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Yeah, the gall of the owner ! If you won't be able to keep a player, and the player deserves a chance, getting a profit off of the business deal. Stupid owner Mind you, I still hope we stay up, I still hope we keep him, but if we don't do either, I damn sure HOPE you are right and we profit. Blame Lerner for bad business, fair enough, blame him for doing good business and you are just looking for places to put your mad.

Still not convinced, but today was the first time I thought he looked like he might develop into something of a player

actually, I think Hutton made a terrible error on their goal. when you are a wing back you always prevent the cut into the middle for a right footed shot and usher the attacker down the wing. Period. First year coaching stuff for any outside back. But multiple times this season, including today, Hutton lets them turn in toward the middle too easily. It's simple coaching and footwork. I really suspect RB is high on Remy's list of positions to improve. But we'll know soon enough I supposed.

Some poster will make up in his own imagination what someone at the club is doing and dump on him for it.

Richard and Winston "never give up" Churchill can be difficult to tell apart.

I'm glad I didn't see this thread until it was the "revised version." I can only assume the first version was utter nonsense.

I respect your right to post that. Actually, past just being a smart ass reply... of everything I've seen you post here lately. I think I agree more with your thoughts on Gil than anything else you've said. Which proves that your right about him, and wrong on much else. But I respect that.

i'll be shocked if there's any air in this balloon.

Many are saying of potential signings..."And he would be good in the championship." what does that mean? In general, the better the player, the better he would do in any league. Could we then try for Messi because "he would be good in the championship?" I feel confident it means something specific, but also confident that it means something other than just "he's real quality." Does it mean, "I know he's not really good enough for premier league?" Do posters mean "he doesn't mind getting kicked?" Do posters mean, "he doesn't have a big ego?" "If we go down, there's nobody likely to want to take him from us, so we will probably keep him?" I'm kind of inclined to think that "he would be good in the championship" is a bit of an indictment.

I can do math. I have a brain. The smart money would be betting on us to go down. Any other outcome is highly improbable. But I am choosing to irrationally cling to the outside, small possibility that we put a few games together, snatch a couple unbelievable wonders in the transfer window and start to perform as we all would love to watch. Stumbling to survival with a draw on the final day would be dream outcome. Can you just let me dream a bit longer? All those of you who are being merely reasonable, please stop being so damned confident of the virtual inevitable. Hold on to some irrational smidgen of hope with me. It will make me feel much better. Thanks,

I've been simmering on this for a bit. I find it baffling the number of STUPID things our players do. The first obvious example in this match was Bacuna's early throw in to Guzan. WTF? If you have EVER played on a completely waterlogged pitch you know the ball dies on the ground so you do two things. 1) lift the ball off the ground. We have professional footballers who have apparently never played on a giant puddle before!!!! How do you get to their supposed level of skill and not know that? 2) when carrying the ball on that pitch, put your opponent on your back, shielding the ball, and push it along the ground. It won't roll, you'll have to slow down and the defender behind you can't see exactly when i suddenly dies. He WILL bundle you from behind. Take the free kick quickly and put it in the air. The opposition will be slow to get numbers back because of the pitch. I think we only figured that out for one call. Nescastle knew it, used it, and got several simple free kicks. It's just ignorance of basics. (IMO, the pitch is the reason throwing on any player whose game involves keeping the ball on the ground, would have been a mistake.) While we're on the subject of stupid... How does Coloccini get left unmarked? When the extra time is gone and you have a throw in midfield, get the ball in play and attack. Time is up, if possession turns over quickly, the referee will blow it up. Take your chances at one final attack!! i was (and have often been this year) furious at the STUPID on display. I should also say that Brad showed some intelligence punching out some balls that on another day he should have caught. I don't understand players at their supposed level who don't seem to be able to think at a level an old hack like me understands.

Just have a look at the roster.

the funny thing about rubberman's post where he quotes villa89 saying essentially "Yeah, we are down" and sexbelowsound saying "no, we aren't" Is that it sounds just like what's been repeating painfully in my head for the past 5 weeks.

Jack, I agree with you that criticism should be private first and almost always. But, do you think that no manager has told Gabby or CNZ privately in the last 3 years. "I need more effort from you?" or "I need you to be more clinical?" or "I need you to carry the ball into a position that isn't a dead end?" Maybe this is plan B, after plan A has failed multiple times. In which case I'm fine with it. Better a risky plan B than to continue the shite those two have given far too often.

i do not think he should start. But he should come on with 30 minutes or so left if we are 0-1 or drawing. Let him scare the opponent into putting 3 men on him and see if anyone can exploit that space.

Welcome Home, Aly!!!!

Hanoi, we agree more than we disagree. I don't put 100% of the blame on Sherwood either. I just don't think that's what Tom Fox said.

He tries - I like. He 1. lets a forward much more quick than himself have a clear path to the ball. 2. starts with a shoulder just edging walcott and fails to lean him right off the ball (walcott is not a tank) 3. grabs his upper body and tangles his legs from behind at the same time. those combined = extremely stupid defending from a seasoned international. And the call was right, but there was something funny going on in Kevin Friends mind. He as backing out with clear no call body language till well after Guzan was holding the ball and Walcott was up dissenting. Not a delay for possible advantage, since he delayed long past the point that was clear. He either reacted to Walcott or to a voice in his ear. Could have been the 4th because the AR did not appear to make any signal or talk. all that said, I agree he did not hide from the ball afterward, and do give him credit for that.

I disagree that saying.... "The process involved a group with input from all, but final decision with the manager, like most other clubs" is even remotely "to blame everything that's gone wrong on the man they've already sacked while he and Reilly appear to be shouldering none of the blame themselves. " You have set up a false dichotomy that states we can't know who to blame and then lay the lions share at those you see as "responsibility-shirking and laying everything at the doorstep of the guy who can't fight back. To me this is more proof of a disastrous culture behind the scenes at this football club. " I disagree that Tom's statement did that at all. Calling his report "the party line" reveals a bias against what he is stating. I think the report was that Sherwood blamed the others "they forced me to take players I didn't want." I think Fox is saying. "What we did, we did together. He even had a final say." I don't think his statement even asserts anything about the quality of the decisions made. Just the process, about which some (in his view, and according to several of Tim's statements) "false information" has been circulated.

Creative history. if this were the case, rather than just Tim hadn't a clue, explain why Richardson was starting some matches ahead of Amavi BEFORE Amavi's knee was destroyed.

I truly have trouble understanding posters who seem to go out of their way to consistently post negative arguments that we are shit and always will be shit. I find myself liking overly rosy, high confidence posts, not because I think they are any better at foretelling the future, but because they don't require me to up my medications.

The problem with the "plan for the worst" idea is that, in this case, planning for the worst (signing young, eager talent, or signing no-one) virtually guarantees the worst. It pretty much determines that all "hope for the best" is a pipe dream. "Plan for the worst" is, within the limitations of relegation and a limited transfer window, a really BAD plan.

And exactly who did that?

I never claimed to be a good business man, and if you think someone would pay 12 million for Jack right now, you're delusional. He is tested, and has shown no end product. Now, would you like to discuss our relative business acumen, or my point?

I truly think we would be lucky to get 2 million $ for him. He's all art and no product to this point. I think he can be more. But he just hasn't shown it. Ever.