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19 Nov 2025 18:57:53
I think whatever happens with the manager, an even bigger problem is the recruitment, there needs to be drastic changes made. Underwood and his mates are out of their depth.
1.) 19 Nov 2025 21:24:22
Agree Mick, not fit for purpose at a PL club.
2.) 19 Nov 2025 22:56:09
Agree. Tbh. I think only gabby and Longstaff are what you could call prem starters. Poor return for the money spent.
19 Oct 2025 00:58:36
Well, this was an abysmal performance, and whilst Farke is totally inflexible and sticks to his guns, he is not the only one to blame. The team today was weaker than last season's, and for that, blame lies with blunderwood. The guy is totally inadequate, and who appointed him to should be the first out of the door. His buying has been atrocious, and the attack today league 1 standard.
Come January and if we need to make signings, who would be confident that he would be able to bring the right people in.
Also, Farke does not trust his youngsters, in an injury situation like this, at least give one a change, they can't surely do worse than our two wingers today.
1.) 19 Oct 2025 06:36:08
Agree. One big mess from woe to go. Disgrace. Absolute sub champ standard.
Never in a million years going to score enough goals. We are in the mix lads.
No paddle.
2.) 19 Oct 2025 11:17:15
I agree with some of the above, yes it was the Championship last season, but that team out there wasn't as good as last season. I know we have had injuries, but the recruiting of players with an injury record is contributing to the situation. Some of us probably sound like a broken record, but I will say it again, the powers that be knew we had to sign a quality striker and they didn't.
09 Sep 2025 03:29:31
Our supposedly star summer defender signing, Bijol, apparently had two poor games for Slovenia. I pray that he is not another dud that we have brought in.
1.) 09 Sep 2025 07:35:15
Saw that mick.
2.) 09 Sep 2025 12:51:31
Slovenia in general were pretty awful though I heard.
3.) 09 Sep 2025 14:16:07
And Sweden had a poor game against Kosovo with Gudmudsson in the team.
. and Isak and Gyokeres and Elanga!
Big money signings don't guarantee good results.
4.) 10 Sep 2025 16:17:56
Exactly JR. Like England, stacked full of "world class" players did so well v Andorra.
For an element of balance, England do not have world class players in my opinion.
5.) 10 Sep 2025 19:21:05
Harry Kane comes closest. The last world class player I saw close up was Raphina - wish we still had him.
30 Aug 2025 18:40:02
Joffy, Schmidt and Rama all scored, think we should kept Rama at least, would have been better than Gnonto.
1.) 30 Aug 2025 19:45:43
would be better than Harrison and Aarrison put together.
2.) 30 Aug 2025 20:03:33
Agree mick. Large and Schmidt. Def.
3.) 30 Aug 2025 20:16:49
Actually Rama only got an assist.
30 Aug 2025 01:33:38
When underwood was appointed as Director of recruitment, was anybody else surprised? I for one was, the guy had no experience whatsoever in this field. No he has messed up the whole transfer window, and half of his signings have very poor injury histories.
Why do we continue to buy sick after sicknote, this has gone on for a few years.
I reckon some of the people on this forum could do a lot better job than undercooked underwood.
1.) 30 Aug 2025 06:49:30
Totally agree.
2.) 30 Aug 2025 09:37:51
As long term posters you know I backed Orta saying he was hard working blah blah blah, I don’t know underwood that well but I know that he’s set a budget (only the owners will know that) and he will be told the type of players we want, how many players we need and what positions. As above I’m not sure how good at this he is but I don’t think many DOF would be able to get 10 or so new players with a 100 million spend (ish what we’ve spent) that are premiership quality.
If in your job the owners / bosses don’t give you the finances required to do the job successfully then it doesn’t matter how good you are. You can’t guy gold if your budget barely buys peas.
3.) 30 Aug 2025 12:00:31
My issue with him is he seems to only work on one at a time all the other clubs will have fingers in many pies he seems naive in that stance - granted he’s been given a pathetic budget by owners who clearly don’t get it
Only time will tell but I fear they have placed the wrong man in the job and we will be punished accordingly
I hope to be proven wrong.
4.) 30 Aug 2025 13:27:41
Those who have a go at our backroom team need to remember that many of them were chucked in at the deep end with the departure of Angus Kinnear, Gretar Steinsson and Nick Hammond to Everton all at the same time. Since then they've signed Barry, Grealish, Alcaraz, Travers, Dewsbury-Hall, Aznou, King and Dibling, how many of those were on their radar when they werr at LUFC?
5.) 30 Aug 2025 17:24:20
Spot on JR!
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15 Nov 2025 05:50:30
It was a poor window, but he should be getting more out of the players. His tactics, game management and team selection is very poor.
03 Sep 2025 19:11:19
Seems to be talking out of his backside. Evans and Underwood both got these jobs without any previous experience, how they achieved this we will never know.
30 Aug 2025 15:15:39
It seems to me that lately people have been moaning about the moaners, which means even more moaners.
Why not let them have there say, they are only venting their frustration at the situation.
29 Aug 2025 00:26:32
That is a really good idea c&j, but only a few managers will have the guts to try something like that. Bogle has plenty of pace, and can beat a man, why not try it for a half, and change it if it’s not working. Tomorrow would be an ideal time due to the injury situation.
03 Sep 2023 02:03:46
Firpo can a good season only if fit, which he rarely is. When we bought Piroe, we all thought we have finally bought a striker, only to learn he is going to be used mainly as a CAM. What the hell is going on?