Square pegs in round holes applies throughout the Club. Parker is watching too many Magath videos .
posted by mwk (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 6:20 PM

I like the idea of the Chumpsionship, I think Parker is well qualified for the biggest Chump.
posted by mwk (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 6:23 PM

Conceed
posted by Chris (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 4:57 PM

Agree with that JRD
posted by Nosey Parker (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 6:43 PM

Top class football is always about fine margins, why Parker uses this as his defence is really demonstrating he is clueless
posted by Nosey Parker (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 6:45 PM

Parker is the definition for frustrating! What did he say about the team and losing mentality?? Well, he’s created this mentality this time!
posted by John (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 4:50 PM Nothing changes. Parker will take the positives again, which are????? We lost and lost badly. You've got shocking dress code and shocking team selection. These players need a coach who inspires and Parker bores the socks off everyone including us.
posted by mwk (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 4:56 PM

Maja has scored 34 goals in his career. Mitro scored the same on one season. Whatever happened to Tony Khan the stats man? He is reading the charts upside down.
posted by Jim (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 4:36 PM I suspect Mitro told him he doesn’t want to play same as he did to Benitez at. Newcastle for me he hasn’t looked interested all year sooner he’s off the better for FFC he has been one of the main reasons for our disastrous season BCR is our top scorer with 5 goals !
posted by Fulham supporter (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 4:36 PM Quote PARKER "dont blame my loan players for relegation" No we blame you, you incompetent pillock
posted by Putney Pete (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 4:37 PM

Well, it can be better though: Carvalho. Boom!
posted by Marco - Saturday 15th May 2021, 4:35 PM

Lay off him he is more knowledgeable than the cretins who post on this forum.
posted by Ken (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 4:29 PM Ken are you a Spurs fan and you don't want Parker? That can only be the explanation.
posted by Super fan! (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 4:38 PM The buck ends with SP
posted by Fulham supporter (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 4:55 PM Ken is just a wind up merchant
posted by Nosey Parker (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 6:46 PM The only thing to save Parker is a lack of alternatives or Khans ability to find a suitable alternative
posted by Nosey Parker (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 6:48 PM

Where have you been? Relegation is as good as confirmed?? To league one maybe..
posted by John (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 4:32 PM

This is a torture!!
posted by John (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 4:19 PM Parker’s got to go, this is awful. We are getting worse.
posted by Nosey Parker (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 4:21 PM 100% agree. Regardless of the personnel out there the system, and one would assume under the Managers direction, is so dour. No one seems to want to go forward or get in the box. Someone said Cavaleiro and Cordova-Reid are on the field but I cant find them
posted by Morph (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 4:31 PM

I assume we will buy a better keeper than Rodak.
posted by The Time Is Now - Saturday 15th May 2021, 3:54 PM I assume Mitro will leave he looks like the most unhappy player I can remember us having.
posted by The Time Is Now - Saturday 15th May 2021, 3:56 PM Rodan was as good as any in the Championship last season, he's had a bad deal this season..
posted by NRL (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 4:30 PM

Never heard of him !
posted by Tim nice but dim (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 3:48 PM What so you have never watch football focus then
posted by GEEZER (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 5:06 PM What channel is it on ?
posted by Tim nice but dim (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 6:35 PM

Scottish premier league is the most ridiculous league in the world. The format is really confusing. The standard is championship at best but the smaller clubs are probably league two standard. Didn’t Aberdeen lose their best striker (Rooney?) a few years ago to Salford who were in our non-league?? Rangers and Celtic have 20x bigger budget than the other teams. Don’t see the point.
posted by John (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 3:56 PM Owen i agree with some of what you have said But the team he picked to day shows he is clueless. We are down and he plays the same old s;;;t. Where the f;;;k are the future the kids we have wasted a game with the crap. Put the whole kids out with the Newcastle game. BEFORE WE LOSE THEM ALL.
posted by GEEZER (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 5:01 PM

Dear oh dear. Fulham !!! I
posted by Len (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 2:26 PM It took them a couple of seasons to get it right. And look at them now. Take note Fulham. It will take us a lot longer. Also Watch Brentford
posted by geezer (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 3:37 PM

About time Onamah got his place back, he finished well last season and was ditched too early and replaced by RLC purely on his former performances. I would have picked Onamah every week before RLC who quite frankly is a busted flush with all his best performances behind him
posted by NRL (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 2:21 PM The line up? So cheek, Lookman, Maja & Mitro are definitely gone.
posted by Tim (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 2:41 PM

Possibility we could win the f a cup today as well
posted by Chief (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 1:57 PM

