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Ramsdale, Aribo, Fernandes, Wellington before he came off and maybe Sulemana the only ones that really come out of that with any credit. The rest were shite. All too little, too late in the second half and thank fuck we've only got 13 more games until we can try (good luck to the new sporting director with that) to bin off some of these wasters. Incredible that we continue to sell out every week home and away. We deserve better.

They both scream of a complete lack of strategy. Our 'development' signings (Edwards, Wellington, the lads on loan in Turkey, O'Brien-Whitmarsh etc.) look promising but we're getting 1 or 2/10 right on the senior side of things, not helped by lurching from one style of football to another with each manager change we make. If you look at our signings, they are pretty much all players that cannot get in the first team of their existing clubs, even the 'marquee' ones from this past summer like Fernandes and Ramsdale fall in that bracket. So we're regularly gambling that they might be good enough for the level rather than knowing they are. Of course the latter comes with a £ premium but the likes of Bournemouth; Brentford and Brighton put us to shame with how many 'hits' they have compared to our misses. The new DoF/Sporting Director will hopefully go some way to improving things.

Was 12,000 there for Swansea game. I'd guess after the win last weekend, because it's a better opponent this time, it being Saturday 3pm rather than Sunday 4.30pm and the fact it's not on TV will push it closer to 16k this time around. No idea why the club think the stadium being half empty benefits the atmosphere, their finances or the players. Should be £10 for adults, £5 for kids and you'd be looking at closer to 25k attendance.

Only a £2m release clause in his contract apparently. May be he gets snapped up by a PL team for that price, then.

We should be all over Tanganga in the summer. Been colossal for Millwall this season.

Anthony Taylor refereeing too, which should cheer everyone up who's feeling down about the game.

We struggled to beat Stoke's reserves mate so don't give up hope yet!

Let's be honest, Onuachu isn't very good.

In not sacking Martin, Ankersen seems to have gone from “If it’s not broken, break it” to “If it’s broken, don’t try and fix it”.

We have a 100% chance of going down with Martin in charge for the foreseeable future. He won't last the season but like with Nathan Jones, if they leave it too late and past the point of our more winnable run of fixtures (post Wolves basically) then it'll be too late, with the chances of any manager worth their salt coming in very slim indeed. With a semi-competent manager installed now/very soon that survival likelihood reduces to maybe 70% but the board's delusion and lack of ambition forever astounds me. All we want is for the club to give itself the best possible chance of survival. If we fall short in May after giving it a real good go then so be it but at this rate we'll be effectively dead and buried in a month's time like Sheffield United and Burnley were for so much of last season. Perhaps SR are comfortable in the knowledge that we should be fine financially if we go back down as we're sitting on a likely £40m asset in Dibling that we'll be able to sell to a top club and sustain a promotion push again, along with one or two others (Fernandes, Ramsdale etc.) that would attract good fees.

-------------Ramsdale------------- -Suga---Bednarek---THB---KWP-- ---Fernandes---Les---Downes--- --Dibling------Archer------Armstrong Need extra protection if switching to back four which Big Les will hopefully provide. Fernandes and Dibling the creative sparks. A better performance but still come up short 2-1.

No points deduction for Leicester this season. Avoiding relegation just got even harder.

Anyone calling for him to go already is a complete an utter reactionary moron. It's worth remembering that we lost 8 of the first 10 in 2012/13. The Man United game is a bit of a free-hit but we shouldn't fear them. After 2 weeks with the players, a switch to 4-3-3 and some change in personnel (which is clearly coming after his comments today), then we should see an improvement. We've got Ipswich, Leicester and Everton at home by 2nd November and those are the games we (more specifically the manager) will be ultimately judged on. We have to be more front-foot in those type of matches to try and score more goals, as clearly we're going to concede goals all season like most down at the bottom.

Neither Kostic or Joao Mario deals are happening. Sulemana attracting some interest from Ligue 1 but would be loan rather than permanent and only depending on what we get in first. Club quite relaxed about Tall Pall deal as Turkish window goes on for longer and Trabzonspor increasingly desperate to sign a striker given their lack of goals and failure to get other targets. That's all I've been passed on, though that was yesterday midday ish so it may have changed since then.

Leaving the sentiment aside, I wouldn't unless it was a loan deal with West Ham paying most of his wages (unlikely). We're well stacked with numbers and quality in central midfield now and very rarely does it work out when people go back in football or in life in general. The main thing we needed in the middle of the park was more athleticism and people driving forward with the ball which in Fernandes/Big Les we now have and which is not JWP's game at all.