StrangelyBrown

How many of our players would you want in our squad?

MLG schooled by his own methods.

I'm with you on the relegation squad. We didn't always look completely convincing last year in the championship and we've barely improved upon that team. There is a huge gulf in quality between the leagues so it's no wonder we're struggling.

Time will tell, his early CV is good albeit he didn't stick around anywhere for very long, but his time with 777 partners is nothing to get tremendously excited about, they gambled on him bringing success through a multi club moneyball project (sound familiar ???) and it failed, but then they've had other problems to contend with.

I'm not sure why Spors was bought in at all - he hasn't exactly worked miracles in his previous role and right now we need something better than more mediocrity. I just hope something happens that will change our trajectory, but we seem to be making poor decision after poor decision and there really is no clear plan.

Unbelievable that they've managed to find someone else who rates Smallbone - the odds must have been 1000000/1.

Do you think we haven't got to sell to make up the shortfall of revenue resulting from relegation (last I knew this was between £100m and £150m)? We may buy some players, but we haven't got the same level of saleable assets we had last time round - the likes of Bednarek, KWP, Aribo are all at the end of their contracts. Dibling might get us £50m, Fernandes might get us £30m or £40m at a push. I can't see us being able to spend big enough to make a difference.

I hope you are right, but I've got a nasty feeling we're in for rough ride next season. On the 3 centre backs, we seem to have had a weird obsession to play 3 at the back ever since SR took over... Hassenhutl seemed like he was being forced to do it, Mad Nate played 3 at the back to start with, then RM and now Juric is playing with 3 at the back. I'm convinced that this is Rasmus' contribution following on from the success of playing 3 at the back with Brentford.

Ha ha. Good point

Depressingly I could see us starting the season with Baz Suga Bree Wood Edwards Welington Charles Downes Archer Smallbone Edozie Onuachu I'm not sure that's anywhere near good enough to push for promotion....

To be honest, and as a Ralph fan myself, he'd run out of ideas and we needed someone new to freshen the place up. The mistake was replacing him with a Welsh PE teacher who wanted to play a completely different (and basic) style of football.

Aarrrr is it time for Captain Jack to make sure we get a jolly rodgering??

It makes sense if we stick to one philosophy (maybe not quite as rigidly as Martin), but to change so drastically shows a complete lack of strategy and direction. We've gone from high press & high energy counter attack to long ball to heavy possession and now back to the start - none of which are complimentary or need the same sort of players. Absolutely mental.

Isn't it time to think a bit differently? What's the point in hanging on to players who will get us out of the championship but who we know will let us down in the premier league? I'd offload Armstrong, Bednarek, McCarthy, Stephens as a priority - all inept at premier league level.

Spot on - but sadly Rasmus and Kraft are founders and still part of the ownership of SR. This is what needs to change - otherwise they will continue to influence things they shouldn't and we'll continue to waste Solaks money.

Completely agree. A single manager failing is probably the manager's fault. Continued failure of manager after manager is a fundamental problem further up the chain - until the club has the right leadership and structure we will continue to piss money away on substandard players and regardless of the capability of a manager or the tactics played we will continue to underachieve. Fortunately the premier league doesn't really live up to the hype so for me it isn't really the be all and end all. It seems to me the further from the top the less the money spoils the game and the more authentic the experience is.

We're shit but that's no suprise - I can't get upset about it or excited about the rest of the season. The premier league is such a garbage product for the average punter so I can't even get excited about watching anything this year. Roll on the summer clear out, hopefully a new sense of direction and a competitive league.

What's new? I really don't think anything has changed...

Not sacking said manager after the Bournemouth game when everyone else (with the exception of Fabrice, gio and lighthouse) could see he was out of his depth ultimately cost us.

You would think that there's a glimmer of hope for SAA now that we have a manger who values attacking players who take risks and take people on?

Smallbone demonstrates why he should never play for us again...

This co-commentator is an absolute idiot. No idea what a foul is or isnt

I could see the point in him for a Martin team where the slower pace suited his lack of running. Now, however, I can't see the point - he's just not got the legs to play I'm an aggressive high press anymore.

I can only hope we don't take Robbie "the bestest footballer ever" Savage's record away from him and Derby - he's an insufferable prick who seems to have reinvented himself as something other than a dirty talentless shit.

The shittest shot you'll ever see