U18! Premier league! They are miles apart so not sure how you can compare. I once coached my boys under 8 team and we were top of the league. Perhaps I have a talent for football management at the premier league level?!
posted by John (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 12:27 PM Agree pointless post
posted by Chief (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 1:04 PM Oh yes, absolutely pointless, Wigley and his boys win their league for 2nd year running and I'm not allowed to praise and compare the respective merits. Call yourself Fulham fans!
posted by NRL (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 2:02 PM JOHN obviously a parker fan, but you say you cant compare : well before the Khans gave incompetent Parker the reins to our club, he only managed the Spurs under 18s taking them from the top third to bottom third in the table in one season, Wigley has a much better record so give him a chance.
posted by Kunye (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 2:10 PM Thank you Kunye
posted by NRL (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 2:18 PM Agree NRLwonderful achievement And congratulations to the lads difference is that age group to senior level so very different for loads of reasons in a perfect world bring them through together but when they get to certain age other considerations come into play
posted by Len (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 2:21 PM Yes, Len I'm not naive before they get in the 1st team they've got to learn to go down and cheat the referee. It was so good to watch the game without all the gamesmanship that exists at the top level. But they've done it two seasons running and deserve the accolades over the mercenaries who are all about to clear off
posted by NRL (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 2:24 PM Spot on NRL. Thats why i wont be renewing my season ticket till things change. Slough town for me now
posted by GEEZER (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 2:37 PM A great achievement and due praise to SW, and as far as youth is concerned, mamy years ago we gave several 17/18 year olds their chance, Johnny Haynes.~ George Cohen ~ Alan Mullery ~ Rodney Marsh I wonder if they ever made it ? ? ?
posted by Cottager (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 3:00 PM Well said NRL.These lads offer us hope for the future.( Always just a bit sweeter when we beat the squatters ! )
posted by GEZZA (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 3:02 PM

Why lift people’s hopes up again before quashing them a few days later. Is it for his own ego because it does nothing for the rest of us. Yet still he rides high in the polls
posted by Andy.S (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 10:01 AM Boris has got it wrong from the start of this pandemic !
posted by Ted (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 10:10 AM Of course Boris is responsible for everything is he then, what a load of idiots you really are. He has done wonders with the vaccines and the economy, but no doubt you lot would rather have had Corbyn running the country, in which case we would probably be still waiting for any vaccines at all. Thank your lucky stars that we have Boris at the top, and be grateful for it.
posted by Brian Jarvis (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 10:31 AM Easy with 20/20 hindsight
posted by FULHAM SUPPORTER (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 10:32 AM Brian , what a load of bs , Boris and his cronies were months late dealing with the pandemic when it broke , he has thousands of deaths on his hands . The buffoon is a proven liar , fact !
posted by Ted (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 11:22 AM Ted you have obviously been brainwashed by the Daily Mirror and the Gaurdian, and I am surprised that that believe all of their trash. Thank goodness the sensible people in this country don't follow your example. Did you notice an 80 seat majority.
posted by Brian Jarvis (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 11:36 AM If only we could get Geezer and Ted to govern this country as the late John Lennon would say “ all our troubles would be far away “
posted by John (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 11:47 AM Brian , not brainwashed just dealing with facts . You’re obviously a rich Tory loony who thinks whatever Boris the buffoon says is true ! So you reckon he wasn’t slow to react when the pandemic broke ? God help the nhs with the Tories running the country. Wasn’t it something like 40 hospitals to be built , but they weren’t were they Brian . As to a majority, Hitler was popular in his day , idiot !
posted by Ted (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 11:52 AM Not taking sides but didn’t Boris say he wasn’t going to reduce the numbers in the armed forces then reduced it by around 10,000 .
posted by Mal (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 12:12 PM BRIAN that eighty seat majority is because we live in a two party system. IM seventy two and all my life when people get fed up with the other one they vote for the other one. If we had a third or forth party it would be a lot different. So that eighty seat dont mean jack. Because it will all change when people get fed up with this lot.
posted by geezer (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 2:32 PM The governments proposal to require people to show proof of identity in order to vote . Would not be necessary had the previous Labour governments national ID card system been introduced. With out a hint of irony. the present government which opposed Labours scheme so vigorously . Intends to solve the problem of voters being unable to prove their identity, by providing them with an official , government sanctioned ID card. And that was what Corbyn wanted in the first place. Also he wanted to spend extra money on the NHS before this lot happened but lost the vote.
posted by Geezer (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 3:07 PM there is a saying a man who does not make mistakes does not make progress as I am typing I am looking at the missis, nah stupid saying
posted by worple (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 3:18 PM

Nearly all our team will be in the Premier league next season. West ham alone are rumored to want 3 of our players. Spurs and Arsenal and Leicster and Everton and United all want our players. Palace need to recruit. The three promoted teams. All will pick us dry. We will see then what a failure this has been, club relegated but not the players. And guess what? Parker gets another go next season.
posted by Chris (Guest) - Friday 14th May 2021, 11:52 PM UNFORTUNASTLY
posted by PUTNEY Pete (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 12:04 AM Despite apparently falling out with the Khans, according to this mornings press, Scott will be allowed to carry on next season, to try for a quick return to the Premier League. If that news is not bad enough, Tony Khan says that he will be carrying on as DOF. Not a lot to look forward to next season then.
posted by A C (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 8:14 AM BAZ with you all the way. Best post about whats happening so far.
posted by geezer (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 9:12 AM

They were going nowhere until they hired an assistant for Bruce. He put them on the front foot and saved both Bruce and Newcastle. Now there's a clue. Kept Dumb but made sure his assistant wasn't Dumber. We are stuck with the original dumb and dumber
posted by Chris (Guest) - Friday 14th May 2021, 9:39 PM

Drago, I agree entirely with you comments but there is no chance that Parker will change his tactics. Reading his comments on the home page demonstrates he lives in cloud cuckoo land and there is no chance that he will blood any of our youngster. The man is a "busted flush" and suffers from delusions of grandeur if he believes he is in great demand. If he believes Spurs are interested in him then let him resign and put himself to the test. Inexperience, incompetent, inflexible and lacks vision and will not change. I suspect we will struggle to make the play offs as his predictability has been well and truly sussed out by most teams now. Too manyFancy Dans without any clout. The
posted by bigboy4650 (Guest) - Friday 14th May 2021, 7:12 PM Would it not be depressing if we finished a point behind the team above us as with all the pressure off might be possible.
posted by The Time Is Now - Friday 14th May 2021, 7:57 PM Or we might just capitulate...
posted by Fred (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 7:54 AM

