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Well, that's really just the sort of frankly idiotic comment I mean. "Consistent lack of effort"? You actually think it's reasonable to consider it a fact that he hasn't even been trying? "Cowardice"? "would not be tolerated in a Sunday League...

Oh, come on. Sure, some of it is criticism, which is fair. But quite a lot of it goes way beyond reasonable criticism. Just because you're not happy with how he's performed (and who is, including himself), that doesn't mean anything goes and...

I really don't think you can construe the totality of posting about Rashford here or elsewhere as "criticism". A good deal of it is way beyond reasonable, and "abuse" is a pretty fair description.

Great news. That's one less competitor to worry about if we go out and recruit a new manager this summer.

And Ole got the same effect from the same method when he was interim. I agree with all of this, but I also consider his tactics a problem - or rather, his style of play, or better still his whole basic approach to football. I don't want success...

There's no "arguably" about West Ham being better than last season, unless they completely collapse for the rest of the season - they project to end up with 14 more points than last year. Not that this would be likely to satisfy Hammers fans...

Individually, yes. But not as a group. And I don't think it's really so simple that with good coaching, a group of good individuals become a good team. It's not built right, there are far too many inexperienced players being asked to deliver more...

Goldbridge is an idiot.

That's surprising. And raises the question of why we have so much less midfield control this season - that's really different. Also, we didn't collapse into pure box defence in our third last season, the way we are now.

The question is if anyone could really be expected to do much better with that Chelsea squad. Not that it's lacking in individual quality, they just don't seem to have been composed as a thought-through collective, and is short on experience...

I sincerely hope that pressing high with our forwards while playing a low defensive line and having the CMs man-mark, resulting in oceans of space down the middle, isn't grounded in theory and represents how we would ideally like to play. Same...

I think we can assume that he's trying to problem solve. If anything, it's hard to see any other reason than pragmatism why we're playing the way we're playing. It's not hard to see how that is in response to the strengths and limitations of the...

Well, in a way you weren't - he's proven to be pragmatic to a fault. Except for the "works" part, obviously.

Yep. To give a really clear example, the Norwegian women's national team - with a Ballon d'or winner on it - has been doing pre-tournament training matches against a team of male high-schoolers drawn from a special sports high school in Oslo...

He's really just destroying his own credibility with this aggressive pushing of a positive narrative no one believes in. Maybe he believes it himself.