DCJonah

Howard Hodgson has posted a fairly detailed plan on TBAR.

Delph, herd, Cole looks a better midfield 3 than what we had most of last season.

Wouldn't be against giving him a chance in midfield. Always looked OK there when he's had a chance.

I can't see someone buying us in January. Too much risk involved in regards the chances of us being relegated. I think any new owner will want a summer window to ensure their new purchase stays up.

I believe our lowest Premier League home attendance is 17,940. Do you still feel we may break it this season? Really its that low? No chance then.

I'd agree the way we ended the season has an effect on the optimism, or lack of at the moment. But I'm not sure I'd say it was just the last quarter. I think we picked up 18 pts from the 2nd half of the season. I think apart from a couple of games the whole second half was very poor. I think my lack of optimism comes from I don't really see how we're going to improve that much from how we finished the season.

Me and my family renewed basically right on the deadline. It was something we really thought long and hard about. And if i'm honest I currently regret my decision. What's our lowest premier league attendance? I have a feeling we may break it this season.

I think they can brand him worst premier league manager as there's a case to argue that last year was our worst season in the premier league. I don't agree that it's the worst, but even if it was that doesn't really mean a great deal when you consider the conditions he had to work under with regards to injuries and spending. To be honest I think people exaggerate how bad last season was just a little bit. It was poor yes, but up until the end of March (and Benteke's injury) it felt like a pretty non-eventful season where we weren't challenging for anything but weren't in any danger of going down either. Lambert's first season was much worse for me. See I'm the opposite, I thought last season worse. I'd disagree about it feeling non eventful till march, I always felt we were liable to drop down the league. I think you have to take account the constraints he's worked under but at the same time I think the last couple of seasons justify the case put forward that he could be our worst premiership manager.

I didn't think I did. I said there's a case to argue its the worst.

For me there's not much difference between last and the year under McLeish so I can see why people think he could be the worst we've had in the prem.

I think they can brand him worst premier league manager as there's a case to argue that last year was our worst season in the premier league.

Unfortunately it's more likely an example of more penny pinching by Lerner :-/ I'd have thought Keane's not the kind of person to tolerate that. I'm probably just clutching at any tiny straw I can that maybe we will be taken over this summer.

I'm still hoping its in some way linked to the takeover and that's the reason for the delay.

Good post. If hull can afford him and he keeps them in the premier league getting huge amounts of money then surely he's worth it.

I nominate DOL and AM before Lambert. I really do think this is the worst time to manage the club in the Premiership, given the obvious ownership issues and lack of investment. Lambert has fulfilled his remit to keep the club up and alter the wage bill. I do believe Lambert wants to get us back up the table but is really restricted by Lerner, any manager would be to be honest. For his own career it would have been better for him to walk at the end of last season. It is time to get behind him and the boys this year, it could be a really tough year, maybe the toughest yet. It'll be tougher than it needs to be because Lambert is such a very poor manager. Although he isn't the architect of our misfortune, he's added to it by performing so dismally. Yeah I'd have to agree. He's not the cause of our issues but his mistakes have added to it and he's poor performances are doing little to rectify mistakes from the owner.

Toss up between Lambert and McNeill for the worst I can remember. And clearly what you can remember is our entire history? Anything you can't remember you can research and I believe lambert's record is up there with the worst in some areas.

I wouldn't say far from the worst. His record is up there with the worst. He's had a difficult situation to manage in but so far he's performed very poorly.

I think That could depend on who/ if we sell any players of value We only have 2 players of any value this window. Even selling them I think we'd still spend a lot less than most teams.

I wonder if any team will spend less than us on transfer fees this window? If we're not taken over then I can't see it.

It would be nice to have an owner who had a plan and thought long term.

Haha that's one thing.

This made me laugh lots but then suddenly stop as I thought 'what if he's serious?'

Looks like he's coming then. I'm not sure what impact he can have. Like with most things at the moment I'm sure its only short term thinking. Hopefully he can add something our manager lacks.

I'm not even sure he would do much better with more money. I don't think he's able to get the best out of the squad he has. While more money will allow the chance to sign better players I don't think his tactical decisions and his approach to the game will allow better quality to have a big impact on the team.

I've not known many examples of a player being given such a high squad number because of an injury. Gardner and delph for example were never given numbers in the 40's when injured long term. I don't think nzogbia was wanted but the continued restrictions and poor squad quality mean the manager will have to change his mind now.