Dr T has pulled the trigger

[Steve67]

Beat Newcastle and this furore stops. Let the bloke get a fit 11 out before we sack him. I didn't want him in the first place but I recognise the job is akin to doing a hand brake turn in the QE2.  Get Tshibola and Adomah and McCormack fit and we will be ok.

[aj2k77]

Newby, with due respect, the best 11 line is bollocks as everyone suffers injuries and almost never get to send out their ''best'' 11. The fact we spent so much money should help us cope with injuries better than the club that spends £500k and has to play youth players in their places or journeymen.

[brian green]

If RDM was our first manager to get the alarm bells ringing I would agree that patience might bear fruit.  But he is not.  He follows the flouncing of MON, the medical disaster that was Houllier, the torture of McLeish, the two faced duplicity of Lambert, the narcissism of Sherwood, the feebleness of Garde and the treachery of Black.  The fans' fuses are bound to be getting shorter.  Mine is.  There is no long run in professional football.  As Maynard Keynes said, in the long run we are all dead.

[mr underhill]

we have to stop hiding behind excuse after excuse. RDM will not be turning this ship around.

[Monty]

Pretty sure it was Keynes, Brian.

Also I'm starting to agree.

[aj2k77]

Brian, we've all seen it all before, many times over, the signs that might take months and months to normally spot we see them straight away now, we are experts in spotting duffers. It's the one thing we've had an abundance of this decade.

[mr underhill]

you can go back a lot further than that

[VinnieChase84]

Hypothetically, what happens if Newcastle beat us very comfortably next week? Do you think patience will continue?

[oswald funkletrumpet]

rdm has had zero impact and hasnt even got a clue on how we should line up

fuck me clarke is meant to be a well respected coach but we continue to look like a rag tag bunch of hungover blokes who met half an hour earlier on a pub car park

[aj2k77]

Hypothetically, what happens if Newcastle beat us very comfortably next week? Do you think patience will continue?

Why should it? We've outspent the division by an absolute kings ransom and come out of it looking a mid table side at the moment. If the manager can only take an outlay like that and make the sum of it's parts worse than Brentford then how much money would he need to gain promotion? £100m? £200m? It's not realistic. Xia isn't ingrained in this defeatist, settle for anything shit that we've become, accepting crap performances, excusing away wacky formations with the injury bollocks, watching us flap it in the last 10 minutes of EVERY SINGLE FUCKING GAME and just saying it's fitness, we need to be fitter, it's not. We have no shape to the side and no control of matches, this bloke is already close to getting the sack, Xia is no Randy Lerner kind of fool who rewards failure and the status quo, he mentioned before any manager that there would be clauses put in.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

Beat Newcastle and this furore stops. Let the bloke get a fit 11 out before we sack him. I didn't want him in the first place but I recognise the job is akin to doing a hand brake turn in the QE2.  Get Tshibola and Adomah and McCormack fit and we will be ok.

this time next year rodney

[CT]

This is what gets me, the fact we also have Clarke there too. It's not like RDM is doing it all himself - SC would have been an acceptable choice as manager for me anyway.

We seem to have a sound managerial and back room team in place. Yet nothing really seems to change in terms of being able to win a game of football.

If Dr Tone sacks RDM does he let Clarke take the reigns or does he go for someone like Bruce and overhaul everything?

[Monty]

Beat Newcastle and this furore stops. Let the bloke get a fit 11 out before we sack him. I didn't want him in the first place but I recognise the job is akin to doing a hand brake turn in the QE2.  Get Tshibola and Adomah and McCormack fit and we will be ok.

this time next year rodney

Not sure signing Peter Crouch in time for next season is the answer.

[dave.woodhall]

I'm sure there'd be a line of suitable managers a mile long who'd want to work for an owner that let their predecessor spend £50 million then sacked him three weeks after the window closed.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

Beat Newcastle and this furore stops. Let the bloke get a fit 11 out before we sack him. I didn't want him in the first place but I recognise the job is akin to doing a hand brake turn in the QE2.  Get Tshibola and Adomah and McCormack fit and we will be ok.

this time next year rodney

Not sure signing Peter Crouch in time for next season is the answer.

that gary gardner just needs a chance
if baker can last 45 mins without putting his head in a cement mixer
jedinack will give us steel in midfield
elphick is a leader

im getting the jam tomorrow