Hobsons Choice

Holy hell, if you are not itk, you my friend have balls of solid rock.

Oh man, can you imagine how exciting this summer's transfer window is going to be? It's going to open all sorts of possibilities.

And I think we can all get on board with that.

As a secondary point, I'd be interested in people explaining why all the Stevie G 'eeeeeerrrm' stuff, which I thought was pretty juvenile tbh, and not really funny either, but by all accounts all over youtube and social media, is any different to this? I think stuff like that is a pretty cheap shot all round tbh.

Always. Cover your webcam. I see you in your pants.

Ewwww

Ho. Lee. Shi. T. Awesome appointment I reckon. All the welcomes Unai and Up the Villa. I have a great old feeling about this one. Fingers crossed this is the one.

Have we just unearthed one here?

I'm just back after being largely out of contact all day, plus or minus. Holy hell what a result. I never saw that coming in a million years, yet in another way it was as obvious as a skunk in a snowdrift. You know earlier when I said it might take weeks to coach the players into a workable system. Took Danks 2 or 3 days. Incredible.

This. Is. F**KING. AWESOME.

Hahahahahahahaha.

Holy f***ing s**t.

Yeah I thought he meant Buendia.

Oh, I thought you meant Buendia, JV

No way. Is it me, or is Danks sticking a massive middle finger up to Gerrard here?

Either way, interesting.

Is that Ings as a 10 I a 4-2-3-1, or Ollie out wide in a 4-3-3?

Touché

As I hinted at, whether or not you think our expectations are unreasonable (and I think certainly they have been at times) is up for debate. There was mention of MON earlier, and that's a great case in point. I remember what finally turned things against MON, it was the weakened team we fielded in the Europa. Just think of that now. We were in frigging Europe! Now at the time my feelings were, I don't mind admitting, that Europe was the point of what we were doing. We'd been working toward it for years, and then we play a weakened side away and get beat, with fans travelling for hours and spending loads of money to get there. That was the turning point for me and lots of others I'm sure....like what is the point of aiming for Europe just to piss it away. In retrospect this was probably based on unrealistic expectation, and my god would we not like to be there now. Point is, no matter where we are we'll always want more. It's a depressing reality that we will ultimately never be happy, whether we support Plymouth, Norwich, or PSG.

I actually don't think we've seen the end of OGS as a coach. That Man U team was horrible, and the fan's expectations extremely high under the circumstances. I reckon he'll do OK once he picks himself up with a lower team/league.

And that includes a spell in the Championship

In fairness there could be a strategic reason not to announce immediately even if you have someone lined up. From a media and PR perspective, if we had appointed someone on Thursday or Friday, the sacking of SG could have been portrayed as unreasonable in the media, since he was obviously going no matter what the result was against Fulham. Now we can play the umbrage card after the defeat and the media won't vilify us. I can guarantee, though, that we have been working on this for some time, even if we have not yet formalised a signature.

You are talking about two independent variables here. Toxicity- how fans respond to adversity, and Expectation- what the fans expect us to achieve. I don't think we are more toxic necessarily than other fans, but I do think that our expectations are (rightly or wrongly, realistically or otherwise) higher than most. Ultimately as long as achievements fall short of expectations, there will be discontent. It's why Spurs Arsenal or Man U fans go mad and demand a sacking when they finish 7th, while we would kill for that right now, just like Blackburn or Sheffield Wednesday would kill to be where we are. The expectations of these teams will (at the moment) be lower than ours, but they too will have a toxicity threshold. It's all just human nature.

I don't hate him, I don't hate anyone (maybe Putin). I just think he’ll set our technical and commercial development as a club back 10 years.

I never said he wasn't bright or didn't understand deeply why his football works. I just hate it.