Potter Sacked!

[THUNDERCLINT]

Had enough of this arogrant no mark now.  

11 games, 27% win ratio and 0.66 goals per game.

Either the break clause is true or this flake quits otherwise were proper fucked.

[Any Old Iron]

So first we’re linked with Bilic now Talksport are reporting that the club are talking to Espirito Santo. If Cock piss aint a dead man walking then I don’t know what is. 
Not sure about either of these two. Although I like Bilic personally he seems to have done just about fuck all since he left us. As for Nuno, if he couldn’t get on with the bubble who was spending bundles at Forest then he’s got no chance of working with our porn baron and his brass.

[Far Cough UKunt]

If the alternative to three points and Potter staying for a bit I would prefer that to Billic or O'Neal


 

I'd love Shaquille to get the job  in fact I would use him as a CB it would scare the fuck out of any striker.

[Far Cough UKunt]

Potter in his Presser yesterday..

"Our challenge is to play well at Home and against Tottenham and Chelsea there were signs of that"

This geezer is delusional. We got battered 3-0 and 5-1 at Home and both scorelines really should have been higher.

1 worldie goal from Paqueta, who clearly went off script by having a fuck it moment early doors, doesn't equate to playing well. That happened out of spite of your mind numbing, dogshit defending Football.

Bloke is fucking delusional, I'm just waiting for the avalanche of Palace goals and Potter saying in the post match presser, "the goals changed the game"

[gpike]

If the alternative to three points and Potter staying for a bit I would prefer that to Billic or O'Neal

[Massive Attack]

He's just a ruthless outstanding Manager and someone I banged on about the Club getting whilst we still had Moyes. He was yet another decent one to replace him with but as per usual, Sullivan drags his midget feet and passes up the opportunity which Palace gladly took.

Looking at his record with Palace, he's got an impressive 45% win rate (as well as the FA Cup).

 

[El Scorchio]

Yeah I think he will. because I think he knows Potter is going to make his job easier than it needs to be. I bet he's looking forward to their first corner like a kid the day before Christmas

[Massive Attack]

Glasners going to be licking his lips at this fixture. 

[El Scorchio]

I must have far too much faith in the man even after e everything that’s gone on so far because I can’t believe after everything he wouldn’t go Magassa Fernandes Paqueta in the middle now for this one with his job likely on the line. Unless he’s just stopped caring and wants out with his compo. 

This obsession with JWP is completely unfathomable. If the front six is anything other than

Magassa
Fernandes
Paqueta

Bowen
Fullkrug
Summerville

Then he really needs his head examining. All the evidence seems to suggest if we want a chance at winning then that must be the line up. Surely gove or take fullkrug every single one of us thinks that and I would love to know why he or anyone else would think otherwise. It can be a simple game sometimes which gets woefully overthought. Surely he can see that picking JWP is signing his own death warrant. That and not ordering the set piece coach to fix how terribly we line up to defend corners and balls into the box. 

[stubbo-admin]

I fully expect JWP to play against Palace.  My expectation is Summerville will miss out, with a striker and Coming in to replace him and Soucek, and Fernandes moving to the left like he was against Forest.

Summerville will be considered the 'game turner' for whatever reason we need it (and we will need it) in the second half.

So the midfield, IMO, will be JWP, Magassa, and Paqueta.

[Massive Attack]

Potter in his Presser yesterday..

"Our challenge is to play well at Home and against Tottenham and Chelsea there were signs of that"

This geezer is delusional. We got battered 3-0 and 5-1 at Home and both scorelines really should have been higher.

1 worldie goal from Paqueta, who clearly went off script by having a fuck it moment early doors, doesn't equate to playing well. That happened out of spite of your mind numbing, dogshit defending Football.

[El Scorchio]

The picks in CM are inexplicable. I'd love to see what he thinks he's seeing or hear an explanation. We cannot carry JWP. We just cannot. Soucek you can make an argument for sporadic appearances situationally just because of goal threat but you CANNOT have JWP as the rock or the metronome of your midfield. It's insanity.

To add weakening a position of weakness further by playing our best midfielder as a false 9 while leaving two strikers on the bench. Surely that wasn't to shoehorn JWP and Soucek into the side? Surely. I hate Wilson as much as anyone but why on earth wasn't he starting or coming on at half time and just playing 45m? Not fit enough? Then why are he or Fullkrug on the bench? If so that's the only get out and I cannot in all fairness to him lay the blame at Potter's feet for the debacle up front if neither senior striker is good to go for even 45m each, but even then PLAY MARSHALL. What is there to lose?

