RDM Poll time at 10 played!

[mike]

Agree Ads.  This season is already a write off as far as promotion is concerned.  The issue is very much can we improve enough to avoid back to back relegations.

Brian, as a miserable negative old bastard, I rely on the likes of you to be a bit more balanced than me. If you're worried, I'm very worried. The only good thing about going down last year was thinking we wouldn't have another relegation thread this year.

[mr underhill]

to a degree this is all academic because sitting in the Holte End on Sunday surveying the shit-fest in front of me for the first 65 minutes of the Newcastle game, I kept looking at people around me who were totally committed to the club no matter what, and realized that as much as I moan my balls off about us, I'd still be watching and worrying if we were playing Plymouth in another Division. Having said that, with the players we have, there is absolutely no excuse not to be in the top six or seven and the reason we are not is down to piss poor management from RDM.

[mr underhill]

apologies Saturday!

[TonyD]

Given it's unlikely that RDM is going to suddenly develop a tactical brain, then we will be looking at new manager soon.  Can somebody start a poll of new managers?

[Lee Christmas]

We have 36 games to get another 75 points- never going to happen, so wave goodbye to even a slim shout of the automatic spots.

We need another 60 points to squeak into 6th, so we need more than 2 points a game which looks massively unlikely as well.

So with the chances of enjoying a second season in this shit heap of a league, its a question of whether we will pick up the necessary points to stay up.On the current ratio, its a maybe.

Sorry to correct your maths but..
60 / 36 = 1.66 points per game. Sounds a bit more feasible.

[ChicagoLion]

We have 36 games to get another 75 points- never going to happen, so wave goodbye to even a slim shout of the automatic spots.

We need another 60 points to squeak into 6th, so we need more than 2 points a game which looks massively unlikely as well.

So with the chances of enjoying a second season in this shit heap of a league, its a question of whether we will pick up the necessary points to stay up.On the current ratio, its a maybe.

Sorry to correct your maths but..
60 / 36 = 1.66 points per game. Sounds a bit more feasible.

These posts come around as often as Christmas.

[preston28]

We have 36 games to get another 75 points- never going to happen, so wave goodbye to even a slim shout of the automatic spots.

We need another 60 points to squeak into 6th, so we need more than 2 points a game which looks massively unlikely as well.

So with the chances of enjoying a second season in this shit heap of a league, its a question of whether we will pick up the necessary points to stay up.On the current ratio, its a maybe.

Sorry to correct your maths but..
60 / 36 = 1.66 points per game. Sounds a bit more feasible.

These posts come around as often as Christmas.

Stop being a Turkey or I'll give your ears a good boxing.

[brian green]

Sorry Mike but I am trying to offer balance and a form of optimism.  The utterly unthinkable would be another spell in the third division.  It was unbelievably shit last time regardless how people like me say it was unforgettable and thrilling.  When you are in a slide like we are now you have to forget all about winning shitloads of games and concentrate on winning some of them.  The first and overwhelming priority of the players, the manager and the coaches should be on not being dragged into a relegation dog fight.  Given our start, I consider a top half finish will enable us to have a better next season.  We dithered and twatted about with Sherwood and Garde when we should have been scrapping for our Premiership survival. I don't want the same "let's see who can spit our chewing gum the furthest" mentality to put us into the third division.

[ktvillan]

I'm torn on RDM.  On the one hand you could look at it as at least he's stopped us losing (mostly) , which could be a first step to getting us winning again. But that may come too late for us to be contesting the promotion places if it doesn't start soon.   There's been a massive turnover of players and it does take time to settle and gel.  And we've had some misfortune with injuries and hitting the woodwork more often than a tree-feller.

On the other hand you see the same mistakes made repeatedly,  the imbalance in the transfers in,  and the tactical indecisiveness and errors.   He was praised for bringing in a spine to the team but Gollini is young, error-prone and gauche, Elphick looks poor in both playing and leadership, Tshibola is good but young and has been injury prone, and Jedinak looks awful so far.  Chester hasn't really impressed that much either.   At the end of the window I thought we were short of 2 more midfielders, another CB and an experienced solid keeper.  Spending 50m and still having such an imbalanced squad so reliant on fairly mediocre players in key positions does not reflect all that well on him.  And the fact that the standard of football in this division is hardly stellar doesn't make his record look any better. 

It could simply be down to confidence, which could change with a decent win.  I can't help feeling if we could just win one comfortably against a better team than Rotherham, the confidence might come back.  But RDM had better make it quick.

[Boz]

Given RDM is on the edge, who to replace him?

I recall Pearson and Moyes being very favoured before RDM was appointed and they have shown their credentials as being no better to manage the Villa.

Some of the younger Championship managers have already shown more nous than RDM when we've played their teams, so perhaps now we're out the Premiership we can look at one of these.

[ez]

I'd wait until xmas and if we're not top half let him go.

[appyarryampton]

I just wish Dr. Tony's Mondeo broke down before he reached the Eurostar.

[Marlon From Bearwood]

We have 36 games to get another 75 points- never going to happen, so wave goodbye to even a slim shout of the automatic spots.

We need another 60 points to squeak into 6th, so we need more than 2 points a game which looks massively unlikely as well.

So with the chances of enjoying a second season in this shit heap of a league, its a question of whether we will pick up the necessary points to stay up.On the current ratio, its a maybe.

If we need another 60 points from 36 games for the play offs then how is that more than 2 points per game? Unless I've missed something?

[Ads]

I did based off 30 games by mistake.

[Holte L2]

Gary Rowett would be my choice.  He's made the noses look like a decent side.  He'd be brilliant here if the fans got behind him.
Dean Smith would be my second choice. His Brentford side are doing well and they played some good football against us.