How is anyone having a go at Ralph here? I genuinely don't understand or see what he could have done differently. Without him we would have been in a relegation fight last season and this season. Our first team (when all fit and present) is average but amazingly coached. And right now we are so threadbare AND have had 4 shocking decisions go against us in the past two games. Okay todays wouldn't have changed the result, but we might not have collapsed second half so badly without them.
Things didn't go so bad after we lost 9-0 last time. And we're not 19th like we were last time. #persective #moveon #****var
Bournemouth followed a similar trajectory last season. Ok, they didn't lose 9-0, or go top, but they were flying high, talking Europe ... had injuries around now, suffered and went down.
If it makes you feel any better, we lost 8-0 to a Wigan team who joined us in relegation to the third tier last season It was 7-0 at half-time
Think I’d better stay off twitter tonight. It’s quite likely I’d get banned responding to the #GaoOut brigade
Do we beleive the league will do anything about Dean/Mason. The penalty and sending off - he couldn’t see the screen as it broke, then thought ah **** it, ill just give it as ive got a long drive home. As for the offiside - they need to come out and aplogise for this, and the pen on sat and offisde v Villa. I wont be holding my breath...
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Time to move on...
The owners should hang their heads in shame. They have destroyed the best manager we have had in a long time. We will be back to appointing managers that fans will have to look up on Google if Ralph walks.
Yep. This. Look, this result really doesn't matter. We were always up against it, then Weird Al had a brain freeze, we were getting tonked. We're not going to sack Ralph, he's not going to walk away. It's a bad result, but it doesn't really matter in the big scheme of things. We'll pick ourselves up, and once we're not utterly decimated by injury we'll be fine. We're not going down. We'll pick up again. We've been utterly, miserably, ridiculously unlucky in the last two games on VAR decisions (which didn't matter today, but they did in the last game). I think it's far more likely we'll all walk away because of VAR than Ralph going anywhere.
Should do. He can't foresee red cards like that, coupled with an OG and injuries, a heavy defeat couldn't be ruled out . If he walked I wouldn't blame him but I think he's a bigger man than that.
Oh I know, i get that. Just now we need to show support all round. I really hope we keep Ralph, but one way or another I think it may be too much. I do think he needs to shoulder some of this, you cant lose 9-0 two seasons in a row and him not have to look in the mirror as to how he performed from the sideline. It will be the worse thing though if he goes.
