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Fucking hell. Great goal.

When he was genuinely an office assistant about 10 years ago, too He's the luckiest man alive.

But if he knows it's hurting his club, why's he continuing to do it?

The only reaction he's going to get now is if he drops the players he thinks are the problem. Fair enough, he could've thought Bournemouth was a one off in terms of performance and persevered, he's then tried to see what criticism will do and it's obviously not had the desired effect. If Mbabu's fit, drop Dummett, nobody could be worse than Colo is; he could easily just put Wijnaldum in Sissoko's spot and start Thauvin/Perez left or bring in de Jong or look to just pack the midfield etc. Bending to key players hasn't worked in trying to shift this club's culture, just go radical.

Funny, I don't remember him ever saying that when Pardew was here.

Brought his own angle of it with him to add to the already strong ethic we had. Given that he's a coach I'd love to know what he's coaching because it isn't: defending passing pressing attacking wide play Yup. The early days, where there was a definitive shift in approach, has clearly been slung by the wayside in exchange for hit and hope. Aye, I could see the plan in the first 2/3 games. Keep shape, keep the ball, probe and work it back if needs be. Now it's as baseless as anything Pardew and Carver served up. I could almost tolerate losing every f***ing week if I could see that it was part of a bigger picture (like when KK came back). But with this s***, this s*** is absolutely unreal. It's staggering we get worse and worse when you think there is no lower we can plummet. I'd advocate him leaving but given how inept his board colleagues are I'm not even sure it'd be worth it. Might as well just go down with him at the helm, get it over and done with. Even 5 games ago, you could see some form of gameplan, tbh, a short termer to see us through at the very least. It's been an amazing capitulation, once again, and it's hard to say what the fuck's gone wrong. All desire, (minimal) attacking cohesion and teamwork they had seemed to disappear after Stoke/the international break. It's staggering how quickly everything turns to shit, we won a game 2 matches ago and it's back the the crisis point of mid-September.

You're going to get shit but I don't disagree. Some'll say he's working with what he's got, he just seems complicit in it all to me.

He's been so bad since he came back, looks like he has to think about which leg to put forward next.

It's weird. Things felt somewhat more positive a few weeks ago and now we're here

Me neither. Best bet, if he did warn some of them that it was their last chance, would be to make wholesale changes and set the team up to be more solid defensively and grind it out until Jan. Obviously, that would require us to buy good players in the next window for it to work.

what THE f*** do you know about Carr's remit vs who we have signed? It's about fair, tbh. The managers get slagged for being cowards that work for Ashley under ridiculous restraints, why isn't Carr? Surely any scout worth his salt wouldn't stand for having to be the bloke constantly shopping in the bargain bin (until very recently). fat sam has the mackems above us now, do they have a better team and squad? They appear to have defenders that are physically capable, midfielders that can run and some genuine wide players. I'd say they're more balanced than we are.

What the hell difference is that going to make. Everything comes back to Ashley. Why do you go out of your way to come across thick all the time? Ronaldo man Still think this squad is good enough for top half, UB? I said midtable, and yes, I still stand by that. The higher ups and the manager (again) are much bigger problems. Are you taking the p*ss at this point, or what? No centre mids, no wingers, unproven strikers and defenders that can't be left to their own man.

what THE f*** do you know about Carr's remit vs who we have signed? It's about fair, tbh. The managers get slagged for being cowards that work for Ashley under ridiculous restraints, why isn't Carr? Surely any scout worth his salt wouldn't stand for having to be the bloke constantly shopping in the bargain bin (until very recently).

3 at the back might be the answer for us until Jan, tbh, need to stop conceding goals and being so easy to get through. He's tried about 4 different formations and the only one we've looked better going forward in looks to have been totally sussed. Probably time to just shut up shop and grind some shit out for the next few weeks.

Where's that Seinfeld gif when you need it?

Wing back

Errr. OK.

I don't think he'll be playing again.

He'll only walk if the board don't meet his apparent demands in January. He's got the (easy) excuse of saying this lot are too far gone and we need more.

We played that in the second half against Leicester and were torn apart. The issues are far deeper than formations.

He'll not go. He'll be given new players in January and they'll see how he does from there. Personally, I don't think he's the biggest problem, the first team, squad, owner, scout and 'Chief Exec' are all bigger issues, but he's not the right bloke for this job either.

That would require a leader.

Not really, but you're wrong. Pardew's got a better squad. There's credible amounts of leadership, pace, goals and intelligence in Palace's side. Our 'team' is an embarrassment from top to bottom.

At the point where I hope they all fuck off, tbh.