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It's alarming, to say the least. What's worse is how he does this as a "they" and "I", rather than "we". I was every bit for giving this guy a good old fair crack of the whip, but every single thing he has said and done, when it has mattered, has been utterly alarming.

Gone to Morecombe for remainder of season.

Suggested we defended better. We didn’t. Was seemingly over the moon with 60% possession and tried to suggest we created plenty with that. We didn’t. Refused to entertain criticism of keeping five at the back until 85th minute. “You can point fingers all you want at the shape, but…” - LOL Basically blamed Che’s early miss because it’s a different game if we go 1-0. If my aunt had balls she’d be my uncle mentality, again. Suggested he was surprised with the boos but emphasised he is just a little welsh mining boy so he is used to it. You know, because they’re hard done by.

Rasmus, Semmens, NJ… The lot can fuck off. I’d give a raffle to a few of us on here til end of season and think we’d do just as well. What a shit show.

Limping to defeat. Not a sign of any urgency… from anyone. Incredible scenes.

And STILL the same shape.

Adam. Fucking. Armstrong. fuck my life.

I thought the first half vs Brighton was bad, but at least that was against a decent outfit. Blow me… This is disastrous. The back five yet again a disaster. Lyanco disgraced himself again. Elyounoussi can’t dribble the ball to himself, let alone complete a pass. Lavia looks lost. JWP still in his shell. SR have everything to answer for.

This is diabolical.

Did Ralph not do exactly the same?

Well… The line is everything I expected. as in… I expected the unexpected. can only assume these guys look abysmal in training. (DCC, Stu Arm)

I think that went on Ralph's severance and NJ's compensation, me.

Did we not agree that as we and they are no longer playing our rivals, we decided mutually to be arch rivals? I'm sure a saw a thing on this.

I think these are going off the figures Ralph was reportedly on. He was the 6th or 7th highest paid manager in the prem.

This is the same agent talk as Everton in the summer. Our board might be stupid, but they're not THAT stupid (yet).

Difference is, Ralph oversaw the team we have in situ. NJ has walked in to an already runaway train. Ralph, despite knowing this team inside out, repeatedly made baffling decisions with both starting XI’s and substitutions. NJ, whether he is up to this or not, cannot be expected to just walk into a squad as bad as this and just turn them around. It’s a diabolical team. The proof will be in the January window as to whether he can work with us. Reality is it will all be too late by then, though. The buck stops with Semmens and Ankersen. They’ve allowed us to sleepwalk into an appalling position.

For me, the buck stops with who made two key decisions... 1) Letting Romeu go when we didn't have any sign of a replacement. 2) Letting the window close without (at least one) forward. There are obviously plenty of other issues, but those two factors have been the recipe for a utter demise this term, when we were already treading on thin enough ice.

Today our problems were far bigger than that. A keeper devoid of any confidence and a defence who cannot fathom how to do the very basics of defending. Che is just, Che. He cannot lead a line on his own or be relied on to score goals. Bodes well.

Went into today thinking we didn't need CB's. On that evidence, I'll take Bednarek back. Bella-Kotchup in the build up to that second goal... Unforgivable. Lyanco and Bazunu with that penalty... Blow me. Salisu utterly reckless at everything he does. Shit show.

Bella-Kotchup cost us that failing to deal with the most basic defensive duty. We’re a shit show.

I know that. Blow me, if we had no CB’s, he isn’t the answer.

Quite telling that he has only managed to muster 90 minutes of football for Villa. Lad is diabolical, and only got away with it for so long with us because of how utterly inept our back line was. Just when I thought we'd finally managed to get a decent enough string of CB's together, we want to bring him back. Madness, to me. Maybe it suggests Salisu is off in January, mind. Newcastle were heavily sniffing around him this time last year.

That's the one! "SUB SUB SUB SUB SUB SUB SUB SUB" with the hands rolling, all 3,000 saints in both stands, then we celebrated liked we'd scored when he finally made a change. 🤣 F*** me what is it with us and gaffers.

I'd sooner play Caballero CM over Diallo, because at least that would be a joke we could actually laugh at.

Didn't we then get beat at Swindon? Went away to both Hudders and Swindon and it really was a baptism of fire to League One. Swindon felt worse, as that really felt like a tin pot. Seem to remember Pardew refusing to make a sub until the 85th minute too, despite being utterly shite from the off.