doctor evil

He didn't come across particularly well in the Sunderland documentary...

If he's to get it right it has to be someone he actually wants. You get the feeling with Bunn he did it for the fans.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Pretty much everyone at the time was happy enough with wellens after the run we went on. I'll give you bunn, typical Barry idea.

All 3 of those calls to sack were right IMO...….

I've said before that i didn't think FB was good enough, certainly at this moment. This season and next are crucial. If we don't get out of this league (the right way), we'll keep slipping. For all the problems FB might have faced, I never saw him improve tactically. If anything his decisions became more baffling as time went on. Now I'm not saying he was doing a poor job but i wanted to see some progress, signs he was improving as a manager. I didn't see any. January is crucial, we need a (capable) replacement in quickly and they need to be given the chance to improve the squad.

Always look on the bright side eh?

IMO Bunn has got to take the blame for that, all 3 subs were wrong...

Before that he'd been pretty poor tbf...

See if we can tempt fat Ronaldo out of retirement as well.

We only attempted it once and we scored....

We're devoid of everything a good team should have...

Surely a relief for those onboard.

Maybe. The way we play just doesn't give me any confidence. The fact Iverson always looks to go short is fine, good even, but it always ends up with the cbs launching it forward. When we have it down the wing and put the cross in, there's hardly ever more than one man in the box. Add to that the fact he'll be stood in the middle needing the perfect cross to score. Almost all our crosses go to the front post but there's never a man there. No one making that run from midfield. There's so much more and I know you can make points like this with every manager good or bad. But the sheer number of these issues worries me. As does his inability to change our approach. Take the Carlisle match. If you asked every bugger on here what gerrards biggest weakness was, they'd say he's a fat sod and he can't run. Yet we persisted with hoofballing it to cog and surridge. The one time we scored was a through ball to surridge, out paced gerrard and scored. We never tried it again. If you can chalk this down to confidence or that he's doing the best in the circumstances then fair enough. But for me, under bunn, we're just too poor, we're simply not good enough to get anywhere near the top.

Playing the way we do away from home would be fine in league 1 where there's quite a few teams that can hurt you. But we should be looking to get on the front foot (home & away) in this division. This squad is absolutely capable of finishing top 5. With bunn in charge, I just can't see it.

We have no idea what to do with the ball when we have it. Adding fane lad to the mix ain't going to help. Though a midfield duo of the missile and fane would be a laugh, I suppose.

Tell me what you've seen in bunn to make you want to stick with him.

More chance that one of them is decent....

I think you can tell when a manager has something about them...

If you have 5 managers in 20 years but they're all garbage you're not going to get anywhere.

Can we get him on?

When shall we start the new manager thread?

Mansfield replay was bt I think

Ah it appears you didn't say paul merson, still you never know he might be a big beaver.

I didn't know Merse had the final say on who was on tv, no wonder they've never made sense.

We didn't clear either of those 2 though, did we? Maybe we can somehow sneak some subs in to help.