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Reply | Corberan West Brom saints interested
at 10:13 18 Dec 2024
I'm not sure there's too much of a risk for any new manager, as the Board have dithered so much as to leave us in such a dire situation, any new manager who fails, could point to the impossible job.
No sure though what the track record is for 'experienced' managers turning things like this around. I think Hodgson was good as it and Hughes did the business for Saints, but Allardyce and Moyes both failed to keep clubs ups - others too, I'm sure.
Whoever we get, the Board has already screwed us. |
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Reply | Mark Robins
at 15:32 17 Dec 2024
Robins always seem to start badly for Cov and then they would slowly climb the table over the rest of the season.
Someone who can climb the tale from a poor start is exactly what we need! |
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Reply | Rohl
at 15:21 16 Dec 2024
I'm sure Rohl is good. Despite what Nick says, there was a real sense at the time that something changed when he last left.
But the problem with appointing someone who's not managed in the PL before is that we never know whether bad results are down to their inexperience or the quality of the players.
Moyes failed to keep Sunderland up but he clearly knows what he is doing at this level.
He has got to be the best option and the club need to persuade him to try again to save a team in red and white.
He's got 22 games to find 8 wins and 8 draws. |
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Reply | Southampton FC Sack Russell Martin
at 11:08 16 Dec 2024
5 nil at half time forced them to sack him.
They would never have made the decision on their own. The previous 15 games proved that. |
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Reply | Tottenham Hotspur Game Matchday Thread
at 22:21 15 Dec 2024
I rarely leave a game before the end.
I couldn’t sit there any more after the third.
Leaving a match after 15 mins. Ridiculous but I don’t feel bad about it.
These cretins have pushed the fan base far enough. |
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Reply | Sit In Protest On Wednesday
at 14:51 14 Dec 2024
I’d love to joint the protest but will be watching at a friends so won’t in front of my own TV.
Next time though. Puel out. |
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Reply | Are football managers immune from 'Fair Dismissal?
at 09:35 11 Dec 2024
I don't think we need to concern ourselves with the terms of individual contracts.
Buy good players, sell poor ones.
Try to get and keep performing managers. Sack failing ones.
It's pretty basic and (take away all the bells, whistles, agents and sell on clauses) and it's always been the same.
Lost 80% of games this season. That's all anyone needs to know. |
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Reply | Positives (if only a few)for next year
at 16:27 9 Dec 2024
If they are sticking with Martin now, then they're almost, if not already, at the point, where they will look even more like complete muppets if they then sack him later.
That means not only is he here until the end of the season but, logically, they'd have to give him, what, 10 games in the Championship too.
That means we've most likely got him and this for another year.
I can't bring myself to think about that... |
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Reply | Martin
at 19:49 7 Dec 2024
He’s getting very defensive now (excuse the pun). Stupid supporters making Lumley play a long ball and look what happens.
Short passes out is the way, you idiots, and it’s been working so well.
If only we could see that and could worship him and his system. |
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Reply | Only one man for the job
at 18:44 7 Dec 2024
There are few more experienced in the PL than him.
If he can’t keep us up, no one can.
And perhaps no one can.
These owners are absolute ditherers. Ralph, Jones, Selles, Martin. Always too late. God forbid they ever have to run a business. |
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Reply | Martin
at 18:37 7 Dec 2024
Well he would say that wouldn’t he! |
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Reply | Cast Adrift
at 11:21 4 Dec 2024
This is right. Because the quality in the bottom quarter of the PL is generally not great, it doesn't take that much to avoid relegation.
At the moment, it would take more than we've got but that can change quickly and there is still along way to go.
No points from the next two games could/should signal the end of the RM experiment. |
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Reply | Southampton At Brighton The Verdict
at 18:54 2 Dec 2024
I am not quite sure what you are saying. When you say 'if you have to draw a line on a screen', are you saying that the system shouldn't be drawing lines on screens, because if you are I agree with you, but this system does and that's why I say that the system is useless/not fit for purpose.
I am not arguing that some kind of video review is necessarily bad. I'm saying that this VAR system is bad. And if you defend VAR, you defend this system, not some imaginary good one that they didn't introduce.
So what needs to change is not simply 'the way it is implemented'. They need to ditch this failed system and (maybe) start again.
And if they did start again, how about this for a set of principles to adhere to...
1. Level is onside. And 'level' is not an exact science but every linesman in the world who works without VAR has to judge it, and can. Any system needs to respect that 'level is onside' rule. This one doesn't.
2. The system should be there to rule our errors that the onfield officials could reasonably/possibly have avoided. E.g. Out of sight handball goals, or punches to the kidney behind their backs. It should not be allowed to view things in a way, and at a level of accuracy that no onfield could possibly see. So no slow-mos, no zoom ins and no f*cking lines!
3. Given that it is only meant to be spotting howlers, these should not be difficult to see, and if they are difficult to spot then they're not howlers. Give them 1 minute to be sure that it's a howler and if they are not sure within 1 minute then that's it, no review.
It won't be perfect, but it will hopefully intervene about 10% of the time that it does now and it will do only what it is meant to do. And maybe we can go back to celebrating most goals in real time.
But before any of this can happen, they need to ditch the pig's ear that they are trying and failing to make a silk purse out of, because this system is not fixable. |
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