Pfft!
posted by MST (Moderator) - Wednesday 04th November 2026, 8:35 PM Seeing West Ham in that league is a reminder of how things could go wrong. Let's hope we stay clear. The prem is where we want to be.
posted by OWEN - Wednesday 04th November 2026, 8:46 PM That’s what happens when fans have unrealistic expectations of what there clubs can achieve. Moyes won rheum a euro trophy and still they weren’t happy , but I wish spurs had gone down instead of them
posted by Magicman (Guest) - Wednesday 04th November 2026, 9:36 PM

The Chelsea programme has a lost and found section as follows: Lost, a metal cigar lighter bearing a red lion. Of great sentimental value to a Russian lady because of its connection with the historic siege of Stalingrad. Found, a khaki great coat obviously belonging to a forgetful RASC sergeant.
posted by MST (Moderator) - Wednesday 04th November 2026, 11:27 AM

Stamford Bridge is a famous ground that teams would like to play in.
posted by The Time Is Now - Wednesday 04th November 2026, 7:27 AM Famous for what ?
posted by Mick (Guest) - Wednesday 04th November 2026, 8:14 AM Chelsea who have won things.
posted by The Time Is Now - Wednesday 04th November 2026, 10:56 AM Isn’t Craven Cittage a famous ground then, I always though5 it was
posted by Magicman (Guest) - Wednesday 04th November 2026, 11:07 AM Stamford Bridge, a famous battle up north , Chelsea famous for having the most racist fans in the country!
posted by Mick (Guest) - Wednesday 04th November 2026, 11:26 AM Dont step on our grass please.
posted by T.NO (Guest) - Wednesday 04th November 2026, 2:50 PM

We have three strikers already so had to sell one before we could buy one, or we could not afford him or he simply did not want to come to Fulham.
posted by The Time Is Now - Wednesday 04th November 2026, 7:17 AM The same talent spotting team, that brought Andersen to the Cottage!
posted by Them O's. (Guest) - Wednesday 04th November 2026, 8:49 AM It was fans saying we should get Anderson back.
posted by The Time Is Now - Wednesday 04th November 2026, 10:48 AM Somehow, I don’t think the club makes transfer decisions based on fans opinions or those on this board.
posted by MST (Moderator) - Wednesday 04th November 2026, 11:07 AM No it wasn't...it was the useless scouting! It's spelt ANDERSEN!
posted by Harry Lime Green. (Guest) - Wednesday 04th November 2026, 11:37 AM

My favourite is about Maurice Cook when the whole team was paid £30 a week in the winter and £20 in the close season. Maurice finds out that Haynes is still being paid £30 during the summer. Incandescent he storms into Bedford Jezzard the managers office and with every other wording the F one demands to know why despite his Hurculean efforts. It’s because he’s better player than you Maurice Not in the f@@@@ ng summer he isn’t was the prompt reply. Priceless
posted by Keetch54 - Tuesday 03rd November 2026, 11:08 AM My favourite player was Charlie George and i seen him at the Baseball ground twice, and yo are correct Bigboy, the ground in those days was more mud than grass. Charlie George was signed by Derby County from Arsenal and i guess George had his best days with Arsenal but he was still one of the greatest in my eyes and i just went nuts as a kid just to glimps the great man in action. Sadly George was more injury prone than in action and his playing days were limited at Derby. Bruce Rioch left the biggest impression on me when i saw him hit a 35-yarder that travelled through a muddy baseball ground and what a goal it was. Sadly i can't remember who the match was against. When i was a kid i regularly saw Derby players jogging along the Derby roads. Players such as Colin Todd, Kevin Hector and Roy McFarland, etc. You never see players road jogging very often nowadays. Kevin Hector went on to work for the post office. I guess some of them had to supplement their income through proper jobs. Henry Newton owned a post office i used to pop into every now and again and he was one of the nicest people you could ever meet and he always remembered your name and addressed you as Mr first with your sir name. Sadly Henry died a few years ago, he was a gentleman. Ironically, the passion for all things Fulham came about purely through a fantasy team and competition organised through work and a real nerdy set up of guys who quiz and we played fantasy football every week and my points added came from players such as Steed Malbranque, etc. I got stuck with the label of Fulham and i guess Fulham grew on me. One more thing about the Baseball ground? When i was a kid i sneaked in through a little turret door. The stadium had turret doors round and round and for reasons i don't know, some doors you could push open and join the crowd lol.
posted by OWEN - Tuesday 03rd November 2026, 7:52 PM derby vs real madrid mid 70s. an increíble 2 leg european cup tie
posted by t.no (Guest) - Tuesday 03rd November 2026, 8:24 PM

Not boring, great memories to have and although I knew Barton as Villa manager never knew he played for Fulham
posted by Magicman (Guest) - Monday 02nd November 2026, 9:31 PM Proper fan...
posted by Krebs. (Guest) - Tuesday 03rd November 2026, 6:02 AM Didn’t boore me as a kid l lived in Worcester park to . My mum stop nursing for a while, and did a cleaning job for the Leggats I asked Graham for his autograph , and he said you don’t only want mine I’ll take your book to training and get them all, came back with Haynes Macedo Cohen Lowe Dodgin Langley Mullery O’Connel Cook Chamberlain. As a 8 year old I was over moon
posted by DMK (Guest) - Tuesday 03rd November 2026, 7:49 AM I will probably bore you even more, with this true story. When I did my National Service, I was in the same RAOC unit as John Bond. Although he was still playing for West Ham, everybody had to do the two years. One weekend he was playing for West Ham against Fulham, and he arranged tickets for me and a few others. He said that he would score against us. Needless to say he did, from a free kick, and we lost 3-1. When I got back to Paddington to return to Didcot where we were stationed, who was the first one I saw, yes it was John Bond, and he kept rubbing it in about his goal. I will never forget it.
posted by LTS (Guest) - Tuesday 03rd November 2026, 9:50 AM I love these stories about the past. I also did my two years National service, and I played in the same football team as Maurice Norman, who played for Norwich City at the time, before joining Spurs, and he also played for England later. Unbelievably he could hardly read or write, and I used to help him write letters to his then girlfriend, who later become his wife. Unfortunately I hear that he died recently, which is sad. Keep the stories coming.
posted by AC (Guest) - Tuesday 03rd November 2026, 1:23 PM There’s definitely longevity in the Fulham Fan Club. Clean living and no evil thoughts I suspect. Thanks chaps, really enjoyed your stories, this is the type of thing that makes FFC unique and has created its character and personality.
posted by Mortlake (Guest) - Tuesday 03rd November 2026, 3:08 PM Here's another story for you. When I was friendly with Tony Barton. We played Stoke City, and we were leading 1 -0 at HT, and playing well. The 2nd half we played really badly, but managed to hold on to the lead, with a 1-0 win. In the car on the way home, I sked Tony why we were so bad in the 2nd half, where we played hoof ball. Tony told me that a HT Ken Hewkins our keeper at the time, had a fist fight with Johnny Haynes, and Hewkins said I will pay you back by letting in a couple of goals. We had to spend the second half stopping Stoke scoring by belting the ball up the field as often as possible, but we managed to hold on. I don't think that Hewkins played many times after that. We don't always know what goes on in the dressing room. I'm sure that the United dressing room isn't happy place at the moment.
posted by LTS (Guest) - Tuesday 03rd November 2026, 5:40 PM

