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Sorry---lost me there.

Iv given my other reasons why I don't think a change in head coach is going to change much here. I have also said i wouldn't shed a tear if he was sacked.I just feel if he was replaced the same things being said now about Ismael would be said about the new guy. We need the owners out and Gestede and Pasha they go Ismael and managers of his ilk won't be here

Ismael runs his players into the ground. It is very easy online to sit & blame head coaches or club staff for everything and anything, knowing you never really have to prove it. Lovely to moan isn't it. Yet when you look at our injuries this year, you would be daft not to question exactly what has been going on both during training and within the match day itself. The way we set up puts a lot of strain on our forward / midfield players. Our defence begins quite deep for a team who is tasked with pressing so high, and we don't seem to push up until a press looks like it may come off. That space between the back 3 and the front 3 is enormous at times, which means that either the wing backs or the attackers have a hell of a lot of ground to cover basically running around like headless chickens Wrexham found us out with this one. They really drew us on to them, ran us into the ground and then pumped long when the centre halves eventually pushed up to shrink that space. It was amateur really. Parkinson is a shrewd manager but there's no way he does a number on Eustace the way he did on us. We looked amateur that day Then there is the training. I know quite a few baggies fans and they have all said that Ismael is supposed to be fanatical on running & distance & sprints and recoveries. I am saying this with zero authority here but it would not surprise me if we are running ourselves ragged in a training environment. The amount of muscle injuries point to that for sure I have to be honest and say that I have never warmed to Val. I always try but we have had some fantastic coaches previously - and yes, I count Mowbray in that - but this chap has come at the wrong time for me. Right at the end of an era that looked like it may result in a play off place; right after the drama with JDT & Eustace and the commencement of the PashaRudy show; and, to top it off, a tired and young squad that he can't appear to get a tune out of I just don't see our identity which after this long in charge is criminal really. For me we should change head coach and soon. A loss against Ipswich on the weekend would be my tipping point

Ok. I want someone in that can save us from being relegated. I know I'll not get it.

We are well past the point where we need to "target" players. We need them signed. Although O'Rourke seems particularly active at the moment in linking us and numerous other clubs with various players which suggests agents at work.

Thunder thighs Mike Harrison and Duggie, early 1960s From another site and possibly AI generated but a good image nonetheless Note the spectators wearing ties

This is the problem now they are clearly being beasted in training and games to the detriment of playing some actual football. Hence the fatigue and constant massive injury list. We've gone from JDT trying to play total football from his own penalty area to a guy who just wants to pin opponents in their own box for 95 mins as a form of defending from the front. We certainly have defensive strikers !

I think it shows how low standards are that I quite regularly see the defence of Ismael that the players at least havent all give up.

Whoever the head coach is recruitment will stay the same some hits and some misses. We are offering peanuts In transfer fees and wages it's unrealistic to think that there will be much improvement on that side with the way things are by just changing the head coach. And all head coaches use excuses even Eustace after he said about no excuse culture did it At the moment the players are still playing for him and they haven't downed tools like they did under JDT in the last couple of months of his reign

You forgot Akor Adams.

You can't blame people for not believing you every season you used say the tipping point is coming and admin was around the corner. You sold Jordan Rhodes more times than Alan Nixon. You claimed to have the inner details of Adam Armstrongs move to Southampton. I could go on. It's hardly aggravation to be questioned by a few posters on here over the legitimacy of your claims

I like the look of that Boura - Hopefully one which is accurate.

I want a fighter in, not a victim. I want someone who can add something to what everyone can do: analysing stats. And I totally expected us to be in a relegation fight based on our summer dealings. As Ismael stated in his Q&A, he is very much hands-on in the recruitment process. That's one of the reasons why I want him gone. I know it is not going to happen. But that does not alter the fact that Ismael is a piss poor manager.

But but but, "lessons learned" " contracts are our priority once the window is closed" etc Turns out they are all just "greedy" & Rovers "did their best" Who could have possibly predicted such a thing?

How good would it have been for our "kids" to be able to play against world class players? As usual, we fall at the first hurdle.

And the next head coach will also be using data for team selection and signings as that's what Adam Owen and Rudy Gestede want. So in a few months time you will be saying exactly the same thing about whoever replaces Ismael. I do not think Ismael is a good manager but did you not expect us to be in a relegation battle when the transfer window ended and we had replaced most our experienced players with cheap signings from abroad? I did expect us to be in a relegation battle ,and if I could have forseen the injury problems the last couple of months I'd have had us nailed on to be relegated. Thus far with the exception of a week or 2 we have stayed out of the bottom 3

Two strikers and a left wing back will see us through this season I think, if they are loans then so be it. You can't be worrying about long term prospects in Jan when you are in our position, get the best players possible to see you through the season. Then major surgery AGAIN in the summer. Amazing that every summer always needs an incredible amount of work.

Strikers please. Two of them. Then everywhere else. We couldn't finish our tea at the moment.

Just another one that O'Rourke has thrown out there, us along with a few other clubs. Which tells me it isn't going to happen.

Agree with this, which is why the interested buyers need to get hold of the coalition, get some pressure put onto them and also to dispel the "who would buy us" crew as well as Pasha's rhetoric about no one making approaches.

'He's playing up front and he couldn't finish his dinner, but look over there at how far he can run!'

He's clearly(!) going to be a serious talent and will be worth significant multiples of that. We absolutely have £5M - but we won't because we have no ambition.

This quote sums up everything that is wrong with Ismael: "As I say, Axel (Henriksson) is running 15k today" Every decision is taken based on statistics. So much that it really doesn't count as a decision anymore. Everything has gone wrong since he was appointed. Why does he need to go? Because we are in a relegation fight and we need someone who can help us win that. You say that we won't appoint anybody better? You are right, Gestede and Pasha are horrible. Can't you be bothered by Rovers anymore? I totally get it. You say that the real issues lie elsewhere? You are right. I hate Venkys from the deepest and darkest place in my soul. But still. Ismael needs to go. He is one of the worst managers we have had in the last 25 years, and I want him and his list of excuses nowhere near the dugout on matchday.

This could be a fun game of trying to guess I had a look last night and came to the conclusion it could have been the Pelligra Group, owners of Perth Glory

£5m?