Would have thought ffc could have done it for free, a good will gesture to any one who wanted to go , marc and mac can well afford to take time out for a few hours but no chance, lets make more money.
posted by the real arch bishop (Guest) - Friday 04th April 2025, 1:33 PM Bish, this time you really have placed your foot firmly in your mouth with your vitriol towards the club. It’s the Fulham Foundation!! Meaning the money you pay is a charitable donation!! Jeez man, you never miss an opportunity to flag FFC of do you??!!
posted by MST (Moderator) - Friday 04th April 2025, 2:21 PM Take a look at the examples of what the foundation doles money out to on the FFC website. I’d advise you to keep your money in your pockets.
posted by Paddy O’Doors (Guest) - Friday 04th April 2025, 3:03 PM

Doubt they will be any better than muniz or imeniz
posted by Ipitombi (Guest) - Thursday 03rd April 2025, 2:32 PM There must be a better striker around, we would be at least 10 points better off with a consistent striker.
posted by The Time Is Now - Thursday 03rd April 2025, 5:19 PM I was really disappointed when Spurs signed Solanke from Bournemouth, as I thought that he would be ideal for us, but he has proved a complete failure with Spurs, so we dodged the bullet there, so what do I know.
posted by Brian from West Sussex (Guest) - Thursday 03rd April 2025, 8:14 PM Yes, the age of our squad is evident in the last week. This is a worry as it is so so difficult to bring young players in. They are either not ready, too expensive or simply not good enough. We have many players above the age of 28. While players are fitter nowadays, their physical level and stamina drop when you get to 30 regardless of your diet and fitness. The ones who play well above that age are really really good footballers like Willian and Salah. But they cannot run for you or at least for 90mins like Robinson. To bring our average age down and maintain the same level, we’d probably need to spend another £100m plus. I am not the club has that. So it’s a worried if we get peaked already.
posted by JohnC (Guest) - Friday 04th April 2025, 7:31 AM Just to add - the club spent £70m on Anderson and Smith Rowe last season. We’ve bought some very good value for money players but the our two expensive buys, I think we have a buyers remorse!
posted by JohnC (Guest) - Friday 04th April 2025, 7:34 AM Think your age theory not really working out considering our league. Position this season any way it’s results that count not age.( plus 15 points at least which we’ve thrown away )
posted by Ipitombi (Guest) - Friday 04th April 2025, 9:58 AM rich, you listed a load of nobodies for fulham to sign last summer, and none of them came. the same will apply to this bunch as well. why the championship all the time?.
posted by braten worse (Guest) - Friday 04th April 2025, 10:36 AM