Deacon, you may have been using inappropriate language.
posted by bigboy4650 (Guest) - Tuesday 03rd November 2026, 12:43 PM

Watched it frame by frame and the moment the ball makescontact with suzukis hands 90% of his body is inside the goal line so i would definiately go along with you in giving Iwobi the goal. What i dont know is at what instant does the technology flash "Goal",when it hits the ground or whilst in the air.
posted by T.NO (Guest) - Monday 02nd November 2026, 5:24 PM Agree sure the rule is if on target it goes to player. Looked to me if keeper didn’t touch it, it goes in that makes it Iwobi goal
posted by DMK (Guest) - Tuesday 03rd November 2026, 7:55 AM

Twigged it when he kept telling him it was alright ,over cooking it very clever build up, sure walsh would never had been so encouraging to the bloke to spend own money , so no more of them a series is out of the question, ? sure some crank will ask that /. ho/ho should have been made april 1st.
posted by the real arch bishop (Guest) - Monday 02nd November 2026, 2:14 PM

As we have a place in Southampton where we stay occasionally I keep an eye on Southampton FC who have a striker name of Cyle Larkin whose pretty good( in the Championship) 8 goals in 11 appearances this season. He’s on a contract which runs to ‘28 and they’ve just got striker on loan from Man. City. I’m sure he do better than Muniz.
posted by Mortlake (Guest) - Monday 02nd November 2026, 12:09 PM I agree 100% that we need a target man that can score goals but we cannot do anything about our lack of scoring goals until January and we may not find one, every team will be in competition for a striker. Mortlake, i am sure your suggested striker would do better than Gonzalo also who has had a terrible run of a near 8 games without scoring now. Muniz got his chance against Palace and it was a big 90 minutes and he didn't score and they both need goals pronto. I may sound like a broken record but i think Arbeloa missed a trick by not subbing Muniz on earlier than the 80th minute onwards which is too late to get into the swing of things. Muniz is bad enough but if you look at his record on the pitch, it is minimal. We cannot do anything about a striker until January so we might as well get the ring rusty Muniz working harder and doing more minutes on the pitch and maybe share 45 minutes between the two of them. It is starting to get obvious and long in the tooth now when Gonzalo is playing out his skin every week and not doing what we pay him to do. Gonzalo is showing some nice touches when out of position i must agree but both Gonzalo and Palacios in midfield are struggling for awareness in their different roles. Muniz we will sell on for 15-20 million and i think there is a footballer in there somewhere. Muniz was Marco's prize project and he liked him a lot and it wouldn't have made any difference in what we were saying about him when Marco was here, which is bizarre. Gonzalo will eventually settle down and his confidence will rise but i don't see him as a prolific goal getter in this league, his height and his build isn't enough for this league. Both him and Palacious should and would have been learning their trade in the reserve league for most teams.
posted by OWEN - Monday 02nd November 2026, 7:46 PM

Or Jimmy Jinx, I bet that hardly any of our posters, even remember him. If we think that we are bad at scoring, Liverpool couldn't score today against Arsenal, and may I remind you, Liverpool couldn't score against us either at Anfield. If we had Isak leading our forward line, we would expect to score, but he is no better than Garcia ! !
posted by LTS (Guest) - Sunday 01st November 2026, 6:38 PM Compared with Liverpool's strikers, our strikers are worth peanuts, but they like today, failed to score against Arsenal, after practically dominating the game. Arsenal's early goal proved to be the winner, so even top strikers, including Haarland, don't always score. So let's be more patient with Garcia and Oscar for now.
posted by AC (Guest) - Sunday 01st November 2026, 11:24 PM Or on reflection one Johnny “Budgie “ Byrne. On joining amongst much fanfare : “ No one could fail to score in this forward line” Result - one goal and relegation.
posted by Keetch54 - Monday 02nd November 2026, 8:55 AM Ketch, I once and only once took my girlfriend to Craven Cottage when Frank Large was playing and she still remembers him today.
posted by bigboy4650 (Guest) - Monday 02nd November 2026, 10:38 AM Remember Maurice Cook, Pancho Pearson
posted by denny (Guest) - Monday 02nd November 2026, 12:05 PM I do. Cookie the ginger Messi and Arthur Pablo Stevens, he was with Fulham for 14 years, we’ll forgive him for playing for Brentford. Local boy of course.
posted by Mortlake (Guest) - Monday 02nd November 2026, 1:38 PM morty , arthur stevens a legend in day of trinder , ran like he had a broom up his back //!!!!!! opposite to charlie mitten, scored some screamers , ,nearly bought a car from budgie byrne in Durban he was a bmw set up , but prefered the nissan guys who were staffed by some Hibs players also peter baker ex spurs.
posted by the real arch bishop (Guest) - Monday 02nd November 2026, 2:07 PM The world and Johnny Haynes ended up in South Africa in those days Bish. What were you doing there?
posted by Mortlake (Guest) - Monday 02nd November 2026, 2:51 PM owned a disco complex with b/in /law,bought a nissan skyline best car ever had from footballers who played for hibs and such all jocks budgie byrne was to up market, so nissan was perfect also had jonny kirkham ex wolves under 23 wing back as wifes b/in/law.
posted by the real arch bishop (Guest) - Tuesday 03rd November 2026, 1:19 PM

I had the feeling it was Paddy, probably wrong but thought it was kind of humour. Anyway well done he was a hell of an irritant.
posted by Mortlake (Guest) - Sunday 01st November 2026, 5:50 PM What are they charging him with, impersonating a moderator, must be at least a probation
posted by Magicman (Guest) - Sunday 01st November 2026, 8:19 PM

