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30 Oct 2026 07:39:03
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25 Oct 2026 01:54:24
What were Mavro and Mukassa doing for the first goal? Where was our left back/left midfield for their second?
Our central midfield is too soft.
Kilman, Engels and Mavro were denied by the GK having 'one of those days'.
Fair result would have been a draw, but our central midfield needs strength.

25 Oct 2026 08:22:42
Nunos the problem, sets the team up to keep it tight every week despite having the best players in the league. It was only a matter of time before a team had taken advantage of our slow passive starts, a few teams came close and were unlucky or just didnt quite have the quality to take advantage.

Shackles came off at 2 nil and suddenly we are creating chance after chance, pinging the ball around quickly for a change, unfortunately nothing quite fell our way, good last ditch defending, luck, and good goal keeping was all on their side today. Wher id say the opposite for us there deflections and chances all fell to the player in space.

We have Magassa, Alvarez, Orford who are all solid good holding/defensive midfields. Instead we persist to shoe horn the likes of Pablo and now Soucek into the team both of them cant trap a bag of cement and their second touch is usually a tackle. Also means Bowen and Solomon are much deeper arguably our 2 most creative/goal threats.

On a positive note at least hes realised Kante is not a holding midfielder yet. Took him long enough and plenty fans had pointed it out.

25 Oct 2026 08:38:12
Spot on Al. And don't forget Areola who is by far a better shot stopper than Hermansen. This manager not only got us relegated, but it's plainly obvious he's inept at team selection, game management and overall tactics.

The quality of some players has so far made him look better than he is, but he will be found out. This is going to be a long season.

25 Oct 2026 11:14:34
The worse case scenario is we get promoted with Nuno and then they keep him for another season meaning our first season back in the prem will technically be half a season until they realise he's a charlatan and sack him.

26 Oct 2026 13:02:24
No decent goalkeeper should allow himself to be beaten like he was with second goal. Yes it was sweet hit but he should've turned it over.

26 Oct 2026 17:57:33
Taty needs to start scoring goals, I know people don't like Pablo but for me at least he puts a shift in, play Pablo and piroe and drop taty and Solomon, one trick pony who runs down the wing and cuts back and is very readable!!
Austbo needs to be given a chance and a run of games, personally not sure Nuno is the man to take us forward so get him out and get Parker or Carrick in.

26 Oct 2026 19:47:26
Pablo cost us €25 million. When he plays, he continuously gives the ball away, he loses nigh on every one on one duel, he often loses the ball when tackled, his off the ball positioning is questionable, he's a striker who doesn't know where the goal is and he commits fouls needlessly.

Never mind all that though; he runs around a lot like a headless chicken making pointless runs that amount to nothing, so let's play him instead of someone who can play football at this level.

27 Oct 2026 10:50:17
Yeah, I have forgotten how many goals taty has scored to how many sitters he has had, they may aswell put one of us in as cannot do any worse with to one on one.

27 Oct 2026 11:03:21
I can understand your criticism of Tatty, Bobby but playing up front on your own the way we set up is a thankless task. Yes Solomon has gone off the boil and give Austbo a chance but he is one of the only players who is having a go. Bowen does but it doesn't seem to happen till later in the game. Nuno took off Solomon and Makasa and brought on Souchek and Pablo no wonder we lost any impetus we had at that moment. Yes Pablo does work hard but he is pretty awful as a player. He and Souchek can play a role in the season but it should be a bit part.

We need to change the coach but sadly it won't happen with Kretinski or it will happen but not until it's too late. I wouldn't touch Parker with a barge pole I think McKenna or Bellamy. I'm not convinced by Carrick at all but he would be better than Nuno. We have played a few decent games this season but the only one that was a performance to be proud of was Wrexham. Derby was decent but couldn't score and Lincoln for 45 minutes was terrible.

27 Oct 2026 12:16:59
Who said anything about playing Taty? The bloke isn't interested and is a prime candidate for the out tray. We need to acquire a striker in January, but what about Ajala? Where's the harm in developing this promising lad? He's got to be better than the useless runabout Pablo.

27 Oct 2026 13:21:12
I agree that Nuno should be shown the door, we have looked good on 2 occasions this year, Wrexham and wolves.
I would still select Pablo and Piroe and at least Pablo makes a nuisance of himself which should free up piroe who is proven in this league. Taty we should have got rid, not interested and he's as good as Zaza at scoring goals.