Please excuse the many mistakes, a combination of fat fingers, poor eyesight, corrective text and of course an inability to proof read. Why do we do that after we’ve pressed the send button? Anyway hope you get the drift.:))
posted by Mortlake (Guest) - Wednesday 02nd April 2025, 11:26 AM No worries Mortlake,what you said made perfect sense.The format of this site isn't user friendly.
posted by GEZZA (Guest) - Wednesday 02nd April 2025, 11:29 AM Well who would have thought? CP, Brighton and Bournemouth all dropped points last night. That either supports my argument, or alternatively, proves I know diddly squat, probably the latter.:))
posted by Mortlake (Guest) - Thursday 03rd April 2025, 8:31 AM And we will make 6 quality signings if we make Europe. The income a club can make from competing in Europe allows for a much bigger transfer budget, and I’m sure Marco Silva will be first out with the chequebook. Look at the progress Aston Villa have made with new signings, such as Rashford, which they would never have made in previous seasons. Speaking of Rashford, and by implication Manchester Utd, the knock on effects of inflated budgets and egos and NOT qualifying for Europe are obvious too, with that club facing huge losses. How that club has got itself into such a mess must be a great story. But the likes of pundits like Gary Neville and Roy Keane, so quick to point out Man U’s failings, hardly had management careers covered in glory themselves.
posted by peterjeremy - Thursday 03rd April 2025, 8:39 AM This time last week, ourselves, Brighton and Bournemouth, were looking forward to a chance of a s/final spot, and places in Europe, and since then what an utter change. We lost at home to, Palace in the cup, then fell, not unexpectedly, to Arsenal, although close. Brighton lost at home to Forest in the cup, then crashed at home to Villa in the league, and worst of all I suppose, Bournemouth, who were playing well, lost at home, to Man City, in the cup, and then, last night, lost at home, surprisingly to Ipswich. So for three clubs who's hopes were so high 7 days ago, now all feel gutted. That's the ups and downs of football I suppose. If we hold, or even beat Liverpool on Sunday, all of those smiles will be back on our faces. In my humble opinion, it now looks like all of the three clubs mentioned, can now forget about Europe, unless we, or they, can put goods runs together, which in our case looks pretty difficult.
posted by THE CRAVEN (Guest) - Thursday 03rd April 2025, 9:56 AM Most of us suspected we may not get many points off Arsenal. Liverpool and Chelsea. With a little luck we could have sneaked a point of Arsenal, lets see if we can upset Liverpool and Chelsea. We then have on paper what looks a run in full of points if we can play at our best. Too many ifs and buts here but lets drive the team onto a new phase in our history.
posted by The Time Is Now - Thursday 03rd April 2025, 9:57 AM Two of them teams are below us in the league and the other two should be at least 10 points behind us and that’s being unbiased
posted by Ipitombi (Guest) - Thursday 03rd April 2025, 11:31 AM As I said Craven a really topsy turvey season. Still could have been a lot worse. Hope we get those quality signings even if we don’t qualify for Europe. Suppose it’s now left for Forest to carry the ‘little’ guy flag. Albeit they’re not that small a club.
posted by Mortlake (Guest) - Thursday 03rd April 2025, 11:48 AM As i said a few weeks ago europe is not possible with this squad even though we are in a good position,that comment got sneered at feel free, but it looks like i was right, to inconsistant sloppy at times,but thats fulham ,cant wait what season end brings , who is dumped and who comes in.And Marco?, jury is out will he go or will he stay????.As the song asks us/.
posted by the real arch bishop (Guest) - Thursday 03rd April 2025, 12:24 PM I am sticking my neck out here. We will beat Liverpool on the weekend and then go on a big run in what is left of the season. Will I have egg on my face? Time will tell.
posted by Aussie Mal (Guest) - Thursday 03rd April 2025, 12:30 PM Don’t think you make a fortune out of conference or the other one only one money spinner champions league
posted by Ipotombi (Guest) - Thursday 03rd April 2025, 2:37 PM Get into next week with small collateral damage ( dare I say even something on Sunday aim for 7th spot
posted by Ipotombi (Guest) - Thursday 03rd April 2025, 2:43 PM

We have a squad mainly of ordinary players that Marco Silver has in the main got to play well above their expected level most of the time. At times however some of them show how ordinary they really are. I have sure Marco will improve the quality of the basic squad but this will take time. What I am saying is we must expect the unexpected most of the time.
posted by The Time Is Now - Wednesday 02nd April 2025, 12:28 PM

Isn’t the academy is fundamental to Chelsea’s business model and worked (albeit you could argue they still sold some players too cheap) and made them hundreds and hundreds of millions! So if you corner the market, it works. But not if you go in half hearted, which would be like buying a few lottery tickets.
posted by JohnC (Guest) - Wednesday 02nd April 2025, 10:54 AM What academy?! When will the young talent come through?
posted by Herne Bay Dave (Guest) - Wednesday 02nd April 2025, 11:03 AM Is our Academy profitable, I am not sure, particularly when as we get a decent player one of the rich clubs buy him at a cheap price. Any that go to lower divisions we would not get much money because they do not have much money.
posted by The Time Is Now - Wednesday 02nd April 2025, 11:06 AM Of course it’s not about profit, is it? Football shouldn’t be only about balancing the books, it’s about representing the community isn’t it?
posted by Paddy O’Doors (Guest) - Wednesday 02nd April 2025, 4:49 PM

