Cardiff v Preston

I've just completed the research into our performances over the past 12 months to 1st Feb 2020. We have played 56 competitive games and lost 50% of them.Its not exactly Relegation form yet but we are diving quickly in that direction. Also, we are now the 3rd worst Defence in this League behind Wycombe, who've beaten us easily twice, and the other is Huddersfield, whom we play next Saturday. You could point to the fact that we have lost our Goallie (arguably recruited better though) and Bauer plus Davies at CH and Daws' pal Fisher at RB. Without a pre-Season , it is difficult to organise a new Defence and that is just what we are seeing. I am not commenting upon the Manager until the end of the Season now.

My exact argument why sacking him might not be the best thing to do. There’s no one better out there. It’s a massive gamble.

My pick would be Paul cook. But his record at this level isn’t exactly great. Bournemouth have asked to speak to Henry, wonder if he would fancy moving to preston?!

We're not paid to make them decisions but I can't see it getting any worse than what it is now. Barky sums Neil up for me. Decent player who doesn't look interested , as though he doesn't want to play for the manager. I said months ago i felt Neil wanted put but wanted sacking for a payday. Still feel that could be the case because of the comparison of his 1st 2 seasons to the last 13 month. Real chalk and cheese stuff.

No we just played 1 of the two teams in worse form than us , and today we played the team in the best form

There is no way TH is going to fork out to pay TH off so you might as well forget it .
In any event he is as good as we are going to get .
An has been managing this club with one hand tied behind his back .
Can anyone blame him for not having a forward that is good enough at this level .
How many more signings like Bayliss and Rils are we going to sign . We need players of the right quality now not gambles that may develop and line TH’s pockets in years to come.
We have not had a forward good enough for the Champ since Nuge first time around, that was 15 years ago .
TH would prefer to have £300k in the bank than keep Fisher until the end of the season that about says it all .
All I read is that AN should be replaced, like any of this is his fault !!
As I have said not only will that not happen... who exactly would want the job and they would do no better with the squad AN has been given .
Let’s just concentrate on winning another 4 games this season and having no further upheavals.

If AN went and the job was advertised I would anticipate at least 70 to 80 applications! There are managers all over Europe who would love to be working here.

Fisher went because Fisher wanted to go (and he had been a liability for soem time).

Whilst we have L1 defenders there is still the basis of a decent squad..the problem is a manager who has lost the plot and can't get the best out of what he has got,

Alan Browne has given up

AN must have something on the Riddler and Hemmings. That said the ball given back to the right back in the first 50 seconds pinged at him to go out of play for a throw in for their forward to cheat the ref. And good old Barkys control to gift the ball to them just after half time to make it 2 nil cannot ( or can it) be levelled at Neil? I do like our two new midfielders and the kid from Everton which may go in his favour if he is to stay.

We have never ever been in a with even half a shout of making the play-offs...we did have 3 decent defensive players before the New Year in Pearson, Fisher and Davies, now, today, we have been relying on Browne, NOT a rb (thought he was poor yet again ), Storey (not good enough), Lindsay (OK but obviously a mistake in him and lacks pace...any better than Hunts?) and Hughes (L1 standard) and without Ledson to replace Pearson / It' s no wonder it's a shambles.

As for European managers SLC I'd swap AN for Barnsley's guy any day.

We are likely to need 52 points to stay up this season....with this shower of a defence and AN running the show it is going to be a big ask.

Not defending today or our form overall but when did Wycombe easily beat us twice? They beat a much changed us in the cup (we rarely turn up in the cup these days) and we drew in the league.

Cant see much point in changing the manager now tbh.

What's clear is that AN doesnt know his best team which isnt helped by too many January transfers. Not a fan of the transfer window mid way through the season personally.

I guess the answer to your question SLC is who is available and who will be able to do a job with the financial parameters we have avaialbe. Probably someone from the lower leagues as seems to be our recruitment process these days.....

AN until next Xmas IMO. Another window and pre season with the players and new post covid financial football with fans, before we change unless of course we drop into the bottom 6.
Anyone else hearing that we have sorted a deal with the Niambe rb lad from Plastics? If true I can see why there were no contract talks with Fisher

Re watched yesterday’s lowlights and the amount of bad luck/individual mistakes in one game makes it impossible to blame the management

I think some have just read too much into the fact that he’s been left out of the rovers squad and sounds like he’s not signing a new deal plus the fact we are obviously going to be in the market for a RB.

Sick to death of reading tripe. The majority of twitter want Neil gone but some still talk tripe. "Well.its transition time" "not Neil fault he lost 3 big players " " shoestring budget " blah blah ######## blah. Why can't these stupid idiots see that we've been bad for 13 months? Even when both bens and darnell were in the team, we were still tripe. Do these guys literally need Neil to go and bang their Mrs before they see the rubbish that's being offered. So glad Deepdale is shut because the atmosphere this season would have been awful.
Pot him now.