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if the owner isn't interested and their transfer policy just looks for bargains it doesn't really matter who their manager is. very similar to our club We're improved under Garde, and I understand how he has played for draws in a few recent matches, but I do think he was negative today. People are basically lashing out at anyone. You think your season is bad, look at our current points tally. It's like the last days of Vietnam down here.

It doesn't matter who we appointed this time, we were a juggernaut heading for relegation by the time Garde came - W1 D1 L9 - that's an awful record, a lot of momentum to stop.

Us, you and Sunderland for the drop I'm afraid. And whilst there is an element of "well, at least we're not the only 'big' club to go down this season" / misery loves company about it, it really only makes it harder to get promoted next season. We are so awful, I can barely find sufficiently scathing words to describe it. There is a cancer that runs through our club from the very top down. I honestly can't expand on it, because it makes me so fucking angry. Sadly, you have a similar problem. Us, you, the mackems, three clubs with self-interested, detached, CGAF chairmen, leaving things to be run by absolute fucking morons who fuck everything up. There's a reason the league table looks like it does.

What was weird. We are woefully, woefully short of confidence, so fucking fragile. A point is huge for us. going a goal down, awful conditions, tricky fixture, nervous as fuck, this is what we need - get something from a match we're not fancied to get anything from and stabilise things. That was two awful sides out there, though.

Game over.

Weather looks awful. I'd have snapped your arm off for an abandonment before this match.

This is awful. What time does the dancing start?

Alan Hutton gamely but pointlessly galloping forward always reminds me of the rider-less horses enthusiastically galloping around Aintree in the National.

I was just thinking exactly that, He must be fucking paranoid about them.

Newsflash It doesn't matter if you play Perez and Mitrovic or not, you could play Jimmy Nail and Alan Robson from Night Owls instead of them and you'd still win. Stop panicking, FFS.

We are awful, and that's a bad line up. You'll win at a canter. Our only chance of turning things round is if we buy big, and well, at the start of January.

Southampton - 11 shots on target in 45 minutes.

The most ridiculously against the run of play goal you'll ever, ever see.

Update: we are doomed.

We have played well today other than a few outbreaks of defensive shitness. We have missed three sitters and managed six shots on target in 45 minutes which never normally happens The problem is we are so utterly fucking fragile. The manager has the nack of picking the right team but he just needs to keep the confidence there until January. If we can stay in touch till January we have a chance. If not, then we are doomed.

Villa and the mackems. We are the third imo. We are totally finished bar a miracle. There's going to be some grand old clubs in the second flight next season

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/sport/sport-headlines/blackburn-appoints-lambert-out-of-spite-20151117103901 Ha ha I bear him no malice, really, though. I thought he was incompetent, but not dislikeable. Unlike Sherwood who was incompetent AND a massive gobshite. However, to see what the Villa job does to a man, check these photos out. Arrives: http://images.football365.com/12/06/800x600/Paul-Lambert-Aston-Villa-Manager-Unveiling-Vi_2776778.jpg Not going too well: http://www.offthepost.info/wp-content/uploads/paul-lambert-650x462.png First day at new school after a nice summer break: http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03501/paul_lambert_smile_3501931b.jpg

#prayforblackburn

That's a bullet dodged by about a week for us.

Well, they played well and didn't get hammered. Exactly - W1 D1 L8 and someone doesn't understand us being happy about a point from Man City in the new managers first game? I didn't see the match but I observe our manager - in the job all of six days - has happened upon the cunning plan of fielding more of our better players, something Sherwood never managed, and he media fans never mention.

Usually on the bench with most of our other decent players All Sherwood needed to do was pick our strongest eleven

And I tell you what .... ... I would rather be 14 points off safety with Garde than 4 points off with Sherwood.

There's no doubt we are in a tricky situation, but some of the hyperbole in the media is absurd. Fact is: - we're four points from a non-relegation place. Four points. That's nothing. - we are losing matches, but on the bright side, we're not getting hammered. We've only (I think) lost a couple of matches by two goals, all the others have been one goal. - anyone who watches us with any regularity will know we have some decent players. They're just either getting used badly, or not used at all. Monday great example. Gil and Amavi on the bench, FFS. Ridiculous. Had we persisted with Sherwood for a couple months longer, we'd have been fucked. We haven't, though, amazingly. I am no partisan fantasist unable to see the problems we have, but to suggest the situation is irretrievable when we're a week into November and the points difference is so small, and when there are plenty other shit teams around, all that is well over the top. What Garde needs to do is take the following: Agbonlahor, Richardson, Westwood, Guzan, Lescott, have them shot and throw their lifeless bodies into a very deep quarry. Instant improvement. There's no way Sherwood or anyone would ever get this squad into the top six, but by the same measure, there's no way it should be in the bottom three. For once, and it may be brief, I am confident that we've started to make sensible decisions. You can ask pretty much any Villa fan you want what he thought the problem was - the manager or the signings - and they'd all have chosen the manager. The fact is, the signings have mostly looked decent. Even Jordan Ayew, for example, has contributed more in a handful of matches than Agbonlahor has in a handful of seasons. I really rate Amavi, Gestede is dangerous if you use him properly (though useless if not), Veretout has shown he is a proper passer of the ball, Gueye is a decent Delph replacement, all these players have shown real promise. The problem is they're not going to achieve anything if constantly rotated in and out of the squad as Sherwood did. The whole thing of the British media falling in line behind Sherwood makes me want to vomit. Supporting him for not being able to sign Townsend, Adebayor and Aaron Lennon? How many clubs fans would be disappointed with not being able to vomit up large amounts of money for three knackers like that? Spurs wanted 14m for Townsend. That's *exactly* the sort of witless signing that has got us where we are the last few years.

As a man in his late 40s, I am fully behind any manager in his late 40s who can carry off a combination of smart jacket, jumper, nice shirt, jeans and a pair of Adidas on the touchline. http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03158/remigarde_3158676b.jpg He's going to FREAK OUT when he sees the Adidas store on New Street.

Yeah, but in fairness, we are the club who watched Alex McLeish get our city neighbours relegated playing eye-wateringly shit football, then poached him off them. We too are idiots.