Dan

I will slaughter 90% of what we do but James is the best signing we've made probably since Fatawu.

You know of all my posts on here that aged well - I really hoped it wouldn't be the one about Cov. They could walk the division.

I mean that's fairly important.

Another all-talk manager.

It's another one of those situations where we seem to manage to stumble on the worst possible outcome. This happens so often it's unbelievable. We've sacrificed the long, and potentially short term, to not even really get anything in exchange in the short term but more dog shit served up by the usual suspects. This myth that they've been good this season. We've given up the 7th most chances in the division this season. We've given away two goals worth of chances in all four away games. It's a genuine disgrace. This club's ability to get it wrong is barely fathomable.

The number of draws is mental.

that Buonanotte goal genuinely was the turning point wasn't it? They're right in the mix to go down. Postecoglou is even worse for them than I thought he might be. They're a disaster.

Rudkin has the most job security relative to performance I've ever witnessed. You'll never see anything like it ever again.

I'd bet good money that if Aiyawatt still owns us in five years we'll be in our weakest ever position as a club.

Very much fear we have appointed yet another possession > creativity manager. The majority of our fans will want him out in a month if so.

Oxford was a strange game as we were second best at 11 v 11, rank second best for 20 mins at 11 v 10 but actually wrestled back and probably just about deserved a draw from the second half. Actually think on the balance of chances Wrexham was a strange one, we should've won but we totally screwed ourselves. We didn't actually create that many great chances for all the play was probably a bit better. Coventry I agree we should've won and were the better side. Then on the flip side, lucky to draw at WBA, very lucky to win at Charlton. The table is very tight where each point makes a substantial difference to position currently but I definitely don't think on the performances so far that we're looking at what could've been. Other way round if anything.

He must have serious dirt. There's no other explanation.

It'll be a yes man/woman. They purposely will not bring anybody into the club who will potentially undermine them down the line. They probably couldn't believe their luck when Chelsea came for Maresca, as he was showing signs of it.

We absolutely should not be higher on the performances served up so far. People often ridicule these sorts of performance tables and I guess it's only been 8 games which is a pretty small sample of games, but I heard similar sorts of comments about it in 2022 which as much as predicted we were a relegation level side running hot. Sure enough the following season we went down. On our current trajectory we will drop down the table. The performances simply have to improve. We're not succeeding at either creating chances, or stopping the opposition create chances.

As suspected this is absolutely not what anyone's really after, it's just a symptom of the decline. She needed to go but the reasons aren't good ones. If anything she comes out looking slightly better as a result. All this has done to me is cemented something we knew was inevitable anyway, while preserving the main two overseeing the rapid decline. They're going nowhere. We better hope we fluke promotion this season, it's our last chance.

Can't believe I was having people argue with me about this the other day. 6th in the league and very fortuitously so. We've got to substantially improve to go up this season.

Stolarczyk Ricardo Nelson Okoli Kristiansen Winks James Fatawu Reid Monga Carranza Not perfect but it's something to start with. I bet he reverts to something similar to the WBA game, so welcome back Soumare and Ayew. Sick to death of Faes and Vestergaard. Our defensive numbers really aren't that good - Stolarczyk's actually got the best goals prevented stat in the division which tells you our defensive record is down to him rather than that lot. Okoli I'm not convinced by but I give him a slightly bigger chance of being an asset to us than the other two so run with him for now. Happily see Ramsey start but actually think Reid had a decent game and he's got slightly less of a rap sheet than some of the others, if we're being totally fair, he probably stays in over somebody who got a red card after half an hour on their debut. Give Carranza a run. He's looked shit but he's not played a total of 90 minutes for us yet. Don't care on left back. Don't like either. Priority for January.

We're level on points with Preston and Bristol City - the two notoriously Championshippy clubs. Quite poignant, probably a sign for the future.

Pains me to say it but we aren't.

Cov are the best team in the league unfortunately. This is their year.

Only played 71 minutes so too early, but very unencouraging. What I am quite sick of us doing though is giving very limited opportunities to new signings. They don't need to 'bed in' to a team that's failing. You're really not risking losing much. I'd start him in the next three games and see how he does.

4 years for Thomas is a damning indictment of our direction of travel. He wouldn't get a 4 year deal at QPR.

Bet he's a Wrexham player in 2026.

The xG numbers over a longer period of time are rarely wrong. Like I'd been telling everyone over the weekend - we've been absolutely mediocre at best. Chances created at both ends are all that truly matters in terms of performance, and then finishing them off in terms of getting results. Passing it around with zero threat is precisely that - zero threat. Our chance creation is bad. Our finishing is often bad. We won't get near the top 6 on this performance level, let alone top 2.

Yep unfortunately. And if you say it after a win you'll get the regime apologists on here bashing you for 'moaning'.