dittto. i wish fans would stop whinging like ****ing fairies and give this set up a chance to work out. if anyone thought we'd flourish immediately they need to give their heeds a big shake.
Well, I am certainly seeing chinks of light at the end of the tunnel. Some of the football v the Arse yesterday 2nd half was very encouraging indeed. I loved the desire of the newbies, led admirably by an invigorated stand-in Capn AJ. Some attacking flair at long last that will hopefully improve further as more game-time amasses and the lads get to learn each others styles and thoughts etc etc. Some great saves from Westy too. In all fairness, the gooners sliced us apart with 3 goals and slick movements that no team lower than 10th will possess. Had to applaud all 3 efforts really . As long as we continue to show signs of some improvement along the way, I might place a bet that we are bottom at Xmas, and force our way out of the bottom 3 to survive by 4 or 5 points in the end. Next season will be the one to push for Europe. Haway the Lads man. Keep The Faith.
subject to the Professional Game Match (fixing) Officials board signing it off in their pre match meetings..biased if not corrupt to the core.
Worst comes to the worst? Stick by PaOlo. How many times have people said we need to support the manager??? Now it is not someone they have championed, should they change their tune? Hypocritical if they do. At least with PDC, he is trying to change the culture at the club. If he is a failure, is it his fault, or is it a sad indictment of modern football?
Got to agree here - I saw us play more football in 45 mins yesterday than I saw in all the games under Mon last season (and I did want mon to succeed btw)
But the same could be said of MoN who was given only 15 months (9 months of football time) and a paltry 66 games (and many were calling for his head after only 30 odd games) and he had a far superior pedigree? BTW, we have just had our worst start to a season in the top flight since 2005. Our infamous 15 points season. There is some sobering some food for thought.
mon didn't get much time. but the quality of football played under him, and the calibre of player compared to money spent, was not good enough. i desperately wanted mon to succeed. i remember being gutted when he knocked us back and we got keano, and i remember being ecstatic when he took over, totally confident this was the one, that we were going to do something. but after those glorious first two months, we were terrible, as bad as under bruce, only now we had a manager who would never be able to operate on our budget, certainly not with a squad to overhaul. we've got paolo now, and he's begun the overhaul of the squad that mon told short we needed. any change of this magnitude needs time, and we aren't getting mon back any time soon, so either put up or shut up. for the record, i think the only reason mon isn't still our manager is that short realised he didn't trust him with his money. he'd been the key investor for three managers who'd pissed cash away, and he wasn't going to let it happen again. enter paolo.
Explain please? If Adam Johnson and Stephen Fletcher represent 'pissing money away' then you and I have differing ideas of wasted money. Danny Graham was a poor buy but at £5m its not a bank breaker and we will recoup a fair portion back from it in a deal with Hull. Cuellar was a free signing and Rose a season loan? PDC by the way has munched his way through £30m this summer in all deals for the 14 players and yet we are still playing Larsson, Vaughan and Gardner in the midfield, Colback at left back and Ji up front? If that's progress I'm a ****ing billionaire playboy with a 12 inch cock.
Hardly £30m Cest. We got £9m for Mig and £6m for Sess so the net cost this window was actually quite modest. Dunno about the wage bill though. But I suspect Ellis has a beady eye on that.
But MoN also got rid of a lot of deadwood mate and didnt 'piss money away' at all. That was my point. Also, the £30m is an independent analysis (not mine) of what it has cost us in loan deals, agent fees, and free signing lump sums + cash for fees for the 14 players. There just seems one rule for O'Neill and another for Di Canio when it comes to results and points. 3 points in the last 24 available is about as piss poor as ANY manager has had in my lifetime and that's during his honeymoon period?
Cest - I thought you couldn't wait to get rid of Sess anyway + I seem to remember you saying you were giving up your ST etc etc so surely you should leave opinions to people who are putting their money up front to support the club and therefore dictate what type of football they want to pay to watch {apologies to anyone who cannot afford a ST or to go to the match}. I am beginning to wonder if you are a mag wum
OK Cest I accept from your comments that your glass is never half full but as a matter of interest have you watched any of the games this season
We are four games into a season and I feel we are living on crumbs of hope already. New season, almost the same team, odd team selection and tactics = starvation. Nothing we hoped and prayed for via the new setup is transpiring and as far as I can see there is nothing on the horizon that can help us.
Ha Ha the old your a mag if you don't like something and just nod your head all the time? People like you are a ****ing joke mate.
If it was up to some supporters we'd change the manager once a month. 'Available' managers are usually available for good reasons.
Unlike yourself who is a dickhead - by the way did I hit a nerve with the "people who put their money up front" bit ?
I wouldn't change the manager every month at all but I'd change poor ones at the drop of a hat. In 5 games time, without a win and maybe another 3 points at best, we shall see if the mood has changed at all. Just in my opinion of course before i am accused of being Che Guevara again?
