Echoes of Charlton fans when they wanted rid of Alan Curbishley.
They got their way, and ultimately the result was third tier football.
I'll stick with Roy, but I imagine the great man will probably call it a day at the end of the season anyway.

Except for right back, which they seemed to ignore and to a lesser extent centre forward. Everywhere else I grant has been competently covered.

There is a difference between targetting which is what the poster said and actually signing. We were after Ferguson in January and presumably see him as the long term solution to the RB problem provided he recovers fully from his injury.

Getting the right striker is a very tricky job. I don't know who we've been targetting in the past two windows but at least we now have Batshuayi for this season and possibly beyond if he performs to our liking. If we can get Brewster as well, we could be well set for the foreseeable future. It's then a question of who we can attract to our upgraded academy and whether any of the existing members will be able to make the leap to the PL for us.

Edited by doombear (17 Sep 2020 10.11pm)

Ok, it seems my memory is terrible! I suppose that's a good thing after last season's football.

No one could disagree with that, this has been our weakness for sometime now!

In my mind a striker is a 20 goal plus per season man, we have not had a good sniffer striker like Ings or Vardy who are both out and out goal poachers who anticipate and seek the back of the net at every opportunity. Loanees are usually fringe players who are not quite there as a first team regular and are often in need of gametime!

Vardy cost Leicester 1mil from fleetwood Town in 2012 and our own Ian Wright came from Greenwich Borough so there are bargains are out there you just need to have the scouting infrastructure that finds them. As for Batshuayi and Tosun, no comment, that why they are our on loan, just remember we paid 27mil for Benteke, four goals since 2017, so paying the cash does not guarantee a good striker.

Questions for the Roy-out crowd:

*Do you think the players we have are capable of playing more front-foot, possession-based football and getting significantly more points?

*if not, do you blame Roy for that?

*If yes, which players would you select for this bolder approach?

*If we played possession-based, dominant football, how would you deal with the fact our defenders are relatively slow and/or not fabulous in 1 on 1s, and we don't look a team with the legs for a pressing game?

I think there are marginal changes he could make that would make us more attractive to watch and attacking-- specifically integrating Meyer into the starting 11 more, although isn't he anyway in his final year?-- but overall I'm not sure how much Roy can change it up with the players he has.

If you want to live in a world full of kindness, respect and love, try to show these qualities.

Good point. Perhaps they should divide the tv money not on leaugue position but based on how many neutrals switched a team off sky sports because they were bored s***less by an unattractive game.