I can see your logic, TTIN but it would be suicide to take off the likes of Berge for Palacios just because you think Berge is tired? There is knowing when a player is tired and there is a word called 'winging it' and Arbeloa has winged it a bit with his subs in some games that we have lost, sad to say. Yes, he will learn and we all learn all the time the more we do anything repetitive in life but the life of a football manager is a results one and the quicker they get winning results the better for keeping their jobs. A wrong set of substitutions in so many games will see us losing and that's a fact. The best managers in the world don't always do subs because players are tired. Sometimes a tired player will have to carry the team for whatever reason the manager decides he should carry on. There is more to football and substitutions than we could imagine, that's why the top guys get the big bucks.
posted by OWEN - Sunday 01st November 2026, 9:20 PM Wanted to say that Palacios doesn't have the required experience to cover a job that wants doing going forward in the midfield sadly to say so no amount of shuffling around him will gain us much sad to say. Arbeloa i think is persevering with his Spanish contingent in the hope that they improve and i don't blame him for that, a lot of money is invested in our Spanish boys.
posted by OWEN - Sunday 01st November 2026, 9:29 PM What I said is not theory it is what most Premier League team do and was explained by a football commentator during a game.
posted by The Time Is Now - Monday 02nd November 2026, 7:07 PM

It has taken a while for the new players to settle in and for the ways adapt to the new tactics, but it now seems to be all coming together. The manager knows the weakness is our finishing so he will be looking for ways to solve that with players he has got.
posted by The Time Is Now - Sunday 01st November 2026, 3:44 PM

Agree 100% re small bentford being jealous and envious.
posted by Mick (Guest) - Sunday 01st November 2026, 2:20 PM I wasnt keen on posting anything new for a while as in the same way that the UK is being taken over, i get the feeling that this site has also been invaded by posters who didnt exist a few months ago and who appear not to be contributing many points of interest. In fact maybe they are all the same person. Anyway, valid point Owen. Although a fully support the AA project, he does have a pèculiar way of subbing . We no longer have super Harry on the bench . Exchanging muñiz with Gonzalo and TC with anybody is a valid movement. However i have been revising our last 4 prem matches and its those 80th minute changes where Larsson and ESR have come on that really unbalance the side and we all know the consequences. This leads me to raising a question which on this site can probably best be answered by the likes of yourself or MST. Is it possible that some subbing is forced upon for economical reasons? i.e. players contracts being valued by the times they hit the field.
posted by T.NO (Guest) - Sunday 01st November 2026, 2:21 PM Stop fight you two or I will come over and threaten you both
posted by Owen (Guest) - Sunday 01st November 2026, 2:41 PM Why would Brentford be jealous? They have a much better scouting system!
posted by Bishop Park. (Guest) - Sunday 01st November 2026, 3:16 PM Most importantly we all want 1 thing,to improve as a team/squad managers come and go as do owners fans are there forever. It’s a bit naive to expect a manager with zero premier league experience to take over and not make any mistakes. The vital ingredient missing is goals and until we find that weather it be with what we have(unlikely)or what we need will have to be patient.
posted by Cheif (Guest) - Sunday 01st November 2026, 3:41 PM See my bit above about subs and you will understand better.
posted by The Time Is Now - Sunday 01st November 2026, 5:32 PM Whats up with this board?, its shows last message was Owen on sunday , its now tuesday and no one else has posted bit odd.
posted by pointless (Guest) - Tuesday 03rd November 2026, 1:11 PM

I know that it is daft, but I keep changing my mind about our season, after every match. Against Palace, I was almost ashamed to think that I was a Fulham fan, as we were so bad. Considering how much of a jinx to us, I would have thought that AA, would have put out a stronger team, like we did yesterday, but no, we made 10 changes, and we know what happened. Yes, Palace made 10 changes as well, but I couldn't care less about what they did. Once again, we have thrown away a good chance of a decent cup run. Now after yesterday, here's me thinking, that we are a decent side after all. Alright, we were unlucky with Villa's penalty miss, but we made up for that, and at times outplayed a side that had just beaten Man City. I know that we won with different club colours than normal against Coventry, but wasn't it good to see us playing in our normal black and white. The biggest change yesterday was Robinson's performance, which was superb, compared to Wednesday's dreadful showing. You wouldn't have thought it was the same player. This morning I am full of hope for a decent season, but lose next Saturday, and I will probably change my mind again. That's football for you.
posted by Alan B (Guest) - Sunday 01st November 2026, 11:14 AM

Mensa 100%!!!!!!!
posted by OWEN - Saturday 31st October 2026, 10:36 PM You lot are on drugs if you think that 1 away point means we have turned any sort of corner. We STILL cannot score a goal. Our forwards are toothless. It took a missed penalty and an unforced error by their goalie, to get something out of the game. Gonzo couldn't hit a cow's backside with a banjo, Bobb missed a sitter as did Iwobi and the defending for their goal was Keystone Cops material.
posted by Fred (Guest) - Sunday 01st November 2026, 3:46 AM Garcia is trying to do to much, a striker should always be ready to run through the middle of the pitch towards the goal waiting for the ball to reach him.
posted by The Time Is Now - Sunday 01st November 2026, 6:34 AM I thought we were going to be overrun but we suddenly started playing and looked the better team apart from our poor finishing.
posted by The Time Is Now - Sunday 01st November 2026, 6:38 AM Insomnia obviously scrambles your small brain Fred!
posted by Mick (Guest) - Sunday 01st November 2026, 7:23 AM A sensible old head amid all the unrealistic euphoria Fred. Mike personal insults are an indication of the small brain you accuse Fred of possessing. That said the team showed some fight and spirit in the second half which was very encouraging. I’d also just like to add that I thought Gonzalo was greatly improved, albeit he should remember he needs to be in the box more of the time. Scrappy but we have only lost once in 5 maybe 6 games, so can’t be all bad.
posted by Observer (Guest) - Sunday 01st November 2026, 11:04 AM A sensible old head saying we are on drugs ? Not much of an observer are you , observer !
posted by Mick (Guest) - Sunday 01st November 2026, 2:05 PM I have to point out Mick he said others were on drugs not him. Is it the English you’re having a problem with?
posted by Observer (Guest) - Monday 02nd November 2026, 2:56 PM Did you say something about personal insults Obby ?
posted by Mick (Guest) - Monday 02nd November 2026, 3:44 PM Insult!? How’d you work that out? :))
posted by Observer (Guest) - Monday 02nd November 2026, 4:09 PM

