Nottingham Forest v. Midtjylland FC

Pleased you wrote that as I even googled when he took over last night to check I wasn't mis remembering his tenure.

The good things are the random exceptions for me, the mean is he's a bit of a shit owner.

I don't believe I ever have. I'd rather just stand in silence.

Booing is a basic consumer right and I exercised it last night.

Tempted to leave the club a google review, I'm that annoyed.

A bit rich when clearly this is all your fault given it's all gone to shit since you got a ST

What are you seeing that makes you think this is going to work out?

The club have massively hyped up being in Europe and this game as first for 30 years etc.

The performance needs to live up to that hype or the disappointment is magnified as last night.

I didn't say great, I said good. That argument about budget conflicts a bit with the one that Ange Ball = player injuries. Spurs navigated the Europa League despite a decent injury toll. Sure, criticise him for what happened in the league but it was an achievement getting Spurs some silverware in those circumstances.

Agreed he shouldn't seek let alone get another job in England. He's better off in Germany or somewhere like that - where he will still be a good manager.

Nothing. Yet. This will have to become Megsonesque for me to boo because that's not my usual style. I can't see how ridiculing the manager and singing the name of his predecessor can do anything but undermine the players' confidence and therefore damage results even further.

I was hoping you'd give me some crumbs of comfort. I'll cling to the 'yet'!

The arguments in Postecoglou's favour, as I see it are:

• we've still only been outplayed by Arsenal in his 6 games
• he's without plenty of players who would be in the team (Zinchenko, Luis, Aina, Murillo) and those injuries can't be down to him yet (although leaving Murillo on for so long was pretty bad)
• bad at defending set pieces is fixable and not a fundamental issue
• swapping from "Nunoball" to "Angeball" (hate those terms but they are useful shorthand, I guess) mid season was always going to be a challenge (that one's not really a reason to keep him, though)

He has form for wanting to play on, so I'm not sure I'd level that at Ange.

There was a pre match (Burnley?) when one of the journalists said that Murillo had said he would be available for the next game and Postecoglou's reply was "I decide that". Same applies to substitutions, surely. Everyone could see he was struggling, why didn't they at least get a physio on to check him?

Let's also consider that the newly appointed manager looked down the bench with £100m of attacking talent signed by the newly appointed Global Head of Football and decided they wouldn't help.

The main mitigation for Ange is that the owner has badly mis-stepped and set him up with a dreadful situation. The whole Edu thing, when we have a had a strongly functioning back office for a couple of years, has been hugely disruptive, the relationship with Nuno, the throwing recruitment curveballs into the mix late in the window, and just a general sense (which I realise is speculative and likely to feature my biases) that when he sees a bit of glory in the offing he can't help but step in to try to claim it rather than letting professionals do their jobs, have blown up a very promising situation.

The problem is, does anyone think Ange is equipped to deal with it all and even if he is how long would it take? When your own fans are singing against you like that you look like a dead man walking. He has to win on Sunday to have any hope of clawing this back.