Dman

The Eddie Howe stuff is 100% true. We had him all lined up, we pulled out last minute and stuck with Ralph. I think if I remember rightly we had a slight uplift in form. He then went to Newcastle and the rest is obviously history. To be honest, I’m still amazed it never happened, but things change quickly in football.

Correct. The players are a bunch of cowards and deserve relegation on their CV. However; in this case, they’re not to blame. Jones is so far out of his depth it’s untrue.

If this is true (it’s been pinched from twitter so a grain of salt), and we’re appointing managers based on this ridiculous logic, then I think I’d rather Le Tiss running the national vaccine roll out than have these 2 fucking morons running our club.

He’s on over a 100k a week. Even if the transfer fee is reduced, it’s not a cheap deal and his minimal output doesn’t warrant the outlay.

Possibly explains their desire to be a profitable club, rather than ambition to succeed..?

Where does he go? Other than maybe one of the promoted sides, I don’t see another team in which he starts in the PL. Very average player.

Rasmus Ankersen.

I don’t actually think it would have. We’d have gone into our shell inviting pressure and ultimately still had Lyanco on the pitch making simple 5 year old mistakes and no plan to actually attack other than long ball. Under Ralph, at times, we can blame Che for missing chances costing us games as we had spells where we looked okay, just not for 90 minutes. Under Jones we don’t even have 5 minutes where we look like scoring.

It’d be a way to win the fans over though. It’s toxic at the minute, everyone’s getting it. If they were to come out and say “we got it wrong, we liked Jones for XYZ we think he’ll succeed elsewhere, but not here at this time” I think they’d gain a large amount of respect from the fans. The trouble is, Jones wasn’t wanted by anyone to start with. It was underwhelming and had an upwards battle from day 1, had we brought a preferred ‘bigger’ name and had the same results, j suspect reaction wouldn’t be as strong. That being said, the football has been so bad it’s beyond belief, it genuinely looks like 11 men who don’t train together being thrown out with no instructions. the confidence fall out from this spell is going to take a long, long time to recover from.

Much like it was obvious Ralph’s time was up last season (arguably before), it’s obvious that Jones won’t work. We have a habit of being too loyal to people and clinging on for too long.

It’s not too late, we’re in the gutter, but we have a window to strengthen and it’s a piss poor league. 1. we need to sack Jones before the next PL game. 2. bring someone on who is either proven at this level for a short term (18m contract), Dyce, Big Sam, Rafa. Or someone with a decent style of play (longer term) for us to get an identity again. 3. spent money, big money. it has to be all 3 of the above or we’ll be fucked. Even in the championship.

I’m not Che’s biggest fan and I think he’s a large reason why we’re gonna go down, his composure in front of goal is beyond pathetic. However; you could stick Haaland up top and he’d struggle in this style. What’s the poor bloke expected to do when he’s getting long diagonal punts going over his head all game.

At Brentford he wasn’t the main main. Benham is/was. Brentford fans said this at the time and since he’s gone, they’ve gone from strength to strength. no doubt he’s a very intelligent bloke and tbh, I brought his bullshit, but he’s clueless about football and is going to ruin this club with his wild theories.

Tbf, those data nerds don’t have a fucking clue. We had idiots on here claiming Adam Armstrong was a better striker with more potential than Broja, because of his stats or something. Data can be useful, but as said time and time again, it needs to be used alongside proper scouting.

Spot on. I really don’t like or support the personal insults towards Jones. His style of play is horrific & he is extremely limited as a tactician, however that’s not his fault and it’s what has worked for him at Luton. His time at Stoke was a huge concern and we’ve come to see exactly why it didn’t work for him there. Had he replaced Dyce at Burnley maybe it’d have been different for him. I can only assume SR thought he could add some aggression to our side, but we don’t have the squad for it and buying a load of 18 year olds isn’t going to help that. By the week the appointment looks more baffling.

Be amazed if we get 5 points in our remaining games, it’s that bad.

For his own sake, yes. I genuinely feel for the bloke and his family. It’d been great had it worked, but it’s so bloody obvious it won’t. No hard feelings, move on before it becomes branfoot level of toxic.

Why did Crocker walk? the only football man we had at the club. absolute shit show if a club at the minute.

Their model of low risk (cheap) high reward (profit) is much easier to implement in the championship than it is the PL. Even as a championship club, we’ll still be the ‘richest’ club in their pathetic portfolio.

Both needed to go and both needed to go sooner than they did. It’s the replacement that’s the problem. Semmens hand picked SR. SR hand picked Jones. both terrible decisions for the club.

Rubbish. For us, we had a big spend window and replaced all of his backroom staff.

Agreed. Shouldn’t get personal Towards Jones, it’s not his fault. He should never have been appointed in the first place.

This is on Rasmus Ankerson & Martin Semmens. Clear them both out. Get a new man in Dragan before it’s too late.

Fantastic. The light show really got people going.

I think Nige is a L1 manager at best, but it’s that bad at the minute I think I’d actually rather him. We’re down anyway, so why not hey! Throw the spainish assistant fella in the mix as well. See what he can do.