27 Oct 2026 14:44:21
Pablo is nonsense. He contributes nothing and could possibly be detrimental. A complete waste of a shirt which could go to another. If the clueless Nuno was not the manager, the bloke wouldn't deserve to get near a playing sheet in the EFL. 🙄 Still, each to their own.

27 Oct 2026 18:10:31
Id play Piroe with Mukasa as a 10 the Engels and Orford in the middle of the park as engels seems to play better with orford in the team

Pablo is dross and Taty will be gone anyway.

27 Oct 2026 21:41:51
I couldn't agree more Robbo.

27 Oct 2026 23:41:04
Exciting if Rob Edwards replaces Nuno.

24 Oct 2026 17:05:02
That was a disgraceful performance. That team is not good enough to win Division 1. If anyone thinks with those payers and the current formation we play is going to get us promoted that was a wake up call. 3 - 1 down at half time and the only change you make is at fullback!

24 Oct 2026 17:22:24
Correct Not good enough, know some of our supporters thought cakewalk,this season I said not our defence got us relegated, same players now line up not solid at back full stop

Very noticeable many games forwards don't fire, again many said don't matter goals from elsewhere NO NO doesn't work like that

Can't do anything until January. When you can be sure there will be changes

Meantime Areola needs to come back in goal, veltman needs to play rb, Soucek must start, after the Swansea win. Overconfident, and we started to slow again.

24 Oct 2026 17:28:27
Agreed corby. Chasing the game at 3-1 down, taty not doing anything, Solomon off the pace and he brings scarles on. Where is the thinking?

I give up with nuno.

24 Oct 2026 17:37:28
This team wouldn't last five minutes in premier league,, opposition in this league tougher than a lot of our fans realised

We can get by till January if Nuno changes keeper to start Soucek must be a starter, Pablo forget, along with piroe and Taty, play Kante further forward

Must be changes in January whatever happens.

24 Oct 2026 18:16:34
Soucek starter? No thanks maybe last 10 minutes if a team is pinned in the box. We lost all momentum when Nuno brought Soucek and Pablo on, Mukasa nd Engels were controlling the game.

24 Oct 2026 18:52:51
No good controlling the game if we can't find the net, there's no finishers, goals from elsewhere every game not going to happen for me I'd leave out these three pony forwards, who contribute nothing, better to have some combine of Engels mukasa Kanté Bowen Austbo, playing forward, that's why I'd play Soucek behind them, and bring Areola back in goal, Hermansen just not on it today.

24 Oct 2026 20:00:56
Souchek starting! Are you for real that was the worse of all changes made. He was awful OK he scored but come on. Pablo was like Messi in comparison to him today, and Pablo wasn't great. Nuno should be the person leaving.

24 Oct 2026 20:48:30

Flew over and back during two storms to see that s****. Bowen disinterested. Taty invisible and non existent midfield. During their corners Taty in the box allowing their cBs and keeper into centre circle. No outlet. This tappy tappy side and back has to stop. Full on attack needed especially given our BS defence. Come back Diasisi, all forgiven

24 Oct 2026 22:41:23
Ok he just scored, Pablo Taty piroe zip nothing hammer D, that's the point mate, he can nick a goal ! He can defend, what T F DO THE OTHERS actually do ? Nothing is the full answer

Yes you can blame nuno. Yes terrible defending. But it was a shooting gallery at times those three forwards are worse than useless you cannot rely on non forwards to score on a regular basis full stop.

24 Oct 2026 23:17:39
Well the useless tactics are the problem. I saw Tatty v QPR and today both games he was dreadful but 1, he isn't a striker and 2 playing him up front on his own is hopeless. Peroe has hardly had a chance. Solomon has been awful of late but it is well documented that Peroe and soloman have teamed up to score many goals in the past until he comes to westham and Nuno in his wisdom rarely has them on the pitch at the same time.

He is useless and needs to go but he won't because the board hope we might just scrape promotion. We play like the pre match meal is tranquillisers.

24 Oct 2026 23:52:36
Taty believes championship is beneath him ! A joke our forwards are a joke, we must get a striker in come January, I wouldn't play ANY of THEM better to play without them

This is a tough league no mistake, Nunos job is not in danger, but a couple more games like today it will be for sure, for me as I was watching he tried to be cool, but he was in a panic forsure, he was in shock at 0-2 didn't know what to do.

