IT'S NOT LOOKING VERY GOOD.

For years i have always said that if we get to the premiership we will survive and then kick on, but after recent results i am now fearing the worse, our last three home games should have brought us a minimum of five points, we couldn't have played the opposition at a better time, Southampton hadn't won in six games, Sunderland were bottom of the league and West Ham were there for the taking after their confidence had been shot to bits. We've ended up with ONE point, scored two goals and conceded seven, it's just about as bad as it gets from a football point of view. For me the entire blame lies at the feet of Malky Makay, just because he throws a couple of fist pumps to the fans doesn't make him excused for the football we have been dished up, this is HIS team/squad, he has spent over £35 million bringing together players who in general are not comfortable with the ball at their feet, Medel looks a shadow of the player who first came to the club and is certainly not worth £11 million we paid for him, Odemwingie looks totally out of his depth, Whittingham has become a liability and as for Cornelius, the least said the better, £8 million and £45k a week later he looks like a league one player. Malky was financially backed by the owner of that there is no doubt and now OGS has to try and turn things around in an unforgiving transfer window where players are vastly over priced,( but then we are used to that) good luck ole, you're going to need it.

For years i have always said that if we get to the premiership we will survive and then kick on, but after recent results i am now fearing the worse, our last three home games should have brought us a minimum of five points, we couldn't have played the opposition at a better time, Southampton hadn't won in six games, Sunderland were bottom of the league and West Ham were there for the taking after their confidence had been shot to bits. We've ended up with ONE point, scored two goals and conceded seven, it's just about as bad as it gets from a football point of view. For me the entire blame lies at the feet of Malky Makay, just because he throws a couple of fist pumps to the fans doesn't make him excused for the football we have been dished up, this is HIS team/squad, he has spent over £35 million bringing together players who in general are not comfortable with the ball at their feet, Medel looks a shadow of the player who first came to the club and is certainly not worth £11 million we paid for him, Odemwingie looks totally out of his depth, Whittingham has become a liability and as for Cornelius, the least said the better, £8 million and £45k a week later he looks like a league one player. Malky was financially backed by the owner of that there is no doubt and now OGS has to try and turn things around in an unforgiving transfer window where players are vastly over priced,( but then we are used to that) good luck ole, you're going to need it.

Totally agree with every point, its a shame ole was not appointed sooner as in my view there is not enough time to turn it around, malky has signed to much deadwood

With the Jan window being overpriced perhaps some nutcase club will come in and take ACorn off our hands for the same price we paid for him. Seriously tho, I still think he may come good, he needs to adjust I believe to the English game. Im just fearing we have too many players that also need to do this!
Lee.

With the Jan window being overpriced perhaps some nutcase club will come in and take ACorn off our hands for the same price we paid for him. Seriously tho, I still think he may come good, he needs to adjust I believe to the English game. Im just fearing we have too many players that also need to do this!
Lee.

We have struggled for goals since last February in the championship, it was the first and most important transfer that had to be addressed in the summer, a blind man could see that and we end up with a £8 million striker who, according to the manager is "one for the future."

Its looking very good - Solskjaer needs 2-3 years to undo the damage done by the donuts from May to Mackay.

For years i have always said that if we get to the premiership we will survive and then kick on, but after recent results i am now fearing the worse, our last three home games should have brought us a minimum of five points, we couldn't have played the opposition at a better time, Southampton hadn't won in six games, Sunderland were bottom of the league and West Ham were there for the taking after their confidence had been shot to bits. We've ended up with ONE point, scored two goals and conceded seven, it's just about as bad as it gets from a football point of view. For me the entire blame lies at the feet of Malky Makay, just because he throws a couple of fist pumps to the fans doesn't make him excused for the football we have been dished up, this is HIS team/squad, he has spent over £35 million bringing together players who in general are not comfortable with the ball at their feet, Medel looks a shadow of the player who first came to the club and is certainly not worth £11 million we paid for him, Odemwingie looks totally out of his depth, Whittingham has become a liability and as for Cornelius, the least said the better, £8 million and £45k a week later he looks like a league one player. Malky was financially backed by the owner of that there is no doubt and now OGS has to try and turn things around in an unforgiving transfer window where players are vastly over priced,( but then we are used to that) good luck ole, you're going to need it.

