Fantail Breeze

Agree entirely with this but just to pick up on the first bit… most fans saying this haven’t turned on him because of these results, they’ve seen (and highlighted) the obvious flaws throughout the last two major tournaments too. People don’t seen to accept that you can do well, but also evaluate it and stand back and say “we could’ve done better there”. You don’t just have to accept what you’re given.

You’re desperately scrambling at this point Potter would be a great choice for the current crop of players.

Is that comparing the jobs, or comparing the reaction of fans to suggesting a manager should be sacked? You’ve had a mare here. Ps - what about those other two names I mentioned, is Southgate better than them too? Second time you’ve ignored them. Although we already know you’re in denial trying to claim Poch isn’t good enough

As I said, we’ll be handicapped because England fans won’t cope with having a non-Englishman in charge. Best options from that shallow pool would be Howe or Potter.

Apart from those other two names I came up with? Where did I compare the jobs? Would you mind refreshing our memories?

He lost it to a better team, just like Southgate has lost every big game he’s managed for England. I’m not comparing the jobs, are you okay? I’m comparing the ridiculous statement that you can’t sack a manager “because there is nobody better”. There were people better than Pardew and there is people better than Southgate.

Remember that time he took Tottenham to their first ever CL final? I suppose that’s not quite as good as the relegation on Southgate’s CV.

Please God tell me you’re saying we should keep Southgate because Poch isn’t a better manager? You’ve lost all of your marbles.

What are you talking about? Of course it’s comparable when people are using the same ridiculous defence of “we can’t sack him because there might not be anyone better”. There are tons of better managers. Mourinho, Poch, I think Rodgers is crap but he’d be a huge step up, Rafa to name four out of thin air. Whether any of them would be interested in international management is questionable, but that’s for the FA to sort out. If it’s the highest managerial post in the country as you say, shouldn’t be too tough to convince them.

Remember when people used to say “who would come in” if we sacked Pardew? It’s not an excuse to keep someone. Problem is we’ll have to employ an Englishman, because Brexit means Brexit. So that limits the field unnecessarily.

Why are we the only nation suffering from this fatigue?

Steve Bruce managed to lose a final once as well (with a worse team against better teams). Maybe we should go for him next. Southgate is a motivator. OGS, Bruce, etc. there’s tons of them. They’ll get a short success but it’s not sustainable because they’re tactically inept.

Quite likely we’ll end up getting relegated in the Nations League now Brilliant.

Wow

OGS got Man Utd to the Europa League final and second but he was still a shit manager. We need a manager to match the player's talents. I couldn't give a shit about the player's smiles. Newcastle got to fifth in spite of Pardew. Should we have given him more time after that?

You lot are crazy. Gareth got us to a final once and the players have smiles. What more do you want?

Hungary starting some lad who just got relegated from the Championship in the centre of the park and we still look terrified of trying to make something happen.

Fucking hell we’ve got attacking players on the pitch. Good start.

Love everything about him.

This lad will be signed soon I reckon. Would be nice to get him in. Think if we spend money on him we’ll go into the season with Wilson, Ekitike and Wood. Not ideal with Wilson’s injury record but hopefully Ekitike is good enough/fit enough to keep Wood away from the team. Seems a bit ridiculous to be worried about only having two good striker options when we barely had one under Ashley. Feels good to be spoilt already.

All journalists are dismissed if they report anything even remotely negative. It’s 100% true if it’s a positive article mind. Reminds me when people were battering Balagué when he said the Emery deal had hit difficulties. Edwards is as hit and miss as the rest of them. None of them are reliable and it’s not worth getting too excited or angry by anything they say.

Chap buying Derby has withdrawn his bid. Fuck knows how the EFL have allowed this to play out, or even how contractually he’s able to do so when the only remaining thing was the transfer of funds. Ashley is almost certainly buying them then, the poor sods.

Imagine the former as we’re trying to get the best value of our transfer kitty. Sensible but sometimes you can’t piss around too much though otherwise you’ll miss out. We did that in January, hopefully not again here.

Two tweets there which basically say the same thing and could be replaced with “Newcastle hopeful deal to progress this week”. Bring back Teletext.

Must be shit if he’s only on the bench.