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AVFCAM

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  1. For me, the lack of activity in this window shows me that the board have given up. I don't buy the "we've tried" line, it gets pulled out every year, be it in a different guise this time to the usual "ran out of time"... i think it's poor that fans will continue pouring their hard earned cash into the club until the end of the season and the board know this...so there's no real reason for them to try to sort things out. How can the players be motivated by a man (Remi) who's bosses don't seem to give to toss anymore and have thrown in the towel. We really should fear relegation, financially secure of not.
  2. Was piss poor today, absolutely useless. i know it sounds stupid, but if I were Garde, I'd tell him to pull his socks up properly...if he wants to stand out from the other players, he can do it with performances, not because he wears his socks like a clearing in the woods, he is too big for his boots and needs to be knocked down a bit more...
  3. He was decent against the slower defences of the championship...he didn't need to move as much. If he was shooting and missing, people would be frustrated, but not as much as seeing him just not moving enough.
  4. You're absolutely right, we have got worse. Tim had 3 wins (albeit in a few more games), now we have zero. I've just got a bit bored of people walking round saying "at least we beat the Blues" like it makes everything better...
  5. His head is like a 50p, the ball just bounces everywhere
  6. I'd rather we'd lost 5 nil and not be marooned at the bottom of the league 10 odd points adrift... Beating Blues really provides little positivity in our situation, if anything, using it as a positive makes us look a bit small time
  7. For a guy of his size, he's really shit in the air...
  8. I think Remi will leave within weeks if we still haven't won...I think the abuse will eventually drive him out...it won't chase our fate this season but I think it will be better for us next season. In years to come however, should we make it back to being a comfortable Premier League team, we'll be wishing that we'd got Remi Garde as our manager again. I think he'd be successful with players of a higher ability. Too many players, like Gestede just aren't good enough for this league. Give him last seasons team, or a team from any of the last few years, with just a few better players and we'd be fine. To to be fair, if we had Austin, Rhodes or even Wiemann I think he'd be better as his tactics would be OK as we score more goals.
  9. whereas as a player like Ayew who could really help us out down there will probably have a release clause of 50p and will also be due a long time service bonus from the club...
  10. I think he'll go the way of most academy grads, have loads of potential and then nothing...Barry Bannan is a good example. Maybe he'll move on and improve like Marc Albrighton...but he seems too much of cocky div for that
  11. Correct it's not his team, but how many managers take over and get nothing at all out their new players...you'd at least expect something from a manager of Premier League standard. An F1 driver may not be familiar with a different true of racing car, but he'd be able to wrestle some kind of decent performance from it. (Not a brilliant analogy there) also, I don't want him backed in the window, we'd be much better building for next season and using this next few months to get the squad playing. That's what BrawnGP did, wrote off that season, worked on next seasons car and then won the championship as they'd spent so much time working on it. (I'm not an F1 fan...I just know those bits)
  12. I don't disagree that Hutton might not be up to the standard, but I don't think his commitment can be questioned. He's always been a model professional and respectful of the club, even when he was part of the bomb squad. He turned up and trained and never moaned. Even now, he's one of the few players who actually seems to want to the ball and even if what he tries comes to nothing, at least he tries and carries on trying. By all means call him rubbish, but he's not worthy of some of the more negative tags people have been giving him and others about stealing a living.
  13. So 1 point ahead AND with a good kit and shirt deal?! Tom Fox will be so pleased!
  14. I'm not saying Garde is at fault here, well, not completely, as the players weren't good enough before...however...against Leicester, before we capitulated, we looked good and we didn't look as hopeless in games as we do now. Maybe it's down to lack of confidence within the players and accepting that they aren't up to the requirements, but I don't understand where people are getting the idea that Remi Garde is the man to bring the club back up. What has he shown since he got here? Have I missed it? We seem to somehow have got worse. He hasn't managed to cut out the unforced errors, he hasn't managed to organise the defence, they're terrible, but they're not even organised when they're being terrible. He hasn't managed to address the issues over fitness, even though he's had a few months now. The main thin F he hasn't done though is made this team look like they had a chance of winning a game at any point. I dont blame Garde for where we are, but he's shown me nothing at all to think he was the right man for the job he was given or the right man for the job he now faces.
  15. I'm with the pessimists, I've seen very little from Garde and don't expect to see us win again all season. His record was mediocre, he did alright for a handful of years with a Lyon side that weren't their best, but he showed no signs of being able to pull us out of a dogfight. I think it was an appointment made based on him being young, probably cheap and his methods sounding like they were very interesting...the sort of appointment made by a businessman, not a footballing man. The footballing man would've appointed David Moyes, who may not have done any better, but he would've been less of a gamble. I never used to blame Lerner, I still don't m, he was only trying to make us a sustainable business...he realised he was rubbish at the football owner lark so he tried to sell and bought in Tom Fox to run the club...Tom Fox has managed to make what was already a poor situation much worse. He appointed (or at least had a major role in appointing) Sherwood, he appointed Garde. I blame Tom Fox for this seasons debacle, oh and he was part of that "committee" who suggested players...most of which have been a bit shit.
  16. Agreed, these 4 games were must win, we were going to pick up 12 points and pull ourselves out of trouble...so far we've had 3 of these games and got 2 points, 2 goals, 2 halves of decent football maybe 3...how people think we will turn this around is beyond me, we are dreadful.
  17. 100% right, my mistake re: relegations!
  18. I was buzzing when we appointed Fox, really thought he would push us to the next level. How wrong I was. Randy has conceded, he's awful at this, that's why he's tried to sell and he's not been involved much...so he passes the day to day decisions to our boy Tom, who's make a right royal cock up of it. 2 managerial appointments, both of which are now looking a bit stupid.
  19. A scary thought for when we finally get put out of our misery and our relegation is confirmed... This team is worse than Lambert's League 1 kids bought on a budget... We'd need a lot of work just to compete in the Championship at this rate. Double relegation beckons if we're not careful. Happened to Wigan, happened to Blackpool, happened to Leeds (before you tell me that we are "bigger" than Blckpool and Wigan).
  20. I've seen very little from Garde to show he's the right man for the job, he's done a tiny bit better than Sherwood I suppose, maybe...but 8 games or however many it is and still no win, shows something can't be right. Under Sherwood we were poor, but there were games, Leciester especially, where we looked half decent. Under Garde, we've looked pathetic in the main part...sure we looked OK 2nd half against Newcastle, we matched a West Ham without most of their best players and we kept a misfiring Man City at bay, but honestly, have we really improved at all? My feeing is we've gone backwards and are now under a manager who seems too cautious and is yet to provide much evidence that he will see our his contract with us before being shown the door.
  21. We didn't sign Austin, I imagine because of his cost.
  22. There is one thing that is pretty certain, we've known what sort of thing is required for ages now, we've been poor for months. We've got to start picking up points as soon as possible...so we can be certain that we won't have planned anything, we won't be ready on January 1st to bring the players in and we'll still be buggering about on deadline day, 4 games further down the road to relegation, still struggling. Tom Fox seems to focused on "business" by saving a few bob on players that actually making sure the club has what it needs to survive. I'd love to be proved wrong, but I don't think I will be!
  23. I think the phot uploaded to his Instagram is in bad taste as well...if it was such a hard decision, surely he wouldn't be so quick to upload it and declare that "GodisGood"
  24. For me the fact that Sky have commented about it sceptically on social media, but have a NOT reported it on Sky Sports News, shows that it may not be true... Although again, smoke, fire etc...
  25. SkySports News haven't got it as a "breaking news" yellow band thing yet...surely they'd want to be all over this...
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