Totally agree with this OGS you have one hell of a job on your hands,for most of the season we have been fekin shit,I'm afraid Malky most of your signings have been awfull,if we can't score we are never going to win,odemwingie and Cornelius ...well total garbage,not looking good folks

i think ole had already had his targets in mind, which he has given to tan, and i believe he will get most of them as ole seems the kind of manager you want to work with.. i just hope he can gel them quickly to get us moving.. unfortunately he his going to upset a few deadwood players too, who are just not up to fast passing football, which in turn could upset malkys ex camp..going to be interesting though and at least we have a fighting chance now, with some entertainment too.

so was it also malkys fault we beat man city, got a win away at fulham, drew with man utd, beat swansea etc. i certainly blame him for winning the league and that carling cup final appearance with a tiny squad. shocking

so was it also malkys fault we beat man city, got a win away at fulham, drew with man utd, beat swansea etc. i certainly blame him for winning the league and that carling cup final appearance with a tiny squad. shocking

Paul top post.

I have thought from the start that we would drop. But there are plenty of points to be claimed and this is a funny old game.

so was it also malkys fault we beat man city, got a win away at fulham, drew with man utd, beat swansea etc. i certainly blame him for winning the league and that carling cup final appearance with a tiny squad. shocking

Well said

so was it also malkys fault we beat man city, got a win away at fulham, drew with man utd, beat swansea etc. i certainly blame him for winning the league and that carling cup final appearance with a tiny squad. shocking

Got a win away to Fulham ffs

so was it also malkys fault we beat man city, got a win away at fulham, drew with man utd, beat swansea etc. i certainly blame him for winning the league and that carling cup final appearance with a tiny squad. shocking

Got a win away to Fulham ffs

The first ever away win in the Premiership, if you don't feel that was a big deal, then you've been expecting far too much

so was it also malkys fault we beat man city, got a win away at fulham, drew with man utd, beat swansea etc. i certainly blame him for winning the league and that carling cup final appearance with a tiny squad. shocking

Got a win away to Fulham ffs

The first ever away win in the Premiership, if you don't feel that was a big deal, then you've been expecting far too much

Mate,we have been clueless for most of the season,the table never lies if we don't buck up we are going down,this is Malkys squad and let's be honest caulker was worth the money but the rest ???

so was it also malkys fault we beat man city, got a win away at fulham, drew with man utd, beat swansea etc. i certainly blame him for winning the league and that carling cup final appearance with a tiny squad. shocking

Got a win away to Fulham ffs

The first ever away win in the Premiership, if you don't feel that was a big deal, then you've been expecting far too much

Mate,we have been clueless for most of the season,the table never lies if we don't buck up we are going down,this is Malkys squad and let's be honest caulker was worth the money but the rest ???

i thought the season was going fine until the first row started over player bonuses, it showed in the game against newcastle. before any controversy we beat man city and fulham, drew with everton and it took a 93rd minute goal for spurs to beat us too. everything was going well. but after the first row, tan got more and more involved and results started to deteriorate.

so was it also malkys fault we beat man city, got a win away at fulham, drew with man utd, beat swansea etc. i certainly blame him for winning the league and that carling cup final appearance with a tiny squad. shocking

Well said

I agree totally well said mate.

Probably be bottom by end of jan but February fixtures look winnable (if we can start scoring goals!)im abit worried but we can do this!heads up keep the faith!

We've still got a good chance... I think Mutch would have a made a huge difference yesterday - need him back asap. Kim was great in first half but in second half he always seemed to be looking to pass to Bellamy - Bellamy over awed him strangely.