Apparently! it’s the fa. Cup final tomorrow !!! God how low as it got the greatest cup competition in the world barely being mentioned know we have a pandemic on our hands but this is sad what’s sadder is I don’t care if I watch it or not !!!
posted by Len (Guest) - Friday 14th May 2021, 4:33 PM I will watch it if it's on poor peoples telly I suppose the kick off will be about mid night nice to see a new side in the final for once
posted by worple (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 3:22 PM Yeah. I asked for move to bigger team, better and more supporters, better stadium. more prospects, a team going places..................... Im looking to sign for brentford.
posted by A MITRO (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 3:39 PM Dream on sonny , WEMBERLEE
posted by H (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 3:51 PM H.... Just keep spanking to the rhythm
posted by Yew ah ay to$$er (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 6:13 PM

Tony, think you mean not much passion shown by FFC in the Premier league !
posted by JW (Guest) - Friday 14th May 2021, 2:06 PM JW yea spot on. I have not seen passion in Fulham for probably 40 odd London derbies! Does show that our Managers did not instil passion and fight into our team! Only really Roys teams showed that fire that we have lacked for the best part of 10 years!
posted by Tony R (Guest) - Friday 14th May 2021, 3:02 PM Doubt I wii be watching !!!!
posted by Len (Guest) - Friday 14th May 2021, 4:34 PM If it is sport on the BBC it will be rubbish.
posted by The Time Is Now - Friday 14th May 2021, 5:28 PM

Again no long term thinking
posted by geezer (Guest) - Friday 14th May 2021, 12:44 PM Geezer, You must be the most miserable person on the planet. If they win today the U18s will win their league. None of them will want to miss out on what they have spent all season working hard to achieve, and it would be counterproductive to make them do so. And Steve Wigley will definitely want to put out his strongest team for this match, which is important for the young players and the club. There is plenty of time to bring them into the first team fold.
posted by Horsham White (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 11:14 AM

Loyal supporter? Don’t think so rain or shine if you’ve missed not going to that fantastic ground/home plastic supporter springs to mind.
posted by Chief (Guest) - Friday 14th May 2021, 9:18 PM Chief, I think you will find that more of our fans agree with Brosher than you think, as I have seen plenty of comments on here, saying that they will not be going to the Newcastle match, if they are offered a ticket. In your opinion then, that means that they are not real supporters. I disagree with you, as most of us, have had enough of watching a load of rubbish on TV, and nobody could be a more fanatical Fulham supporter than me, but I will not be going to,the last game, come what may. As for a season ticket next season, let's just wait and see, as things will have to change considerably for a lot of us to rush in with their hard earned cash.
posted by Alan B (Guest) - Friday 14th May 2021, 10:22 PM

The fundamental difference between Ian Wright and Prince Harry, is that Ian Wright is under educated, but very intelligent, and Prince Harry is over educated but thick
posted by Rm (Guest) - Friday 14th May 2021, 8:34 AM Both complete knobs !
posted by Dave (Guest) - Friday 14th May 2021, 8:54 AM Apparently he gets on well with neighbours Orlando Bloom and Kate Perry. Two inspirational folk to chat with !!!!!!!
posted by Jon (Guest) - Friday 14th May 2021, 2:13 PM Everybody responds differently to trauma. Some just get of with their lives others finds it is a destructive influence to their lives. The lockdown as caused some people to get depressed others see it as just one of those things. We live much more controlled lives than our ancestors so any sort of change can seriously mentally damage us. A whole branch of science has grown up around change management as it is so important to any business.
posted by The Time Is Now - Friday 14th May 2021, 2:59 PM I don’t think anyone saying Harry is not hurt. But we seem to lose sight of relative pain! Can I compare me being deprived of eating a nice food in a 5 star restaurant to some poor family in the third world cannot afford to put half a meal on the dinner table. They could well be equally painful because the poor family never known anything better. But we are losing sight of relativity. You remember the ‘me too’ movement? It was a good movement until loads of people complaining of the most trivial issues they encountered. Hence The movement is losing momentum. If Harry continues opening feeling sorry for himself, there is a danger he will damage the mental health awareness movement.
posted by John (Guest) - Friday 14th May 2021, 4:19 PM Don’t thick Harry’s thick he’s flown helicopters in the forces think he’s been manipulated and did not put his foot down !!needs to address that situation otherwise they will divorce
posted by Len (Guest) - Friday 14th May 2021, 4:47 PM He’s been manipulated to think it is ok to feel sorry for yourself all the time, which is fine to think it is ok to cut ties with your friends, it is ok to even ok to cut loose your family, it is also ok to throw your father under a bus. And when you do that, why not throw the whole family. Actually, why not the entire country!! He’s been told I’ve done it and guess what I am now even more famous than you.
posted by John (Guest) - Friday 14th May 2021, 5:13 PM He’s been manipulated to think it is ok to feel sorry for yourself all the time, which is fine to think it is ok to cut ties with your friends, it is ok to even ok to cut loose your family, it is also ok to throw your father under a bus. And when you do that, why not throw the whole family. Actually, why not the entire country!! He’s been told I’ve done it and guess what I am now even more famous than you.
posted by John (Guest) - Friday 14th May 2021, 5:13 PM In the same way the press killed his mother they drove him out because he married an ethnic American as if that was some kind of wicked sin.
posted by The Time Is Now - Friday 14th May 2021, 5:39 PM What a load of rubbish ! The way he and that yank bint have rubbished the Royal family is disgusting, how low can they go !
posted by Dave (Guest) - Friday 14th May 2021, 6:12 PM The Time Is Now, you really do talk utter rubbish, The Press killed his mother Wrong she wasn't wearing her seatbelt and put herself at risk by running around with a rich irresponsible hedonistic playboy with no real purpose in life,They drove him out because he married an ethnic American as if that was some kind of wicked sin, again complete rubbish Meghan Markle was welcomed into the Royal family with open arms they were given a lavish wedding and Charles gave her away, then she was indulged with a refurbishment of Nottingham cottage then Frogmore cottage the Queen personally took her with her on engagements and looked after her while on them. Meghan is a fruitcake, bully and a hypocrite fake just like you are.
posted by PC PLonker (Guest) - Friday 14th May 2021, 6:44 PM Now you are talking rubbish the press hounded Megan because she was non white in a totally white cabal. Harry's mother was hounded to her death by the press, seat belt or not and every time a member of the press talks to Harry it brings it all back. The only think I would criticize Harry for is slagging off his father, a very cold fish I know, but I am he did his best to bring up the two boys.
posted by The Time Is Now - Friday 14th May 2021, 9:04 PM Why on earth do we still keep this weird family as our heads of state.
posted by The Time Is Now - Friday 14th May 2021, 9:06 PM Meghan was never hounded by the press because of her colour , in fact she was never hounded by anybody . She is just a z listed actress who has caused so much hurt with her lies , awful woman .
posted by Paul (Guest) - Friday 14th May 2021, 9:50 PM Harry grow some balls tell that attention seeking two bob part time so called actress of wife you lumbered yourself with to shut the f##k up, how can you go from fighting for your Queen and country to slagging them off in public?you in my eyes are a disgrace to the uniform you used to be proud of, Time is now you aint got a clue about real life , stick to football
posted by Expat Dave (Guest) - Saturday 15th May 2021, 10:33 AM

