StefanAVFC

If he offers an honest assessment, it's "blaming others".  If he doesn't, it's "spin and fantasy".

 

I don't have a problem with the comments he's made, given that he has to say something in reply to what are often pretty stupid and repetitive questions.  Yes, often the players have been at fault, and to make out that players failing to mark their man at corners is somehow to do with coaching is just nonsense.  And there are strict financial limits in place.  Should he pretend otherwise, and let it be disclosed by players and agents, or be up front and honest about it?

Tuesday night was not honest. He straight up said 'it wasn't the system', when it 100% was. Every man and his dog could see that. We changed system and played well. He refuses to talk to journalists, he tonight answered petulantly again. He is a stubborn, arrogant fool so it's not that wild to think that after his squad quality being questioned, he's sticking with it. He could have got a CB in. I'm sorry, he just could have.

am I the only one who actually thought today showed we could stay up with a bit of luck?

For me it showed the opposite.

Yes, but they have to agree to come here.  Lambert agreed some time ago that he wanted to strengthen a couple of key positions, I think including CB but definitely including defence; he said that we had made approaches; he said that the reason some approaches didn't work was because of transfer fees and wages.

 

I take from that, that he tried to sign a CB, but couldn't get one at an affordable price whose club would let him go, who wanted to come here, and who would have been better than no signing.

 

And since we had no idea that the two just signed were being pursued, it's a safe bet that other possible signings were also not known, despite the ITK bollocks.

 

So yes, there possibly were affordable options, depending how you define affordable (ie affordable within the new wage structure, not "cheaper than the people they replace"); but despite the manager wanting to get someone in that position, and having the importance of that reinforced by Dunne's injury, it couldn't be achieved.

 

I very much doubt it was for want of trying.

Then, and I might be being unreasonable, he didn't try bloody hard enough.

He has a reputation of palming things off onto other people (Blaming the players for Newcastle, blaming the finances) so I don't know what to believe anymore.

And I know what's coming. 'We don't know what Wigan are paying him'. If we can't keep up with Wigan financially then we're even more screwed than we thought.

Oh, right.  We should have instructed Scharner to join us, and it would have happened, or any other target who took your eye.

 

Play much computer football games?

No. I was just stating that even though 'we couldn't afford a CB', there were affordable options out there.

If you've been following the news, you will know that he said he tried to sign more players but couldn't do so within budget.

Bollocks. Sharner is the experienced CB we need and he's back at Wigan. For what we saved with Hutton and Warnock, we could have got an MLS defender on loan. He just had no idea on targets and now is blaming everything but himself. Same as usual.

we was never going to get sissoko stefan, hes not our type of player, he clearly has skill and ability, and is an overall natural

 

footballers we sign are only in it for the money...

 

back onto sylla, think he can come good, i hope he does come good, we cant afford to buy replacements for players that havnt made it anymore

 

sylla - westwood - nzogbia

 

can be a good midfield

It's a shame our club have accepted fading into obscurity. Who would have thought 2 years ago, we couldn't compete with Stoke financially. Baffling.

He didn't do anything wrong today..

Didn't do anything right though either. Complete non-entity.

Utter shit.

Gave the ball away constantly. Got in the way of other players. Actually managed to make us look worse.

He'll be off if we go down, been very solid for us imo shame about the rest of our shambles of a defence

Nah he won't We took a punt on him and we'll be fine playing in the Championship, considering he hasn't ever played in that division.

We lost at home to Southampton, Wigan and Newcastle. There's no way we'll beat West Ham.

Tactically shit.

Hurts that we couldn't get Sissoko who is making a massive difference to Newcastle because our tight-fisted word removed of an owner won't fork out. Now we have this guy, who might come good but he won't make an immediate impact.

Definitely a mental problem with the squad. They're just losers. It's 3 of years of being in decline and the whole mentality of the club is negative. The only momentum the club has is a downward momentum. The players do not know how to win matches from years of hardly ever winning matches. It's almost as if they believe they can't win. Part of me feels that the best thing for this squad would be to drop down a division and learn how to win games, get some upwards momentum and a fresh start so to speak. But then there's all the other issues with relegation which would make it a disaster. 

Bollocks. Vlaar and KEA came 2nd in their league last year. Benteke was top 2/3 with Genk. Lowton got to the playoff final with Sheff Utd. Westwood went up etc. It's down to the manager and the chairman for me. Manager is awful tactically and RL couldn't run a business if his if depended on it.

We couldn't afford the wages of a central defender?

Sharner went to Wigan. Won't be on much.

Could have got somebody in on loan for the wages of Dawkins/Warnock/Hutton

Excuse after excuse for complete idiocy on all accounts within the club, and we're going to go down. Simple as that. I hate most of the players. I hate Lambert and most of all I hate Lerner.

**** word removed.

I'm guessing Paul Sharner isn't on high wages?

Stop making excuses for your utter ineptitude you utter word removed.

And this after they decimate our confidence.

I admire the spirt but I'm afraid I've given up on them.

This.

Doing their best to relegate us. Bunch of words removed.

I'd rather get smashed every week than have some sort of hope, only to be snatched away by our useless word removed's of players.

**** bottlers, the lot of them.

Sissoko scores a brace and Newcastle win and Sylla gives away stupid foul after stupid foul.

**** off the lot of the them.

EVERY

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WEEK

**** off you overpaid, useless bunch of **** words removed

i hate this **** team with more passion than anything i've hated in my life

6 MINUTES!?

Sylla has got to be stronger in the tackle. He got there twice but was weak.

Why is SYlla playing at AMC :/

Clark is so weak. Vlaar showing how to deal with Anichebe

Great tier: Benteke Westwood, Guzan

Utter shite tier. Bennett, KEA, Clark

Shame for every good player we have, we balance it with dross.

Oh and the ref is an absolute joke. Booked Benteke for nothing, every 50/50 went against us