is he’s sacked. And I’m far from convinced that will happen either. 

How many times was that said of Rooney?

Stupidity knows no bounds for football club owners - who in their right mind appoints him?

Someone looking for publicity (like Plymouth with Rooney)?

Someone star struck?

Someone like our owner!

He won't be sacked, but come the inevitable relegation he will be offered and accept a better job elsewhere - (clearly not difficult to find) - and walk away.

Like Cooper he was never the man for the job (although Cooper did much better) but who can blame either for taking the riches offered by our (to be generous) clueless owner and hapless board.

I can't find a single thing atm to like about our club, rotten in every department.

Clearly a post that reflects the hopelessness of our position/season! May as well ask "would you have MON as he was in 1995"!

Or sign Messi*.. etc. etc..

Equal chance of these happening, frankly zero!

* we may sign Messi as head coach the day after he retires from playing and says he may like to coach one day.

2 hours ago, lcfcbluearmy said:

It's no lose for him though if he somehow manages to keep us up he's a genius tactical magician, if we go down it's clearly not his fault, if he managed to get 1 win and score a few goals he would be seen as a success 

Hmm, just hope he never reads FT then! 😂

11 minutes ago, Parker Pen said:

Put your big boy pants on Top admit you have got it horriblly wrong and Sack him and Murphy today because let’s face it there is no on field plan or pattern of play.  He did it with Cooper so do it again.
Get a manager in like Sean Dyche because let’s face it things may not be pretty but there would be fight and spirit until the end of the season. Get him in this week and whilst it may be Mission Impossible to save us it’s a better chance than with RVN. Even if we go down with Dyche in charge and we win and draw a few matches he will know who to cull in the summer and who to bring in! Who knows we may even score at home!

With you on this but l don't think there ARE any managers like Dyche, only Dyche.

I don't think he's crazy enough to step into our stupidity, lies and ineptitude.

Keeping VanRooney beyond the International break sends completely the wrong message, it reinforces player power and tells fans both that results mean nothing and that we've given up!

Personally I'd like to see a modern day Marquis de sade given free reign with our excuse for professional footballers, and frankly the people who do the recruitment, iow the omnishambles team, are incapable of even identifying the right candidates much less appointing one.

But on the basis that NOBODY could do worse than the idiot in charge atm*, then literally anybody has a chance of being better!

* So long as the players agree not to down tools again.

Dyche may be boring, old fashioned, unadventurous, defensive etc.etc.etc.

But one thing he isn't is stupid.

He wont come here.

2 minutes ago, reynard said:

Coulibally looks like a competition winner who can't believe his good fortune most of the time and wouldn't be out of place two divisions below where we are now.

Fits right in here then!

Just now, K789 said:

Liking the 2 strikers. Not sure therefore why no other striker on bench 

Ahh.. The plan is to pull both off when we are 3-0 up and defend the lead. 😐

1 minute ago, baldeagle said:

BBC have us lined up like this 😂

Standard BBC knowledge, did they mention Man U at all?

Trying something different is great, trying something different and ridiculous isn't.

I cannot for the life of me understand his thinking here!

Is that the cunning plan?

Baffle Enzo with the brown stuff?

23 hours ago, Ian Nacho said:

If everyone did that the training ground would be like crufts. 

Johan crufts? 😐

Just now, BKLFox said:

I believe it's on Prime not TNT/Discovery+......sorry if you have that

Haha.. deja vu all over again.. Just like tonights performance

2 hours ago, Fox1norfolk said:

RVN’s future depends on the West Ham game. If by some sort of miracle we win, then he stays. If we lose then he goes and the new man with his own team I suspect we have already lined up will be appointed. With the FA Cup weekend it allows more time for a new man to sort it.

Cant share your optimism bud (if optimism it be), heard this "he's gone if we dont win" too many times. 

We have I'd suggest a less than 1% chance of winning - if they have 2 men sent off in the first 10 mins - but he wont be sacked when we lose, if he is to be sacked this result is irrelevant compared to the utter failure in the previous games.

1 hour ago, phoneticerror said:

 

Or he’s next and a new manager is coming in and demanding they bring their own staff?

Precisely my first thought too.

This manager business is like my stock on ****ing etoro!

On monday I'm thinking  - I'll sell this rubbish, tomorrow

Tuesday - it's "not selling till it goes up a bit"

Wednesday - it drops more

Thursday - l think, wish I'd sold on monday

Friday - l sell for less than what l rejected on tuesday!

We may be rejected by those candidates that we didn't think good enough yesterday and have to settle for 3rd rate journeymen much like we did with Dean Smith and with predictable results!

 We may soon see it as a proper coup to get Rooney, Gerrard or Lampard - thats how far our club has fallen under this utterly useless owner and his serial failures.

No improvement now until the club is sold imao.