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Huh, I always thought it was better to be lazy, attack without purpose and play with a muddled identity. You learn something new every day.

Conveniently leaving out the most important "data", the actual results and points gained, which are still shit regardless of formation. Depends, doesn't it? If we bring in players on a similar level to De Neve, Tavares, Henriksson or Gueye then it won't be.

As I mentioned in my last championship review, at any other club Ismael and his staff would be under significant pressure, as would the owners and board. Here, if you didn't know any better you'd assume we were right up there challenging for a playoff place rather than stuck in an endless relegation scrap. Zero pressure.

Why would we even want Championship experience when we did our best in the summer to make sure we got rid of the majority of it from our squad? With the wages we supposedly pay the only Championship experience we're getting are reserves from mid-table teams or broken down has-beens well past their expiry date. Hasn't exactly worked out so far.

Honestly to me it just shows how far we've sunk when people are desperately scrambling to extol the virtues of Makhtar Gueye. He's a very poor footballer who wouldn't have gotten near our team, even under Venky's, before severe cost cutting meant we were reduced to shopping in the bargain bin permanently. I wish him luck and have no ill will towards him, but in terms of standards he's far below what I want for my club.

I overestimated the quality of the teams in the league more than anything, although in my defence I barely give the PL a passing glance these days. This Man Utd team, currently losing to Burnley, being 7th says it all.

It's even more idiotic to say it about a player you are actively trying to sell. Please pay money for a guy I've just admitted isn't professional enough to train properly. The club is infested with idiocy.

Figured it was a matter of time for Mason. Every time they won a match they went right back to losing. Rookie manager as well so no credit in the bank. A big risk that definitely hasn't paid off for them.

Certainly an interesting thread. Unfortunately none of my questions on how Eustace was allowed to supposedly become a one man wrecking crew during his tenure were answered.

Lol, brutal. O'Neill back for round two, I assume.

Gutted. Will always remember that magical night at Grimsby.

Not sure whether us or Charlton should be more concerned by that result. We continue our streak of failing to beat any of the teams in a relegation scrap with us, but if they can't beat the team we had out there today - being two goals ahead - then they've got massive problems of their own. Oh well. Onto the next disappointment.

Need another goal - a draw isn't enough when we've failed to beat literally every team around us already. Dropping points to our relegation rivals at home could easily be what sinks us come May.

"Look at all of this money we saved". That's it.

De Neve? 🤣 That'll help.

Complicit, yes, but he's also totally irrelevent. If it wasn't him it'd just be some other chump.

Such a poor team out there, struggling to come back from 2-0 down at home to Charlton. Absolutely criminal what the owners have done to us. I had written a more critical post but honestly it isn't fair to be having a go at who we have out there. They're very limited but they're trying. The players and even the manager aren't the problem. The problem is the 15 year constant, a dark cloud that's been hanging over the club for far too long.

He's very much one of these new era coaches who is wedded to a philosophy and has zero flexibility to do anything else. If it works, then great. It it doesn't, you're cooked. Doesn't look like the Celtic squad are suited to his 'style'. So the board will either have to deal with the fury of the terraces until the summer and give this bloke a lot of money to reshape the team (and then hope for the best), or cut their losses before they're completely out of the title picture and - in all likelihood - bring O'Neill back until the end of the season.

Obvious he doesn't understand the job he's walked into. He thinks he has time to enact a "process". He doesn't. I think he's a dead man walking already, it's just a case of how long before he's put out of his misery.

I feel bad for Hedges having a long-term injury, as I would for any player in such a position. Hope he recovers swiftly. With that said, it's also infuriating that we're reduced to wailing like the sky is falling because Ryan Hedges is injured. A damning indictment on the impact Venky's, Suhail and Gestede have had on the team this season.

Looks like he's barely played for Big Club (who are 17th), so more likely Birmingham are more than happy for us to "break" this loan. Some good spin from Nixon to make it appear to be some kind of coup, when in reality it's a McLoughlin/TGH-type move of picking up an unwanted backup player from a mid-table club in the same division as us. Standard operating procedure for Gestede and crew.

Yeah, he's their best player by some distance. Tavares is not comparable in any way. Will Lankshear has been decent for them on loan from Spurs as well.

Hull moved McLoughlin on because they had ambitions to be better. They're now gunning for automatic promotion. We brought McLoughlin in because we have zero ambition and were just squad filling. We're three points off the drop.

I don't think there's any arguably about it tbh. Our 16/17 side would comfortably do away with this team of random misfits.

We also lost to Portsmouth and drew with Oxford so, yeah, wouldn't be confident we will finish the season above any of them at this point. As far as Oxford are concerned, much will depend on who they hire, although I expect they'll go down regardless.