We should look at the positives - the amount of possession we had yesterday will build confidence. On another day a few shots would have gone in. I'd prefer to play with 10 shots on target a week rather than some of our lucky ones, like Man City where we only had 4 shots on target and scored 3 goals... Really need to try and get some points in the next two tricky away games!

Wow cityone, this is the first good post I think ive ever seen you make. Keep it up, its refreshing.

You are correct in my opinion. Malky isnt a bad manager, but his tactic of spending the whole transfer kitty on a a couple of players was insane. I said so at the time and got pelters for it, it was clear from an outside perspective that £11m on Medel was insanity when you could have got someone to do the same job for free. Cornelius for £8m who "was for the future" was again insanity when you needed firepower now. However I dont think Cornelius was intended for the future, he just realised he wasnt good enough, the same as Brayford and Velokonja - its like hed never seem them play before.

The two good signings he made were Caulker and Theophile. Caulkers height is a major threat both attacking and defensively and something I wish we had as we have been lacking in that area for some time and Theophile seems like a bargain and a genuinelly good athletic right back.

Malky was like our Paulo Sousa. He sorted the defence out and made is defensively minded. You now need a Brendan Rodgers/Roberto Martinez to add to the attacking side of the game without taking away the dogged defence Malky brought - its a fine balancing act. Is OGS your Brendan/Roberto? Time will tell.

so was it also malkys fault we beat man city, got a win away at fulham, drew with man utd, beat swansea etc. i certainly blame him for winning the league and that carling cup final appearance with a tiny squad. shocking

No, malky can take credit for them but it is his fault for bad defeats at crystal palace, southampton and awful performances at norwich and stoke, looking back the man city result has probably worked against us because he has tried to play with a back flat 10 with one man upfront running is balls off and looking like a headless chicken ever since, why do we in general play hoof ball football??? it's because we have not got players who are comfortable with the ball at their feet, no ball players, now you would think with £35 million to spend that he would have addressed that. If you can't see that for the majority of our games the football we play is dire, then i'm afraid you've been hypnotised by the malky fist pump.

For years i have always said that if we get to the premiership we will survive and then kick on, but after recent results i am now fearing the worse, our last three home games should have brought us a minimum of five points, we couldn't have played the opposition at a better time, Southampton hadn't won in six games, Sunderland were bottom of the league and West Ham were there for the taking after their confidence had been shot to bits. We've ended up with ONE point, scored two goals and conceded seven, it's just about as bad as it gets from a football point of view. For me the entire blame lies at the feet of Malky Makay, just because he throws a couple of fist pumps to the fans doesn't make him excused for the football we have been dished up, this is HIS team/squad, he has spent over £35 million bringing together players who in general are not comfortable with the ball at their feet, Medel looks a shadow of the player who first came to the club and is certainly not worth £11 million we paid for him, Odemwingie looks totally out of his depth, Whittingham has become a liability and as for Cornelius, the least said the better, £8 million and £45k a week later he looks like a league one player. Malky was financially backed by the owner of that there is no doubt and now OGS has to try and turn things around in an unforgiving transfer window where players are vastly over priced,( but then we are used to that) good luck ole, you're going to need it.

Excellent post. I think Cornelius will come good too, he's a different option to what we have at the moment. Ole has his work cut out to change, what still is, a Championship squad. In all this Malky worked the press excellently and has gained the moral high ground because of the hatred of VT because of the red. But, he got enough money to build a team that could survive in the Prem but didn't. I think he was naive enough to think that we were good enough, this only shows how unxperienced he is at this level. If we do go down, the blame must go down to Malky for his poor teambuilding over the summer. If we stay up it will be adown to Ole! But MM took us up I here you say! The way he was backed by Tan it would have been a crime if he hadn't!

Personally completely disagree. I think if Malky had been left to do his job by Tan then we would have scrapped two 1-0 wins against Sunderland and West Ham. I can't remember the last time we surrendered a two goal league under Malky and we set up with such soft tactics yesterday which was always going to be a problem with a team like west ham.