Try posting under you normal moniker and not hiding behind some "Nome de plume"
posted by Old Un (Guest) - Thursday 13th May 2021, 10:08 PM Don't you think most managers would have the same argument? Who has been a roaring success? People go on about RLC bit Lookman flatters to deceive and is a waste of space. Most of the players haven't performed and the bucks stops at the mangers door.
posted by Never satisfied (Guest) - Thursday 13th May 2021, 10:53 PM You can blame Khan all you like, but you have to ask yourself why a team that went on a run that looked like would see us surviving, then fall apart? Surely the manager must take the ultimate responsibility, for our style of play, team selection and dramatic loss of form?
posted by Rm (Guest) - Friday 14th May 2021, 8:18 AM So we're down again. Surely there must be someone in the club able to see where we are going wrong each time? How come Leeds United were able to play in the Prem this season, and look like a premiership club straight away. What's their secret? Better ownership, better manager? We are a decent club, with a decent ground and with the advantage of playing in London. We should be able to attract decent players, so what's happening? If you want to play with the 'big boys', you have to have good players managed by experienced bosses. If you can't be bothered to invest in either, then you end up where we are!!
posted by Fulham Addict (Guest) - Friday 14th May 2021, 11:36 AM Omen- Totally agree with you mate.However expect criticism from some of our more gullible fans.For some baffling reason they think the Khans are blameless.I know,I know just don't ask me why !
posted by GEZZA (Guest) - Friday 14th May 2021, 1:41 PM Little Khan will argue that he saw two ffc teams go to. The prem with players he brought to club bad to be relegated but not many get there twice in nearly as many years
posted by Len (Guest) - Friday 14th May 2021, 4:07 PM

Fulham boy, if only what makes sense to you and me, made sense to Scott Parker as well, but reading between the lines in his post match interview, he almost indicated that he was going to play his strongest team, as they are paid professionals, who's wages are paid by Fulham, and they therefore should have work hard for a win. What utter nonsense in my book, as those that have now decided to leave, couldn't care a monkeys cuss whether we win or not, and therefore should not be able to put on a Fulham shirt again. During the same interview Scott seemed to talk with a forked tongue, as when asked about him leaving to join Spurs, or any other club, he said we just have to wait and see, or words to that effect, but then went on to talk about planning for next season. Does he really know what he is going to do next season ?
posted by A C (Guest) - Thursday 13th May 2021, 8:46 PM Sorry, I should have said his pre-match interview ! !
posted by A C (Guest) - Thursday 13th May 2021, 8:54 PM Parkers post match interviews are as bad as his tactics sterile and boring.
posted by Old Un (Guest) - Thursday 13th May 2021, 10:10 PM

We are going to have to buy a team from the best performers in the Championship. Building around Rodak. Reed. Bryan. maybe Mitro? Cairney?
posted by Tony R (Guest) - Thursday 13th May 2021, 5:16 PM Your right Ray, Parker had a shocker but no getting away from these overpaid mercenaries who’s contracts are crazy weather there loaners or permanent Parker started with a lot of championship players who weren’t good enough. For all the criticism the gap between premier and championship is growing every season always knew it would be tough.
posted by Chief (Guest) - Thursday 13th May 2021, 6:22 PM Mitro will leave and Cairney will not play again so you are running out of players to build your team around.
posted by The Time Is Now - Thursday 13th May 2021, 8:19 PM Anyway what about Adarabioyo and Robinson.
posted by The Time Is Now - Thursday 13th May 2021, 8:22 PM Seem to recall Cairney was not flavour of the month before his injury myself thinking he’s a shoe in if fit for next year think he would have played more if fit this year
posted by Len (Guest) - Friday 14th May 2021, 4:17 PM Thought Cairney give us a few options with his passing ability, Not sure how serious his injury is ?
posted by Jw (Guest) - Friday 14th May 2021, 4:23 PM

