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Maresca changed virtually everything about the way we play and with a number of different players. I do not think Poch should get any credit whatsoever for results under Maresca, who had to immediately fix a number of catastrophic and somewhat hilarious flaws that had been drilled into the players (for example, playing a recklessly high line and not dropping off when the opponent had the ball under no pressure, was something he prioritised and worked hard to fix from day 1). They are a mile apart in terms of tactical understanding and Maresca is the far more ruthless of the two, pushing out players like Sterling and Chilwell who had been Poch's darlings but were clearly completely washed up. No doubt better managers than Maresca available but Poch is not one of them. Whether any of them will come here is another question, given the serious structural flaws in the club, its a bit of a poison chalice.

Imo he is far better than Poch, who is likely to blame for many injury problems we are still coping with to this day, after flogging the players to death in training (and reaping no benefits from it, but rather just injuring them all the time and leaving them exhausted for the games). He also finished the season with 63 goals conceded, I think the most we have conceded since 1990 or something. And that was with a far better GK available. Maresca has made plenty of mistakes but its almost impossible to do as badly as Poch who was a total fraud, tactically outdone by every opponent and even the incompetent owners and sporting directors could see he had to go asap and that he was an obvious and embarrassing mistake of a hire.

Apparently this trick only works in your skilled hands @Fulham Broadway 2-2 what a disappointment. Since the day Cole arrived we've been basically carried by him, when he is injured we look like a relegation team and when he is out of goal scoring form we look like a midtable team. People blame Maresca and for sure he has made mistakes but for me it is much bigger than our head coach The owners are the number 1 problem The sporting directors after that (picked by the owners who don't know what they're doing, only still here because they lucked out with Joe Shields buying Cole - notice we took a guy from a winning club and he bought another player from a winning club, and not just guys from Brighton) A few terrible players after that who should never have been here and where we don't even have options in the squad available to bench them Maresca after that And then the rest of the squad after that. Bright points are basically limited to a handful of players who do really try, clearly care, and deserve better than this. And the vague prospect of some of our loans coming back and strengthening us next year.

Following in Fulham Broadway's footsteps: Oh great, here comes Nkunku, who will do...

How was that not a goal wtf

The difference in the way their players give everything to stop the ball going in. So visible. I'm not sure we have a single CB or GK in this match day squad that should survive the summer.

The only hope for our season is we create an opportunity that Cole tucks away and suddenly he's back. Otherwise we're doomed.

When you watch teams like Ipswich play against us you can really see what is the minimum basic standard for professional players, the way they can strike the ball and be threatening at a moments notice, put in a shift, work together and be there for each other, put their bodies on the line. In building the squad we've skipped some really essential traits throughout the group.

Both fullbacks inverting into midfield I see...

Feel like Boehly and Egbhali need to have a proper dust up, agree that its not working and find a resolution with either them both selling up or 1 of them selling to the other and a plan to move forward with a new vision. Something major has to change or it will just be groundhog day, changing manager is not enough.

We're already so shit and we're gonna have wastemen like Sterling and Felix showing up soon wanting to be reintegrated fml

In conclusion, buying a club for lots of money, binning all of their winning players and staff, and replacing them wholesale at great expense with a bunch of inexperienced guys at every level of the club, might not work.

When players play like this you have to assume they want the guy fired. They look like they've totally given up on playing for him.

That was a non event man, just a coming together, got to run in there if you're Jackson, would be furious with him if he didn't

And had nothing to do with the goal whatsoever

That goal was 100% on player incompetence and not Maresca tbh. We've been creating lots of opportunities and dominating the game until then. Colwill and Tosin so poor, they just don't have that hunger and intensity for defending, caught asleep at the wheel yet again

Does Sanchez actually work on his distribution at all? I can understand in live situations but from a straight forward goalkick you should be able to land passes into normal areas pretty consistently as a goalkeeper, I mean even an amateur can learn this, its just countless hours of practicing kicking the ball from exactly the same spot.

A bit of luck for us in that case

Things are so tight we could definitely benefit from a bit more GD I'll go with 1:0 We are not a high scoring team anymore but we have barely conceded goals recently.

Delap is on the bench

All of the other teams will be saying the same We are all where we are because we've all lost tonnes of points we "shouldn't have"

Wow. Terrible time for them to have this happen, they've got 2 PL games in 3 days. Hope he's alright - has to be something serious, the guy is only 47. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c98gjez5yd7o Newcastle boss Eddie Howe has been admitted to hospital and will miss the club's Premier League fixture with Manchester United on Sunday.

Final game of the season could be a real cup final sort of situation

No real title race and relegation fight this year, but the fight for the various European spots is keeping the league pretty damn interesting. Almost anything could happen from this position.