Charlie Wayman

The mistake Bournemouth made was to concentrate on trying to disrupt our play by early pressing rather than concentrate on their own game. Sadly for them they were not good enough or fast enough to do it, at times our slick, fast inter-change passing left them struggling and frequently hopelessly out of shape. What was good is the way we responded to their naivety by then attacking the gaps in their shape and for once finishing clinically helped of course by Bournemouth giving us space and time. Great win and on to the next hurdle. It is likely we will face PL opposition and a team that knows better how to deal with our tactics but with Ings & Walcott back we should still be able to give a good account of ourselves especially if our automatism is on an upward trajectory that seemingly was rediscovered on the training ground last week. I have been a critic of Redmond, not because of any lack of ability on his part but for his inability to focus and concentrate completely on the game in a single minded way. In the days when we were able to watch games, there were often times during warm ups when he really wasn't putting the effort into exercising properly, giving the impression of just mucking around. He seems to be easily distracted (as indeed we saw in his post match interview yesterday). If he can concentrate on his game 100% for 90 minutes than as we saw yesterday he can be quite the player, so let's hope he can keep it up.

Is this a new English language?

Not exactly Hasenhüttl putting it all out there, these are the only fit players there are so basically it's Hobson's Choice or The Team Picks Itself.

Agree, Reed was playing well, very much in the mold of JWP. Shame he was sacrificed for a forward but by that time Parker had few options but to go for it. I thought Lemina played quite well also but he seems to have had a conflicted role between DMF and AMF which makes it harder to read his game. he is though a vastly better and more consistent player than he was at Saints. I know it will open a can of worms but will he be one of the squad boosting players that Hasenhüttl will look at again in the summer? There is a half decent footballer in there somewhere and as he matures and knuckles down there might yet be a happier ending to his time here. Then again the lure of London might prove too great.

Shame on you! Nigel Adkins was one of the best manager we've ever had and one of the nicest blokes in football. He transformed the atmosphere at our club before the Poch arrived. Your demeaning put downs are unworthy of the debt we owe him and unworthy of you. All real fans will wish him well and be hoping that he can revitalise the once great club that is Charlton Athletic.

I don't remember anybody saying that, when was that?

Wow! You admired a bloke who was acting like a hooligan?

That's the Spirit. Better still, why don't we refuse to travel as its outside our lock down area and concede the match.

Context my child, context!

Not daft, essential. He's run his course as a magician, there is nothing left up his sleeve or under his hat. Reality has trumped hope, the cupboard is bare. Just suppose we could get Pochettino back or failing that Benitez, what would you say then?

Thanks a bunch Ralph, please just leave. Abysmal reaction, laughable performance. Even the commentators couldn't be bothered to mention us as we were so useless.

Team selection, tactics, demeanour after a thrashing, take your pick but be careful with the insults please.

After the last match fiasco I am not hoping or expecting a 2 or 3 - 0 win today but Demanding it. You owe us this one Ralph.

Let's try this the other way around. Who has never been a scapegoat? Lambert Sydenham Moran

Right now I think they might want to disassociate themselves from us as much as possible. Not sure we are quite in the position of looking down on them metaphorically in the way you seem to do.

.........but where are the results? Only results count.

It still shocks me how many of our fans are still trying to defend the indefensible. Any other club would have ditched Hasenhüttl long ago. The very fact that he smiles and joshes his way through humiliations and spends much time ingratiating himself with top club managers tells us all we ned to know. He is so deeply entrenched in Saints management set-up that he senses he is fireproof, Semmens can't boot him out simply because they are in this together right up to the neck. The one unknown factor is Gao. Why hasn't he intervened yet? That's the question.

What the heck was Hasenhüttl doing at the end of the match ingratiating himself with Guardiola. He should have been angry and spitting blood and bawling at idiots like Stephens and Adams for making costly mistakes, not smiling and behaving as though he had been a very good boy and needed praise from the All High Priest of World Football. If you're a Saint Ralph than act like one. We don't do crumbs from the table of arrogant twits. Grow some will you for goodness sake. It is not OK to smile and fawn when your team has just been thrashed 5-2 and made to look like chumps. Guardiola succeeds because he has hundreds of zillions of ackers to buy the best players in the world not because he is some kind of over-arching Authority who must not be challenged. All the time you hold these people in such high esteem you will always be in awe and never be able to challenge them.

In fairness it was the word 'pal' that he objected to and where it was placed in your sentence. He read it quite reasonably as sarcasm and a put down.

Bizarre from beginning to end. Angry, frustrated and thoroughly disillusioned yet again. Half their best XI rested, never needing to get out of 3rd gear and yet they score at will and win at a canter. Where is the satisfaction of surviving in this league by being only slightly better over a season than the three relegated teams?

Popularity has little to do with management ability. Bielsa is about as lovable and communicative as a grizzly bear in a bad mood yet Leeds fans adore him.

None of this adds up to a row of beans. Effectiveness and success are measured by results and points on the board.

Not at all. Ralph has suffered two 9-0 defeats no way will his CV stand another. He has no option but to play his strongest team and go for it, This will not be the time for pointless experiments, he doesn't think like that at all.

One suspects that the London Life suits him rather more than the sylvan glades of the New Forest. If he is happier and more settled there and that is reflected in greater dedication to his trade and improved performance then we should all rejoice for him. In which case why on earth would he want to come back to this sleepy backwater.

We're not in the Championship thanks to Mark Hughes. Hasenhüttl was fully aware of the situation when he came here and also when he signed an extension to his contract so to imply that he is a great manager dealt a rotten hand by the club is just fantasy. He is being judged on his merits; if you think that a 33% win ratio this season is a satisfactory metric then nobody will ever change your thinking but don't slag off people who have a different view and who expected and demand more.