Caskeys Lovechild There's only one person on this thread who has shown ANY understanding of football, management or business, and he's a oxf*rd West Ham fan. Anyone who thinks that if we're relegated we should sack someone with a proven history of getting a team promoted from the Championship, wants their head examined! Honestly, our fan base really is made up of complete oxf*rd sometimes. Haven't you all got computer games to get back to??
Divvyjimstaaa Unless i am very much mistaken we haven't actually been relegated yet? ... please correct me if i'm wrong?
You're wrong, the point just hasn't been allocated yet.
TheSiege Who stays, who goes and who do we buy in the Summer Window? n.b. I'm aware that there is a 'who stays, who goes' thread in the team area but that simply outlines our possible skeleton squad before transfers in (and allows people to put Brian at the top of the out-list). I'm interested in RFC having a squad for promotion but also the basis of a Prem team if we go up. Others have rebuilt this way! Who must we retain and who must we buy? Remember, we bid for Gylfi in the last window, we have money and we now need to seriously use it. I have my own views on retained players but I'll let some of you speak first.
rhroyal The trouble is it's a very hard balancing act arriving in the PL. Buy too many new faces and risk a team not settling? Or go for more continuity and risk being outclassed?
And then this season has made me realise. The battle is won and lost before you even win promotion. You have to be playing in a way that is suited to the PL when you win promotion; you need to have won promotion using players with an underlying confidence and composure in possession. You need players and management who understand that whilst backs to the wall counter attacking in the Championship can win it for you, you will become undone in the PL.
Once you have that, 2 or 3 quality additions will make a real difference as they will actually see the ball won't just be chasing it into the channels and closing down.
That's how to follow the Swansea and Norwich model of 2011/12; the battle for PL survival is largely won or lost based upon how to plan to get out of the Championship.
Barry the bird boggler Biggest mistake this club made in recent years was to sack Rodgers.
jellytot The club needs to be decisive in the next week or so.. Or will the normal dithering be seen?
Barry the bird boggler Biggest mistake this club made in recent years was to sack Rodgers.
SHORT AND CURLYBarry the bird boggler Biggest mistake this club made in recent years was to sack Rodgers.
WTF
There's some real shite being bounded about but if serious this is up there!
Barry the bird boggler Biggest mistake this club made in recent years was to sack Rodgers.
Uke Hopefully TSI will move on
Everton fans must be thinking themselves lucky that if this s how "businessman" AZ manages his investment a decade on just what would he have been like buying their club when he was 23?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 588046.stm
For a businessman his Wiki page seems short on details of his business successes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Zingarevich
Since they came in its began to turn to shit
Norfolk Royal When the obit for this now certain relegation season is written it will no doubt concentrate on the astonishing lack of guile we have shown in midfield playing with three and sometimes four defensive midfielders who are notably unable to retain possession thus putting pressure on the defence who with the possible exception of Mariappa have crumbled when faced with players of a higher skill than in the championship.
The low point for me, recently, was being laughed at on Match of the Day last night for the comedy falling over of Harte and Blackman.
What irks me and probably the majority of our fans is that most of us knew in our heart of hearts before the season began that a large number of our first team squad probably, probably, would not be able to cut it in the premiership. There's no point naming names as I think without exception the effort put in by the players has been at the least adequate, and at best, honest and worthy.
But the fact remains that if most of the fans held this opinion before the season began, then the management of the club should also have known that, or at least had an inkling that the season may turn out like this.
Add to that the constant 'We move on,' 'I'm sure we'll stay up' comments when the evidence before their eyes was to the contrary, and it irks.
The extraordinary behaviour and then treatment of Guthrie, the Pearce contract saga, are two other factors which have had a destabilising influence.
But, back to the season obit, I think there was talk from the management about bringing in Premiership quality during the January transger window, sorely needed.
And we end up buying, and then playing, two league one players who, much as they may show promise, were clearly being asked to do too much in saving our season. That, for me, showed the real paucity of the management's thinking and realistic options in the transfer market.
The signing of Carrico is bizarre and please be honest with us about this one, isn't it clear that he must have an injury problem either not picked up at the medical, or if advice was given, ignored.
It must also be clear that, our shortcomings brutally exposed, that there is no room for sentiment in the Premiership. There is too much at stake financially for the club.
It is true that Brian has a track record in the championship but surely our long term aim should be to discard the League one style football we are playing. There is no reason why we can't at least make a start on that when we go down to the championship, Swansea did it, but I doubt we can do that with the present management.
CayeneMattUke Hopefully TSI will move on
Everton fans must be thinking themselves lucky that if this s how "businessman" AZ manages his investment a decade on just what would he have been like buying their club when he was 23?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 588046.stm
For a businessman his Wiki page seems short on details of his business successes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Zingarevich
Since they came in its began to turn to shit
Really? So where would the cash have come from to buy Roberts? And in case you hadn't spotted it at the time, he kick started our season which ultimately got us up.
Arch Matt, read the last sentence of Uke's post and then compare his Redingensian command of the English language in most of his other posts. This is a wind-up.
I know, an embarrassing apostrophe fail 
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