I would love TH to spend more on players, but that hasn't happened, and we are where we are. We don't get another go at spending (apart from out of contract players) until January. So we need to get on with it.
This is NOT news to AN and the players, we have what we all thought was a deeper squad than we had last season, and AN has admitted he doesn't know his best team.
It seems clear to me that he doesn't know his worst one either!
Given that we can't change the squad, we should be trying to improve physically and tactically and work even better than last year as a team. From what I can see we are going backwards tactically and at times look as though we don't know each other. A sure sign of a club in turmoil.
I understand that players can lose form, and that we have had some stupid suspensions, BUT that will and does happen every season. While we have created chances with the gungho approach, also seen by others, we have looked dreadful at times in, almost if not, all of our league matches so far this season.
What's the cause?
I remember feeling the same when Ferguson, Westley, Brown and Simpson were in charge.
Seems like we have to score at least 3 to get a draw out of a game at the moment, and that ain't going to happen very often.
Please, AN, come up with an approach, tactics and team selection, that sorts out our defence, like we had for significant parts of last season, and then worry about getting the ball in the back of the net.
Last season, if/when we conceded, you always felt that we had a good chance of getting back into the game. Now you can see several of the heads drop.
A number of the managers listed above weren't for changing, and they paid the price with their jobs. I hope that AN doesn't go the same way, but my current expectations are quite low.
In other seasons we have either started badly, or had bad patches, but I don't think we have looked so poor since we were last relegated, and I just can't see us getting out of it, without radical changes.
I can't believe that no-one asked how we were going to address our current form at the forum earlier in the week, but given the insipid answers to the other questions, it probably wasn't worth it.
I will continue to give my support at the games (and I do not or will not boo) but i am losing faith in the manager and coaching staff.
Let's hope he can turn it around and quickly.
