[BaggieSteve]

Our next 5 games are Wolves away, West Ham away, Man City home, Fulham home and Sheffield Utd away. Anything less than 5 points from those 5 games and Allardyce will surely have to go.

Knowing our idiotic club though, we'll lose all 5 and give him a 2 year contract extension.

It wouldn't surprise me if he walks out, citing Covid as an excuse. He's already planted the seed for that.

You can tell from his demeanour that he's completely uninspired by the tools - or lack of them - at his disposal.

The blame is with him for us failing to progress today, because he should've selected a team capable of beating Blackpool. That said, blame also has to go with Bilic and Dowling for accumulating a squad of mercenaries that simply play for the pay cheque and have very little in the way of self pride. Even with our best XI on the pitch, I can't see us getting results in the Premier League without major reinforcements. Our underbelly is far too soft. It seems like it's a slippery slope downwards whoever in charge unless we're able to obtain some players that play with pride on the pitch.

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In the season before he signed for us Ajayi played as a defensive midfielder in all but 1 of his league matches that season. I remember when he signed that I was unsure of where Bilic would use him because of that above stat.

Of course that was with Rotherham. Whole different game at Prem level.

Maybe today was just a bad day at the office for him. Although it would've perhaps been nice to see him alongside a ball player. Neither Jake and Gallagher, for their endeavour, are the purist footballers.

Although the one game he played there for us last season - Middlesbrough at home if I recall - he was equally poor.

I feel he has the attributes to play there, so maybe he needs time to readapt to the role. But time isn't something we really have in our current plight.

Slick, I’m loathe to apportion blame since it’s been a catalogue of disaster from even before we kicked a ball. However, if I was going to point fingers, I wouldn’t single out Bilic or Allardyce but the ‘management’ at owner and Board level which has been simply desperate. From the moment Dowling, clearly on the orders of Lai and communicated through his CEO, indicated to Bilic the transfer money available, we were screwed. I think Bilic could have spent better but, in all honesty, the screw ups are probably peripheral in terms of cost- most of us wanted Pereira and Diangana, and there were few complaints when we signed Grant. I think Krovinovic was indulgent and Ivanovic blind optimism. But you get what you pay for; Allardyce will find the same. We have an owner with little or no interest in the club and, as long as he is in place, it probably won’t matter who the manager is.