Kevin, you know your onions!!!!!!! 10 out of ten!!!!!!
posted by OWEN - Saturday 31st October 2026, 10:32 PM FFS give them a chance , nine games, young players don’t believe some of you so critical
posted by Magicman (Guest) - Saturday 31st October 2026, 10:52 PM It is a bit more than attention up top, we have three striker none of whom know how to score open goals.
posted by The Time Is Now - Sunday 01st November 2026, 6:36 AM With any type of goal scorer, we would be sitting in the top 8, instead of still looking behind us. We have only lost 1 match in the last 5, which is good, but we were winning the game we lost with just a few minutes to go. That Ipswich loss will annoy me for the rest of the season, come what may, and I only hope that we can make them pay for that in the return fixture. We should have been in the lead before Villa scored, but that we weren't was not Bobb's miss, it was Villa's keeper's brilliant save. We were also lucky with that missed penalty. I fully expected Jackson to have taken it, but thank goodness he didn't, as we would not have got a point. In the old days, they would never have got that penalty, as the referee didn't spot a handball, and only VAR picked it up. It was hardly a deliberate handball, but hopefully we will receive a good VAR decision, sometime soon. Villa got away with it, last season, when Josh King was pulled down in the penalty area, but VAR overlooked that one. Because of our lack of a Mitro, we will be in a relegation fight all season, unless we can find a good striker in January, but where from I ask you ?
posted by AC (Guest) - Sunday 01st November 2026, 8:21 AM Never a penalty Bergen was unaware where the ball was even struck him from 18 inches away ridicoulose Our goal var tried there hardest to get it disallowed never seen the refs watch queued before think the ball was carried over the line by keeper if you look have to say first half sloppy defending led to there goal few half hearted challenges second halfmuch better bobb and king showed there talent playing better stlill like our misfiring striker good distribution had more of the ball could have had a couple think he tired towards the end second half show encouraging
posted by Ipitombi (Guest) - Sunday 01st November 2026, 12:13 PM The rules say if you handle the ball in the penalty for any reason it is a penalty. that rule does not apply anywhere else on the pitch.
posted by The Time Is Now - Sunday 01st November 2026, 12:42 PM Your arms must be in a unnatural position for it to be given, i.e. down by your side.
posted by The Time Is Now - Sunday 01st November 2026, 12:47 PM

WE GOT ONE. LUCK ON OUR SIDE FOR ONCE!!!!!!!
posted by OWEN - Saturday 31st October 2026, 9:28 PM Just plain daft to take off King, Bobb, and Iwobi. STUPID SUBBING FROM ARBELOA AGAIN!!!! Point taken though!!!!!
posted by OWEN - Saturday 31st October 2026, 10:00 PM well now that's an away point to be proud of.
posted by joe (Guest) - Saturday 31st October 2026, 10:05 PM Keep playing like that and WOW
posted by Lewis (Guest) - Saturday 31st October 2026, 10:08 PM We dominated possession so no need for Palacios who is good for nothing and Cairney not really needed up to that point. There is nothing wrong in the way how we dominate but we just cannot finish teams off and that's the problem. Arbeloa is a wind-up of a manager sometimes, we just lost the emphasis with those subs.
posted by OWEN - Saturday 31st October 2026, 10:08 PM I don't want to hear in future, that Bobb was a waste of money, as he is going to be one of our future stars. This was a totally unexpected point, but exceedingly welcome.
posted by AC (Guest) - Saturday 31st October 2026, 10:11 PM I told you so
posted by Kev (Guest) - Saturday 31st October 2026, 10:13 PM Don’t get you Owen, great point, 7 out of 9 AA is learning fast but we need a good goal scorer who aren’t easy to come by I’m not complaining with what I saw tonight against a top 6 team
posted by Magicman (Guest) - Saturday 31st October 2026, 10:15 PM Agree about Bobb, should have kept him on. Yes a good point but we really should be taking advantage from the 50th minute onwards. I wouldn't give Arbeloa more than 5 out of ten tactically and that's the difference from turning a possible loss from a missed penalty into a winning night. It just feels like we lost something after getting on top of them.
posted by OWEN - Saturday 31st October 2026, 10:19 PM It was probably a fair result, but if it wasn't for Villa's keepers error, we wouldn't have scored. Saying that, if it wasn't for their keeper's two vital saves, we would have won. That save from Oscar was just world class. Who was that imitation Robinson would played against Palace, as the real Jedi turned up today, and what a difference. Oscar Bobb is just improving in leaps and bounds, and even Garcia looked much better this evening. 7 points from 3 games is a big improvement, so if we can keep that up, we will steadily climb the table.
posted by THE CRAVEN (Guest) - Saturday 31st October 2026, 10:54 PM Agree with your comments Craven . An improvement to be sure but there are still a lot of questions to be asked. Whilst the second half was good the first was pretty awful. Questions about the managers substitutes too.
posted by Mortlake (Guest) - Sunday 01st November 2026, 1:23 AM As one commentator said the five subs mean certain players can give there all for 65 minutes then be substituted. The exception is Cairney who is put on late to stop us conceding a late goal. It is not difficult to see which players are working extra hard in a game. The manager decides who he want to give their all for 65 minutes and tells them.
posted by The Time Is Now - Sunday 01st November 2026, 12:57 PM

gonzalo gave iwobi a Sitter and king wasnt astute .
posted by t.no (Guest) - Saturday 31st October 2026, 9:04 PM Tete and castagne together ? Like to see Cairney on last two subs he’s made his presence felt bobb and king both off ? Have to say when we are firing on all cylinders we look quite good
posted by Ipitombi (Guest) - Sunday 01st November 2026, 12:20 PM

I think city are always in form ,it's just sometimes the ball don't go in the net for them .they are constant attack , but as Brighton showed you can nick one now and then
posted by worple (Guest) - Sunday 01st November 2026, 8:47 AM

Agree we need a striker, and the Spanish boys have not settled yet but see glimpses of talent and are young. I’m still not sure about manager but feel he’s improved. As for Marcos players he gave some a chance v Palace Muniz and Andersen were very poor, so was Kevin when he came on like every game he’s had chances this season. Smith Rowe whose talented has been disappointment since at the club. Charles and Affengruber have been great signings. Let’s hope it comes good soon COYW
posted by DMK (Guest) - Saturday 31st October 2026, 6:47 PM Don’t agree about the Villa game, fancy us for at least a point tonight will be a low scoring game I think
posted by Chief (Guest) - Saturday 31st October 2026, 7:01 PM

Sorry George you are wrong, as it is Sunderland, Forest, and Palace, in the bottom 3, and long may it remain that way.
posted by AC (Guest) - Saturday 31st October 2026, 7:08 PM One thing looks likely could be two promoted sides not demoted one question if city get demoted will that cause a backlash in the chamionship and beyond one side less going down presuming city will walk league one less side loses out could it cause a fall out through. the lower leagues
posted by Ipitombi (Guest) - Sunday 01st November 2026, 12:34 PM