When Robinson and Iwobi are playing well why pass it anywhere else.
posted by The Time Is Now - Wednesday 02nd April 2025, 10:11 AM

Absolutely. Even on the right he was effective yesterday.
posted by T.NO (Guest) - Wednesday 02nd April 2025, 4:39 AM Sess has the anility to run into space which makes him very dangerous. Wherever you ply him he will create more than all our other players.
posted by The Time Is Now - Wednesday 02nd April 2025, 6:51 AM

Iffy, what are you on about. Tonight we played a team challenging for the Premier League title and we gave them a hard game, only losing narrowly 2-1. Next weekend we play the Champions elect, Liverpool, and if, as expected, we lose that one as well, no doubt you will blame, one of the best managers we have had for many a season, and hope that he is sacked, once again. It is about time that your rattled brain, began to appreciate both the manager, and a team still challenging for a European spot.
posted by THE CRAVEN (Guest) - Tuesday 01st April 2025, 9:10 PM Who said sacked? He will leave. We need to move on, our home form is atrocious and the only reason we are mid table is because the league is so poor. And btw we won’t be in Europe next season.
posted by Iffy Smithy (Guest) - Tuesday 01st April 2025, 9:24 PM Your probably right I expect he’ll leave if he gets offered a bigger job,Smith Rowe was shocking tonight can’t believe how much we paid for him
posted by Chief (Guest) - Tuesday 01st April 2025, 9:40 PM I suppose that your name Iffy, just about sums up your comments, as you are no doubt an iffy Fulham supporter, as they are your team when we win, but your have no faith in either the manager or the players when we lose. It would be nice if you supported the team, when we win, lose, or draw, not just when we win. On your ideas, there is not a team in the Premier League, or any other League, for that matter, that wins every game, so if I was you Iffy, I would find another sport to follow,as football, and particularly Fulham, are obviously not your cup of tea.
posted by LTS (Guest) - Tuesday 01st April 2025, 9:46 PM SR has been a very expensive mistake
posted by Iffy Smithy (Guest) - Tuesday 01st April 2025, 9:47 PM Only Everton and West Ham have an older squad than us, time for a rebuild, Silva won’t be interested in that
posted by Iffy Smithy (Guest) - Tuesday 01st April 2025, 9:53 PM Marco was playing to go in 0-0 at halftime, and almost got there. If Cuenca lets that shot go, Leno saves it easily. The problem is, we needed to switch to a 4-2-3-1 at halftime, not once we are trailing 2-0. The other problem - Sess needs more minutes. He always makes things happen.
posted by Drago (Guest) - Tuesday 01st April 2025, 10:11 PM I for one thought that we played well tonight, against a top side, and if Muniz hadn't missed that simple header, that most strikers would have scored, it could have been a different result, but that's football for you, and that's why we love the game, as until the final whistle, we don't know how many twists and turns that there will be.
posted by AC (Guest) - Tuesday 01st April 2025, 10:25 PM If we had attacked with the intensity we did in the last ten minutes earlier we stood a chance, as Arsenal missed a lot of good chances and let us in the game. Shame Muniz did not direct his earlier header better as we could have sneaked a draw.
posted by The Time Is Now - Wednesday 02nd April 2025, 6:47 AM You seem to know a lot about football, maybe you should take charge.. No construction or evidence in your post only a reaction.. Sorry!..
posted by Rob Clark (Guest) - Wednesday 02nd April 2025, 9:40 AM Dont upset mst by slagging ffc seems you have to agree with his thinking or be smacked.
posted by the real arch bishop (Guest) - Wednesday 02nd April 2025, 11:16 AM iffy, you are talking total twaddle, but you always do, even with the other name you use.
posted by braten worse (Guest) - Friday 04th April 2025, 10:39 AM