Well said MT !!!! Non moderator!!!!!!!!
posted by Len (Guest) - Thursday 13th May 2021, 4:04 PM LOL
posted by MT - Thursday 13th May 2021, 4:34 PM MT your living in a bubble
posted by paul (Guest) - Thursday 13th May 2021, 7:25 PM Slav to Sheff Utd, that's two games we won't win
posted by Fred (Guest) - Friday 14th May 2021, 3:12 AM

You never know they was as bad AS us this year
posted by Len (Guest) - Thursday 13th May 2021, 4:06 PM Slav was an excellent manager who didn’t have the players to compete. Christie, Ream and Odoi in defense … of course we got relegated. Our best defender Fredricks left. Plus some awful signings like Seri, MLM, etc. Would have been interesting to see him with better defense like this team. We would have scored more goals, used Mitro better, gotten more players in better positions. Played more like Leeds. Better football.
posted by Drago (Guest) - Thursday 13th May 2021, 5:41 PM

100%agree Parker has direspected Mitro
posted by Jim (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 9:07 PM Can you possibly blame Mitrovic the way he's been treated this season? He is the ONLY recognised goalscorer in the squad and he's spent more time as a sub than a starter. When he goes to play for his Country,he is so proud and so wanted that he produces his best. Jokanovic knew how to treat him, when Mitro had his problems with Covid etc earlier this season Jokanovic would have picked him up. I feel Parker left him to stew on his own. Without him we have got 9 goals at home this season. In short Scott has to go and Tony Khan must drastically change his recruitment policy. We have been relegated again and the majority of the team can walk away and not feel the pain. If, as has been mentioned, Seri and Anguissa have contracts to only play in the Premier division then it's disgusting as it means they to can walk away with the loaners. Pockets bulging
posted by NRL (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 9:44 PM It looks like we'll basically have the squad back together that got us promoted BUT knowing that they're not first choices, where will their motivation come from? It won't be from Parker or young Khan, that's for sure. Perhaps Wigley should be promoted and allowed to bring the kids through. One things for sure they'll be far more motivated than the mercenaries that Khan Jnr invites in at the start of every campaign.
posted by NRL (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 9:51 PM most on here have said throughout the season Mitro was fat and not premier league quality - now everyone complaining that parker shouldn't have dropped him. fickle. fickle. fickle.
posted by John (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 10:38 PM Not me Johnny, I say the Parker system doesn't suit him so even when he does get a go he's always struggling. The season before he knew exactly where to be and where the ball would be and be coming from.
posted by Fred (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 11:20 PM Chelsea and Man C have not played their strikers much this season. Strikers are becoming an unnecessary luxury.
posted by The Time Is Now - Thursday 13th May 2021, 6:41 AM I think Parker could develop into a decent manager. I am still 50/50 with him. But he probably has to go. I'd keep him if we start from ground zero and refresh the entire squad (with decent players and not kids people here are suggesting). But that's not really realistic. As mentioned above, what is the motivation for the players like Odoi, Hector, Mitro, Bryan, Christie, Knockhart, Rodak, Sess, Kamara and Ream to work their socks off again to get a promotion? Yes, the money is good (with promotion) but these guys want to play football, stability and a sense of loyalty. Parker had to do what he had to do (e.g. demoting all these players) to give Fulham a chance but unfortunately, it hasn't paid off. Now he has left with a bunch of decent players who probably no longer have the trust or loyalty to him. So unless we can bring in 10 quality players, Parker has to go to give these players are refreshed start.
posted by John (Guest) - Thursday 13th May 2021, 10:01 AM None of us actually know what is going on day to day at the club. Parker has been around football long enough and he has fallen out with Mitrovic for a reason.
posted by Voice of Reason (Guest) - Thursday 13th May 2021, 10:27 AM Small problem there when the kids come through they bugger of for bigger and better things when they arrive they land up at all points of the compass And millionaires. To soften the blow and get paid pretty well playing the game they love have to ask yourselves about the academy system
posted by Len (Guest) - Thursday 13th May 2021, 12:13 PM Never been a advocate of not playing mitro and there’s not much evidence of his replacements and style of play paying of by his replacements
posted by Len (Guest) - Thursday 13th May 2021, 12:16 PM It does not take much working out, as you could see it with you own eyes, Mitro was far from fit at the start of the season and did not seem to rush to correct that problem, he then got covid probably through his carelessness. He struggled to recover from the effects of Covid and only looked near fitness a month ago. Parker was fully justified in being angry with Mitro and by the time the striker was fit we were playing a system that excluded a striker. I think Parker has kept all these personal problems, quite rightly, out of the public gaze so some people jump to the wrong conclusions. I also suspect Mitro is depressed by his failings. I also think Scott has told him if you want to stay you need to turn yourself into an attacking midfielder.
posted by The Time Is Now - Thursday 13th May 2021, 1:12 PM It's crazy to say strikers are an unnecessary luxury when we have a squad of midfielders who don't know where the goal is. 9 goals at home all season, I haven't checked but I suspect that's our worst return since my first visit to The Cottage which was 1962.
posted by NRL (Guest) - Thursday 13th May 2021, 1:38 PM Mitro - turn himself into “an attacking midfielder”. Are you serious? I’ve heard everything now. Stick him up top and let him score - as he usually does.
posted by Morph (Guest) - Thursday 13th May 2021, 2:56 PM Mitro is head and shoulders above Cav and RLC, biggest mistake SP made was benching him. Lookman missed a pen, he kept playing. But not Mitro. If Mitro moves on, there is no way we go get promoted. 26 goal scorers don’t grow on trees. The real failure was tactical, our attack should have been designed around Mitro. Dyche would have done it, look at how Chris Wood has thrived. Is Wood better than Mitro?!?! Burnley plays with a true #9 and #10, like Roy used to, Zamora & Gera. That’s what Parker should have done.
posted by Drago (Guest) - Thursday 13th May 2021, 5:33 PM Scoring five goals in three games for Serbia in the last international break, confirms that if Mitro gets the right service he will score. Unfortunately that hasn't happened this season with Fulham.
posted by Elche Bery (Guest) - Thursday 13th May 2021, 7:01 PM