Get out the old driftwood so called support
posted by Luke (Guest) - Saturday 31st October 2026, 6:57 AM I think we should have a vote on this board. Who is in favour of continuing to support Fulham FC. My vote is yes 'till I die'. Next.......
posted by George (Guest) - Saturday 31st October 2026, 7:43 AM TTIN is asking a question. No sucess in the top league, one cup final second place, one runners up medal europe. Aims, to stay in the top division and have a bit of a cup run. New manager bringing players from Spain into the most physical league inthe world, who are not physical. We play like amatuers, where are the corner routines, free kick routines. When was the last time FFC scored from outside the box.
posted by denny (Guest) - Saturday 31st October 2026, 8:10 AM We could buy our way to success like some clubs do. Personally I would rather we continue to punch above our weight unlike some clubs who punch below their weight. What would change in our lives if we paid for success and achieved it? Happiness? No! And there would only be one way to go after that. Down. We are very very successful in our own unique way, which many other clubs probably envy.
posted by Joseph (Guest) - Saturday 31st October 2026, 8:21 AM Yeah Joseph, just look at Fleetwood, they will carry that win over Arsenal in their hearts and minds till the end of time. I doubt that most Man City fans can remember who they last beat.
posted by Lou (Guest) - Saturday 31st October 2026, 8:25 AM It is nice to have an intelligent conversation on a subject. When I started supporting Fulham a long time ago I always assumed we would win something as we got better we got better and got into two finals and lost them both, but by them I had become a what does it matter supporter which is the only way to support Fulham otherwise you would become weak from worry. We are also an very honest club and would never even consider what Man C have done. I have been a Fulham supporter all my life and and will continue until my life ends.
posted by The Time Is Now - Saturday 31st October 2026, 9:04 AM I sometimes wonder why some 'fans' obsess with the clubs spending budget anyway, are these guys would be accountants? To run a club you have to spend and speculate, why should anyone care outside of the owners what the hell is spent? I love the team and football.
posted by Conroy (Guest) - Saturday 31st October 2026, 9:09 AM Re: your “HISTORY” post. You must have a very short memory to post something like that or don’t know Fulham too well or something else perhaps. Forget nearly dropping out of the league in the 80s for a moment but in just our recent history, I give you Magath, Mulenstein, Parker, Jol, Ranieri. All very poor managers for Fulham when we were’t “good enough”. If you want to go back further there are at least 10 poor managers I could name when we also weren’t “good enough” just during my support since 1973. I’m sure older fans could name many more.
posted by MST (Moderator) - Saturday 31st October 2026, 10:22 AM Once that a sex maniac took over Fulham everything change and we went from being a poor team to one with much higher prospects. His money made the lower divisions look easy to get out and we started to become regular PL team, 13 consecutive seasons in fact. I know we have had some dreadful managers over the years and some decent ones but never one like the top teams can afford. The top teams have always been able to spend at least double what we do on players so we are not likely to win the League but other than the top teams win the cups but we have never managed to do that.
posted by The Time Is Now - Saturday 31st October 2026, 10:30 AM Think you’ll find that all I named except Parker were so called “top managers” that the top teams had. Albeit Muelenstein was 2nd to Fergie.
posted by MST (Moderator) - Saturday 31st October 2026, 10:44 AM Even in the late 40s and 50s we were considered the poor neighbours and that was even before Chelsea had won anything, 1955 I recall. Fulham’s underdog status is why I chose to support them in preference to Chelsea, who should have been my first choice having been born in Walham Green. Guess I have that not uncommon English characteristic to support the underdog. Basically, due in part to ground size and succession of diabolical owners, we have always been a resource poor second string team and it’s kind of difficult to imagine us being anything else in the future. The injection of big bucks from our last two owners has definitely improved our possibilities, but we still have revenue limitations, albeit Brentford, Brighton and Bournemouth would suggest despite our limitations we could do better, as we did during the Roy Hodgson era, but the club contrived to blow those advances in quality. Not sure we can ever achieve more than a brief flirtation with success, but never say never. A brief moment in the sun can be more satisfying. Better to travel well than to arrive, as the old saying goes.
posted by Mortlake (Guest) - Saturday 31st October 2026, 10:47 AM Steady on my fellow intellects. Remember this is football we are talking about here, you know 'get rid of it' 'over ere son' 'use me, use me'. Lets not forget our place.
posted by Paul Gillan (Guest) - Saturday 31st October 2026, 10:54 AM The watching football at Craven Cottage has become a middle class sport as the so called working man cannot afford it.
posted by The Time Is Now - Saturday 31st October 2026, 11:05 AM In Marco Silver we had a very good manager but in both Everton and Fulham he hit the barrier that they cannot afford to spend £100m on one player, so you always have good players not the great ones the top teams can afford.
posted by The Time Is Now - Saturday 31st October 2026, 11:12 AM Surely, a good manager shows his quality when he has limited resources?
posted by Mortlake (Guest) - Saturday 31st October 2026, 11:27 AM Corrct me if I’m wrong can a football club spend limitless amounts of money these days. With ffp about
posted by Ipitobi (Guest) - Sunday 01st November 2026, 12:39 PM Any football clubs fans can na me list of bad mangers nearly all managers become bad in time it comes with the job
posted by Ipitombi (Guest) - Sunday 01st November 2026, 12:45 PM If you have a big ground and good sponsors and are playing in the Champions League you have at least twice as much as us under the FIFA rules because they are earning at least twice as much as us.
posted by The Time Is Now - Tuesday 03rd November 2026, 9:11 PM

LOL, tempting to reply to yours, Lester but i will decline. Too many long posts from me. Will just concentrate on our next game and whoever we put out, i hope they do well. COME ON FULHAM!!!!
posted by OWEN - Friday 30th October 2026, 3:14 PM You were doing so well Lester until you mentioned ESR who is, possible, the worst purchase FFC have ever made. But let's carry on. It doesn't matter how much "service" Muniz and Gonzo get, they have proved themselves to incapable of finding the back of the net many times over. BTW, Reed, solid midfield contributor but hardly a picker of incisive passes like TC for instance.
posted by Fred (Guest) - Friday 30th October 2026, 10:08 PM Practise, practise and practise.
posted by The Time Is Now - Saturday 31st October 2026, 6:46 AM To be honest you have to question whoever is in charge of buying these players but we clearly need to follow clubs like Brighton,Brentford or Bournemouth who rarely spend large sums on very average players.
posted by Chief (Guest) - Saturday 31st October 2026, 7:38 AM Talking about clubs like Brentford, Bournemouth, and Brighton, who seem to be scoring goals for fun, something that we just can't seem to do. Have any of our fans ever watched these teams games, and honestly say that they know the names of their players. As you all know, my local team is Brighton, so many of my friends are ST holders at the Amex, and talking to one of their fans, he said that even he and his fellow ST holders don't know half of their team, and where they come from, but they keep producing goal scorers, which is something we have failed to do, since Mitro left. I loved Mitro, but I will never forgive him for leaving, just for the money, as if he didn't have enough already. Brentford and Bournemouth seem to regularly come up with strikes, even when they loose the top strikers. Embarrassingly we end up with Muniz and Gracia, who are pretty hopeless. Our predicament is all down to he useless Tony Khan, and if we do get relegated, I will put it down to him, and him alone, as he has absolutely no qualifications for the job, and choosing Managers for a Premier League club. He is is hardly here anyway.
posted by AC (Guest) - Saturday 31st October 2026, 11:39 AM Personally don’t think ffc will get relegated no more than the others mentioned have theory that teams with limited stadiums hhave to sell to survive and can’t buy big names let’s be honest they have certain styles of play which you can’t. Fault but it’s inevitable that directly or indirectly it will happen
posted by Ipitombi (Guest) - Sunday 01st November 2026, 1:01 PM personally ac, i dont know why you are even thinking about relegation ,after a slow start, we are playing the football that suggests a safe season in the premiership.
posted by tom hark (Guest) - Monday 02nd November 2026, 11:27 AM

