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I think Chansiri is too focused on his attempts to get us into the Premier League, because he sees that as the ultimate success. I would prefer an owner who is focused on the long term - building a club and identity that the fans can be proud of. If we had got promoted, I don’t have any confidence Chansiri would have used the money sensibly and could imagine us ending up in a Sunderland scenario. Imagine going to Thailand and buying a Thai boxing company, trying to run it without any advisors that know the culture , language and industry. You just wouldn’t do it. But Chansiri seems to think he can with football. If he is to stay as chairman, he needs to take a step back from being involved and build a modern structure at the club. Go and use the money to hire Brentford’s backroom staff, then perhaps we could attract a better manager. Chansiri doesn’t deserve our money as fans because he doesn’t use it sensibly at all

I’m not Monk’s biggest fan. But after Jos, we didn’t seem to be able to attract anyone better. I think our priority should be sorting out the structure and foundations of the club. Perhaps then we could attract a manager of more quality than Monk. Until we sort the rest of the club out, if a manager like Bruce comes in and papers over the cracks, we are not operating to a long term sustainable plan. Personally, I think that if we can find someone we are very confident is a step up from Monk, then I wouldn’t be against him going but I worry we’d swap him for someone of similar or worse quality, who would have similar problems and struggles to Monk. I find it hard to judge Monk’s quality given all of the problems our squad and club seems to be facing - but the performance against Luton shouldn’t be happening.

He was great for us for the majority of his time with us, but I do remember thinking that towards the end, his best days were well behind him. Think it was the right decision to let go

I don’t doubt Chansiri’s intent, in that I’m confident he cares about the club and wants the best for us. But I am sure that he is completely out of his depth, and not treating the running of the club in the professional way it deserves.

This is absurd. Is this really how our club is being run? If we do make it into the prem, I dread to think of Chansiri would use the money.

I used to travel up for home games a few times a year from London but have stopped in the last 2 years and just go go away games. The additional costs of travel etc combined with high prices, means I just can’t justify it. I don’t really even consider going anymore. It’s often cheaper to get tickets to a club like West Ham for premier league football.

Too inconsistent

How annoying! Virgin, you’re awful!

And me!

I’m watching this on the app but when I press the red button on my TV, it says ‘there are currently no interactive events on this channel’. Anyone know what that’s about?

I don’t doubt Pulis would get us results and we’d have a chance of promotion under him. But he’s not so fantastic that you’d be 90% confident of going up at some point and I have absolutely no interest in watching his brand of football. I would much rather someone modern and watch some entertaining football.

Bullen hasn’t ever been a good choice for me. I think he’s happy and had some success following the Bruce blueprint but struggles when that doesn’t work. In fairness to him though, Chansiri or us as fans haven’t had the opportunity to assess a fully backed Bullen. He hasn’t been able to bring in his own team and he has to deal with all of the uncertainty. So as much as I don’t think Bullen is up to it, he either needs to be backed or someone else appointed, otherwise he isn’t being given a fair chance. Hopefully goes without saying but I love Bullen and want him at the club for a long time to come, just not as manager.

With the amount of games we have, Reach won’t always be at full fitness. We regularly have to play on a Saturday and then again on a Tuesday, so it helps to rotate.

Whilst he wouldn’t be close to my first choice (sounds obvious), I would much rather we went for an unknown who could turn out to be great, than a journeyman who we know is crap. That’s where my head is at (although I am terrified it’ll be Jos Part 2)

Already realise that mate, even tiny businesses run by a couple people offer better value for delivery. That’s what you fail to realise

Well they charge £6 for delivery so that’s what I’d expect really. Don’t think it’s a positive! They don’t offer any cheaper options or options to collect from anywhere apart from the megastore. I’m all for being positive about the club but not on this one!

If DC is choosing from the usual inspiring list of Pulis and Coleman - as much as it pains me to say it, Allardyce would be the most likely to take us up in my opinion. If we really are resigning ourself to crap football, then I would be confident he’d get is up. Can’t say I like the man but he has a better record than Pulis etc

Thank you

Anyone know when these will be on sale?

He was pretty inconsistent with us but I saw some potential. I like the idea of us signing younger and more athletic players. I don’t think we should judge him too much on last season. It can take even world class players a season to settle, he played a lot of it under a poor manager and he might look a better player with a different type of team around him. I get that he had a fair few awful games but then a lot of our players did.

I agree . I actually think it was quite on trend too and looked fairly modern. I don’t mind the new one but it just doesn’t seem as good to me. I doubt many people would recognise it outside of our fans

Cheer up mate!

Ah, thank you !

am about to order the home shirt but can anyone give me a steer on what the sizes are like? If I’m normally a medium, is that going to be like buying a small?

What really worries me about this is that we have been financially mis-managed under Chansiri. Selling a ground would always be a risk but I’d feel like it was a much smaller risk if we hadn’t wasted so much money in recent years.