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Reply | Le shrug on todays catastrophuck
at 09:00 24 Aug 2025
Let’s see what happens against Charlton.
We’re all on the outside trying to look in. Taking a step back and looking at this from a common sense human behavioural perspective I suspect:
- CN has sold JS ‘the project’ and I suspect it was a pretty attractive pitch
- JS has bought into it
- JS, having assessed from inside, has reached the same conclusion as MS
- JS has raised concerns but hasn’t been able to move away from the model because it’s too early into his tenure
- in public he’s going to toe the party line because (1) that’s what decent people do (MS was pretty diplomatic in public) (2) he’s not going to destroy his relationship with CN by throwing him under the bus.
- he made the point, twice, in his post-match interview, pretty clearly, that Charlton will be as VERY different game
- he can now go to CN and point, with concrete evidence, to what happens if we keep on down this path. Evolution, not revolution.
- he’s in a far stronger position to dictate playing style now because (1) he can walk at this stage without it damaging his CV because he can just say, diplomatically, that things weren’t as he expected (2) CN can’t afford him to walk. The alternative is he keeps playing like this and he carries the can and gets sacked on CN’s terms later in the season. He doesn’t strike me as stupid so will have worked out he’s got nothing to lose in having the conversation, the outcome being either we change style to one that he thinks will work and we start picking up points, or he walks away before any damage is done to his reputation.
If nothing changes against Charlton, I think we have a serious problem. If there are changes we may look back on yesterday as a blessing in disguise that wouldn’t have been if we’d lost 2-0
Edit: if I were JS I’d also be taking the opportunity to have a serious conversation about the medical team [Post edited 24 Aug 9:09]
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Reply | Drop Walsh
at 19:31 23 Aug 2025
TBF, I don’t get the Nardi love-in, he was letting in goals for fun at the beginning of last season as well. I seem to recall over the first three games or so he faced about eight shots and let seven goals in or something, lots from outside the box. He got better but dropped off again at the end of last season.
JS probably knows him pretty well from his time in France and possibly just doesn’t rate him. |
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Reply | Owners OUT, Nourry OUT
at 19:24 23 Aug 2025
This ownership has been a disaster and I’ve been as critical as any but, in Reuben’s defence, he’s been left holding the baby. Fernandes and his ego was the real wrecking ball that set all this in motion. It was just a toy for Amit bought by his in-laws to give him something to do.
Reuben clearly doesn’t know what he’s doing when it comes to running a football club but (1) he pays the bills and (2) he’s either recognised that he’s clueless or circumstances have dictated that he’s had to take a step back. Under those circumstances his only option is to appoint someone to run it for him. Recruitment is everything. Whatever anyone thinks of him, I suspect he has enough common sense not to hand the keys to someone with Nourry’s profile. I would have thought the plan was to bring him in with fresh ideas etc but to be mentored by someone with some experience. Which brings us to Lee Hoos. WTF is he doing and why aren’t questions being asked of him? He may not be a ’football man’ in the sense of working on the playing side, but he’s a very experienced CEO. Where is he, wtf is he doing? If I were Reuben it’d be him I’d be bollocking. |
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Reply | Drop Walsh
at 18:54 23 Aug 2025
1- straight at him in the middle of the goal. Went through his legs. Dreadful
2 - no chance (although didn’t even get close)
3 - defection, no chance
4 - didn’t even dive
5 - just fell to his left, didn’t even seem to try to get to it. Dreadful
6 - ball went over his hand. Should have saved it. Dreadful again.
7 - went over his head from the far side of the box 25 yards away. Great strike but should have done far, far better.
Clearly not the only problem today but when you’re having a bad day you need a keeper that can dig you out of a hole not one that gives atleast four goals away. Either not ready of not good enough. Lumley vibes |
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Reply | Is this on Nourry?
at 23:01 19 Oct 2024
100%
They’ve made the same mistake they made with LF. They’ve appointed someone entirely unqualified for the job who’s now learning on the job, again. It’s mind numbingly dumb.
