Mister_a

Anonymous striker. Like Davies, without the hold up play. Mugged off.

This season is like a family bag of crisps that only has 4 crisps in it.

No bite, where’s our Gattuso?

They stopped to watch him shoot

I’m calling Far Eastern bookmakers on that one

Just now, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

We are playing ball!!!

Didn’t want to jinx it by saying

Taylor crossed, lol.

Just now, hippo said:

I can't speak for Villalad - but IMO it will be, at best , be someone of Chris Hughton calibre. Hope I'm wrong but if you're hoping for anything beyond that I fear you will be disappointed.

Yeah, see my other post, which sets out where i'm at right now. It's pretty depressing.

It's a tough call really, stick with the person that got you up, vs the unknown. We know he has taken us out of the Championship once before, but that doesn't really guarantee it will happen again. (see Steve Bruce thread for that argument from pages 150- 600 or so).

I would have preferred some more decisiveness around xmas personally, but hindsight is always really sharp and clear.

The problem with DS is the long winless streaks that he doesn't seem to know how to cope with (both in the PL and Champ).
If there were any evidence that he could sort that out, I’d be up for him staying.

Along with that is the substitutions, Jesus Christ, please can you make a change before:

• The other team changes.
• The other team score just after changing

In his defence, we have had the spine of the team knackered with Heaton and Wes injuries (yeah I know Wes isn't everyone's cup of tea, and I’ve personally called him toilet on several occasions), but our goal threat is non-existent. Perhaps some sensible buying in the transfer window will help, but we have seen no evidence of sensible buying either, so lots of mist and not much shore right now.

I wouldn't want to make the decision.

27 minutes ago, villalad21 said:

Purslow wants a yes man he can control.

We can forget about any high profile coaches with a big personality.

You keep saying this as if it was true. Do you have any actual evidence, or is this your latest pile of shite?

It's mostly out of our hands now, and that's on us.

Still not 100% down though.

1 hour ago, chicovilla said:

Ha! The last one was taken with my mobile, the others with my DSLR!

Good old wide angles

26 minutes ago, omariqy said:

Bet you’re fun at parties 

2 minutes ago, Demitri_C said:

Im sorry but as crap as the team is smith coaches the players but we have consistently been dreadful at set pieces. What the hell does he work on training?

Our general play is so poor its unbelievable 

Throw ins boil my blood, we are very static most of the time.

2 minutes ago, Dom_Wren said:

So is keeping guys on the pitch that have put such a shift in that they cant run anymore!

Yep, tough isn’t it.

1 minute ago, Dom_Wren said:

MAKE PROACTIVE SUBS!!!!

Our subs are shit

It’s hard to judge in isolation, because that isn’t how the season unfolds.

His subs are usually late, and he seems to be married to his tactics.

More importantly, our squad is woeful. We will be lucky to survive.

Nice try, not biting. 

12 minutes ago, av1 said:

He wasn't shit at all. He's twice the player of either Davis or Samatta. 

That’s not glowing praise. If we double them, we get about half a striker

Dunno why this is getting bumped now, he was shit before lockdown and probably will be sold on at the end of the season. 

Players perceived quality always seems to increase compared to the amount of time that they don’t play for the team.

I think him falling over at the touch of a feather all the time doesn’t help us at the moment. I understand that free kicks etc are a good outlet, but we just constantly have to regroup and restart. We have no momentum for long periods. If jack tried to stay on his feet like St Maximin did today, maybe we would have had better results.. I’m mostly past caring now anyway with the current squad / manager / season.

4 players standing still in the box. No wonder we can’t score for shit

12 minutes ago, messi11 said:

You should expect a mistake every match. 

Fits in well with the rest of the defence then.