It gives me no pleasure to say this but you can see us as this years Sunderland, and Aston Villa, so obviously heading out of the division even at this stage.
We are worse off now than when we first came up, a few seemingly talented players but having completely lost the togetherness and fight. We now also have a huge wage bill....which could sink us again.
Now it's probably not the boards fault that Allardyce choose to step down at the end of last season, which has royally eff'd us up, and to be fair it seems we did recognise that the seasons of counter-attacking hoofing relying on a couple of talent players was not sustainable, having run things close for the first two seasons, but we have mucked up two summer transfer window, leaving us short of defenders last year and attackers this.
We have tried to replace Hennessey twice as well but this year we failed to land a new goalkeeper despite there being (apparently) seven options put forward.
We all knew that Ward was probably life expired as a right back, but we haven't got a back up. We do seem to have three left backs who can't seem to defend properly for 90mins game after game, Schlupp is the best of them but today he seemed to be so close to his own CB's, that Tadic was being picked out time and time again from long cross-field balls...I thought we weren't playing 3 at the back.
We perhaps have a decent midfield although that hasn't come across at home other than perhaps the second half against Swansea, alright perhaps we have been affected by most of our players not being fit.
However the failure to provide any sort of viable alternative striker to Benteke was absolutely crazy, we've signed our own death warrant. I would be very dissappointed if I found out that the board shrinked back from buying anyone because of their apparent issues with FdB. Perversely we've spent £32m on two CB's who have played one game between them...arguably our defence is not the problem in that we have lost three games by just a single goal, one by two stupid goals, and one because we were crap all over the place. So I would suggest we have spent the money in the wrong area.
I do wonder that if we had actually provided Pardew with the missing players at the start of last season we might have been so much better off now. Having been saved then shafted by BFS I did think the appointment of FdB was a good long term move, but which ever side of that argument you're own its clear that RH is hampered by the same issues as FdB plus he has lost all of the pre-season.
I couldn't get to the match in time today but got to a TV, and really the only positive thing to see was Lukas make a few decent passes (something that our DNA doesn't seem to encourage much)
In the end having pulled off four miracles in successive seasons, the constant changing of managerial staff, lack of adequate scouting, failures in various transfer markets and having found no alternative to a playing style that puts us at a disadvantage at home, we are going to be finally found out.
Sometimes when we have got relegated, we've gone down 'badly' and this year has all the makings of that...we'll know for sure if Brighton beat us at home
We are worse off now than when we first came up, a few seemingly talented players but having completely lost the togetherness and fight. We now also have a huge wage bill....which could sink us again.
Now it's probably not the boards fault that Allardyce choose to step down at the end of last season, which has royally eff'd us up, and to be fair it seems we did recognise that the seasons of counter-attacking hoofing relying on a couple of talent players was not sustainable, having run things close for the first two seasons, but we have mucked up two summer transfer window, leaving us short of defenders last year and attackers this.
We have tried to replace Hennessey twice as well but this year we failed to land a new goalkeeper despite there being (apparently) seven options put forward.
We all knew that Ward was probably life expired as a right back, but we haven't got a back up. We do seem to have three left backs who can't seem to defend properly for 90mins game after game, Schlupp is the best of them but today he seemed to be so close to his own CB's, that Tadic was being picked out time and time again from long cross-field balls...I thought we weren't playing 3 at the back.
We perhaps have a decent midfield although that hasn't come across at home other than perhaps the second half against Swansea, alright perhaps we have been affected by most of our players not being fit.
However the failure to provide any sort of viable alternative striker to Benteke was absolutely crazy, we've signed our own death warrant. I would be very dissappointed if I found out that the board shrinked back from buying anyone because of their apparent issues with FdB. Perversely we've spent £32m on two CB's who have played one game between them...arguably our defence is not the problem in that we have lost three games by just a single goal, one by two stupid goals, and one because we were crap all over the place. So I would suggest we have spent the money in the wrong area.
I do wonder that if we had actually provided Pardew with the missing players at the start of last season we might have been so much better off now. Having been saved then shafted by BFS I did think the appointment of FdB was a good long term move, but which ever side of that argument you're own its clear that RH is hampered by the same issues as FdB plus he has lost all of the pre-season.
I couldn't get to the match in time today but got to a TV, and really the only positive thing to see was Lukas make a few decent passes (something that our DNA doesn't seem to encourage much)
In the end having pulled off four miracles in successive seasons, the constant changing of managerial staff, lack of adequate scouting, failures in various transfer markets and having found no alternative to a playing style that puts us at a disadvantage at home, we are going to be finally found out.
Sometimes when we have got relegated, we've gone down 'badly' and this year has all the makings of that...we'll know for sure if Brighton beat us at home
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