If Magassa, Fernandes and Paqueta are not the trio in midfield against Palace, then he's signing his own death warrant. I will defend the man (yes I'm probably being generous) where I think it's fair- central defence, centre forward. The owner has given him NOTHING to work with. He'd had little in midfield until Fernandes and Magassa rocked up, but they are here now and need to be used. There's no longer that excuse in midfield. The problems which are entirely of his own making are the ones for which he will need to go. There cannot be another person on the planet who thinks JWP has a place in the starting line up against Palace. And even if not I'm half expecting to see Guido replace him instead of Magassa. Goalkeeper looks like a serious error of judgement as well now. That's on him. 

I have sympathy when a manager is in an impossible position. I had sympathy for Potter, and still have some small part in terms of CB and CF where Sullivan has blatantly not done right by him, but there is ZERO when he's making his own position impossible, which is what he seems to keep on doing with one decision or another. 

[boleyn8420]

The fact that Forest binned him when he was on loan should have said it all. But no this fucking clown picks him in every game. He just wants to be sacked and live off the compensation. Please grant him his wish

[Russ of the BML]

We spent almost £60m on a new midfield with Fernandes and Mangala coming in.

But he still finds a place in the team for JWP and Soucek.

And once again not a single academy player getting any minutes.

We have David Moyes all over again, but not the Moyes that won us a trophy, the one that was shit in the league, slow to react with substitutions, put 2 keepers on the bench, and was easy to beat.




 

 

Soucek is a bit of an enigma. He's a passenger in the middle of the field but he comes up with goals and he's good in the air in both boxes. We'd have been in more trouble last season without his goals, but a reliable CB,  pacey midfielder and an additional striker should be filling these gaps.

Aside the odd set piece, I have no idea what value JWP adds our team, but apparently his name is first on the sheet. 

There is absolutely no place for JWP in the modern PL. No other team in the PL would have him in the side. Starting line up against Spurs with him and Soucek sitting in DM was not just negative, it was suicide. An absolute joke. 

[nychammer]

We spent almost £60m on a new midfield with Fernandes and Mangala coming in.

But he still finds a place in the team for JWP and Soucek.

And once again not a single academy player getting any minutes.

We have David Moyes all over again, but not the Moyes that won us a trophy, the one that was shit in the league, slow to react with substitutions, put 2 keepers on the bench, and was easy to beat.



 

 

 

Soucek is a bit of an enigma. He's a passenger in the middle of the field but he comes up with goals and he's good in the air in both boxes. We'd have been in more trouble last season without his goals, but a reliable CB,  pacey midfielder and an additional striker should be filling these gaps.

Aside the odd set piece, I have no idea what value JWP adds our team, but apparently his name is first on the sheet. 

[Massive Attack]

Yeah, I noticed the 2 Keepers on the Bench malarkey as well, clogging up another place for an Academy player. Not that he'd fucking play them to be fair..

[scott_d]

We spent almost £60m on a new midfield with Fernandes and Mangala coming in.

But he still finds a place in the team for JWP and Soucek.

And once again not a single academy player getting any minutes.

We have David Moyes all over again, but not the Moyes that won us a trophy, the one that was shit in the league, slow to react with substitutions, put 2 keepers on the bench, and was easy to beat.

 

[eusebiovic]

There is nothing I hate more than a manager who pretends he is a tactical genius when there isn't really anything in the squad to be able to do that. If there are a decent number of players who are genuinely talented then they will probably have the skill to adapt to many different situations.

If you just have a load of overpriced, overrated misfits who nobody else really wants then what tactics are they going to understand? Just keep it simple, play to the strengths of what is at his disposal and stop blowing it out of your arse as if there is some kind of complicated master plan that can only be realized through his vision.

I hate modern football.
 

[nychammer]

"We made a mistake for the first goal and they executed it well - we should do better"

Why aren't we doing better? It's mistake after mistake with little sign of it improving. 11 goals conceded  (should be 12) in 4 games? That's relegation with record low total points total territory.  Why are we enduring with Hermansen?  he is single handedly costing us whole games. is Areola really worse than that?

[Sir Alf]

Yesterday for the first time I put the blame completely on Potter. He didn’t select the best players available or simply cannot judge what the best players are to select for Prem Lge games.  Either way it means he is not competent. You pick players in their best positions and yesterday that means a striker playing as a striker, Paqueta in a deeper midfield role alongside Fernandes central ball carrying no 8 and starting Magassa or Potts as the deep lying no 6. You do not start JWP or Soucek who have repeatedly shown they are not quick enough or physically strong enough too ( in the the case of JWP ) for the Prem Lge.  I mean its been obvious for so long. 

