(31-01-2026, 18:04)BaggieSteve Wrote:

(31-01-2026, 17:58)Slick_Footwork Wrote: Good lord, what on earth have we employed as a "coach"?

I've done some moaning over the years. As far as football goes, I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I expect players to be able to pass and move, tackle, follow their man, make good decisions.

But good lord, I don't remember seeing anything as bad as this...

It's like watching Sunday league. I can't remember us stringing move together. Eric Ramsay makes Ryan Mason look like Sir Alex.

The formation is wrong. The personnel is wrong. We can't play. Nobody is marking up. There is no effort.

I don't know who is playing where.

Heggebo is so isolated he needs a carrier pigeon to pass a message on to his nearest man.

This brainless clown of a manager just needs to pick 4 at the back and give us a few bodies further forwards. It's not rocket science.

What is the point in Ousmane Diakite? I've watched him 20-30 times now and he can't do anything. His passes come in at knee height. He can't run. He doesn't mark up on the edge of the box. How on earth can you start him and have Alex Mowatt on the bench? Yes Mowatt has his restrictions, but at least he can control the ball.

Unless we perform a miracle and turn things around second half, Ramsay needs to go. If not, we'll get exactly what we deserve. Relegation is a foregone conclusion under this guy, I can see it already.

We need to get someone like Big Sam in now just to keep us up. Someone who understands the basics of the game, like you need to actually cross the halfway line to score a goal.

Have we appointed the new Alan Pardew?

(31-01-2026, 18:25)Blue Baggie Wrote: This problem has been created by the new owners. We employed a rookie manager and replaced good players with cheap replacements. We blamed Mason and sacked him. We then got another rookie manager. Surprise, surprise we got no quality players in and we go from bad to worse.
Big thanks to our new owners for turning us into a laughing stock.

(01-02-2026, 17:12)Blue Baggie Wrote: It's not a matter of our new owners are better then the previous ones. I cannot appreciate any owners who make the club worse. I never like baldy but he would never have let the squad be managed by rookies. He would not have sold players for less then their true value, nor would he have overpaid for players. Our new owners have done us no flavours as far as I'm concerned.
If they had paid our debts off fair enough. But they haven't. They basically got given the club and we were led to believe they would put us on a solid footing and be financially safe. Nowhere did they say we were going to get below par players and managers and get relegated.
Where's the investment in the ground and infrastructure. What's happened to changing the old faces in the background. What's happened to giving our youngsters a chance.
IMHO what owners have done a worse job of running a club. Maybe the Dingles Bahrti brothers did a similar job of destroying a football club.
If your a multimillionaire there are no excuses for everything going wrong at the same time.
The excuses must run out sooner or later. Anyone saying we need to be relegated to rebuild are just demented.