Ole obviously wants to play a different style to Malky and had to do it yesterday with players set up for Malky's structure. It seems to me that he wants a less rigid shape to the team and quicker breaks when we get the ball but there were some major issues yesterday. In the first 30 minutes West ham full backs were allowed to get four crosses into the box with zero pressure applied, one hit the post, they would have been closed down and pressed under Malky. When ole has got a few more of his type of players in the team I can see us playing more attractive stuff than under Malky but without the rigid defensive structure I think we will be like a Blackpool of a couple of years ago or Fulham this year where we will concede far too many goals to get results. At least under Malky we had a chance of getting a clean sheet.

You can't blame Malky for buying players to fit his system. You have to blame Tan for meddling at completely the wrong time when we were playing two of the worst teams at home.

West ham are the worst premier league team I've seen at the stadium and I think they were always comfortable apart from the Kim deflection in the first half. I think Campbell's shot in second half was going over anyway.

For years i have always said that if we get to the premiership we will survive and then kick on, but after recent results i am now fearing the worse, our last three home games should have brought us a minimum of five points, we couldn't have played the opposition at a better time, Southampton hadn't won in six games, Sunderland were bottom of the league and West Ham were there for the taking after their confidence had been shot to bits. We've ended up with ONE point, scored two goals and conceded seven, it's just about as bad as it gets from a football point of view. For me the entire blame lies at the feet of Malky Makay, just because he throws a couple of fist pumps to the fans doesn't make him excused for the football we have been dished up, this is HIS team/squad, he has spent over £35 million bringing together players who in general are not comfortable with the ball at their feet, Medel looks a shadow of the player who first came to the club and is certainly not worth £11 million we paid for him, Odemwingie looks totally out of his depth, Whittingham has become a liability and as for Cornelius, the least said the better, £8 million and £45k a week later he looks like a league one player. Malky was financially backed by the owner of that there is no doubt and now OGS has to try and turn things around in an unforgiving transfer window where players are vastly over priced,( but then we are used to that) good luck ole, you're going to need it.

Excellent post. I think Cornelius will come good too, he's a different option to what we have at the moment. Ole has his work cut out to change, what still is, a Championship squad. In all this Malky worked the press excellently and has gained the moral high ground because of the hatred of VT because of the red. But, he got enough money to build a team that could survive in the Prem but didn't. I think he was naive enough to think that we were good enough, this only shows how unxperienced he is at this level. If we do go down, the blame must go down to Malky for his poor teambuilding over the summer. If we stay up it will be adown to Ole! But MM took us up I here you say! The way he was backed by Tan it would have been a crime if he hadn't!

I don't think thats fair, and just a tad contradictory.

You are saying its Malkys squad so if you go down its his fault....but if you stay up then its down to Solskjaer? I actually think Malky would have kept you up, the football was dire but you weren't easy to beat, and thats key in this league.

Now? Im not so sure. Solskjaer is a good manager but too much money, too much upheaval and too much meddling for me - its going to be tricky.

And the other thing in Malky's favour is he picked up 18 points in 19 games playing mainly top teams at home. Ole has a far easier home run to the end of the season so if he doesn't get more than 18 points it definitely points to the blame being down to him.

Look on the bright side...

Cardiff City are now in the same position as they were at this time last season.

Two places off the top of the championship.

