We are BANG in trouble .....

We should see what Bob Malcolm is up to nowadays as according to some our Fb's are the worst we have had in years

I think I've been pretty clear that I don't agree with the manager's ethos when it comes to defensive play Sparx. But I'm not gonna repeat stuff I've said earlier in the thread.

Agreed. And some conceded goals game from Kane's errors at RB last season. Less than Manning though, overall. I'd say that the least amount of shipped goals came from CB errors, so on the whole, Barbet, Hall and Masterson never consistently let us down, other than Barbet giving away a few needless penalties early in the season. Rangel when fit defended better than Kane at RB.

So in summary our CBs were not really an issue last season. Goalkeeping and the fullbacks were.

What I don`t understand is when Manning and Kakay goes forward, why are nobody covering?

Ffs man what the fuck do you want? We CANNOT BRING IN MANY MORE BECAUSE WE JUST DON'T HAVE THE MONEY TO DO SO. We can't splash cash and we shouldn't be bringing in 5 or 6 players just because. 5 or 6 players of the quality you want will cost money that we simply don't have.

Your opinion hasn't rattled me, just seeing it repeated in so many threads. Look, we're hamstrung. He even said in the interview the £20m odd we got from Eze isn't available, because its coming in installments (as most transfer fees are now). You cannot expect us to bring in 5 or 6 players when we don't have the money to do so. Or would you prefer we brought in any old 5 or 6 players? You can say 5 or 6 til you're blue in the face but the fact of the matter is players of the quality you want just can't be brought in.
And it seems that you would rather we got success now and not progress season by season.

Ginge, that’s the thing. My expectations are low and I success to me right now is staying in the championship or finishing mid table.

I don’t want to see us making the same mistakes as years gone by and I actually like the way the club has been heading under MW and the massive turnaround in financial control over the last few years.

Last year we worked the loan market fantastically well and brought in to quality strikers at this level in Hugil and Wells and were lucky enough to compliment that with a raw talent like Eze that comes along once in a few years.

That combination kept us up fairly comfortably. However, this season we are now considerably weaker without them and yes your right it’s CLEAR we are not going to bring in 5/6 players and I’m my eyes it’s the first season we are going backwards because in the last two three years I’ve actually been confident we had enough to stay up.

I also didn’t think it was unreasonable to expect the club to replace The likes of Hall, Leinster, Eze, Wells, Rangel, Hugil and probably BOS with some half decent players.

Jamal Lowe went to Swansea for 800k, Morgan Gibbs White to Swansea on a free, Martin to Bristol on a free, Bettnelli to Boro on a free. There’s some great players available for great prices who would walk into our current team and we don’t seem to be competing for any of them.

We are,and many other clubs are having to cut their cloth accordingly, especially through this pandemic.
I've said it before,but do think we always think all these other teams are stronger than ours,but not really knowing the ins and outs of the club's finances etc.
Look at Birmingham,their form since coming back from lockdown was abysmal,they've sold Bellingham for £26 million and in total 14 players have left the club,and they have only bought in 8 players for total of £1.1 mil,in my eyes we are in a lot better place than they are and probably a good few other clubs too.

The man's a thief.

No, it is already too late, I fear. We are doomed!

i honestly cant see him being on 12k a week, thats just mental money for a past his prime player who'd only played 2 games in 2 years. i imagine he's on around 5k-8k as the only other offers he had were likely from other scottish clubs and theres no way they'd break the bank for him

Even if Wallace is on a much reduced salary it was very poor judgement to bring him here full stop.

According to MW recent interview getting 7 out of 10 transfers right is a sign of a good manager.

Where are these good signings by our manager ?

Wallace has been a decent signing for us IMO. He's over his injury issues now and whenever he's played he has rarely had a bad game. He is also a much better LB than Manning! And it's certainly not his fault the manager doesn't play him and instead chooses to pick an inferior player there, in his infinite wisdom!

We are weaker and worse still have 2 toerags upsetting the harmony of the squad in Manning and BOS. Get rid of them and use whatever we get to replace as plenty of free's available and players at low fees.