James

ABK our best defender at Chelsea and dropped. Could not make it up.

There was one point in the second half yesterday where THB was in midfield trying to win the ball back from a Chelsea player. Even once it was clear he wouldn’t be successful in winning it back he loitered around for a bit before returning to his actual position, by which point I think it had gone out for a goal kick. My question is why is that sort of thing happening - either it’s the tactics which are quite clearly insane if those are the instructions or it’s a lack of effort because the players can’t be arsed to shift it to get back into shape from being out of position. I’d love to know the answer…

Honestly, what is the point in the rest of this season? We are useless.

Pretty happy with this. Like the sound of him not taking any shit, focus on running, pressing, solidity etc. Not an impulse appointment as someone SR has tracked for a while. If it goes well then we have our guy either in the Prem or the Championship (if he improves us but too much to do in the time) and if not we get a Rohl or Corberan in the summer. It’s a fairly unenviable situation here so fair play to him for agreeing to take it on. Best of luck.

Rohl is a good choice. Happy with him if it’s true.

This is unacceptable. Absolutely gutless. Martin should be ashamed.

Can we sack him at half time?

We are the laughing stock of the league. Sad thing is the Board don’t even care. Don’t want Russ next season, will be too poisonous. Need to change this.

If the officials can’t implement it properly it should be scrapped. It’s utter rubbish in its current form.

Ref not being particularly even handed. Mitoma has committed multiple fouls with no booking.

Awful from Stephens for the goal.

Big Paul Is making a huge difference here. Has given Arma and Dibling a focal point to run off.

Exactly. The debate at his point is not whether we will go down but whether we will beat the lowest amount of points in a PL season ever. Any board that is happy with that outcome isn’t one I want in charge of my club.

No team is owed anything but we are on course to barely better the record lowest points total of any team in the Premier League ever. Don’t think it’s unreasonable to be expecting better than that.

Lallana starts, good but why not use him in the more winnable game? Aribo doesn’t deserve to be dropped, bizarre decision that.

Here we go.

Archer!!

Don’t really get the team. Where is Manning playing? Seems unbalanced. Shame no start for TP after a very decent cameo.

Defensively all over the place here.

But he is a leader or something. The guy is crap, not PL standard. End of.

And there we go. Fuck off Archer, that was inexcusable and changed the game. Where was BBD for the pen?!

I hope that the plan is not to sign a right winger and play AA through the middle. The games when we played without Che and played AA through the middle didn’t always go to plan in the Championship…

As good as Fernandes may be I cannot fathom why we spent £15m on him when we clearly have no cash. For the price of him and Archer we could have had a go at a decent striker. God knows how we’ve ended up with Yuri Alberto on loan as the great hope.

I suspect the fact we are going for Alberto is because Corinthians are willing to do a loan deal. Genuinely can’t see any other reason for it as he looks, at best, bang average. Would rather get Josh Sargent or someone of that ilk. We’ve really had to do things on a shoe string this summer haven’t we? The places where we’ve spent our money are, with hindsight, a little odd.

Josh Sargent Evan Ferguson (loan) Eddie Nketieh (loan) We need a focal point relatively urgently or we are done. If we can afford a striker then let’s get Fraser and play BBD centrally. Stewart would be decent but he’s never fit and has barely played a minute for us. God we’ve really been fucked by signing him. What is it with SR and strikers?!