Agree it’s poor coaching
posted by Iffy Smithy (Guest) - Tuesday 01st April 2025, 10:10 PM Do you think Marco teaches the players to pass to the opposition?
posted by The Time Is Now - Wednesday 02nd April 2025, 6:48 AM He dont teach them its natural , they do it all the time but no one bothers only me,.
posted by the real arch bishop (Guest) - Wednesday 02nd April 2025, 11:17 AM Arsenal did very often as well. It was a poor game all round. We conceded from a shot heading straight to Leno deflect by our reserve centre back into the net The same reserve centre back forget to defend for their second goal. Arsenal missed lots of chances, Muniz missed a header into almost empty net and scored from a deflected shot.
posted by The Time Is Now - Wednesday 02nd April 2025, 12:38 PM

Disappointed that you’ve joined the pereira bashing bandwagon! Why are you blaming him when he only played 25mins, and for 15mins of that 25 we played our best football this evening and scored a goal. The game was gone before he came on. - bit cheap from you. I actually thought he did ok and many players, Smith Rowe, Anderson, Castagne, Lukic and maybe even Berg were much worse.
posted by JohnC (Guest) - Tuesday 01st April 2025, 8:53 PM It is all down to oour free transfer Sessegnon. You can admire Pereira's haircut all you like, he is not good enough for Fulham. Sessegnon did more in less minutes to impact the game
posted by OWEN - Tuesday 01st April 2025, 8:57 PM I am not bothered about the Arsenal. We blew an opportunity for the FA Cup because of Pereira. Forget Arsenal!!!
posted by OWEN - Tuesday 01st April 2025, 9:04 PM Pereira not strong enough against Martinelli for second goal. Keyboard warrior? not a care!!!
posted by OWEN - Tuesday 01st April 2025, 9:21 PM Well you won't have to worry much longer, he'll be off in the summer along with Robinson. Sadly, we'll still have ESR.
posted by Ted (Guest) - Tuesday 01st April 2025, 9:28 PM as usual ted, a morose comment. who told you silva and robinson would leave- silva and robinson?.grow up, teddy boy.
posted by braten worse (Guest) - Friday 04th April 2025, 10:43 AM

Tuck it in corner it was a lucky defection
posted by DMK (Guest) - Wednesday 02nd April 2025, 9:08 AM If we are going to play a defensive game breaking when we get the ball we will not have the ball much and MUST use it as well as we can. The commentators keep saying Arsenal need a striker, not more than us I believe. An extra ten goals would make such a difference.
posted by The Time Is Now - Wednesday 02nd April 2025, 9:51 AM

Is it about time we give Sessegnon some credit and more game time? Yes poor distribution but Sess always seem to know what he is doing. On the ball he looks around and he usually plays an intelligent pass in crucial areas and a good pass into Muniz. Maybe coming back on a free doesn't say much but Sessegnon i always have said that he makes an impact and he makes things happen and that is why the big interest in him once upon a time. You just can't buy intelligence and Sessegnon has it in abundance. A few minutes from Sessegnon warrants man of the match in my eyes. That Pereira should never play for Fulham again...
posted by OWEN - Tuesday 01st April 2025, 8:55 PM

Saving them for the Liverpool game at home, where we have a better chance.
posted by Brian from West Sussex (Guest) - Tuesday 01st April 2025, 7:34 PM Brian, the Liverpool game is 5 days away, plenty of time to recover, I don’t agree with you regarding Liverpool as a better chance of Fulham winning, I believe we will do well to get a point, hopefully I hope I’m wrong.
posted by JRD (Guest) - Tuesday 01st April 2025, 7:45 PM Diop defended better than Andersen and Cuenca
posted by DMK (Guest) - Wednesday 02nd April 2025, 9:13 AM They played in a very hard game on Saturday he had to make changes.
posted by The Time Is Now - Wednesday 02nd April 2025, 9:53 AM

