WestMidSaint

Goal looked disappointing from my position in the Upper Holte. Couldn’t see which of the CBs it was but one has gone over and basically got in the way of the other, whilst leaving an ocean of space in the middle. Keeper was also out of position neither defending his goal deep or ever likely to get close enough to make a block or smother.

That could easily have been 9

I couldn’t believe how bad their 3 goals were. Downes losing the ball like that is criminal. Sugawara I think it was for the 2nd who could’ve had an entire marching band behind him for their second and he still wouldn’t have known given he didn’t check his shoulder once. Then the “assist” for their 3rd just to finish things off!!!😡

2 Points: Firstly, a friend made a good point the other day. It’s an established fact that as you go up the football pyramid, the higher you get, the less chances a striker needs to score on a like for like basis. Against this defence and this set up, championship strikers would need say 3-4 chances and they would score. In the prem, we’ve got essentially the same defence and style, but now the strikers only need 1-2 chances. It’s therefore obvious we will be punished loads more, yet he still walks blindly into the problem. All against the backdrop of the fact we already conceded a fair number last season and did struggle with errors. Secondly, I keep wondering whether there’s more to his instance about playing out then just the results??? If you think about it, Kompany stuck to his guns, got Burnley relegated and then was rewarded with the Bayern job. Would he have got that if he’d gone pragmatic and tried to carve out results? It’s impossible to know whether Burnley would’ve stayed up and whether VK would’ve got the job. I do though wonder whether this is RM’s attempt at insulting himself from our relegation?? Perhaps he’s resigned to us going down and looking to ensure that he comes out of it with some credit (not that he should) and for us, what will be will be??

That’s exactly the way I fear our season could go. Looked really good for most of the game, but if we play risk at the back we’ll get found out. Also, not enough upfront

If he doesn’t get us up this season he’s failed. Simple. Even if we get playoffs and go up then he’s only scraped it. If we don’t go up the difference in the team this year and next year will be stark, which makes it even more vital. Problem is, he seems to absolutely love himself. I can stand that when we’re winning, but when we’re in poor form and he’s doing things we all consider poor (team selection, tactics, interviews etc) it’s just that much more annoying. Hard to see how we get promoted from here

So soft and embarrassing. Pathetic goal from the giveaway of possession to the useless bazunu. guarantee if it was us wining the ball from a loose pass, we’d never have countered with that pace and aggression

Yes, but that’s presumably not what he was hired for. I assume the brief he was given was top 2, not the lottery of play offs. That’s 11 points off and even the biggest optimist would surely struggle to make a case for us catching up.

You’re right about not bringing sanctions against the team. I’m just being facetious with the “kicked out the league” 😂.

“Hope you die soon” was the headline at the time. Imagine that in today’s world

It’s been mentioned above, but I think it’s such a shame everyone at the club gets off so light for such a longtime. Teams like West Ham and Newcastle have made so much noise in the past and put so much pressure on the managers and owners. In Europe the fans go nuts at everyone when they aren’t happy. The players, manager and board should all be given a far tougher time. “Players are acutely aware of negativity…” GOOD. Surely they can’t think it’s acceptable what they’ve produced. If (when) we lose again at the weekend, I really hope the pressure is ratcheted up on the board. What I’d give for some old Dell fever and passion. I know things did go a bit far with the Branfoot protests (by today’s standards we’d probably be kicked out the league!!!), but at least there was some proper passion and noise.

Last season we were relegated because the board made bad decisions and then were far to slow to rectify them. This season they’ve made yet another bad decision. I hope they’ll act quickly before too much damage is done, but I don’t think they will. This joker should never have been hired. He didn’t have the credentials for the job. Now he’s shown he isn’t up to it they need to act quickly. My fear is that after they don’t, we’ll be left in a position where we finish lower mid table. We will then have the problem of not coming up quick enough whilst there’s still some money and before you know it, we’re stuck in the lower reaches. As we’ve seen before, you then run the risk of being dragged down again

Wouldn’t give him that long

Truly pathetic debut. No one should write him off based on 1 game, but many more like that and he’ll have a tough job convincing anyone. Mind boggling how bad he was

I’ve said it before, but Swansea fans we met on holiday immediately sited his teams pathetic defending as a major problem. This was from season ticket holders at Swansea. They said he’d actually cost them the play offs with it. Commentator said the top 6 last season all had the 6th best defensive records. If we’re non in that group we have zero chance of top 2 and will be making top 6 a difficult thing to achieve