Ok I was wrong on Mings already being with us. The point I was making is we wont have these players if we go down.
Quote from: Luke8 on February 23, 2020, 04:19:30 PMAnd also, as you mention, while we don’t want to rely on other teams, pretty much everyone else is at least as bad as us. In fact, out of the bottom eight, only Watford (due to their decent run when Pearson took over) have taken more points than us from the last ten games.And over the last three games, all of our relegation rivals have taken more points than us. It's possible to spin this whatever way you want.
And also, as you mention, while we don’t want to rely on other teams, pretty much everyone else is at least as bad as us. In fact, out of the bottom eight, only Watford (due to their decent run when Pearson took over) have taken more points than us from the last ten games.
Big Sam would be a massive improvement. Where is this mythical 'right style' of football? All I see is us looking shit and getting beat all the time. Taylor got labelled a long ball merchant, but I sure enjoyed watching his team more than this turgid rubbish.Big Sam knows how to use flair players like Grealish and knows how to organise a defense.
Quote from: ASHTONVILLA on February 23, 2020, 04:18:04 PMBig Sam would be a massive improvement. Where is this mythical 'right style' of football? All I see is us looking shit and getting beat all the time. Taylor got labelled a long ball merchant, but I sure enjoyed watching his team more than this turgid rubbish.Big Sam knows how to use flair players like Grealish and knows how to organise a defense. So why's he been unemployed for nearly two years?
... I still think we will just be fine. It’s then a big decision for the owners either way in the summer on what they do with Smith....
Most frustrating thing for me is we've followed up two fantastic late wins v Watford and Leicester with three straight defeats. And all three games were ones we could've got at least a point in.Majority of other teams would've produced a solid unbeaten run on the back of those two confidence boosting wins. Only have to look at Burnley. Terrible against us on New Years day. barely lost a game since then and they've played most of the leagues better teams in the last two months.Seen ever since O'Neill walked the whole club has been unable to build on any kind of momentum. Look back to the McLeish season, great 3-1 away win to Chelsea, lost at home to Swansea two days later.Lambert years had odd goal result like winning at Anfield in September 2014. We next won a league game in December.Seems to have haunted us for years we simply can't kick on as a club. Again euphoria from promotion but can't quite get the results from start of the season so we've spent the whole season hovering between 15th-19th and simply can't kick on from that.
Didn't Purslow state only last week that the club are behind Smith for the long term? Hence his new, improved contract that he's only 3 months into.
Didn't Purslow state only last week that the club are behind Smith for the long term? Hence his new, improved contract that he's only 3 months into.Another interesting Purslow comment was that it takes 4 years to become competitive with the likes of Burnley, Bornemouth, Watford etc in terms of wages.For me, the enormity of being relegated in 2016 (timing wise) is really beginning to hit home. Smith looks almost certain to be here for the long haul. Why not accept this and get behind him - Even if it's not what you want to happen.