Although no kid I feel Bertrand could be an asset to our team, but defiantly not under crab style parker.
posted by Kunye (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 9:59 PM Had the vaccine yet geezer?
posted by Fred (Guest) - Thursday 13th May 2021, 8:51 AM Fred no mate and dont intend to either. And before anybody says anything you have to have it to pass it on. And i dont have it.
posted by GEEZER (Guest) - Thursday 13th May 2021, 2:39 PM How do you know you haven't got it?
posted by Broadsword (Guest) - Thursday 13th May 2021, 8:48 PM

Four ? Who ?
posted by Paul (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 7:51 PM Let’s face it without Fayeds investment we’d be in a different place,makes me laugh when people say all English champions league final,be lucky if there’s 4 English players on the pitch.
posted by Chief (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 8:43 PM Hey fellow whites, we can still get outa this, keep the faith!!
posted by USA WHITES (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 9:07 PM Maths not your strong point yank
posted by Bob (Guest) - Thursday 13th May 2021, 5:12 AM Mo only properly funded us on his arrival and as the years went by reduced still pittance compared to our illustruss neighbours and there counterparts all theses wonderful trophies brought. Only one not so Leicester winning prem
posted by Len (Guest) - Thursday 13th May 2021, 12:22 PM

If you are misogynist please admit in and we can set a World of wonderful women on to you.
posted by The Time Is Now - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 5:59 PM OMG. How dare the BBC waste our time with such rubbish. Is this what I pay my licence fee for. To borrow a phrase from Impartial - idiot.
posted by Broadsword (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 6:47 PM I’m getting a word.....COCK
posted by Rob (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 7:30 PM I wouldn’t want to bump into you along the towpath Rob if words like that pop up into your head, I’d be running a mile away from you. Would you be the man in leather chaps with the big cock I mean tash
posted by Village People (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 7:45 PM You're name says it all, I would replace Plonker with a similar sounding name but beginning with WAN.....
posted by The real roger (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 9:05 PM I suggest you replace Roger with Todger that would sum you up nicely.
posted by The real Dodger (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 11:30 PM Can the ‘other Rob’ pick another moniker, I never use insulting wotds!
posted by Rob (Guest) - Thursday 13th May 2021, 9:54 AM Or even words !
posted by Rob (Guest) - Thursday 13th May 2021, 9:55 AM

you forgot....same manager
posted by jimjo (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 5:05 PM Following your logic will will probably go to Wembley and win another play off final getting out of this league is not a problem we’ve done itv twice in recent seasons hard part is staying there Third time lucky dont waste money on untried players to prem get properly prepared and don’t start. 8 games behind the rest like this season
posted by Len (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 5:09 PM Hey i grew up in Lincoln City,they deserve a promotion unlike US
posted by Hooligan (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 5:11 PM You forgot to mention the nightmare that is Kamara returning to embarrass us bigtime over and over again.
posted by The Time Is Now - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 5:55 PM When you do get back to The Cottage to watch a game remember that, in the unlikely event we score you may hug fellow supporters but NO kissing. Enjoy
posted by Hints (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 11:27 PM

At least when we get fans back in the ground we can ya boo parker, and if its only half full or such he will hear every single word loud and clear ,so all you lucky people be ready, and please if they do a lap of honour???? after newc game dont clap , they did sod all .
posted by the real arch bishop (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 11:45 AM In his second full season at ffc he got them promoted to prem. pretty impressive that’
posted by Len (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 4:06 PM Did Parker leave halfway through the season not fair to judge him on that same as you can’t really blame Scott for our demise in his first season we was almost down when he arrived
posted by Len (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 5:13 PM

