KitKat

It SOUNDS awful but if you imagine describing any of our games to a blind person they're probably all like this and we just don't realise!

I'll be the first to admit I don't really know what his role is supposed to be, only guessing based on his reported background, but I definitely think we should hear less from him now. I don't think I've spoken to or heard from anyone who is impressed with anything that he has said... A generous velvet glove for **** sake.

Is Pro-Garde some kind of mouth wash?

To be fair I remember Browns fans coating Lerner off, not that has any bearing on our managerial appointments. I doubt Randy had much to do with it. On topic however I can understand the frustration boiling over a bit in the match thread but people calling Garde a prick etc really is a bit much.

Thought their goal was very fortuitous how it fell to Ighalo, but ultimately we make our own luck and Richards header looked offside. Definitely the better team but clearly low on confidence, we need to get another couple here to settle our nerves and rebuild some belief!

Oh never mind.

If we make it to HT like this at least there is still 45 to play and we will definitely change it up a bit. If we still had Tim even that wouldn't be likely (the changing it up, not the additional half lol)

Amavi injury really hasn't helped us.

A good 45. Repeat that and it's a respectable result, but more importantly we've been working hard and playing fairly well. Stamina is going to come in to play this half and that's probably not something we can expect to have improved on within a week.

Me likey

I genuinely think I would have done better than Clark there, and I've not played football for about a decade.

This guy needs to be the right appointment and hit the ground running. Hope he doesn't turn out to be the right man at the wrong time, but I can't help but feel like there would be a lot more optimism if his first task here, aside from adapting to the league, wasn't to save us from relegation. The only positive to the season so far is not being bummed too hard in any of our losses, so we've got that going for us, let's see if Remi can put some points on the board! There is a lot of football to be played yet and a transfer window so we're not completely without hope.

He'd claim it was only 20p though.

I wouldn't mind Houllier involved in some, hopefully low stress, capacity. Maybe not on the coaching side but he's been around the block and the club does seem to need more "football" men. Whether or not there is actually a role for him is another thing entirely obviously.

I've just been reminded seeing Bertrand doing quite well for Southampton, and a few other of our ex players playing for teams doing better than us - if we get a managerial appointment right for once we should rightly be optimistic. We've got some exciting talent at the minute most of which are under performing. It's not going to be easy for whoever we get and I'm not one for the "anyone could do better" approach, but if we get it right we deserve a bit of excitement!

We gotta get this one right. We survived off the back of the new manager bounce last year, but whoever comes in this time has to turn our season around and sustain it to see out the season. I think everyone feels that the players are capable of more than they've shown and under the right management we should definitely be able to achieve safety. I also think it's important that whoever comes in gets the chance to fill a couple of the holes in the squad with their own signings. No idea on suggesting who it should be but I would be happy with Moyes, slightly less so with Rodgers. No idea if they're likely at all as we've become a bit of a poisoned chalice. Both of those two guys have a reputation to rebuild, similarly to the club.

The Tim Sherwood experiment is surely finally over now. A lot of hard work to stay up this season now and if the ball isn't already rolling on a new manager coming in then we are as big a shambles as many people fear. Some positives on display but worth absolutely nothing as we fail to avoid defeat again.

Can't pin this one on the manager, I don't think. I've been more critical of Tim than I was of Lambert but I think we looked OK today. A lot of that has to do with Chelsea not firing recently and a couple of their big players sitting out but the players at least looked more committed, and the system we employed being half decent for once. Special shout out to that turd of a ref as well, probably inconsequential on the result overall but what a complete **** clown he was.

Guzan and Lescott combine to completely **** us.

Really worried now, Sunderland were one of the teams we were relying on being worse than us and their chances just got a lot better. I'm not gutted we've not got him as much as I am worried they have... How is it possible to be in this horrible position so early in the season?! Just to add as well, there are so many shit aspects as to why were in this position! Nothing is going our way and we don't even have the "it will be OK when Benteke starts firing" ace that we've been able to play in previous seasons. It might even be too late for Randy to splash the cash in Jan a la the Bent purchase too!

Read the articles on the Mail with quotes from Tim. While he can spin a good yarn and give some convincing sound bytes I just cannot get away from the fact that everything he has done this season has been at best naive and at worst sabotage.

I think I'd need to leave my optimist hat on to be able to answer.

Optimist hat on here, we went 2 very long spells under Lambert last season where we picked up absolutely no points at all. It is still very early in the season, so a couple of wins will change things. The players are definitely better than they're showing, so with a bit of confidence, who knows!

(Beyond) time to get rid. Consistently failing to get anything right.

Criminally mismanaged in his time here so far.