Relegation Possibility

[Greg N'Ash]

Lerner and co playing russian roulette. Last season we still had some depth - this season pffftttt.......

[pauliewalnuts]

The man has to go. Said on the match thread, we look rudderless.

it is too late to replace him and do any good this season, I fear.

It's the fact he'll still be here with his negative bullshit and his O'Learian "everyone's fault but mine" attitude next season that worries me.

[Stu]

The man has to go. Said on the match thread, we look rudderless.

it is too late to replace him and do any good this season, I fear.

It's the fact he'll still be here with his negative bullshit and his O'Learian "everyone's fault but mine" attitude next season that worries me.

I'm going to Sweden next year on exchange with the Uni. I don't think I'll miss the football too much somehow.

[ez]

Agree he must go now. He should really have gone after the Wigan game. Giving him until the end of the season is suicide.

[hawkeye]

The man has to go. Said on the match thread, we look rudderless.

it is too late to replace him and do any good this season, I fear.

Getting rid at any time would be good news, he is a hinderance and the last bloke you want in a relegation fight.

[Toronto Villa]

On a more positive note we have the same points as we had this time last year. the bottom three were all on at least 31 points then as well

However, last year we won at the Emirates, and beat Liverpool at home in the run in.

Right now, those are the sort of fixture our negative manager would look at as games where we need to keep the score down rather than opportunities to take points.

Scary to think that had we retained Gary Mac as manager we'd probably be better off.

Appointing him would have made more sense than giving it to this spineless muppet.

I honestly think the scariest thing is that, even if we stay up, McLeish is going to do nothing but suck the lifeblood out of the club for another season.

A small piece of me always wants to give a bloke the chance to build his own squad. Most of this lot had a life of luxury under MON, were a nightmare to manage under GH, and haven't done anything noteworthy under McLeish. The sooner a good amount of them are gone the better. Then there's the other side that accepts that his dismissal at the end of this season would give the fans a massive lift. Then I think about who the replacement might be and I'm left bricking it again. I really don't know how to feel anymore.

[pauliewalnuts]

A small piece of me always wants to give a bloke the chance to build his own squad. Most of this lot had a life of luxury under MON, were a nightmare to manage under GH, and haven't done anything noteworthy under McLeish. The sooner a good amount of them are gone the better. Then there's the other side that accepts that his dismissal at the end of this season would give the fans a massive lift. Then I think about who the replacement might be and I'm left bricking it again. I really don't know how to feel anymore.

I honestly think it would be incredibly deflating to keep this bloke on next season.

You're right, the players - many of them - have a lot to answer for, but time and time again this season it has been the managers tactics, which have either been piss poor or just negative.

As you hinted, the worst thing is that we'd probably replace him with someone even worse - that's just how fucking clueless our leaders are.

Five years into "Bright Future", how many of us thought it would have come to this?

[David_Nab]

I think IF he keeps us up he will be give a chance to build his own side ..but I give him till xmas tops if we are the way we are now then he will be chopped.

[adrenachrome]

Lerner and co playing russian roulette. Last season we still had some depth - this season pffftttt.......

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That is the situation, without a doubt.

This set of players, even with all the injuries, is capable of beating anybody on their day, if everything goes well. They are singularly not capable of putting a run of results together, and they are not capable of battling their way out of adversity.

We should be okay, but the Russian Roulette analogy is a good one, I would say.

[ez]

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[Ads]

Its going to be tight but we'll just scrape by.

QPR have picked up two great results at home, but looking at their fixtures, I cannot see them getting out of it. Wolves have had it. Wigan will buy it this season. We need seven points and we've got to be looking set three minimum from next weekend at the Dipperdome and against Stoke.

United will do us a favour at Blackburn and at home to QPR.

What a dreadful season thus has been.

[Greg N'Ash]

Way i see it is I can't see anyone coming to us who could make anything out of the powderpuff midfield that is Bannon, Herd, Ireland, Gardner - its piss poor basically

[Toronto Villa]

A small piece of me always wants to give a bloke the chance to build his own squad. Most of this lot had a life of luxury under MON, were a nightmare to manage under GH, and haven't done anything noteworthy under McLeish. The sooner a good amount of them are gone the better. Then there's the other side that accepts that his dismissal at the end of this season would give the fans a massive lift. Then I think about who the replacement might be and I'm left bricking it again. I really don't know how to feel anymore.

I honestly think it would be incredibly deflating to keep this bloke on next season.

You're right, the players - many of them - have a lot to answer for, but time and time again this season it has been the managers tactics, which have either been piss poor or just negative.

As you hinted, the worst thing is that we'd probably replace him with someone even worse - that's just how fucking clueless our leaders are.

Five years into "Bright Future", how many of us thought it would have come to this?

To think that we might be better off with a publicity seeking dictator like Doug in charge right now. At least he'd have chopped McLeish at the knees by now. Yeh, nobody saw this back in 2006.

[Fergal]

A small piece of me always wants to give a bloke the chance to build his own squad. Most of this lot had a life of luxury under MON, were a nightmare to manage under GH, and haven't done anything noteworthy under McLeish. The sooner a good amount of them are gone the better. Then there's the other side that accepts that his dismissal at the end of this season would give the fans a massive lift. Then I think about who the replacement might be and I'm left bricking it again. I really don't know how to feel anymore.

I honestly think it would be incredibly deflating to keep this bloke on next season.

You're right, the players - many of them - have a lot to answer for, but time and time again this season it has been the managers tactics, which have either been piss poor or just negative.

As you hinted, the worst thing is that we'd probably replace him with someone even worse - that's just how fucking clueless our leaders are.

Five years into "Bright Future", how many of us thought it would have come to this?

That would be some feat...

[Brend'Watkins]

We're effectively 6 pts clear of the bottom 3.  Will two of the bottom 3 win two games...possibly.  Will we not get at least another win or draw til the end of the season?  Of course we will.  We would have beaten most other teams today with the spirit we showed today, carry that on to the next lot and there will be no problem.