MrSmirch

2 hours ago, foreveryoung said:

That's just laughable.

When you start to look at his stats, if he wasn't a 'name' he would have gone last season, they are just awful.

Yep. I would’ve sacked him after losing 4 or 5 in a row last season. Clearly wasn’t working then. So much money and time down the shit pipe.

5 minutes ago, Tomaszk said:

I'm worried he'll want Dyche.

I’d be pretty interested to see what Dyche could do with these players, he got a lot out of very little at Burnley. 

3 hours ago, rodders0223 said:

Bide your time lad. Pretty soon we will have a manager that promotes passing and movement over fat lads who pump their fists.

Post of the year.

Is he actually good? 

3 minutes ago, Tomaszk said:

I hope he does walk.

Because when we want to sack him it will cost us around £20m to get rid of him and his back room clowns.

Hall of fame stuff that post you quoted. 

Dreadful in every sense. The whole coaching team needs replacing. 

4 minutes ago, a m ole said:

Smith made some average players look alright. Under Gerrard we have good players who look atrocious.

Spot on.

The standards have really gone up under Gerrard.

35 minutes ago, Rustibrooks said:

Fekir? RDT?

Isak.

Shades of Froch Groves. 

This will be funny in a depressing way.

1 hour ago, Don_Simon said:

I didn't think it was possible to pick a team worse than last Saturday.

Congrats.

That team shits in your teams hat.

Martinez,

KKH, Chambers, Mings, Digne,

Buendia, Sanson, Kamara, Ramsey

Bailey Archer

16 hours ago, Davkaus said:

Too much time on my hands but people were talking about PPG, and arbitrary cut off times around the honeymoon/from January onwards, I was curious about what it looked like throughout last season

Maybe I haven’t read enough Athletic articles but that doesn’t look like improvement.

5 hours ago, Enda said:

Smith was sacked for losing five in a row, having finished 11th the season before.

It’s not unreasonable to question Gerrard who’s won two in twelve (or whatever it is) and finishes 14th.

Hope he turns it around. I don’t think he will.

Stevie G’s already lost 5 a in a row. Goes under the radar. Winning mentality. Standards have gone up though. Talks well. Elevated the club. Managed to bring Philppe “Albatross” Coutinho to the club. 

4 minutes ago, a m ole said:

Yes Gerrard but is it OK to ask what the **** Aaron Danks is doing at Bodymoor? We’ve been shit ever since he was given to Deano.

Yep, the whole backroom needs to go, they’ve accomplished nothing.

On 05/08/2022 at 13:24, TRO said:

If we finsh 16th.....He will walk, he wouldn't need the sack.

The biggest driving force behind SG, is himself....If he can't achieve what he wants to achieve, he won't hang around.

He knows where he wants to go with us, and he will take us there kicking and screaming, if he has to.

My only concern, or doubt is.......can we stand up to the bullies, can we negate the Press, can we circumnavigate teams who just want to disrupt, or negate our talent.

I don't know the answer to that just yet.

This squad of ours has loads of talent, thats not my concern......but are they able to let that talent shine, I am yet to find out.

I think Bournemouth WILL be a hard game.

I think theres a couple more points to add your “only concern”

3 minutes ago, Spoony said:

He’s basically riding the wave of being a great footballer and being reasonably good looking. That’s it. There is nothing more to him. 

The geriatrics will also tell you “he speaks so well”

The standards have gone up and players definitely know what the plan is.

We can’t expect to beat newly promoted teams, far too difficult. We need another pre season, another January window and another summer transfer window before we can judge Gerrard.

There are humans with brains who think coutinho is better than Buendia.

The standards have really gone up under Gerrard. And we play with such a distinct style. 

I can’t believe a propa pre season hasn’t turned us into a good team.