For years i have always said that if we get to the premiership we will survive and then kick on, but after recent results i am now fearing the worse, our last three home games should have brought us a minimum of five points, we couldn't have played the opposition at a better time, Southampton hadn't won in six games, Sunderland were bottom of the league and West Ham were there for the taking after their confidence had been shot to bits. We've ended up with ONE point, scored two goals and conceded seven, it's just about as bad as it gets from a football point of view. For me the entire blame lies at the feet of Malky Makay, just because he throws a couple of fist pumps to the fans doesn't make him excused for the football we have been dished up, this is HIS team/squad, he has spent over £35 million bringing together players who in general are not comfortable with the ball at their feet, Medel looks a shadow of the player who first came to the club and is certainly not worth £11 million we paid for him, Odemwingie looks totally out of his depth, Whittingham has become a liability and as for Cornelius, the least said the better, £8 million and £45k a week later he looks like a league one player. Malky was financially backed by the owner of that there is no doubt and now OGS has to try and turn things around in an unforgiving transfer window where players are vastly over priced,( but then we are used to that) good luck ole, you're going to need it.

What a turncoat Malky was the best Manager you had so far and now you blame him ?

West Ham weren't there for the taking you numpty, after a bad couple of weeks they were fired up for the game,

We had centre halves actually playing in their own positions , Jarvis and Downing demonstrating why they are some of the best wingers in the league , Carlton Cole bullying as he does as well as scoring goals and then Andy Carroll returning who was dynamite when he came on.

On top of that Mark Noble fought for 90 minutes as if his life was on it being a local east end boy dying for his Club if need be.

And that was Malkys fault ????

Dream on....... Your in the position you are in because of your chairman and his disruption during you first season in the premiership .


There's no god forgiven right to premiership life. You have to take the ups and downs its not just about having the biggest cheque book

For years i have always said that if we get to the premiership we will survive and then kick on, but after recent results i am now fearing the worse, our last three home games should have brought us a minimum of five points, we couldn't have played the opposition at a better time, Southampton hadn't won in six games, Sunderland were bottom of the league and West Ham were there for the taking after their confidence had been shot to bits. We've ended up with ONE point, scored two goals and conceded seven, it's just about as bad as it gets from a football point of view. For me the entire blame lies at the feet of Malky Makay, just because he throws a couple of fist pumps to the fans doesn't make him excused for the football we have been dished up, this is HIS team/squad, he has spent over £35 million bringing together players who in general are not comfortable with the ball at their feet, Medel looks a shadow of the player who first came to the club and is certainly not worth £11 million we paid for him, Odemwingie looks totally out of his depth, Whittingham has become a liability and as for Cornelius, the least said the better, £8 million and £45k a week later he looks like a league one player. Malky was financially backed by the owner of that there is no doubt and now OGS has to try and turn things around in an unforgiving transfer window where players are vastly over priced,( but then we are used to that) good luck ole, you're going to need it.

What a turncoat Malky was the best Manager you had so far and now you blame him ?

West Ham weren't there for the taking you numpty, after a bad couple of weeks they were fired up for the game,

We had centre halves actually playing in their own positions , Jarvis and Downing demonstrating why they are some of the best wingers in the league , Carlton Cole bullying as he does as well as scoring goals and then Andy Carroll returning who was dynamite when he came on.

On top of that Mark Noble fought for 90 minutes as if his life was on it being a local east end boy dying for his Club if need be.

And that was Malkys fault ????

Dream on....... Your in the position you are in because of your chairman and his disruption during you first season in the premiership .


There's no god forgiven right to premiership life. You have to take the ups and downs its not just about having the biggest cheque book

West ham were awful, we were worse. I wouldn't be surprised if we both went down but I agree with the comments about Malky.

And the other thing in Malky's favour is he picked up 18 points in 19 games playing mainly top teams at home. Ole has a far easier home run to the end of the season so if he doesn't get more than 18 points it definitely points to the blame being down to him.

Exactly at the start of the season Malky had a graph of who and where to get the points. He did it all correctly.