Why did you say cant buy a striker until we sell munez in a post further down,?what does he do,? if we sold him he aint going to be missed is he so why pay his wages/.Munez hardly fill in for any one.
posted by the real arch bishop (Guest) - Friday 30th October 2026, 1:05 PM Like Government Ministers who get paid when they are bloody useless. We have so called players who con a living out of the game.
posted by W (Guest) - Saturday 31st October 2026, 3:01 PM

We can only get rid of Muniz if we can get at a replacement scoring striker but they are very rare. I hope the Spanish players turnout good but with any young players you are taking a big risk they must all work tremendously hard to turn themselves into top Premier League players. A lot of young players do not have that in them, why so many players with obvious talent not make it and end up in lower divisions where life is much easier.
posted by The Time Is Now - Friday 30th October 2026, 8:42 AM the blinding fact is. we dont have a tall battering ram no.9, which is exactly what this side needs. the days of mitro, horsfield and moody seems a distant memory. most probably because it is.
posted by tom hark (Guest) - Saturday 31st October 2026, 12:53 PM

What does our manager know about experienced Premier League players? He knows a lot about young Spanish players. Though of course the manager should only be an influencer in who we purchase as that is not part of his job description which makes it difficult to know why we acquired all those unproven young Spaniards. Part of the deal to sign him perhaps.
posted by The Time Is Now - Friday 30th October 2026, 1:12 PM

As my name implies LTS, it stands for, Long Time Supporter, I have been following Fulham, since the mid forties, so I have watched Fulham loads and loads of times. Obviously I have seen us play some highly entertaining, and good football sides, but my goodness I have seen some absolutely dire matches, of which last night's match was one. I am no doubt repeating myself, but when we were struggling in the lower leagues, and nearly ended in the Southern at one time. The only way I could stop watching Fulham, was to become a referee, and I was lucky enough to become and Isthmian league referee, and along the way in different competitions, I actually refereed the likes of Chelsea, Arsenal, Brentford, and yes Fulham at CC, which was a dream, believe me. If some of you younger guys are fed up with watching Fulham at the moment, take up the whistle, as it is a brilliant career.
posted by LTS (Guest) - Thursday 29th October 2026, 6:38 PM It seems that I have been watching Fulham, almost as long a LTS, and for the most of those years, apart from a couple of promotions, we have achieved very little. In the old days my friends and myself, used to go the Fulham one Saturday, then Chelsea the next, and out of the two, I chose to become a Fulham fan over Chelsea, and that was probably a big mistake, but I'm stuck with it now. I'm getting more frustrating on a match by match, the way that we have thrown away points, by not having a regular goal scorer, in fact I think this is one of the worst seasons ever, for poor strikers. Muniz will never make it now, and we should play without him, even be on the bench. We have no alternative but to play Garcia, as we have absolutely no other choice. That's how bad it is, and we will be extremely lucky to avoid the drop this season.
posted by AC (Guest) - Friday 30th October 2026, 10:48 AM Great shout LTS. Did it for 15 years and loved it. Mostly.
posted by Californian - Friday 30th October 2026, 8:45 PM

Spuds or small bentford ? Why would he lower his standards?
posted by Mick (Guest) - Thursday 29th October 2026, 4:20 PM Keeps bringing on Muniz? Rich, our bench guys hardly get a look in and when they get minutes, we expect miracles. Past players coming off the bench were classed as super-subs or impact players and the most famous one was Ole Gunnar Solskjær. Kevin was atrocious with his corners coming on last night and i agree not good enough service for those waiting for a decent delivery late on. We know Kevin is better than that and others. I think there is a deep resentment amongst our bench players and the blame for it is down to Arbeloa who is obviously not good in man management. Believe it or not we need all our bench players to be content and yes, they need to step up when they come on. What happens if the likes of Josh King gets injured 12 weeks like Saka of Arsenal? They are a bigger squad than ours and they can still play and get results but we will be in trouble and i suspect we might be in trouble now? That said, we are showing good form against the likes of Man Utd and Liverpool and it is a mystery why we can't batter naff teams like Crystal Palace. It was not so long ago that Marco Silva had gotten results with the likes of Kevin Smith Rowe etc so they can't be bad players overnight. This is down to Arbeloa and he needs to fix it before the January window. In the meantime, there might be a need to cal upon these bench guys.
posted by OWEN - Thursday 29th October 2026, 5:06 PM josh king to BENTFORD?> are you serious?
posted by tom hark (Guest) - Monday 02nd November 2026, 11:29 AM

A bit drastic NRL. Why not revert to the U21s?
posted by MST (Moderator) - Thursday 29th October 2026, 3:49 PM The whole game has soured for me and they all think they're so important. I'm done
posted by NRL (Guest) - Thursday 29th October 2026, 4:14 PM I only got to look at the highlights. I would like to add a little bit of balance to what appears to be somewhat over critical view points coming in from some sectors. We are defending well, we are showing nice touches in midfield, we are creating chances. It is apparent that we are not finishing off those chances, We must go into the Villa game with what we have. Therefore, the manager needs to really show some fortitude amongst those tasked with the job of scoring goals for that Villa game.[ A rocket under their posteriors[. That part of the job should have been done already.
posted by Giles Richardson (Guest) - Thursday 29th October 2026, 4:31 PM LOL. NRL announced his departure in no uncertain terms, and went. Next thing is he came back to re-announce his departure. NRL would you like to respond to this or have you gone away? Either way you have become somewhat unreliable.
posted by Lazlo (Guest) - Thursday 29th October 2026, 4:36 PM NRL will be fine, we all have these moments and give him space, he will return in his own good time. He put a lot of time and effort into Fulham and he loves Fulham.
posted by OWEN - Thursday 29th October 2026, 5:12 PM Oh yes sorry Owen. Here we go........are you going to be okay NRL? Somebody vouch for him and tell me he will be fine. Will you.
posted by Lazlo (Guest) - Thursday 29th October 2026, 5:19 PM You’ve made it 70 years and NOW you’re done? Because of a cup match?
posted by Californian - Friday 30th October 2026, 8:39 PM

