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  1. 11 hours ago, ScarBoro said:

    From an article in paper today comparing transfer policy this summer and what they categorise as Man City planning and Chelsea “throwing darts around”

    Doku, 21, is a Belgian forward signed from Rennes a week before the end of the transfer window. There was not an awful lot of noise about the signing, just like there was not about the arrival of the Croatian defender Josko Gvardiol, also 21, a few weeks earlier.

    But watching Doku tear through the West Ham defence on only his second league start last weekend was to witness a player seemingly made for Guardiola’s team. He arrived oven-ready at the press of a button once Riyad Mahrez had walked out of the door for Saudi Arabia.

    Gvardiol has played four times in the league and looks similarly at home. This is where planning gets you. It allows you to evolve quietly. It allows things to change while hardly anybody notices.

    thing is, if we are to be successful, we need to be on the Man City policy and not the Chelsea “throwing darts at a dart board”. I know we are in a different league (literally) and also Scott didn’t know which league to plan for, but it does seem as though we have done a lot of what Chelsea have done to summer - buying players and hoping they fit in or will develop to what we want, rather than the “oven-ready” professionalism of Man City. Obviously we can’t afford the fees and salaries of Premier League clubs, but there must be players around who are the Championship equivalent of Gvardiol and Doku and who could have slotted straight in and looked the part. I don’t mind spending some money on prospects - I’m sure Man City have taken a gamble or two with prospects, but all our young players seem to be more prospects than current game changers.

    Either recruitment team aren’t up to standard we need,  or Carrick and Woodgate aren’t following their suggestions

    Spot on, throwing darts would be the way I'd describe our recruitment. 

  2. 4 minutes ago, RiseAgainst said:

    If 10,000 fans each put £8,000 into an investment fund, we could buy the club. Fan-owned, safe from predatory oligarchs and sportswashing Saudis, and then we'd all be on here complaining about ourselves. It'd be like the South Park episode where everyone sues everyone.

    I haven't worked out how we'd fund the club's annual losses, but I'm sure OnlyFans could help. Or we could have an auction once a month where the highest bidder gets to play LB for a game. Let's face it, with current team selections, it seems like we're already pulling team names out of a tombola.

    If I bought 8k worth of shares I'm selling at a profit to the first Saudi or Oligarch who offers me money. 

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  3. 2 minutes ago, macapes said:

    If his tactics only work with multiple Premier League players and a 30 goal a season number 10 (and the end of last season suggests even that wasn't enough) then there's a problem with the tactics.

    Absolutely, after reading comments on this board and social media its clear Carrick is running out of time with the fans. If he can't get himself out of this pickle then he's maybe not the manager we thought he was last season. 

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  4. 4 minutes ago, EstonSmog said:

    Don’t get me wrong, he hasn’t helped himself. Maybe to say I feel for him was the wrong phrase because he is definitely making some very strange decisions, especially with subs, timings etc. I genuinely think he is abit lost with this group of players. He knows how he wants to play but this squad of players either are a) not clever enough or b) not good enough. But then that’s on the head coach to change it. I’m just not too sure this is the vision he was sold this time last year, that’s where I feel for him. 

    The recruitment wouldn’t have been that bad if we’d brought in some experience aswell. Instead we brought in a bunch of players who either haven’t played regularly in this league or country. I quite liked the idea of bringing in Rodgers, Silvera etc as younger players but to not back it up with genuine experience, was asking for trouble. We just cannot seem to decide what we want to be as a club. I get that we want to be sustainable but it was only January that we threw a load of cash at loan players wages. It’s getting beyond baffling to me, we are constantly flipping between ideas. 

    This has absolutely nailed it, I don't think Carrick is clueless but I think he's lost at the moment and part of that is down to the poor group of players. It's up to him to sort it out now though..... and fast.

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  5. 19 minutes ago, SouthernSmoggie said:

    This season is about staying up now, our fixtures have actually been very easy. We've played one side in the top 13, Blackburn (10th).

    Remember Coventry, WBA, Millwall, and QPR all beating us with ease? They're all below 14th.

    We'll be the only team dumb enough to play right into Southampton's hand on Saturday and get stuffed again - writing is on the wall for Carrick, he's not learning fast enough and the players look like they're waiting for the inevitable.

    To be fair to Carrick and the players I think the second half at least showed the players are playing for him. We played with a higher line, played with more tempo and with positive intent. If the players weren't playing for him it would have been easy to chuck it in last night. 

    Don't get me wrong the first half was shocking I think we are seeing a lack of quality, massive lack of confidence and a lack of organisation at the moment. All those are bad but I don't think its a lack of effort. 

    You're right about it being a relegation battle now though, I can't see it being much better than that. 

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  6. 1 minute ago, LinoJo3 said:

    He’d come for the money, name another manager we could get right now that’s almost guaranteed to at least keep us up and stay short term?

    The only reason I think he’s turn is down is because we’d want him to work with the existing coaches.

    I don't think we have the money and certainly not the kind he'd demand. 

    I don't want a short term firefighter, if Carrick goes I'd go for a manager that can get the team organised but also someone who wants to play the right kind of football and someone who wants to come here and build something. 

    I'd still give Carrick more time if it was up to me because I don't want to keep repeating this same cycle that we can't get out of. 

    Saying that I'm pretty ambivalent to it all now, I've accepted that I'm probably never gonna see us in the Premier league again while Gibson is here and league 1 football is more likely now in the short term. I'm way past getting angry anymore, it's pointless. 

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  7. 58 minutes ago, LinoJo3 said:

    I’m not against allerdyce tbh, he would comfortably get this group of players mid table and leave at the end of the season. We wouldn’t have to get ‘his’ players in.

    For people who’d still want a progressive manager who could we get at this stage of the season who’d take over a bottom of the table team with a dodgy looking squad? Nobody decent has been sacked yet and I can’t think of any knocking about. Don’t even try and suggest potter either.

    There's no way Allardyce would 'lower' himself to the lower reaches of the Championship. I wouldn't want him either. 

  8. 3 minutes ago, diggerlad07 said:

    Regardless of the result, today is a MASSIVE win for me.....

    A year ago this week I was rushed into hospital having panic attacks....
    For a long period anxiety and panic attacks has stopped me from doing all the things I love!

    Today, I can tick off the last thing on my list which is to attend a Boro away game....

    Still a long way to go on this , but I am extremely delighted with my achievement and taking each day as it comes 

    Love to all....

    PS Engel and Crooks.....Less said the better!

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    Well done mate! We all get too emotional about the match when it's really not that important in the grand scheme of things. 

    Hopefully onwards and upwards for you. 

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