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Cooper is the most realistic, best option for us imo. Farve wouldn’t be a bad shout either, not sure he suits our model though.

Which Ralph isn’t and is why he needs to go. Finding a style which is sustainable means being tactically flexible, by every definition of being sustainable.

Fair enough. Certainly feels like a stick or twist moment for the club. Stick with Ralph and potentially waste another summer buying players to suit his style / formation, or give the new man a summer to build a squad in a similar way to Vieria at Palace. Either way; a huge summer for the club. A lot we need to shift and a lot we need to buy.

I assume in that case Burnley’s confidence must be rock bottom after taking a bit of pasting from Villa, so they’re not picking up 6 points from Tottenham, Villa and Newcastle.

He’s had 3 years to find and refine a style which suits us and is sustainable across 38 games. If he’s not learned already, then I really fear he never will. We’re never going to be a club who will go out and buy 10/11 players to suit the managers style. A good manager will adapt his style to suit his squad. From what I’ve seen, I don’t think Ralph is capable of doing that.

I’m imagining it… and they’ll still need to win at least 1 more game and get a draw in the other to go above us. In the unlikely event they put a run of wins together, which hasn’t happened all season, Burnley and Everton (more likely as they have good players), would still need to pick up 2 results for us to drop. It’s not happening. We’re safe. there’s a strong chance we could finish 16th worse case 17th, but we’re safe… for now.

Being away from him for a short period of time will probably do them a favour.

The same could be said about Ralph. because he followed to clowns, some people seem to hold him in god like status blaming pretty much anyone but him.

End of season form under Ralph for the past 2 years?

We need someone proven at this level. Been there and done it on a tight budget who can sort us out defensively. Personally I only see one man for for the job…. Puel

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Oh I agree. I think we’ve always been shit defensively. We’ve literally lost 9-0 2 seasons on the bounce and we’re lucky to avoid it this season. When Broja stopped playing well and causing the other team problems, we literally have fuck all about us other than a JWP free kick.

Broja stopped playijg well.

Ralph can’t set a team up to be solid and grind out results consistently. We’ve had him for 3 years and never seen a sniff of him being able to.

Probably a bit of brilliance from an individual and Ralph making some decent changes. Which is why it won’t happen.

Aye? What relevance has that got on who Ralph selects? Reality is, Broja and Armstrong are both better than Long.

Hipsters dream

Depends on how much they’re willing to spend and who they buy. Spunking money left right and Center Didn’t work for Parker last time so You’d think he learn a bit. I like Parker, but think championship is his level. Seems very 1 dimensional

Agreed. Thought first half they were on top though. credit to Parker, whatever he done at half time has worked a treat.

Not watching, but not surprised. Shit defender.

Bournemouth and Fulham won’t be push overs next season. Neither will forest should they come up via the play offs.

I know there have been many, endless, ongoing debates around Broja. However, if he had tadic behind him, he’d have scored a shit load more goals. Imo of course. For me our 10’s (or lack of) is the biggest issue in our squad. We simply have no creativity.

Pretty much how I see it. I think Leeds are gone.

He’s not wrong though, we are/we’re an established premier league team. When Ralph leaves, In the main he’ll be remembered for 2 9-0 defeats, not that we finished a couple of places outside the drop zone.