Just like any other organisation, this is all about recruitment. Appointing Nourry is like having an architect draw up the plans for your house and then appointing him to actually physically build the thing himself. Nothing wrong with the plans, but stupid beyond belief to expect him to be able to build it. Anyone with half a brain cell gets a builder in.
We’ve one owner born into money, one married into it. Nice guys, benevolent, but the absolute epitome of “more money than sense”. |
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Reply | The snake going to sunderland
at 19:26 15 Dec 2023
Amazing he’s hoodwinked another club.
Got lucky here, following Warburton’s three years’ work, destroyed it, moved to a massive club that had reached a European final, fvcked it up, now he’s going in to leach off Mowbray’s work. He’s a parasite.
With his luck he’ll fluke a promotion before he gets found out again. |
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Reply | Preston Never-Ending Journey match thread
at 22:10 1 Dec 2023
Cold December night ooop north, away win, clean sheet. Second win in three days, on the old run-rate that would have taken three years.
Nice to see half a dozen teams above us back within touching distance. |
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Reply | Stoke Reflection
at 00:25 29 Nov 2023
No goals in this team apparently 
No goals in Ainsworth’s team, but that’s because we only ever had two shots on target, at best, per game. 19 shots tonight, 9 on target, and 4 goals. Who’d have thought putting a team out to try and score goals might result in some goals being scored? Genius.
Long way to go, that was laboured and nervy, we had the rub of the green, tried to throw it away anyway, but we’d have lost that under Ainsworth. The team Cifuentes inherited was on the floor the way it had been set up, the results, and constantly being told everyone was better than us and we were lucky to be playing in the same division as everyone else. We’ve gone from an absolute abomination to a win, two draws and a single defeat in Marti’s first four games. That’s pretty solid and given the mess he inherited shouldn’t be underestimated. |
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Reply | Match Thread: Queens Park Rangers FC v Bristol City
at 17:39 11 Nov 2023
Compared to the performance against the same opposition under Ainsworth, in the dead rubber last season, and what Liam Manning’s League 1 side did to us in pre-season, there’s no denying things are looking much better.
MC will soon get tired of Dykes unless he starts scoring or starts creating opportunities for others, and he’ll drop him and create a system that allows others to score.
We have to make up 6 points over 30 games to avoid the drop. I fancy us more than Sheff Weds, Rotherham, Huddersfield, and Birmingham are dropping like a stone.
We were dead and buried under Ainsworth, I think we’ve got a real chance now. |
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Reply | Marti Cifuentes x Taylor Richards
at 18:14 10 Nov 2023
There's little doubt there’s an attitude issue there, but it’s also very obvious there’s a very good player in there as well. I suspect if he’s in an environment where the latter is allowed to flourish, the former, whilst still there, may be less likely to come to the surface quite so regularly. At the end of the day, we need all the help we can get. We can’t afford to sideline good players if we can avoid it. Let’s hope MC can get something out of him |
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Reply | Extended highlights
at 10:37 5 Nov 2023
Was that Gaz sneaking in with the veterans at the beginning there?  |
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Reply | Elijah Bonner Dixon
at 19:55 4 Nov 2023
Name-checked by the manager. Dozzell is going to look even more stupid for that moment of petulance if the player who replaced him in the side for the new manager’s first game plays too well to be dropped. |
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Reply | Thief went ace post match
at 19:50 4 Nov 2023
Breath of fresh air. Hopefully, within a week or two, the last 9 months will just feel like a very weird dream. |
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Reply | Windy Millers Match Thread.
at 17:42 4 Nov 2023
Stopped the rot, that will give them confidence. Played some actual football, kept the ball on the floor. Full week on the training ground, then the International break. Things look far more positive. |
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Reply | Windy Millers Match Thread.
at 11:48 4 Nov 2023
In one sense I’m dreading this because it’s been a relief to feel some optimism this week, and there’s potential to have that balloon popped. That being said, I think the players have become so disillusioned with Ainsworth, him being gone will give them a massive lift. I don’t subscribe to the theory we don’t have the players to go back to Warbsball. So, for once, I think we’ll get a bit of new manager bounce and win. 0-2. |
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