Now we dont know if this Magassa is going to be a success. My first thought was he aint quick enough but as his cameo progressed I saw some positive signs and he can move a lot quicker than the “Snail Collective” of JWP, Guido and Soucek.

This stuff aint hard. Strengthen the middle of the park to prevent tue defence beimg under seige and cutting down on set pieces conceded etc.  

We do gave a central eefence issue and GK issue. He has to try Mavro and Todibo as CBs and get Areola or Fab back in goal. Become harder to score against from set pieces is a coaching thing too.  

Palace will beat us if he persists with JWP etc and playong players out of position, a midget GK who is not fit for purpose etc

I think he’s done but now we have to wait weeks and more defeats for Sullivan to act

[Massive Attack]

Reporter - This is 7 games without a win at Home now, is it a problem?

Potter - No, I don't think so.

 

[the exile]

I don't know where this PE teacher idea comes from. I have had countless PE teachers as colleagues over the years and they were all, without exception, hard as nails. Potter is way too soft, too much Mr Nice Guy to ever be a teacher. He wouldn't last 5 minutes. He'd have a tough lesson and witter on about how he's "hurting".

[Vexed]

I don’t particularly put all the blame on Potter, although he doesn’t seem to help himself at times, but the whole club from top to bottom must be absolutely dire. Look at clubs like Brentford, Brighton, Palace,Bournemouth and Fulham, they can all compete and are all classed as stable premiership clubs, and they all get half or less fans on a match day as us, so their revenue is obviously less, but they are all run a hell of a lot more competently from chairman and administration down through coaching staff,scouting network to the bloody tea lady. So what we require is for a complete overhaul to make us a professional club who should be miles better then the ones mentioned above. Basically it’s out with Sullivan/ Brady and all their mates.

 

 

I'm proper bored of this mindless argument. How the fuck is Potter completely fucking up every lineup, the tactics and every substitution related in any way to having a load of worthless cunts in the boardroom? They are two separate issues. I'm getting tired of people letting this abject fucking waster off the hook. He's fucking hopeless. Of course yesterday was entirely Potter's fault, the bloke is fucking inept and this is probably his last job in English football as he is out of his fucking depth. The owners will inevitably fuck up appointing the next manager like they have every time since they've been here, but yesterday is all down to Graham Fucking Potter the quivering fucking wreck dressed as a PE teacher we have being totally anonymous in the dugout. 

[the exile]

I'm not usually one for knee jerk reactions when it comes to getting rid of managers, but what we saw yesterday was absolutely dire and proved that Forest was just a flash in the pan. 

Firstly the team selection. No striker, particularly leaving out Wilson after his performance last week. Starting with both JWP and Soucek - enough has already been said about that. 

But the thing that sums up the signs of a wider malaise and a frightening level of incompetence from Potter was the defending of corners. Firstly there was the complete failure of Potter himself to learn and make adjustments during the game. Secondly was the complete failure of any of the players to do the same. You could blame the players themselves for that but it has to be down to Potter. 

I reckon another heavy loss against Palace and he's gone.

[Massive Attack]

Paqueta up top whilst we had our best Striker at the Club on the Bench or even Bowen if needs be.  

After what was a decent performance and management of the game well last week, it feels like the good work has been easily undone again.

Bournemouth made these twats look like a Sunday League side in their previous fixture, yet we cave in to them piece of piss. We are just prolonging the agony whilst Mourinho remains out of a job. Classic West Ham to drag our heels risking losing the opportunity the longer it goes on...

The lunacy to reward the Chelsea failure with a lucrative 2 and a half year contract is something to behold. I won't ever be able to get my head around that moronic decision.

[Gaffer58]

I don’t particularly put all the blame on Potter, although he doesn’t seem to help himself at times, but the whole club from top to bottom must be absolutely dire. Look at clubs like Brentford, Brighton, Palace,Bournemouth and Fulham, they can all compete and are all classed as stable premiership clubs, and they all get half or less fans on a match day as us, so their revenue is obviously less, but they are all run a hell of a lot more competently from chairman and administration down through coaching staff,scouting network to the bloody tea lady. So what we require is for a complete overhaul to make us a professional club who should be miles better then the ones mentioned above. Basically it’s out with Sullivan/ Brady and all their mates.