[drewks]

Great debates, and very interesting to read all the viewpoints. I think we ALL agree that the football at the moment is dire and embarrassing, but it's likely to provide us with ongoing PL football - however, is that enough if we become so bad to watch that no-one DOES watch any more?!

Can the TP leopard change his spots? If he was HC of Chelsea would he still build off a sound defensive base ("yes"!) but then compliment that with offensive midfielders and forwards that were fast and creative? I think so - but he'd still insist that they rolled their sleeves up and did their bit defensively. So will TP play a more expansive game next year with the bigger budget available?
Sadly I don't think he will. as every club will be in the same boat - and what decent creative player will want to work under TP!?

It all seems to smack of JP being absolutely determined to keep us up this season - so keeping TP is a no-brainer - in order to sell a 'stable' PL club in the summer; the new owners can then make that important decision.

The frustrating thing with him with us is that we DO have some creative players but TP continues to not play them consistently. Also, and for me this is the MOST frustrating trait that we have, with all the defensive minded midfielders we have, we don't actually press the opposition, we just let them have the ball, come forward and then rely on them either losing it or at some late stage us throwing a tackle in when it's got to the penalty area!

Why the fek don't we press? Josh - where are you? Please explain!