Fox says sacking Lambert would be like flicking a coin??

[andyh]

I can only imagine the thinking (yeah tenuous with these clowns in charge) here is that get these few tough games out the way and we can play catch up with a run of easier games rather than sack this clown now.

Problem with that is the team are so devoid of confidence those easier games won't be easy..honestly at moment the only team I fancy us to beat is Hull.

QPR have worst away record in league what's the betting the one away game they win is against us...

Hull?
That will be incredibly tough. They will see that as their winnable game and get them going.
I am struggling to see a win anywhere now.

[Rudy65]

I can only imagine the thinking (yeah tenuous with these clowns in charge) here is that get these few tough games out the way and we can play catch up with a run of easier games rather than sack this clown now.

Problem with that is the team are so devoid of confidence those easier games won't be easy..honestly at moment the only team I fancy us to beat is Hull.

QPR have worst away record in league what's the betting the one away game they win is against us...

Hull?
That will be incredibly tough. They will see that as their winnable game and get them going.
I am struggling to see a win anywhere now.

After chelsea the rest of the month and March has some, in theory, winnable games. April looks very ominious

[pauliewalnuts]

I can only imagine the thinking (yeah tenuous with these clowns in charge) here is that get these few tough games out the way and we can play catch up with a run of easier games rather than sack this clown now.

Problem with that is the team are so devoid of confidence those easier games won't be easy..honestly at moment the only team I fancy us to beat is Hull.

QPR have worst away record in league what's the betting the one away game they win is against us...

Hull?
That will be incredibly tough. They will see that as their winnable game and get them going.
I am struggling to see a win anywhere now.

After chelsea the rest of the month and March has some, in theory, winnable games. April looks very ominious

There aren't any winnable games for us, though.

We keep having batches of them and winning hardly any of them.

Which is why we're going to get relegated, I'm afraid.

[andyh]

Ahhh, the old 'winnable games' thing.

There have been loads of those of the last couple of years, including runs of 'winnable games' where we have spectacularly failed to take advantage.

[Louzie0]

Brilliant Cup run?
About the only thing left at the moment to be hopeful about until the next inevitable win or five to stagger to the end of the season. I'm pinning my hopes on Delph's enigmatic 'better things are coming' statement, by the way.
And 4 worse teams.

[PaulWinch again]

We are a desperately poor side, but that is mainly down to having the worst manager in the league.

[steffo]

Sadly, with only 15 games left we need a firefighter to keep us up.

Unless we can find a proven manager who is out of work or who is willing to sacrifice his career to save us we are fucked.

There is of course our current owners ability to appoint the right manager. Lambert came with high expectations except they forgot to ask in the interview 'will you entertain us'? (or even attack).

Today proved his belief in in own bullshit. After beating a B/mouth reserve side he believed that team could take Arsenal. There would be no complaints with a hard working 0-0 today to restore confidence. Yet it was more of the same expecting individuals to produce results rather than a structured team game plan.

 

[pauliewalnuts]

The whole flicking a coin thing makes me laugh.

Flick a coin and you have a 50/50 chance of getting the outcome you want. Persisting with the current set up is going to get us relegated.

[PaulWinch again]

The whole flicking a coin thing makes me laugh.

Flick a coin and you have a 50/50 chance of getting the outcome you want. Persisting with the current set up is going to get us relegated.

That's the bizarre thing. This seems like the easiest and most obvious decision in the world. Either you keep the current regime and get relegated or you make a change and there's a chance there will be an improvement.

[SamTheMouse]

They seem to think they're being clever, that they've stumbled on some genius concept that nobody's ever thought of before. Namely that sticking with the manager even when things are diabolically awful will somehow pay dividends in the long run, as if being nice and loyal somehow raises your chances of long term success.

It's like the General Melchett school of tactics: "Doing exactly what we've done eighteen times before will be the last thing they expect us to do this time!"

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I hope there's a big orange banner for the Chelsea game that simply reads 'FLICK THE COIN'.

[SamTheMouse]

In fact, the more I think about it, the more this apparently genius "sticking by the manager will bring long term rewards" strategy resembles the one they adopted when they appointed Lambert, which ran along the lines of "sign cheap young players and they will evolve into superstars and guarantee long-term success". As if that was all it took, and nobody else had ever thought of the idea.

I appreciate the desire to be principled, but we desperately need an injection of hard-headed pragmatism at the club.

[cheltenhamlion]

Flick the fucking thing.

[Deano's Mullet]

has he gone yet?

[paulcomben]

Coins are flipped. Wrists are flicked. Hence, Tom Fox said 'like flipping a coin'.