25 Oct 2026 01:55:42
Soucek starting is an awful suggestion. When he plays, there's a big hole in our midfield because the inside of a dustbin lid is more creative. All Soucek does is run around and throw himself at the ball which every now and then results in a goal. A waste of a shirt for 90 mins.

His best contribution is to be brought on for the end of any game.
I didn't see yesterdays game, so I can't say who played what, but I can comment on the team selection and substitutions. They indicate Nuno is clueless and needs to go. He won't though. We can't afford it.

25 Oct 2026 06:06:50
This may sound stupid but if he ( Souchek) is to play then play him as a striker yes Joyful you are right he can put the ball in the net. But otherwise as Tin said you get a gaping hole in midfield with a lot of endeavour but the term headless chicken springs to mind. Nuno also took off Kante who was our best player. Yes we have strikers that don't seem able to put the ball in the net but we are by far the top scorers in the division, and have the best goal difference.
From what I have seen so far I don't think this is a tough league.

Southampton are one of the better sides we will play and in parts they were good yesterday but we made them look good. The only tough thing is the fixture congestion, and that is the same for every team, and we are better placed than most to deal with that. Nuno's tenure is constant succession of a few games good, ( hopes up) to nonsensical changes and few games bad (hopes dashed). The only thing that brought any stability last season was playing Disasi.

25 Oct 2026 08:10:29
There is a slim possibility of Disasi coming back in January, he's not happy at palace And if Chelsea get a concrete proposal from WH then maybe ?

Yesterday we must have had what 30 shots on goal scored twice that's got to tell you something

We start slow,.hermansen gets flappy, just can't hold the ball just pushes punches it away inviting trouble

Their second goal was a one in a thousand shot, but making so many chances we still should have not lost that game.

24 Oct 2026 15:53:14
Came on in pyjamas. Fast asleep, horrible defending getting a lesson here Our defence is costing us, plus where's the striker we needed from the off, this season, Taty awful

If somehow we pull this around, we are promotion certainty

Nuno and everyone knew before the game saints are counter specialised. Have to set yourself up for thst situation.

24 Oct 2026 16:02:58
Taty is dreadful and doesn't look interested and alot worse than pablo. Defending is dreadful. Please get Disasi and a decent striker.

I notice we have shot after shot blocked by southampton players but they keep picking up rebounds from Hermandsen

Can any blame be left at nuno with selection? I dont understand why he doesnt start with the 11 that finished at Swansea.

24 Oct 2026 20:08:49
It is at Nunos feet Mac. He isn't to blame for all our poor performances but the vast majority. After the poor performance in the first half v Lincoln Nuno sorted it out. But that was rare. Too much thinking he is a master tactician when he clearly isn't.

I went for a beer and a bite to eat after the game in the Big Easy. Nils Kopen was sitting at a table near us I felt like telling him to get his cheque book out and get Disasi and a striker but didn't have the bottle to do so.

24 Oct 2026 14:39:24
What odds ward prowse scores?

20 Oct 2026 12:21:26
People might not like Pablo, and he should be scoring more, but bottom line is that when he plays, we tend to win, and rarely lose.

Agree on Solomon - Austbo should be starting ahead of him.

20 Oct 2026 12:41:27
Do you think there's a possibility we might have won anyway, and by more, had he not played?

20 Oct 2026 16:11:44
Whilst I agree Pablo's ability in front of goal and general skill levels are on the low side to say the least. The team do still seem to perform well when he plays as there is enough talent in our team in a weak league to be able to get away with it. His work rate is very good, he made a big difference against QPR and Millwall.

And I have to say the fans in the ground like him because he works hard. I have seen many a dead loss over there and the fans aren't slow to turn on them but by and large they haven't with him.

20 Oct 2026 18:46:26
It never ceases to amaze me how many people think he has a good work rate because he runs around a lot! Surely, it's the finished article that matters, isn't it? His actual contribution in a game, more often than not, is in the negative. Because I couldn't understand why Nuno keeps playing him, I've actually made several studies of each and every Pablo contribution to games in which he's played. One against Millwall I even posted on here:
21 Sep 2026 00:07:07
I suggest you watch a recording of the game again. These are the main contributions by Pablo. I cannot see how he made a massive difference.
47.37 Poor foul by Pablo gives Millwall the ball;
58.03 poor pass to Bowen resulting in Millwall attack;
63.02 bad pass to Mukasa gives the ball away;
67.09 header saved by Marschall (should have scored);
73.14 pass to Kante who scored;
Lost every one on one aerial dual.