Wasting your time on here mate. They are all armchair critics. Watch the floodgates open once MotD has finished
posted by Tailgater (Guest) - Tuesday 01st April 2025, 5:31 PM Speak for yourself Johnny Bandwagon.
posted by Ted (Guest) - Tuesday 01st April 2025, 6:58 PM

I think Marco is trying to convert him to a defensive midfielder that will not work. He does not seem to like attacking central players as he has tried to do the same with Pereira.
posted by The Time Is Now - Wednesday 02nd April 2025, 9:59 AM

Pogba averages one good game a season so probably high on the Fulham radar. No distractions at all in London so he’ll fit in well.
posted by Paddy O’Doors (Guest) - Monday 31st March 2025, 7:42 PM Pogba's only 32...bit young for this team.
posted by Davey Boy. (Guest) - Tuesday 01st April 2025, 10:06 AM Pogba at 32 is no better than Cairney! He’s not a Willian! Forget it.
posted by JohnC (Guest) - Tuesday 01st April 2025, 1:50 PM

This seasons ffc and manager are the best i can recall. I believe that Just 3 or 4 inteligente adjustments we could continúe improving next season. Silva believes in attractive attacking football which is great if you pop in a few more goals.unfortunately i think its been one of those years where luck has avoided us more than usual,specially in pinball situaciones where he ball keep ending up in the rong side.
posted by T.no (Guest) - Monday 31st March 2025, 12:53 PM Sorry for the spelling errores.
posted by T.nos teacher (Guest) - Monday 31st March 2025, 12:55 PM Totally agree, all our previous managers have had groaning trophy cabinets so why can’t ‘Long John’ do the same? The man’s a complete failure on a par with Keith Starmer and his politburo of communist deviants.
posted by Paddy O’Doors (Guest) - Monday 31st March 2025, 12:56 PM Saturday was a really disappointment afternoon especially with all the hype and flags. I am trying to remember the last time we had such an anti-climax day at the cottage!
posted by JohnC (Guest) - Monday 31st March 2025, 1:51 PM As I have said before away from home we let a opposition attack then breakaway when we at home we try to attack which is not our strength. We should play at home the way we play away.
posted by The Time Is Now - Monday 31st March 2025, 4:22 PM Coming up to 5 years since Silvas arrival we have been spoilt also lost a couple of our best player’s along the way,not sure how long he’ll stay on but I’d be amazed if we could find a better manager. We’ve never won a big trophy and I’d argue we’ve been nearer than apart from hodgson for many a year.
posted by Chief (Guest) - Monday 31st March 2025, 4:49 PM It was one of the most disappointing and frustrating days for a long time and i can't put my finger on it on why it happened against Palace. Nottingham Forest who we can beat most days are through to the next round and they have Man City which might be as far as they go. Maybe the Forest thing carries on from their famous history of two Euro final wins and the league with Clough and Taylor. We have not managed to cross those glory lines as yet in our history. Marco Silva will be disappointed along with our players and the thing is now to get them going again which is hard now we have the 40 plus points to safety. The season end can't come quick enough now and i am not certain if we should push for a euro spot.
posted by OWEN - Monday 31st March 2025, 7:09 PM Think with this squad any result is possible for example would you put this months mortgage on an Arsenal victory tonight I would not ( only doubt could be fatigue after the w/e shannigans this team at the moment can produce moments of magic and dross all in the same match personally still think we wil finish 8th ( hopefully we will get through the next seven days reletavely unscathed two hardest games of our remaiderof season coming up ( by the way just love watching Willian play his. Touches and movements great !,
posted by Ipitombi (Guest) - Tuesday 01st April 2025, 8:25 AM