Sell Kevin, ESR, Andersen, Jedi, Palacios, Angel, Larsen, Garcia and Muñiz and we might be able to afford one!!
posted by MST (Moderator) - Thursday 29th October 2026, 3:46 PM The patient is terminal.
posted by Dave Kildare (Guest) - Thursday 29th October 2026, 4:03 PM How much money are you putting in MST? Or don't you love the club as much as Mr Khan? You keep prodding away for more and more expenditure, on who? Give us a name, lets see if he is available and how much he costs and you can bring your digital check book and help out. Or you can shut the f--k up about other peoples money. With all due non respect.
posted by Paul Gillan (Guest) - Thursday 29th October 2026, 5:02 PM You need to learn some manners Paul.
posted by Jim (Guest) - Thursday 29th October 2026, 5:15 PM I apologise unreservedly. I have heard your concern for my needs, please accept my sincere and humble apology. That outburst was wrong and I have learned lots of manners since posting it.
posted by Paul Gillan (Guest) - Thursday 29th October 2026, 5:26 PM Think you might be replying to Jim’s original post not my TIC comment. Keep up Paul!
posted by MST (Moderator) - Thursday 29th October 2026, 7:08 PM im losing track. how do you do it?
posted by Paul Gillan (Guest) - Thursday 29th October 2026, 7:30 PM i ain't just doing this support your club keepy uppy you know! I'm doing the washing up and reading Ulysses at the same time.
posted by Paul Gillan (Guest) - Thursday 29th October 2026, 7:37 PM To be fair I only really played Sunday pub league level but if I ever took 2 corners like Kevin I would be banned from taking anymore,£30 plus million so overpriced as with most of the squad
posted by Chief (Guest) - Thursday 29th October 2026, 9:05 PM Look the corner takers should train at least one day a week at the cottage on just corners. With that slope up and short run up, surely to god that makes sense.
posted by Tibor (Guest) - Thursday 29th October 2026, 10:16 PM Yep all that lot would fit in at birmingham/ leicester, so lets have an auction in january..
posted by the real arch bishop (Guest) - Friday 30th October 2026, 2:05 PM mst, i respected your views, until this one. sell NINE players to get one? totally not on. and why have you included the three spanish boys, who are trying to establish themselves?.
posted by tom hark (Guest) - Monday 02nd November 2026, 11:35 AM

We agree again Bish and it’s not even a leap year lol.
posted by MST (Moderator) - Thursday 29th October 2026, 3:47 PM just a card will do , ho/ho.
posted by the real arch bishop (Guest) - Friday 30th October 2026, 2:02 PM

Our first 11 not that bad I count Sessegnon in that with Robinson playing poorly. What we did find out some of Marco high prised signings are not willing to fight for a place and can’t moan when not picked.. easy to say in hindsight but a couple of youngsters deserved to be in squad Zepa looked good in early round v Wimbledon and scoring goals in u21s and Casey also scoring goals and looks talented
posted by DMK (Guest) - Thursday 29th October 2026, 9:30 AM Lazlos Tibor. You have picked the Mr Hyde team.
posted by Spizzo'53. (Guest) - Thursday 29th October 2026, 9:57 AM What about Loupalo-Bi..scored for Fleetwood against Arssnal. Can't see any of our current strikers doing that.
posted by MGW (Guest) - Thursday 29th October 2026, 11:49 AM MGW. I think you know.
posted by Dino (Guest) - Thursday 29th October 2026, 5:06 PM He doesn't speak Spanish?
posted by MGW (Guest) - Thursday 29th October 2026, 7:21 PM Stanfield v Muniz, the wrong decision was made and sold the wrong player.
posted by W (Guest) - Thursday 29th October 2026, 9:47 PM

Both Robinson and later Kevin were very disappointing. I can't see how Garcia can score with service from those two.
posted by peterjeremy - Thursday 29th October 2026, 9:01 AM Apparently Palace made ten changes from the team that played in the previous league team - and that ‘stronger’ team had lost their previous 5 games anyway. I think the Palace manager must be worried. He had put out the much weaker side to focus on the Premier, and now he has the problem of being in the Cup as well!
posted by peterjeremy - Thursday 29th October 2026, 9:30 AM We over ran Palace in the first half but kept missing good chances. They scored when our reserve centre back made a mistake Apparently he cannot understand why he was dropped when he was playing so brilliantly. People delude themselves all the time. Do not know what has happened to Robinson, he seems to have lost it as well. Are all these younger players upsetting the older ones?
posted by The Time Is Now - Thursday 29th October 2026, 9:49 AM Peterjeremy; Gonzalo believe or not gets chances week in and week out without the services of Kevin who was poor last night. That was a point blank header he should be doing better with no excuses.
posted by OWEN - Thursday 29th October 2026, 10:23 AM Not a bad shout, Owen, and I agree with your comments in your earlier post below - wouldn’t most people? But I would maintain myself that Garzalo was so surprised when a decent ball comes in he is really caught by surprise!
posted by peterjeremy - Thursday 29th October 2026, 10:47 AM Gonzalo, sorry
posted by peterjeremy - Thursday 29th October 2026, 10:47 AM After watching Brighton hammer Palace 5-0 a week ago, I thought that this time we had a big chance of beating our jinx team, but then I wasn't anticipating AA putting out such a poorly selected team. At one stage he said that he would field stronger sides in cup matches, and not use them for training purposes. What is it with this small competition is used by most clubs to field reserves . Look at City and Brighton. Bournemouth who have been struggling in the Premier League, suddenly score 3 goals in consecutive matches. Can you ever see us scoring more than 1 goal in any match ? No neither can I. If Muniz or Robinson are not left out on Saturday, I dread to imagine the outcome. Take a mortgage out and back Villa, as that bet would be as safe as houses ! !
posted by THE CRAVEN (Guest) - Thursday 29th October 2026, 11:04 AM Muniz and Kevin will not play against Villa on Saturday. Robinson? Sess still banned, he will play.
posted by OWEN - Thursday 29th October 2026, 11:26 AM It's still the same useless transfer policy from Tony Jnr & Mr Talbot...
posted by bigboy4651/0 (Guest) - Thursday 29th October 2026, 11:34 AM