This was a game where he played for the second half, but some said he made a big difference!
Whilst I accept that everyone has differing opinions, every study of Pablo during a match has shown he runs aimlessly around, loses the ball or gives the ball away more often than not, continuously loses one-on-one aerial duels, and actually contributes very little to the game. His off the ball runs and positioning are poor, with little or no result. The only positive is that he's tired when the match ends! Pablo could be one of the worst WHU signings, and for €25 million, someone really needs to look into who benefitted from the acquisition. It certainly wasn't WHU!

21 Oct 2026 06:36:18
In reference to the Millwall game I didn't see it, I was driving to Heathrow, but it was what I heard and it did seem a game of 2 halves. Chronic 1st half much better second half with some bite. I was at the QPR game and from what I saw he was getting into them when others in the first half weren't. I find it more difficult at the actual games as it's mainly where the team attacks that allows a good view. Second half near the box I have a good view. Admittedly I thought Peroe made more of a difference and Pablo wasn't nothing special but he did get into them and the mind set of the team changed.


If you want to forensically rewatch the games again. You would be better placed to rewatch the first half of the Millwall game which I heard was such an abject display to find out what players didn't make good passes or challenges or attempts on goal if there were any. I think the list maybe somewhat dwarf the 2nd half critisism.

21 Oct 2026 08:17:31
I agree with you H-D about the WHU performance in the first half, but it's Pablo's contribution we are specifically talking about. Because the other players were also crap doesn't alter the fact that Pablo's contribution was poor. And this is part of a pattern.

22 Oct 2026 09:04:07
Very interesting comment by Jamie Carragher about Man Utd's Bruno Fernandes:
"He runs all over the place like a kid in the school yard for the supporters. They all think he's working hard, he is not. He is killing the rest of the team by doing it.”
Ring any bells?

22 Oct 2026 18:39:07
Well, I don't like being argumentative but one of my mates is a Man U fan and I remember taking the micky out of him when Ruben Amorin was manager and he said similar to what you are saying that basically they were shoe-horning BF into a system that he was hopeless at playing. They were dreadful under Amorin as they have become again under Carrick. But in both instances the main reason the fans are so pissed off is that they can't stop losing and he is one of the common denominators.

In our case it is the opposite and a lot of fans are saying when Pablo plays our win rate is higher.
I agree with you, Robbo, Joyful and others that he is a terrible player with very little actual skill and rarely scores.

The deal is also a bit suspect but the others who talk about his work rate our win rate are also right.
Sometimes it's not always the best players that get picked. As West Ham fans we know a lot about 66 but if you had to pick the best player from Geoff Hurst or Jimmy Greaves, Jimmy Greaves was a far superior player. It's just that he lost his place in the England side at the wrong time and Geoff Hurst rightly took advantage with England getting the results and deserved his place in the starting line up.

22 Oct 2026 22:47:19
Yes, mate, that is all well and good, and what you say is correct, but the major flaw in your argument is.both Fernandes and Hurst is/was a decent footballer. Both make/made contributions to any game.

And I repeat, we have no way of knowing how WHU would have played had Pablo not been on the pitch. Just closely watching Pablo leads to one conclusion — he's not a player at this level.

22 Oct 2026 22:51:25
Pablo was purchased to score goals, which he has not done, however, when the man plays our performances are significantly better. He works hard for the team, and it's a team game.

22 Oct 2026 23:00:43
Brooking, just how does he work hard for the team?

24 Oct 2026 09:56:20
Just a thought, but it seems money was tight in the summer so Nuno had to try and build a team with limited funds to get us promotion.

Pablo and Taty were brought in to try and get us goals to keep us up and we all thought taty at least would get a bucket of goals. Alas how wrong were we. We have luxury at the minute in that goals are coming from all over, but, we still clearly need a striker who can put the ball in the net and thats not Pablo. If we go up would we retain him or taty? I suspect not.

24 Oct 2026 11:56:39
Mac I get the feeling Tatty will go in Jan as his heart don't look in it thus far this season. If we get promotion I can't see a place for Pablo but to be honest I would like to see Nuno given the old golden handshake. Thanks very much and goodbye.

Unless we really start to boss and dominate matches and start to run away with things.
The next two games are the ideal opportunity to see us really kick on but I have a horrible feeling it will be that 2 steps forward 2 steps back routine. Hope I am wrong.