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Probably not, he’ll likely hold out for something bigger, which IMO I doubt will come.

Rodgers is a bigger name than Ralph and arguably (definitely imo) a better manager. more potential as in an owner who’s willing to invest more in the squad and a squad who’s more likely to have a chance of Europe than us. They have the opportunity to compete and win a trophy. We don’t. Surely it’s not even a debate that Leicester are a more attractive club than us at the minute. FWIW, I’d also say West Ham, Villa and wolves are also a more attractive option than us.

Better manager, more money, more potential…. I’d jump at the chance to go there if I was him.

Poch took over us after he was sacked for being bottom of the league with Espanyol. He’s about to get the boot from PSG as well. He’s Never won anything of note and somehow managed to come second in a 1 horse race in France… and that ignoring the league they threw away at tottenham. Assume you’d group him as a competent manager as well.

Only if those players signed are young, hungry and therefore guaranteed to improve. Or Chris Wood.

It’s not though. Injuries cause over compensation which increase the risk of an injury to the other leg. I do agree it’s bad luck, but running the kid into the ground with a known injury would not have helped.

I’ll be amazed if he comes back the same player. His game is built on pace and explosiveness, 8 months out with a really serious injury I’ll no doubt impact that, as it did Jay-Rod. Fingers crossed for the lad.

It’s pretty common knowledge that if you suffer an injury to 1 leg, it increases the risk of an injury to the other due to over compensation and all that. If I know that, I’d like to think medical professionals and a football manager would as well. Which I suspect they did, given they were annoyed about him playing for England U-21’s (and then played him like 3 days later lol).

Yep, spot on. Very poor management by Ralph and the medical Staff. The lad has been ran into the ground.

he’s obviously a bitter man and on a huge wind up, but In fairness, he’s not wrong here. Leicester and Newcastle would be a step up from us. If he wants to cement himself as an England regular, he does need to be competing at the top level (I.e in Europe) and we have been on a downward spiral since koeman.

More than likely out of reach by then if their improvement trend continues at this rate.

We missed the boat not getting Eddie Howe when we had the chance.

Twar has been quiet the past few days….

Welcome, Henri. Just a couple of questions to understand your place on the forum. First question, what is your knowledge of xG. Second, have you ever lived in Glasgow or Kenya?

Only probably Tarkowski himself.

What a load of bollox…. From the person who didn’t obviously read the post. As I said, after his initial bounce when he came in (I.e we improved on Hughes, but haven’t since then).

To be fair, from what I’ve seen this season, it seems to be Romeu who is the more advanced of the 2, in what I’d call a traditional ‘box to box’ type role, when we attack (similar to Sunday), with prowsey sitting a little deeper. Im sure there is a heat map which will prove that to be wrong, but that was my observations from the games I’ve been to this season. how can I check this @TWar probably partly explains why we’re seemingly so easy to counter against. I dont really rate him as a manager, but for me, prowse would develop really well under the guidance of someone like Lampard who was the king of arrive late from deep and scoring goals.

Agree. As much as I’ve given him shit and was unhappy at our form the back end of last season, I kinda deep down, accepted that we had a rotten run of injuries which would have contributed to that. A year on, we’re seeing the exact same issues. He’s been here what, 3 1/2 years now and I honestly don’t think we’ve seen an improvement in the side, post his initial 6month bounce. If anything, I think we’re arguably getting worse.

You made a fairly decent point to be fair mate and as you said, all that matters at the end of the day is the result. Sunday and last Saturday being an example of that, not playing all that well but doing what’s needed to get a result of some kind. for me, I think a one off heavy defeat (however bad it may be) could be put down to a bit of bad luck or just being off on the night, but for it to happen 3 times now (including Chelsea as I honestly think we were lucky to only concede 6), suggest there is a fundamental issue somewhere.

If it was a one off, you could probably brush it under the carpet a little easier. However these performances and these poor runs seemingly happen every single season. We’ve shipped 9 in consecutive seasons and if we’re all honest, we’re extremely fortunate that Chelsea didn’t do the same again this season. A lot of head in sand with your above comment there.

They’ll still come straight back because of the squad they have. Then if they sell any, they’ll be able to replace them within the restraints of FFP. I still think they’ll have just enough to stay up anyway

Pretty damming assessment of Armstrong if Ralph gets a feeling that Long is a better option than him (despite seemingly training all week as if he was going to start).

Looks like it was Tino, rather than Ralph, who inspired the players 😉 A shame it took an injury to a young kid and they couldn’t find the same desire when 3/4-0 down against Leicester, United and Chelsea in recent years. Might have saved a shit load of embarrassment….

Trent looking out his depth again defensively. Gordon has him on toast.

Oh you’ve got me, 85% then.