Stuck in 19th place,where next?

Sick of BCFC this year. 17k home crowd says it all.

Please note this Pannu we are voting with our feet.

Chris Hughton is in top half of Prem..

Biggest mistake ever!!!! by board please turn lights of when leaving Pannu and whoether owns us.

Blues KRO

Blues will be here when Clarke and Pannu are not at Blues, sooner the better

I'm pleased that Chris H. is doing so well at Norwich. Okay, he had a shakey start to the season with them, but now he is putting a good string of results together that is now pushing them up the league to the giddy heights of 7th!

This is kind of ironic because this is more or less a mirror image of the situation we were in this time last season under Chris. And yet he managed to find the right formula to the point where we were challenging the top spot by February. And if it hadn't been for the additional Europa Cup games, we could have had sufficient stamina to perhaps claim automatic play-off.

That seems like a distant memory now. Losing Chris was a major loss, but I bare no grudge against him wanting to pursue his career with a Prem club. But all we are left with is the same iffy board, same iffy chairman, a disillusioned fan-base, a leaky defence and a manager who is out of his depth!

And what is particularly annoying is that we are scoring lots of goals, but at the expense of conceding more than we're scoring in a game. I mean, how many times this season have we been 1, 2 or even 3-0 down by half-time, and then come the 2nd half we suddenly wake up and start scoring in equal measure?

I hope Clarke is able to get 2 or 3 decent defenders in the January window. I know they'll either be freebies or loanies, but we definitely need some kind of reinforcements at the back if we're ever going to even hope to see mid-table safety!

Chris Hughton didn;t just leave to join a premiership club. He left because we have been stuck in this crazy limbo with cashless owners who can't/won't sell. He would of been nuts not to leave even for a smaller championship club frankly. Leak Lark must have been desperate to join us in the circumstances. If you had an option would you join a firm that can only get frees and short term loans and will have to sell off all its assets because the ownership has frozen assets due to money laundering charges ? Just pray we can get that sorted by the new year and then slowly try to rebuild. Avoid relegation this season, mid table the next challenge for promotiion possibly the year after if we cna get new owners, new manager and some investment in young players and Ziggy's wages off the books.

Look ar Norwich and no big names or prima donnas there or old and past it.

Chris is an excellent manager but we were never going to hold onto him in the ridiculous mess we've been stuck in since relegation.

KRO

A meeting on monday with Paladinis lawyers and Pannu ,might get something sorted .
back to saturdays game ,i thought Diop held the midfield together and could have been man of the match , Riley looked very good also , the six million pound rated Redmond cant get a place in our poor side, is he a slow learner or what? , Caldwell defends well ,but is much to slow ,has shown with CPs first goal ,overall it was an entertaining game. kro.

My opinion we have been crying for dominant bully type player, Gomis or Diop, and playing wide players on both sides.

Helps 2 be less predictable.

Hope Pannu and Palladini does a deal sooner rather than later.

Hope the new owner does promise 2 not sell Butland, redmond and davies or we may be relegation candidates.

KRO

I feel sorry for Lee Clark with comments like ' i wanna stab him in the eye' from the Op.....

Look, yes he is out of his depth but IMO there are 2 MAJOR reasons why we are not living up to last year....

Those 2 reasons are the LB and RB positions and the lack of players to fill them. Murphy (2nd or 3rd best player last year) out for the season..... Carr (our captain and most consistent performer) out for the season..... Caddis, a great replacement for Carr, but what?? Oh, out for god knows how long for the 2nd time....

The fallout from this, other than the defence element is the attack down the wings....

Everyone on here seems to think Nathan Redmond has all of a sudden become a rubbish player.... oh were we imagining all that trickery/those goals last year?? No, the fact is Burke has looked a shadow of his former self as well.

The reason?? The full backs! The wingers need attacking full backs who are willing to overlap so they can draw off defenders and players like redmond and Burke can take a player on and not be doubled up on. FB's like Spector, Robinson, Ibanez(??) and god knows who else LC is going to put in that postition are not going to charge up the field (at least, not with any pace anyway!) and help out their wingers... And its no good having just one of our specialist FB's available either, because the opposition soon picks up on this and realises which side the threat is coming from and they double up!

So, crap full backs... what else have they exposed?? Oh ye, slow centre backs like Caldwell? This guy is another player that is a shadow of his former self and it is because if he did ever get caught for pace he had Carr or Murphy to back him up... or possibly he wasn't so often put in these positions in the first place??

So what can LC do? Well, not much with out major risk, but I feel and hope the answer could be Mitch Hancox. This guy looks real promising and although his defending may still be a little raw, his attacking ability looks impressive. I just hope this year is not a year too soon for him and that Caddis's injury is not too long term or else we will be in trouble and there is not a damn thing LC can do about it.