Fantail Breeze

People aren’t claiming a short term hire is a problem. People are correctly asking why we’re three weeks away from the window opening and don’t have this short term hire in place. If we’re getting someone in for the short term, fine. But a short term appointment can’t take three months to make. That defeats the whole point of making a short term appointment. As others have said, it would have been ideal to have targets agreed and ready to move as soon as that window opens. We don’t want to drag out deals until the 11th hour. Hopefully this short term appointment will be made imminently and have time to work on getting things done.

The only two of those which I agree should be on TV are the Forest v Arsenal and Swindon v Man City matches. Why would anyone want to watch Man Utd and Villa put two reserve teams out? Kidderminster v Reading and Yeovil v Bournemouth miles more interesting than four of those matches.

Man Utd team full of regens.

When Sky/BT use stats like “possession in the last five minutes”. Utterly pointless for a number of reasons.

Barca in the Europa League is pretty hilarious.

Absolutely. We’ve had 14 years of no due diligence and now we’re getting the most due of due diligence. But there needs to be a limit, especially when the team are currently in a precarious position. I wouldn’t consider three months to make an appointment before January as “rushed”. That’s the point. They have had ample time to find someone, even with a thorough recruitment process. Why are they only considering a short term appointment now? They could have done that weeks ago. Have they had to change tact after being unsuccessful in getting someone in? What they are doing is a risk. Ultimately I don’t think it’ll matter because I’m confident we’ll survive, but they are still taking too many unnecessary risks imo. I’m more than pleased with most of their efforts so far. But it’s very RAWK for people to not be able to apply any criticism where it’s warranted, especially when the consortium admit themselves they’ve made mistakes.

Nobody is saying anything of the sort of getting Dennis Wise in. It’s just a concern that they’re moving at snails pace ahead of the most important transfer window we’ve had in years. Following poor decisions re: not sacking Bruce quick enough and the fiasco with Emery. Mad that anyone is happy going into this transfer window with no ‘footballing people’ even at the club. They’ve been here two months. We’ve not got time to piss around.

Lets hope their Covid numbers don’t rise and it gets called off too. We could do with this game to hopefully maintain momentum moving into the tougher fixtures.

Some of us have seen these warning signs a month ago and were absolutely ridiculed for saying anything. These appointments absolutely need to be right, because they clearly need the guidance. I think we’ll get there eventually, but I suspect we’ll see some bumps along the way. Have to hope one of those bumps isn’t the Championship.

What were Bournemouth like in the cup under Howe? I don’t seem to remember them progressing particularly far, but probably didn’t take notice. Does he rotate a lot?

Hasn’t played for them in their last five games with a hamstring injury. Came back to Newcastle for treatment and is now back in Doncaster.

Booking a stadium tour purely to show that signs have come down, which is what we already knew. The next Lee Ryder in the making.

As soon as TV picks are confirmed, I would assume.

Clearly has something wrong with him. Fuck knows how anyone could enjoy watching that, he’s irritating as fuck.

Hope you have a good trip Hopefully see a large number of you coming up. I wouldn’t worry too much about expecting to get battered

Forest v Arsenal likely to be televised too, imo.

With the introduction of VAR it feels like every goal is reviewed trying to find a reason to disallow it. You shouldn’t need any lines. If he looks onside with the naked eye, it should be onside.

Mad how that’s not a red card, but players are sent off these days for challenges that don’t even make contact with the opposition because it may be dangerous. Xhaka at Man City as an example.

Shearer is a cloob legend on the pitch. Just wish he never needed to speak.

Alright Kenny lad, didn’t realise you were on here.

That protest was worse than any of ours. Impressive.

We better win by at least three then or it’ll be a victory for the mackems in their parallel universe.

In the replay?

I was going to vote but I’m not familiar with the poll options. Which one equates to a 9?

SD branding is totally hideous too and a real eyesore.