Match Day Thread Newcastle v Gutless, Crap Saints. Sunday 30th April 2pm

This. I still maintain the right manager would have had enough time to turn things around, despite how bad Jones was. And given we haven't been cut adrift until yesterday really I think I was right.

 

We did! I meant worst ever finish in terms of points total!

 

Err. Rasmus.

This is actually all his doing.

 

Yeah but Jones was a grade A tossing ****er (with full apologies to actual ****ers out there in using that comparison) ... it's more fun to blame him

 

I blame you for our **** support, is that ok too?

 

In a game we had to win, we bring on Moi who never scores, and never provides any assists. I don't get it.

 

The squad’s not ****ing good enough though, so I don’t really see it.

 

Ultimately we went all in on Jones in January, signed Bree, Orsic and Onuachu who havent had a kick for reasons unknown then got rid of him leaving us with them as largely deadweight. We seemingly then went all in on Selles who was all in with Ralph who was all in on players like Elyonoussi. And apparently our football is so complex that January, February, March and April isn't enough time to get Orsic and Onuachu up to our level and we are still better off with AArmstrong and Elyonoussi and Walcott who were apparently expected to suddenly start producing goals after 2 years of delivering nothing while playing in the same positions and in the same style.

Systemic failure is the best way to describe us over the last 2 years. Recruitment, managerial appointments, player management, on field performance, team spirit and cohesion and now backroom hierarchy all appears to have collapsed without anyone being able to arrest it. Or maybe its now being done by design, who knows.

It sounds naieve yet my gut tells me that replacing Ings with AArmstrong was the tipping point. Even if we had recruited our 'gakpo' in the summer it could have kept us up and bought us extra time but it wasn't to be. We failed because we couldnt/cant score goals everything goes after that.

 

This is so true and absolutely baffling. I guess us little fans don’t understand football.

 

Good, but sadly true, post.

Of course if football had a salary cap, players probably wouldn't be paid vastly more playing for another club so there would be less incentive to move, so players are more likely to stay for their existing sides. Though football seems to be the only professional sport which seems it appropriate to not have some kind of salary cap (apart from the MLB I think), because we've got to allow the elitist, greed driven vultures the opportunity to dismantle any club who has the audacity try break into their clique without the backing of nation state and the blood money to go with that