Ireland Was Injured

"players don't like to hear their manager screaming at them from the touchline" - so don't do it then you muppet!!!

Its getting clearer and clearer to me, Eck has lost the dressing room, we are now seeing the fruititons of this publicly, can't see Eck getting out of this.

So sad to see the club in such turmoil and giving of negativity, never thought I would see the day, I know we had moments with the board must go and such like but Randy has made i hell of a big mistake.

I feel sick..... What an idiot

Right, I haven't posted a comment for months regarding McLeish because I wanted to give him a fair crack rather than judging on a few games. Firstly, I have to state that this is the lowest I have felt about our club since this joining this site about five years ago. I was watching the match with my father in law (ex FA official and a mind of information and experience) and between us we grinned ferverishly at our opening attacking play and many shots. We also, winced at the awful League 1 defending abilities of Warnock. Anyway, at half time we were well happy and coversing on the possibilites of Keane staying and how different and potent a team we are with him; could we buy him out of the LA contract? THEN the second half started WITHOUT Ireland and we were half the team - the Hyde half? Ask Eck...he made us change. For the worse. So then we lost. Gardner should have been on instead of Bannan in the first instance and in any case Ireland was fit enough - I didn't see any tackles from Obertan so McLeish's excuse doesn't wash. I would have hoped that Bannan would have been told to keep the ball on the ground instead of worldy passes and no back tracking. Taking Nzo off was appaling too - we just sat back and invited their fit and hungry strikers to have a go - and they did. Now this is my problem with McLeish. He regularly looks at tiny errors and picks up on them and punishes the players mercilessly; there's two things wrong with that, 1) He's not my wife and 2) He keeps using these pearls of wisdom and expose himself as tactically naive and morale sapping. Hence, we lost! We are now a team with immense attacking talent and a nervy manager who can't go for it and ALWAYS settles for a point which invariably turns into no points. He is not changing this. We are getting worse. He has lost the dressing room and the supporters faith. We are well aware of the budget restrictions but we still have a squad strong enough to defend and defend well - yet they can't even dop that. I'm fed up of being the team that players know they can score a 'worldy' against because we have no real men in midfield. That's no disrespect to Petrov and co but we have needed a proper hard player in their for years now so what do we do? We put kids (defenders!!!!) and an ageing Petrov in there and when that doesn't work we sub the skilfull players creating space and then blame the bloody striker for not netting! Krul aside - stop singling out players! Accept the blame yourself - even Wenger does that and he sees F all. Have some humility and listen. I think it's too late for McLeish to go but we have to get another guy in next season. Whether it's Lambert, Pulis, Hodgson or another proven guy - it has to happen. We must change this. Lerner must act and show some management steel. I am a true advocate of Lerner - he has changed this club for the better but got seriously mugged off by an indulgent MoN who went stale and should've been shown the door - it'll happen at Sunderland - the recipe is simple - get your wingers to attack and the midfielders to have a swing and let the strikers stay up top and do the rest - it worked here but he didn't evolve it and got bloody minded. McLeish hasn't even got the nouse to let us attack! I'm with you VOTH.

As I stated in a cake/biscuit article on here sometime back - gingerNUT! No sense. No clue.

About Ireland being injured excuse, I would like to quote Jim Kelly in the classic 1973 film Enter the Dragon: "Buull-5hit Mr Han Man!" Now, Jim AKA Williams then goes on to get his ass kicked by an apopleptic Han who attacks mercilessly.....if only!