QUOTE "For me, I think we need to throw everything behind the new approach if it is the plan that this is a new strategy that we are embedding from the youth teams upwards. Rough with the smooth. Good with the bad. Accepting a relegation (if it comes to it). I am not saying that is how it will play out, but that is how I think we should approach this."

Steve Parish and our US shareholders won't accept relegation as an option or the financial implications of that , including staff redundancies. As we know, there is no guarantee of a return once you got relegated. Therefore, the simple truth is that FDB has until Xmas to provide clear evidence that he can deliver a new style of football at this high level which wins football matches and offers strong evidence to suggest that it will garner a minimum of 40 points by the end of the Season with a limited transfer budget.

His remit is to give SP an anxious free Season and mid table finish - Steve Parish said this when FDB was appointed.

FDB Himself said CPFC need a Fast Start this Season and so far this is failing to materialise.

Personally I think he is going about things the wrong way but we all hope he can succeed . The reality is that if he fails to get 2 wins from our next 3 games then he and CPFC are already in big trouble because the Following six fixtures are horrendous.

So let's be real and know that in the Premiership there is no long term and FDB needs to show what he's got very very quickly now or he will fall on his own sword and be axed in December if not sooner.

I get the impression that you guys would be happy to beat Brighton and get relegated , well
Playing the way we are in this system Brighton will probably beat us and we will still get relegated
Lets try to be more ambitious
We are a London club with a 50 thousand fan catchment area thats been in the premiership 5 years ~ surely beating Brighton means nothing apart from meaningless bragging rights

Im tired of explaining that you cannot compare a novice Premier League manager as FDB to a Premier League master such as Big Sam
Sam had a simple plan , defend resolutely , do not concede , get a point and hope for 3 ~
This clown has got players running all over the place , out of position and not supporting the forward players when we break
Let me guess , you probably thought that Glen Murray and Dwight Gayle were Premiership quality too

And we're tired of listening to your wittering

From what I have read on here the vast majority of us are in the "let's give him a chance" group. He hasn't finished shaping the squad yet but has shown adaptability and a willingness to change the system if necessary.

The reason that people are mildly abusive as you put it is partly because you refer to the club's manager in that fashion and secondly rather than just giving people your opinion you are trying to beat them over the head with your opinions on every available opportunity

Back off now and leave it until the final whistle on Saturday

I'll give you a fact. Two league games is nothing like a representative sample of what he can do and you would think that someone who followed us from Christmas until the end of last season would realise that.

Maybe this will work, maybe it won't. Nobody can say yet that it definitely won't work.

Especially not you.

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