He's been terrible yet people thought he could walk into any team.
posted by Peter (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 9:54 AM Any be worse than Seri! He looks good and strong and able to dribble but he doesn’t fit into Parker’s system. He cannot pass!
posted by John (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 12:10 PM JOHN has Parker got a system
posted by cottager (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 12:22 PM Parker system is all about foreplay and teasing at both ends with no penetration. Occasional he’d let one slip in!
posted by John (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 12:39 PM Parker does have a system, keep passing back, even if you are in front of the other sides goal, keep doing this until your own goalie has it. Also, pass across your own goal which we used to be told to never do. Don't shoot at goal because if it does not go in you will lose control. Don't start me, if they are going to play like that I am not going.
posted by Baz (Moderator) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 3:09 PM Anguissa has it in his contract he will only play in top league so he will either be sold or loaned out again . Same clause applied to Seri . I cant see any of our loan players remaining ( Keeper and Anderson will be in high demand from top clubs ) , the rest would be expensive and ineffective luxury in the championship even if they wanted to stay - unlikely Plus we have numerous of our own loans due to return to us . We are not like Norwich or Watford who were able to retain most of their team after relegation . They sold one star player each but kept the rest . Apart from Mitro who could we sell for more than £10m ?
posted by davidk (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 3:30 PM FS not sure how Kamara, Seri and Le Marchant are the reason FFC have been relegated twice - none of them played this season ;0)). davidk, when did you get sight of Seri's and Anguissa's contracts?
posted by MT - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 4:38 PM Think Scott needs to have a bit of a clearout of current squad keeper will go Anderson will go all our lones will go can’t make my mind up on anguissa not sure what his role is !! Presume our loans will return hopefully mawson will retain fitness personally think he will do a job in defence anyway Khan says he will spend with the squad we have confident we will be a force to be reckoned with. HAVE FAITH SHRINKING VOILETS !!!!!!
posted by Len (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 5:03 PM Regarding arsenal thought we was very unlucky and hell of a lot of injury time but we seem incapable of taking pressure of our defence last game a prime example
posted by Len (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 5:20 PM I’ve not slipped in one for ages ooh matron !!!!!
posted by Len (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 5:24 PM Is anybody after Seri other than the dogs.
posted by The Time Is Now - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 6:03 PM Re Anguissa and Seri contracts , i read their agent said he had stipulated that they would only play in the top league . That is why both were loaned out last season . Kosta Packet Mitroghou also had similar clause , as did the ex Chelsea German guy ( Schurle ) .
posted by davidk (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 6:40 PM MT.... the money we spent on those 3 players plus Anguissa meant FFC had no spending power to buy decent players only loan players I assume they now come back on to the wage bill at Premiership level bet we can’t give even them away and then there’s Mitro ?! He now wants to play in Belgium ok but who can buy him and for how much FFC paid at least £20m . So let’s total all that up .. £70m FFC can’t afford that loss so there is an impact somewhere . I rest my case ! Of course like yourself I’ll be at The Cottage next season subject to covid but I’m not expecting much .
posted by Fulham supporter (Guest) - Thursday 13th May 2021, 5:06 PM Will Anguissa stay, or go back on loan again to Villareal. Is it true that he won't play in the championship, or was the reason that Fulham were not prepared to pay the wages he is on in the championship. He could do worse than rejoining Villareal, who wanted to keep him this season, and having turned over Arsenal, are in the Europa league final against Man U.
posted by Elche Bert (Guest) - Thursday 13th May 2021, 7:18 PM

You are missing one important point, and that is the paucity of the competition. We will be playing against teams that haven’t benefitted from the Premiership money and have therefore suffered disproportionately during the pandemic. We will be fine
posted by Rm (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 9:00 AM RM . Can you please define ‘ fine’ do you suggest we will be in the top half. play off, or dare I say it a swift return with automatic promotion ?
posted by JW (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 10:03 AM According to a report in today's Sun newspaper, things are not as happy as Scott Parker and the club try to make out, that Scott is loved by the players and they respect him. Well going on this mornings report Mitro, is one that doesn't as he wants out, if Parker stays, so we are already facing a situation where one of them, or even both will be gone. If it comes to our fans choice, which one of them would we like to keep, or neither. It's over to you.
posted by Malden Mick (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 10:28 AM As Scott doesn't score goals, I guess, it has to be him that goes.
posted by A C (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 10:39 AM Spot RM!!!
posted by Len (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 5:26 PM With regret if it’s Scott or mitro it will be mitro personally would like the mitro o f the first and middle part of our promotion year coming to the fore he fell out of favour for various reasons towards the end and just for reasons unknown did not get going for his club this year ( lack of game time and sickness did not help
posted by Len (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 5:33 PM RM I do not share your optimism as our players do not possess the desire or ability to compete after such an abject season in the Premier Divison. We need your raw talent who are prepared to grasp the opportunity but that is not Parker's style.
posted by bigboy4650 (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 7:17 PM RM I do not share your optimism as our players do not possess the desire or ability to compete after such an abject season in the Premier Divison. We need your raw talent who are prepared to grasp the opportunity but that is not Parker's style.
posted by bigboy4650 (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 7:17 PM

Can't see that personally as they are all contracted until the end of the season and we will still be paying their wages and loan fees.
posted by MT - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 8:23 AM We have the parachute payments plus what we are allowed to spend and if we can sell Seri and Anguissa and some of the failures. That would give us enough money to but a decent squad that would contain a smattering of PL standard players.
posted by The Time Is Now - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 8:23 AM For those who have not read the full report...

Fulham were relegated for the second time in three years on Monday night following a 2-0 defeat at home to Burnley; The club will conduct a review, as with every season, to identify areas where club needs improving

Scott Parker will be given funds to spend as Fulham target an immediate return to the Premier League

Fulham remain committed to Scott Parker as head coach and he will be given funds to spend in the transfer window as the club aim to bounce back to the Premier League at the first attempt.

Fulham were relegated for the second time in three years on Monday night following a 2-0 defeat at home to Burnley.

The club will conduct a review, as with every season, to identify areas where the club needs improving.

