The College Dropout

When did they take over Pompey and Blackburn? Hughes was appointed after the transfer window had closed. Blackburn were lying in the relegation zone when he took over. Harry had about half of his original team at Pompey and took over around Novemberish with his team also in a relegation battle. Sam had a summer to buy his own players, they didn't. Has Hughes spent £25million in his whole time at Blackburn?

Two things you can expect from Keane each match. 1) He will appeal for a penalty 2) His face will look like this " " at some point in the match. Two things you can expect from Duff each match. 1) He will appeal for a penalty 2) His face will look like this " " at some point in the match. lol it's true.

And your opinion is? Do you agree that Given was very slow off the mark - he only took a small side step. Taylor chased a ball bending away from him and made the ground. Same with the Gerrard goal. Jussi made a save last week from (can't remember) hit in the same place at similar pace. Given never takes the first sideways step quick enough and like Robinson has developed the bad habit of just jumping sideways instead of up. He never looks tall enough to me. Cue someone coming in and saying "Given is 6"1" He looks short.

Two things you can expect from Keane each match. 1) He will appeal for a penalty 2) His face will look like this " " at some point in the match. very true.

lol... just lol

Bojinov wasn't peanuts either. Played what 1 game? then got TKO'd

True. I thought Sven would be defensively focused. I'm also impressed with how City play the ball from the back and pass it around comfortably.

Champions League final during the day? Fuck off. Part of the magic is playing it on a Wednesday night. Champions league music + daylight = unholy

Hughes and Moyes immediately took their teams forward. Moyes had a couple yoyo years but he showed where he could take them. Hughes took a team of relegation battlers to a team fighting for europe. The team immediately looked better than what Souness had been offering for 16 odd months. We have decent enough players to play with a degree of competence. No shots on target ffs... looking like we could get beat 6 or 7 nil isn't acceptable at any period. you could argue that we have been taken forward, as we are further on than last year, and he hasnt exactly spent much money has he? £25m.

Gay.

Fair enough HTT.

You have to earn the patience and understanding of the supporters. Sam hasn't done that. When you are as blatantly clueless as Big Sam is showing you deserve nothing. I disagree but respect your opinion. Do you believe every manager appointed by our club should be given 2-3 years to get it right? Do you believe Sam should get 2-3 years to get it right no matter what? If you do, tell me why you believe this.

Aye well it wasn't long till Souness lost most of our support anyway. I think we've had this discussion before but it looks like Sam has no plan or strategy for success. Nothing is consistent except poor performances and long balls. Fuck that. Unless we win a trophy sharpish Sam will always be at odds with the fans because of his style of play.

You have to earn the patience and understanding of the supporters. Sam hasn't done that. When you are as blatantly clueless as Big Sam is showing you deserve nothing.

He looks out of his depth at the minute but I'd give him until May to prove himself unless somebody better came along and we were in trouble. To me he looks like someone who doesn't quite know what to do If I was Sam I'd resign and go after the England job, it's much easier. 13 games in and his own fans who when we were beating his old team 3-1 were chanting his name, turning on him publicly? Disgraceful. Souness or Roeder never got this. 1. That is exactly what the people at SJP think. So they voiced it in their arena. 2. Didn't Souness go 10 games undefeated when he first joined? He was trying to be tough from the start. Sam is trying to be smart and is playing players in blatantly wrong positions. Souness didn't even do that to the whole team. Roeder also had a good run when he first took over as care-taker.

Fulham score lots of goals, they just can't defend or hold on to a lead to save their lives. From their opening 3 games I thought they would be comfortably mid-table because unlike their rivals they have goals in their team

Almost as strange as how he's always singled out for stick while playing out of position and yet others, the likes of N'Zogbia, Martins and the hugely overrated Emre, seem immune regardless of how many poor performances they turn in. Charles and Oba have been our most productive players thus season. Smith continuously gives nowt. Stop reaching. Reaching for what? I don't rate Smith and never said I did. It's just too easy to blame everything on one or two players like Smith, when fans favourites get away with yet another crap performance. To say "Charles and Oba have been our most productive players thus season." only highlights how crap the whole team is and not how good they've been. We aren't picking on Smith (well the vast majority). He's just continuously been utterly shit. Nobody is saying he and one or 2 other players are the main problem. It's down to Sam and his absurd tactics and selection which include Smith in all manners of positions which don't suit him.

McCarthy & Santa Cruz will eat our defenders aerially.

Almost as strange as how he's always singled out for stick while playing out of position and yet others, the likes of N'Zogbia, Martins and the hugely overrated Emre, seem immune regardless of how many poor performances they turn in. Charles and Oba have been our most productive players thus season. Smith continuously gives nowt. Stop reaching.

Good match. Lost £30 thinks to W. Ham but it was a great game.

You notice how we scored in those games? Here's an idea for Sam, perhaps if we have the ball in the oppositions half and keep it for any prolong period of time we would concede less goals.

I can't agree with this. Support is a 2 way thing. The fans had nothing to support. Absolutely nothing. I remember I cheer going up when Beye made that last ditch block and that was probably the highlight of the match. If I was standing in the cold for nearly 2 hours and had to watch that shit from beginning to end I'd do the same. The team has looked clueless over the past few weeks, absolutely clueless. The Liverpool fans probably expected some sort of football competition as well, I don't give a fuck what they do or think. The performance was embarrassing. I wouldn't stand (or sit) there and watch Liverpool slice us open time after time, watch balls get pumped to Oba (not even Viduka ffs) I would tell Sam exactly what I thought. The only thing that has been consistent from Sam is defensive tactics which don't work, picking Alan Smith and an insistence on long balls. Fuck that.

Hughes and Moyes immediately took their teams forward. Moyes had a couple yoyo years but he showed where he could take them. Hughes took a team of relegation battlers to a team fighting for europe. The team immediately looked better than what Souness had been offering for 16 odd months. We have decent enough players to play with a degree of competence. No shots on target ffs... looking like we could get beat 6 or 7 nil isn't acceptable at any period.

Decent.

What's all this talk of "net" spend? we sold first team players for good fees and they were replaced by first team players for good fees. Sell Kieron Dyer for £6.5M and replace him with Smith for the same figure.. Smith has been terrible Same thing can be shown with Parker and Barton. Sam's signings have been poor.