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Just now, 054123 said:

Get rid of Pearson, I’m sure Steve has another amazing plan ready

A billionaire owner for 20 years

It’s difficult to blame Lansdown for things going wrong with Pearson when 99.9% of the fans were elated that Pearson joined us.

This is the first time this season I’ve been genuinely worried about relegation. Jesus Christ.

We’ve gone from Paterson, Pack, Smith and Brownhill to COD, Bakinson, Massengo, Scott in just over two years. Sigh.

1 minute ago, sh1t_ref_again said:

Can't believe we keep trying to flog Martin to death

Reminds me of that season in the Championship where Cotts played Wilbs every game as he had nobody else!

Just now, Fordy62 said:

Struggling to get up for this. 

There’s stuff you can get in the pharmacy for that. Oh sorry I misread 

Looks like we’ve gone for a flat 442 with Scott and COD on the wings. Bit nervous in CM with Bakinson / Massengo but there aren’t many other options.

Feels like a bit of a waste to play Scott but not start with Wells and Weimann to be honest.

1 hour ago, 22A said:

I'm generally an optimist. Win today and we are looking good for mid table obscurity, (as many on this forum hoped for in August).

Lose today though and we'll be looking down.

Why do our hopes for the entire season rest on one game out of 46?

32 minutes ago, Kid in the Riot said:

What do you class as mid table? We're currently 2 points off 14th, 3pts off 13th and 4pts off 11th, with just over a third of the season gone.

Just trying to work out what is accepted as "midtable". I'd have said 10th - 14th probably

It’s all relative though isn’t it. We are 19th but closer to the play offs than relegation. The actual numerical position in the table is fairly meaningless as it’s relative to the position of the other teams.

How many of those contracts would have expired by now?

7 hours ago, Davefevs said:

A financial decision….pretty much forced on him, because of the wasteful years of MA.  Nige himself said Pato was unlucky not to get a contract offer.  Unfortunately budgets dictate, it doesn’t become a football ability decision when racking up £35m losses.  I think most of us saw the talent of Pato, but he’d just been through a series of recurring hip injuries too.

Walsh was never staying according to some, so what do you do?

We can’t treat it like playing a game of Football Manager.

You will never convince me it was a good idea 

Just now, Red-Robbo said:

 

You have to wonder where we'd be if NP had managed to buy the striker he was looking for.  I understand the reasons he couldn't, but a half-decent goal poacher up front would have given us momentum and, although there are still lots of weaknesses in the squad, we'd be in a much better place.

You cannot complete a jigsaw with a missing piece - and so we are... incomplete. 

His failure to get the best out of Wells is exacerbating the issue. He could be the striker we need if he had some confidence, but it was sucked out of him by not starting at the start of the season. Terrible man management in my view.

I have a genuine chip on my shoulder over us releasing Paterson. What a bone headed move that was.

2 minutes ago, Rudolf Hucker said:

Can you not recollect just how shit we were under Holden?

Only towards the end. We were then worse under Pearson until the end of the season.

1 minute ago, JoeAman08 said:

He is a dinosaur. Those older managers living off past successes are all failing. Forest and Cardiff were smart enough to get rid. Middlesborough aren’t exactly flying either. Without looking I reckon the top 10 teams don’t have a manager older than 50. Fresh faces and fresh ideas is the way forward. 

Too late to pry Ryan Lowe away from Plymouth?!

I am now leaning towards Pearson out. Turgid terrible football 

Not going to lie, starting to have my doubts about NP now. We are definitely worse than we were under the majority of Johnson’s tenure, and for a lot of Holden’s.

Anyone else totally uninspired by this team selection? Very little attacking flair 

Not having a replacement lined up already makes me wonder if he was pushed rather than left voluntarily 

7 hours ago, ExiledAjax said:

I've taken some time to let the win settle in, and have reflected on it today.

Honestly it just reminds me ever so much of the Huddersfield home game towards the end of Holden's time, in January 2021.

We'd lost 5 of the previous 7, including losses to Rotherham, Luton, and the limp 2-0 away loss to Norwich. 

Huddersfield laid siege to our goal, 27 shots to our 4. xG of 2.6 to our 0.5. It was a brutal watch and we won thanks to a quickfire first half brace from our striker (Diedhiou in that case). Huddersfield hit the woodwork several times, and we rode our luck, just as we did yesterday. At the time there was jubilation from some, and claims of a dramatic corner being turned. I counseled caution and restraint, as the win had been very poor.

We then lost our next 5 games, and Holden went.

I get that I'm being a slight party-pooper in this post, and I am not saying that I think or hope we will repeat that 5 game streak. I'm not even saying the games themselves were similar. However the context, the reactions, and the general themes are similar. Hence I feel there are more cracks being papered than corners turned.

It’s not the same situation, we’d lost two games against two of the three best teams in the league and should have beaten Forest had we not suffered from our psychological issues at home. I don’t expect another losing run for a while now.

Are Barnsley’s team similar in personnel to last season’s play off team? I know they lost Mowatt who was influential but I don’t know much else about their squad. Either way, they were a shambles compared to how they played when they beat us 1-0 after Holden left earlier this year.

Very happy for Moyes after everything he has been through. Arguably a better achievement doing it with West Ham now than Everton before because the levels are much higher in the Premier League these days in my opinion.

Aitor Karanka (Birmingham), Neil Warnock (Cardiff) and Gary Rowett (Stoke) spring to mind

7 minutes ago, Redpool said:

Can they bin Paul Merson? Can’t put a sentence together. Sounds like a child speaking who’s been given too much sugar 

Fixed that for you.

I don’t understand