Remember this geezer is watching from his arm chair in Scotland .... Allow him that excuse for his stupid comments

For years i have always said that if we get to the premiership we will survive and then kick on, but after recent results i am now fearing the worse, our last three home games should have brought us a minimum of five points, we couldn't have played the opposition at a better time, Southampton hadn't won in six games, Sunderland were bottom of the league and West Ham were there for the taking after their confidence had been shot to bits. We've ended up with ONE point, scored two goals and conceded seven, it's just about as bad as it gets from a football point of view. For me the entire blame lies at the feet of Malky Makay, just because he throws a couple of fist pumps to the fans doesn't make him excused for the football we have been dished up, this is HIS team/squad, he has spent over £35 million bringing together players who in general are not comfortable with the ball at their feet, Medel looks a shadow of the player who first came to the club and is certainly not worth £11 million we paid for him, Odemwingie looks totally out of his depth, Whittingham has become a liability and as for Cornelius, the least said the better, £8 million and £45k a week later he looks like a league one player. Malky was financially backed by the owner of that there is no doubt and now OGS has to try and turn things around in an unforgiving transfer window where players are vastly over priced,( but then we are used to that) good luck ole, you're going to need it.

What a turncoat Malky was the best Manager you had so far and now you blame him ?

West Ham weren't there for the taking you numpty, after a bad couple of weeks they were fired up for the game,

We had centre halves actually playing in their own positions , Jarvis and Downing demonstrating why they are some of the best wingers in the league , Carlton Cole bullying as he does as well as scoring goals and then Andy Carroll returning who was dynamite when he came on.

On top of that Mark Noble fought for 90 minutes as if his life was on it being a local east end boy dying for his Club if need be.

And that was Malkys fault ????

Dream on....... Your in the position you are in because of your chairman and his disruption during you first season in the premiership .


There's no god forgiven right to premiership life. You have to take the ups and downs its not just about having the biggest cheque book

West ham were awful, we were worse. I wouldn't be surprised if we both went down but I agree with the comments about Malky.

Awful ? ---- yea ok then through your blinkered specs

Alan Hansen ----- west ham were phenomenal !!!

They were .... Did everything correctly to win the game of football and collect the points.

For years i have always said that if we get to the premiership we will survive and then kick on, but after recent results i am now fearing the worse, our last three home games should have brought us a minimum of five points, we couldn't have played the opposition at a better time, Southampton hadn't won in six games, Sunderland were bottom of the league and West Ham were there for the taking after their confidence had been shot to bits. We've ended up with ONE point, scored two goals and conceded seven, it's just about as bad as it gets from a football point of view. For me the entire blame lies at the feet of Malky Makay, just because he throws a couple of fist pumps to the fans doesn't make him excused for the football we have been dished up, this is HIS team/squad, he has spent over £35 million bringing together players who in general are not comfortable with the ball at their feet, Medel looks a shadow of the player who first came to the club and is certainly not worth £11 million we paid for him, Odemwingie looks totally out of his depth, Whittingham has become a liability and as for Cornelius, the least said the better, £8 million and £45k a week later he looks like a league one player. Malky was financially backed by the owner of that there is no doubt and now OGS has to try and turn things around in an unforgiving transfer window where players are vastly over priced,( but then we are used to that) good luck ole, you're going to need it.

Excellent post. I think Cornelius will come good too, he's a different option to what we have at the moment. Ole has his work cut out to change, what still is, a Championship squad. In all this Malky worked the press excellently and has gained the moral high ground because of the hatred of VT because of the red. But, he got enough money to build a team that could survive in the Prem but didn't. I think he was naive enough to think that we were good enough, this only shows how unxperienced he is at this level. If we do go down, the blame must go down to Malky for his poor teambuilding over the summer. If we stay up it will be adown to Ole! But MM took us up I here you say! The way he was backed by Tan it would have been a crime if he hadn't!

I don't think thats fair, and just a tad contradictory.

You are saying its Malkys squad so if you go down its his fault....but if you stay up then its down to Solskjaer? I actually think Malky would have kept you up, the football was dire but you weren't easy to beat, and thats key in this league.

Now? Im not so sure. Solskjaer is a good manager but too much money, too much upheaval and too much meddling for me - its going to be tricky.

Castro ---- he's a deluded arm chair fan from Scotland , go easy on the old fool .