Gallowgate Toon

Was nice to see us play with some actual balls, for once. Pressed up the pitch (Anita) and got some numbers forward. So much work needs putting in for next season. All I heard on Total Sport was about spending on players, but a good manager in would be the best move we could make. I'm not holding my breath. Jonas

He'd get away with it, IMO. Managers seem to have a strange immunity from our fans. By and large, it's players and owner, the manager just gets sympathy

HBA would've certainly made a difference. Direct wingers of his ilk are an absolute necessity in our current set up because we don't coach a team game, we need his sort that can rise above the lack team strategy and just do things on their own (even if it's once every 5 games). Invariably, these sorts of lads tend to cost a lot of money, though, so we've shot ourselves in the foot. I do think he lost a little something after his 12/13 injury, but he'd have still made a difference.

How's it bluster, man? His whole career has followed the same general pattern with there being an exception or two where he didn't even have his famed 'good start'

Well, his last 2 and half seasons for us were pretty dire, so...

Ayoze was quiet because we did little to support his game, as per. It's amazing our coach doesn't even consider this, he'd rather blather on about arbitrary shite.

What is this bollocks, man.

And to think he's been orchestrating our attacking play for 5 years We don't do anything, like, you're right. It's just direction-less rubbish. Nobody moves anywhere, no support for forwards, static midfield that magically disappear when we get countered, rarely get centre halves on the turn.

How are we still so naive when going forward?

Obviously fucking shit delivery, but look at the pitiful presence we had in the box there, man.

Same old shit, really. Barely any link up, no attacking coordination, massive holes in midfield and terrible defending.

If anyone can do it, Emre Can.

I think this is always going to be the case with our wide players, tbh, unless they're really good (not that we're not massively short of quality in that area). We saw it with Ayoze yesterday, he'd beat someone then have nobody within 15 yards of him to pass to. We have the age-old issue of barely anyone in the box arriving with any pace as well. There were times yesterday where our attacking 3 were going forward but the 3 midfielders were standing within 10 yards of each other around the centre circle. The result was wide players doubled up on with about one person to aim for in the box. We pretty much only see midfielders in the box when full backs are overlapping, which is often a pretty slow play with the opposition back and organised. Yesterday was better but it just, once again, shows how much of an utter shambles we are overall.

Carver will be delighted with that, the tit. Classic Pards move of keeping about 6 players back to their one when we attack. We give our attackers hardly any room to manoeuvre, Central midfielders stood together about 50 yards away from the action.

I thought he'd done this as a deflection thing, at first, but then I remembered just how thick he actually is.

Those quotes are abysmal. I'm sure Pardew said similar a while back too. Something like '4-3-3 or 4-4-2, it doesn't matter'.

Reckon they'll try Warburton next. And to think we could've had Garde in

How much does Ashley stand to lose if we go down?

Charnley was the finance department's tea-boy 5 years ago or so. Clearly never been anywhere near qualified for the role, the prick.

He's blatantly reading this

The board have sympathy for Carver? Bloody clueless, as we all already know.

Please tell me that wasn't an actual thing? Word for word.

'If I had 11 Jack Colbacks in my team, the fans would love it' :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

Carver thinks this is the 90s and we've got good enough players to just say 'go on, lads, do what you want'. That's why John fucking Anderson does my head in, he just seems to think the answer is the players need to pull their socks up like football isn't a far more nuanced game than that now.