Agree Robinson coming from deep can use his pace. He has not got ability to play so high up not a great crosser of the ball can’t shoot. If not for his pace properly wouldn’t have made it as a footballer. Sessegnon has a much better football brain. As for Muniz we had all the ball and he doesn’t help the midfield with his movement if he so much wanted a start he should at least be showing some energy. All I can say is the players who wanted a place after wanting a chance let the manager down and can’t complain now when not in side showed little effort
posted by DMK (Guest) - Thursday 29th October 2026, 8:58 AM The best forwards go where they think they can score even if they may get hurt. Muniz seems to shy away from danger. He never gets in the right place to score unless by accident.
posted by The Time Is Now - Thursday 29th October 2026, 9:53 AM We offerd Jimenez a new year contract he wanted to go back to wolves is now only on bench in championship. Same as Wilson offered him 2 year deal he got offerd a 4 year deal for Leeds on a big wage which at the end will make him 34 we wouldn’t match it and his getting little game time
posted by DMK (Guest) - Thursday 29th October 2026, 10:08 AM To be fair to Jimenez, he is getting on a bit now and maybe at age 35, games are catching up with him. He had a lively World Cup and he played a lot for Mexico. I also think it would be the same outcome if Jimenez had stayed with Fulham, a bench player.
posted by OWEN - Thursday 29th October 2026, 11:35 AM Jiminez Bench player behind our two world class centre forwards. At least he could play others in, when he had the ball. We all know Anderson is no longer capable. We all know Robinson likes to run into space and not receive the ball in a forward position. We all despair as Muniz as a striker who will score goals. We all saw Tete playing at 50% of what he used to. We all saw Palacious not ready at the level required. We all saw the 2 corners by Kevin at Sunday football level when there was a chance of an equaliser. Why did we not start with our first team and then bring these clowns on when in front. Ask AA he might be able to help with your car, or if you have a drink problem.
posted by denny (Guest) - Thursday 29th October 2026, 7:36 PM

Palace didn't have a single corner...part of our game plan?
posted by Krebs. (Guest) - Thursday 29th October 2026, 6:58 AM

It dosnt matter people going on about Robinson, we are just not good enough, especialy against a piss poor palace team. I dont want to have a go at AA, but if that was strongest team available, then we are in the s**t. He is just not good enough for our club, this was a chance missed tonight
posted by Bob (Guest) - Wednesday 28th October 2026, 10:21 PM To be honest we had 3 golden chances in the 1st 20 minutes and we didn’t take them,Palce are definitely our bogey team at the cottage,if you don’t take your chances you won’t win games.
posted by Chief (Guest) - Wednesday 28th October 2026, 10:23 PM Be honest would we really have any chance of winning this cup?
posted by Chief (Guest) - Wednesday 28th October 2026, 10:24 PM Robbo had a shocker. We Made chances but didn’t take them, again. Rodders looks shot, never got into the game and fell over at the slightest touch. Palace played the fake injury card, which actually got them their goal. We desperately need a target man who can worry defences. Currently we play well but are toothless. Like we’ve been since Mitro…
posted by Dellers (Guest) - Wednesday 28th October 2026, 10:31 PM It's not our centre forward it's the delivery in to the box from open play or from a set piece We are to slow in the build up we dont cross the ball quick enough we pass the ball to much when a cross early on we be the better option
posted by Fulham (Guest) - Wednesday 28th October 2026, 10:51 PM This is a fair summary of the game tonight Fulham guest and it's as simple as you say it.
posted by OWEN - Wednesday 28th October 2026, 11:03 PM All we accomplished by not rotating the squad is setting up getting smoked at Villa on Saturday. Forget the cups this year. Survival should be the ONLY concern.
posted by Californian - Thursday 29th October 2026, 12:28 AM Please don’t label people as Muniz haters. Muniz to put no finer point on it is useless, as tonight performance showed, yet again. It’s not everyone else that is out of step, it is you. If you wish to continue to fly in the face of the facts, that’s your prerogative, but don’t label fans who patently see things for what they are as haters.
posted by Mortlake (Guest) - Thursday 29th October 2026, 2:34 AM Mortlake, the likes of Muniz and Kevin are coming on cold and not played football in a long while now and believe it or not it can take a while to warm up and get into the game of football.It's not just me, fans shout for Muniz because Gonzalo who plays every week is worse than Muniz. And for the record Muniz was Marco's pet project and he would have played him more often. The biggest fact is that the Spanish contingent, Arbeloa recruitments are not ready or even good enough for this league and that's his fault he picked them. Marco's choices are not useless and players such as Kevin Muniz and Smith Rowe are reacting poorly because they don't get regular games. The simple answer is to drop Kevin Rowe and Muniz and carry on with Arbeloa's first eleven and everyone is happy. Nuff said!!!
posted by OWEN - Thursday 29th October 2026, 10:40 AM

Fans sing for Muniz because there is more expectation from a poor signing in Gonzalo who is too weak and not big enough to survive in this league. Muniz is Marco's project and he would have gotten more game time which he needs. I get where we are going and we bench Muniz and bring back Gonzalo next game against Villa and everyone is happy.
posted by OWEN - Wednesday 28th October 2026, 10:14 PM Muniz is a pub player , in fact not good enough to play for a pub , get rid asap!
posted by Mick (Guest) - Wednesday 28th October 2026, 10:20 PM And Garcia? Any better? Nope
posted by Californian - Thursday 29th October 2026, 12:29 AM At least Garcia tries to create something.
posted by Mick (Guest) - Thursday 29th October 2026, 7:26 AM Garcia could still come good young and good footballer he shouldn’t have to play every game when learning about premiership and new country but Muniz is so poor and has been since his good patch couple of seasons ago. So Garcia has to play
posted by DMK (Guest) - Thursday 29th October 2026, 9:12 AM Garcia could still come good young and good footballer he shouldn’t have to play every game when learning about premiership and new country but Muniz is so poor and has been since his good patch couple of seasons ago. So Garcia has to play
posted by DMK (Guest) - Thursday 29th October 2026, 9:13 AM And there you have it….the Spanish new recruits are not at Premiership level. But surely this could have been assessed when they were under consideration. Responsability lies beyond the manager. Several FFC officials must have been involved in supporting the Manager’s choices. Some degree of accountability should exist for such failures!!!
posted by Rob (Guest) - Thursday 29th October 2026, 1:33 PM

Couldn’t agree more.if steps aren’t taken immediately we will be relegated. Drop into the bottom three and we will stay there.
posted by Observer (Guest) - Wednesday 28th October 2026, 10:30 PM Unless your new manager can play striker as well, it just doesn’t matter. With this squad, we will be bouncing in and out of the relegation zone for the next six months regardless of manager. They’re just not that good.
posted by Californian - Thursday 29th October 2026, 12:24 AM

Berge i would keep.
posted by OWEN - Wednesday 28th October 2026, 10:26 PM I wish someone could explain what he brings to us? He slows the game and has he ever had a shot on target?
posted by NRL (Guest) - Thursday 29th October 2026, 3:34 AM Berge plays well with Charles, but reverts to his old self with someone else.
posted by W (Guest) - Thursday 29th October 2026, 8:02 AM Berge one of our better players , last night not his fault movement in front of him was so bad
posted by DMK (Guest) - Thursday 29th October 2026, 9:18 AM

We need strikers that can score goals. We are rubbish going forward.
posted by Jim (Guest) - Wednesday 28th October 2026, 9:42 PM