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Long slender neck wrote: Mon Oct 26, 2026 8:58 am We're 15th, no need to panic just yet. The remit is to avoid relegation.

If the remit is to play boring football and drain the life blood out of a group of talented players then Wellens is winning in spades.
It’s not just the defeats, it’s the manner, tatics, team selection, communication etc

Long slender neck wrote: Sun Oct 25, 2026 7:57 pm Dont want the lad to feel bullied, but I'd sign a petition in favour of his removal from the squad.

Could we add other names to the petition?

I forwards Hayden
Richie has forwarded Morris

Gary Bowyer
Or Prats

Well done Tariq!
Ok, I know it’s 4 levels down or whatever but we could do with some of that here right now.

What's all this "just wait for Boniface" stuff. I remember this young fella doing great stuff for us attacking down the left wing. I also remember him struggling in defence at times and making the odd mistake. He's not the Messiah you know.


Richie clutching at straws?
Ffs, you’ve got a big ...

Hayden isn’t 32 till next March
He should be performing way better
Looks like he’s here to pick up his pay cheque for the next few years
Wants fcking off in the summer, waste of space

I’ve stopped listening to the club interviews with RW now, they are a complete waste of time.
I mean DD is hardly a searching interviewer, but at least he does ask some pertinent questions.

It’s unbelievable he got 90 mins yesterday
Tbf Clare & Theo are injured, but the underlying point is the same.
Richie has lost all sense of perspective here.
Ffs CW should have been loaned out to avoid all this.
He is clearly not L1 standard. He has some qualities but he needs to make his own way ...

We don’t seem to get injury updates anymore
We didn’t know Theo was injured till DD asked
Clare is another, don’t remember reading that one
What’s up with this club?

Wellens thinks it’s all going to magically come together when everyone is ‘fit’
Ffs, these are professional athletes, we’re 3 months into the season, wtf?

Is that really the best Richie can do?
30 man squad
3 months into the season
Absolutely 100% fcking pathetic
He should go now

Can't be arsed with numbers but I reckon...
Baxter. Decent at this level
Forrester, Stevens and Gilchrist. Very good players.
El Miz and Hayden. Pretty good but best days long gone.
Wellens. Not bad but a bit Teflon (no one can stick him)
Morris. Decent but likes to hang out a leg.
Kabia and ...

That’s Morris chucked under the bus
Might as well play big Phil there as that must be crushing for Morris to hear that.

Good news is we are the experts at the sideways pass
Crab football at its best!

Gandler , not unreasonably, needs to see good progress
Richie not delivering

Injury prone?


Doesn’t look like it, so a non-starter for us
We need one ACL injury as absolute minimum

Scottish midfielder Greg Docherty has a relatively clean injury record with a few notable spells on the sidelines.

Major Career Injuries


Season Injury Type Duration (Days) Games Missed ...

E10quence wrote: Sat Oct 24, 2026 6:05 pm

RedDwarf 1881 wrote: Sat Oct 24, 2026 5:55 pm

PT78 wrote: Sat Oct 24, 2026 5:19 pm Lacking in
Energy
Courage
Bravery
Voice
Charisma
Leadership

Anything else anyone can think of ?

To think Michael Craig was bombed out . Is he really worse than Hayden ?

Christ. Things must be really bad. Craig can't even get into a National League sides' first 11.

He started today

Lacking in
Energy
Courage
Bravery
Voice
Charisma
Leadership

Anything else anyone can think of ?


To think Michael Craig was bombed out . Is he really worse than Hayden ?


Is anyone worse than Hayden🤔
One saving grace, we didn’t sign him on a three year deal, 2 years but shift him on in ...

If the highlights show that CW is at fault for both goals alongside a meh performance then God love him but at long last it’s Richie out for me.

Primarily because he is clearly putting his sons chances of having a professional career ahead of or alongside the club in a bleak patch.

Which as a ...

Incredibly generous marks
And Wellens a 6, did you watch the match?
What did he do to merit that, second only to Baxter & Forrester, on your scores
The same as Gilchrist & Gilbert? Now I know you’re just having a laugh/wind up
Go the whole hog and make CW MoTM

How comes Dobra is in the bench & CW gets a 90 minute run out
Ffs

When was the last time we played a decent 90 mins of football?
It seems a very long time
Performances have been lacklustre
The odd decent win, but it’s been thin pickings for a long time

So lacking in everything you demand as a given in a pro footballer?

Wellens is not delivering
He’s lucky he’s still got a job after the mess of last season

We should be getting more from this squad
Where’s the desire, the effort, surely that should be a given
I think Wellens time is up