Parker, who has two years on his contract at Craven Cottage, led Fulham to promotion from the Championship in his first full season at the club and will be backed with signings as they aim to repeat the success of the 2019/20 season.

Players brought in on permanent deals last summer, like Tosin Adarabioyo, Antonee Robinson and Kenny Tete, will be part of the squad next season, as will the majority of the team that beat Brentford in the Championship play-off final in August.

As a result of relegation, it is thought income will be reduced by around £55m but relegation clauses, in terms of player salaries and loan players returning to their parent clubs, will more than cover that figure.

Costs were cut following the previous relegation season and as a result there will be no requirement for the club to make any redundancies.

The ongoing work to the new Riverside stand is still on course to be ready for the summer of 2022 despite relegation from the Premier League.

The club is actively seeking a new director of scouting as a replacement for Javier Pereira who left in September for a managerial post in China.

A "gutted" Parker said Fulham need to make "big decisions" on how to survive in the Premier League but refused to answer questions on his own future at the club.

Parker has overseen both of those drops into the Championship, first taking over from Claudio Ranieri in the Cottagers' doomed 2018/19 campaign, but after leading his former club back to the Premier League at the first time of asking last August he has again fallen short in his first full season as a top-flight manager.

Their relegation was confirmed with Monday night's 2-0 defeat by Burnley, a game where Fulham drew yet another blank in a season where they have scored only 25 times in 35 games. Parker pointed to a familiar feeling as a toothless home attack again failed to cause sufficient damage to the visiting defence, and said the club must work out how to keep their heads above water in the Premier League.

"I'm hurt, I'm gutted," he told Sky Sports. "This has been looming us, we've flirted with it for a long time, there are no words that I can say other than I am gutted we have not been successful this year. Staying in this division was a success for us, we knew it was always going to be a challenge, but it is bitterly disappointing not to do that.

"We're on a rollercoaster - relegation, promotion, relegation - now is not the time to talk about it, but we certainly need to make some big decisions, we need to understand what we need to do and where we need to improve, and transfers are definitely going to be an area we look at."
posted by MT - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 8:36 AM When a club publicly confirms it's faith in the manager that usually means they are on the way out.
posted by Broadsword (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 9:59 AM

I suppose our options are we keep faith with Fulham (knowing that it will be more of the same) or we switch allegiances! No way I will be doing that though. Please Khans,wake up. Einstein said the definition of insanity was to keep doing the same thing and expect a different answer!
posted by Aussie Mal (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 1:43 AM That ‘ Einstein fellow’ knew what he was talking about !
posted by Jon (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 10:12 AM But in quantum physics it is possible to do the same thing but get a different result
posted by Broadsword (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 1:09 PM I think someone once said "football isn't rocket science" :0))))
posted by MT - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 4:39 PM As someone once said it’s a funny old game I’ve not laughed much this year but as captain Tom said tomorrow will be a better day !!!
posted by Len (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 5:38 PM I thought that was Scarlett O'Hara?
posted by Broadsword (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 6:50 PM Tomorrow is another day !
posted by Jon (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 7:50 PM The problem is that tomorrow never comes. When you think it has come come, it will be today again. and tomorrow will be the day after.
posted by Elche Bert (Guest) - Thursday 13th May 2021, 7:32 PM

Perhaps they meant the club will pay them £40 to attend !!!!
posted by Jon (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 12:52 PM It has been said that entry will be limited to 2,000. Are there anywhere near that number prepared to pay £40.?
posted by Elche Bert (Guest) - Thursday 13th May 2021, 7:36 PM

Nigel Clough might work. I can just picture him ghosting in behind the back four.
posted by willie2B (Guest) - Tuesday 11th May 2021, 11:35 PM Only one there ray lewington about time he got another crack at management but I would stick with Scott for a few months
posted by Len (Guest) - Wednesday 12th May 2021, 5:42 PM Rich you can not be serious Big headed Sam. I have supported Fulham all my life but if he came I would be gone.
posted by Ken44 (Guest) - Thursday 13th May 2021, 9:27 AM

Waiting for levy to knock on the door? I’d swap Parker for Eddie Howe any day.
posted by John (Guest) - Tuesday 11th May 2021, 4:46 PM Still Steve Wigley for me, but Eddie will do
posted by Kunye (Guest) - Tuesday 11th May 2021, 5:45 PM Not sure whether its the right decision or not, but, what is absolutely certain is that it highlights the club’s lack of ambition
posted by Rm (Guest) - Tuesday 11th May 2021, 5:53 PM Give over all of you and start making sense.. We were lucky to be able to return to the Prem after one season. You know it and so do I. OK we have had a good ride lets face it we all new it was going to be tough and guess what, it was tough... Next time you get a chance to go the the football ground, have a look around, all you can see is investment.. Be happy,, we can go again and be stronger...
posted by Rob Clark (Guest) - Tuesday 11th May 2021, 6:47 PM Well put Rob, sometimes we don't appreciate just what we have got.
posted by LTS (Guest) - Tuesday 11th May 2021, 7:16 PM Dear me, Rob. Having a part time DoF who runs a Pro wrestling outfit full time on another continent make sense to you? Would happily take a splinter up my arse in the Haynes stand and 17th in the Prem. The only looking around I’m doing is the investment in the guys running around between the white lines. Mind you, if the investment in the stand is of same quality as the squad, that stand will collapse into the Thames by Christmas.
posted by Californian - Tuesday 11th May 2021, 9:49 PM