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This springs to mind for me as well, the timing of it makes it even better. Or obviously one of MLT’s. His Second v Norwich or the free-kick v Wimbledon. I swear it was during that Bolton game when MLT tried to score direct from kick-off. Someone tapped it to him and he shot from the centre circle and the keeper only just managed to tip it over. One of the many insane MLT moments of skill that, whilst didn’t end up being a goal we’re worth the entrance fee alone.

What a bunch of wankers. Why wait until the last minute? To be fair, anyone who goes to that shit hole and buys into this thing deserves to have a rubbish time.

I'm not sure it was Ralph's choice to buy a bunch of kids in the summer.

Not sure what Italia 90 changed, we've spent the following 32 years winning fuck all, usually by being dumped out on penalties.

London now been overtaken by Paris as the most valuable European Stock market. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63623502 “The combined value of British shares is now around $2.821 trillion (£2.3 trillion), while France's are worth around $2.823 trillion, Bloomberg calculates. It marks a huge reversal of fortunes for the London Stock Exchange, which was worth about $1.4 trillion more than its Parisian rival back in 2016.“ Are these the Sunny uplands the conservatives promised us?

It does look like it's going to be a tough ask to stay up this season, not signing a decent striker has been the biggest issue and it's going to be even harder to attract one in January now. I don't think hiring a manager who's a rookie at this level will help either, might have had a better chance keeping Ralph IMO. Keeping us up would be a hard job for a decent manager with experience let alone someone on a learning curve.

He comes across well in the post match interview, hopefully he is exactly what we need. It all hinges on who we can bring in in January, a decent striker or two and we have the makings of a side that should stay up comfortably.

I get the feeling it’s either going to be a genius appointment or a spectacular failure, if I had to put my house on it I would say the later but what do I know, I thought Poch would be a disaster.

JWP will be better off out of it. It's going to be a shit World Cup and England don't have a chance. I really don't see the point in taking Phillips, he's barely kicked a ball this season so even if he's fit he won't be up to speed.

Especially considering there is a fair chance he will be available again by next March.

That’s fucking schoolboy defending.

I clicked no. He may turn out to be a genius appointment but it just seems to be a pointless gamble to me. For me our best Premier League managers have been Koeman, Poch, Strachan and Hoddle, all of them have played and/or managed at the highest level. It's obviously not a necessity for a manager but it helps. We have a Rookie in goal and probably the youngest back four in the league, we need a manager with some top-level knowhow IMO. There is no wriggle room for a gaffer on a learning curve. I will happily be proven wrong. Jones does seem to be a bit of a character so if he gets the players onside and has some good ideas they buy into it may work.

Maybe when we speak to him we will just be asking him if he knows anyone who would be a decent Premier League manager?

The guy said he didn’t have money to spend, regardless of what their set up was that doesn’t seem to be the case. That was my point you thick gammon twat. A Stoke fans view from their forum: His disastrous tactics and his disastrous signings was the reason it went so disastrously wrong when he was here. He was backed and financed to the hilt by the board

He signed 10 players during his one summer at Stoke.

They probably will get on their high horse because even our shittest players have more experience at the top level than he has. It doesn’t mean he won’t be a success but it just makes his job harder. Howe took Bournemouth up so earned his position in the Prem and Potter had success in Europe so both could speak with some amount of authority. Hopefully he is a talented manager and he will be a success but it is a massive gamble, smacks of trying to be too clever.

Why would that be a good thing?

Wish him well if he gets the job but I don’t hold out much hope. I think with the youngsters we have, the first thing we needed was a manager with some top level experience. Jones hasn’t even played to a high level let alone managed at anywhere near where we are. Massive gamble.

Hopefully Jones will have an assistant who knows what the inside of a Premier League dressing room looks like.

I'd be happier if he had achieved anything above Championship level. Anything.

Like the decision to not bother signing a striker in the summer?

Nathan Jones would be one hell of a gamble, especially considering he couldn’t even hack it at Stoke.

This. I hope I’m proven wrong but I can’t see any manager making our forwards good enough. Che and Armstrong are Championship strikers, Walcott would struggle in the Championship and the French kid is nowhere near ready.

I expect Semmens will get the bullet as well which probably accounts for the delay in making a change. Use the break for the World Cup for a complete refresh.

Fuck me, we can’t even win a fight in our own home end.