RevidgeBlue

Good post, totally agree his time is up; no-one apart from the FA really wanted him to carry on after relative failure in the Euro Final and he hummed and haa'd before eventually deciding to limp on and as you say things now look exceptionally stale as a result. Imo it looks like there's something seriously amiss within the camp, after sitting through two games of walking football from our point of view the one incident that annoyed me the most was last night when Pickford charged up to the half way line to demand the ball off one of the centre halves. At that point you naturally assume he's going to wave the defender forward and launch the ball himself. But no, he passed the ball three yards sideways to the CH and retreated back to his goal. I was left screaming at the screen "What's the point in that?" For me the players aren't buying into this at all so far and don't seem to have any belief or enthusiasm for what they're being asked to do or how they're being asked to play. The only hope imo is that there's a players revolt and they decide to completely ignore the wet one and go out and try and tear the opposition a new one and see where it takes us.

Surely it should be the best person for the job? Hypothetically - Guardiola or Klopp or Howe or Potter? Tough one!

Kalvin Phillips? At this point Southgate must be saying stuff like that to deliberately wind people up because he's annoyed at the criticism he's (rightly) been receiving.

Words can not describe how much I detest Southgate. He's going to completely waste a talented squad of players again. I think Southgate is the only person in the Country who wouldnt play Bellingham with Rice, Foden behind Kane and someone who adds genuine width on the left. We dont need two holders in midfield and not only that he's playing a wing back in there who doesnt even play in that position for his Club. However leaving aside tactical issues and the various square pegs in round holes we've played two games at virtual exhibition pace and look like we simply can't be arsed whereas far less talented teams than us have had a right go and played a thrilling part in some stunning matches. If it were possible to sack Southgate at half time tonight, I'd have done it. Looks like the players have finally had enough of him.

JDT working with a decent DOF who recruited well might have been enough to get us over the line despite the lack of support from elsewhere. Unfortunately for us, and possibly fortunately for Waggott's cosy little number, we appointed the Egg. As it is those sort of aspirations now look to be a million miles away, with even survival looking an uphill battle.

Another Broughton masterclass - as if it wasn't bad enough losing him for the miserley sum of £18m in the first place, surely even a six year old would think to include a hefty add on based on international call ups.

Rumours Madison and Curtis Jones are leaving the England camp so should be good for Adam.

As for the appointment of a "Technical Director" I too have no idea what one of those is but like Broughton it smacks of another low quality appointment with a fancy title to appease the fan base and deflect attention away from the fact that the one thing that really matters, the actual transfer budget, most likely consists of thruppence ha'penny and a half eaten Mars Bar.

Your constant desire to defend Waggott and let him off the hook is absolutely baffling. Edit: He's a scourge on the Club who needs removing yesterday irrespective of whether the current owners remain in charge.

You're a master of understatement. That's a bit like saying being a serial killer isn't really the most desirable thing in the world. Still, that potential transfer will be the litmus test of whether we are finally going to at least try to improve I suppose.

Ah no - if this is what the Club have decided to do I'm Sure it will meet with the Chadster's full approval. Personally I've no idea why we're bringing Park back, he was absolutely hopeless last time he was here. Perhaps the plan is to reverse the favour that was done for him when he was out of work and once he is in situ he'll appoint Venus as his assistant and lobby for his other pal Mowbray to be made DOF.

If Eustace wants Travis in his starting X1, just waiting for the Chadster's u turn on the player now, given that he was fully in support of the decision to allow him to join Ipswich on loan in January.

.......apart from Sunderland, Leeds and Leicester away. That takes some doing, scoring five goals at the Stadium of Light by accident.

Very retrograde step imo if we're looking at the likes of Ruddy, Mcfadzean and Fleck. There's "experience" then there's one foot in the grave. Why we're even entertaining talks with Fleck I've no idea. The only one of the three that might make some sense is if we wanted to bring Mcfadzean in on the coaching side. But purely as a player he wouldn't be worth it either.

Spot on. Also bloody ironic that's the player making the gesture as SS is almost certain to be sold, probably as soon as the early bird period ends. On bare pricing alone, probably not too many complaints but the problem at the end of the day is they are trying to polish a steaming turd. Broughton gone which is good, but Waggott will still be in situ, Sam Gallagher has laughably had his contract extended and will no doubt still be impersonating a footballer yet again for most of the season, the financial restrictions will no doubt still be in place, our only really decent player will no doubt be flogged and the squad is still likely to be woefully equipped for a Championship season which will no doubt turn into another battle against relegation. So unless there are major signs of improvement in the areas of recruitment and on and off the field I'm still out for the time being.

Will you be "slamming" our prices then if they are the same as, or more than, Blackpool's?

He's at odds with the LT on both the rumours about Ruddy which were downplayed by the local rag and Jackson's assertion that there are no active plans to replace Broughton. Be interesting to see who is more on the money. Possibly the LT if philli's assertion about a further 25% budget cut is correct.

This is key. Obviously Eustace's only remit in the remaining part of last season was to keep us up and in that respect I think he did quite well given the rate at which we were conceding goals by the time JDT left. Over the course of an entire season though I don't think grinding out points here and there in that fashion is sustainable.and the key question is whether he cab add some flair to the grittier determination we showed in a few of the games.

Minus Szmodics that's an abysmal X1 imo. Likely to be struggling against relegation at best, and at worst we'll be next year's Rotherham. We could desperately do with Leonard stepping up and catching fire next season. How realistic that is is anyone's guess.

Again, disagree. Gallagher rounded the season off with no goals from the last fourteen games so it wouldn't have mattered who you played there during that period, they couldn't have done any worse.

I beg to disagree. I find it extremely odd how you are up in arms about the owners not selling BBD in the summer prior to his final season during which he contributed 14 goals and we missed out on the play offs on goal difference, yet conversely see no issue on not cashing in on Gallagher with a few months left to go on his contract after which he contributed I think the grand total of 2 League goals and we only avoided relegation on the final day.

After an absolutely atrocious season last time out, our talisman likely to depart, seemingly no money to spend and all vestiges of ambition being erased - what do people think is reasonable purely in terms of price for next year's tickets? In a hypothetical world where the main aim was to get customers through the door I'd say prices should be slashed by 50%, although that won't happen obviously. 2nd question is - what do we ACTUALLY think will happen? I'm guessing the usual price freeze for "early birds" with a price increase thereafter dressed up as some sort of .massive bargain.

Not really, it's more the fact he's one of the worst strikers ever to pull on the blue and white halves. The decision to turn down £2m from Ipswich for him and now trigger his contract extension must rank amongst the very worst decisions Venkys have made. Unless of course we've only done the latter to claw some money back on him. I doubt we'll be so lucky though. You can't succeed carrying passengers like Gallagher. If that's not obvious to the powers that be by now it never will be. It's as if they do these things to deliberately spite us.

Completely agree Parson. In fact "not very good at his job" I think is doing him somewhat of a favour. World class bullshitter, but an absolute disaster in the job, 3 strikers signed without a single goal between them, Wahlstedt, the two unprecedented transfer window cock ups, failing to tie Phillips down to a worthwhile contract, and a fairly derisory sum realised for the brilliant Adam Wharton. Says it all when he's crowing about a "record sale" on a player he inherited. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Let him go and chat **** and sell everything that moves somewhere else.

I let my season ticket lapse last season after fifty odd years of more or less continuous attendance. Broughton leaving (if indeed he has left) is a start - despite everything I would probably renew if the undertaker Waggott were to be ousted as well. Not that I expect anyone in authority at the Club to give a flying one. Just saying.