Do you not think we would celebrate if we won anything. Fulham would never be the same again if that happened. Since 1879 all we have ever done is lose important things. I love Fulham but it would be nice to be proud of their achievements as well instead of being constantly depressed by their failures.
posted by The Time Is Now - Monday 31st March 2025, 5:53 AM I was walking past a house yesterday and there some people celebrating someone's 56th birthday with champagne and cake. Really? Idiots! Just a birthday. Not even a big one.
posted by John (Guest) - Monday 31st March 2025, 6:16 AM John, you stated you walked passed a house celebrating someone’s 56th. Birthday, why did you call them idiots? They could have been celebrating a family member who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer and had by the grace of God lived long enough to reach their 56th birthday, so John don’t call them idiots without having no knowledge of the circumstances. Hopefully you are in good health.
posted by JRD (Guest) - Monday 31st March 2025, 7:39 AM I would love to be celebrating Fulham winning something, just anything, but it's never happened in my Fulham lifetime, which goes back to 1947, so it's a long wait. Like this weekend, we always always seem to fall at the last hurdle, and it really hurts. Yes, we have reached two finals over the years, but came away as losers. We do have Championship winners medals and cups, which is good, but we need to win one major trophy. I must agree though, that Newcastle's celebrations were a bit too much.
posted by THE CRAVEN (Guest) - Monday 31st March 2025, 8:46 AM

Spot on with Iwobi. Playing him right wing is a waste. Should have been at No.10 with Traore on the right. Willian shouldn't have started either, he's an impact player these days Sess would have been better. Still a case of what might have been if every chance we had hadn't fallen to the wrong foot. Muniz, Pereira and even Robinson all had shots but with their weaker feet.
posted by Ted (Guest) - Monday 31st March 2025, 3:02 AM I know now we have the challenge of not getting into Europe by one point.
posted by The Time Is Now - Monday 31st March 2025, 5:54 AM

I reckon 3 is pretty generous. Over the season maybe a 1 (one) . Marco Silva has a lot to answer for.
posted by Observer (Guest) - Sunday 30th March 2025, 3:59 PM Funny how quickly opinions turn around.Oliver Glasner is now the favourite to take over the Spurs job when they decide to sack Ange Poste. Some smart so and so has worked out that Marco was outsmarted tactically by Glasner so we may well keep Marco for a while longer. Marco will need some smart money to strengthen our squad.
posted by OWEN - Sunday 30th March 2025, 4:57 PM Rodney McAree may be available soon. Be good to have an ex player in charge.
posted by Paddy O’Doors (Guest) - Sunday 30th March 2025, 8:16 PM

Also putting my agents head on and talking to Marco,i would be saying well my son, here it is out of cup by team under you , no chance of europe seeing your run in,and next season cant be as easy as this one so,do you drift on to next season and hope you get good buys,or !!!!!!! spurs are calling . Just wont supprise me.
posted by the real arch bishop (Guest) - Sunday 30th March 2025, 11:04 AM Just remind us all Bish whilst you are still in your usual “slag FFC” post mode, how are Spurs doing this season???? I’ll save you looking it up, they are 14th - 9 (YES NINE) points behind the Fulham you slag off after every game. Can’t see them in either of the domestic cups. Oh yeah, they were knocked out of the FA Cup by Villa and lost 4-0 to Liverpool in the Mickey Mouse cup that Newcastle are celebrating like they won the Champions League!! We also took four points off them this season so why would Marco jump from a club on the up with ambition to join one that sacks every manager they have and has a fan base that is never satisfied. Bish, every post you make (no matter the subject) is always negative - you must be a barrel of laughs down the pub. Jeez man, cheer up or maybe take up supporting Spurs - you’d fit in with their fans just fine ;0).
posted by MST (Moderator) - Sunday 30th March 2025, 12:28 PM Bish, like MST,I do wonder about you sometimes, and how quick that your are to criticise all and sundry, after we lose a match, yes, we have some very difficult games coming up, and it is obviously possible, that we might lose a few of these, but isn't this one of the big reasons why we have as a club fought so hard to gain promotion to the Premier League, so that we can pit our wits against the likes of Arsenal and Liverpool, it's just a bit of a shame, that those two fixtures have come so quickly after a poor FA Cup defeat, but these games will really show how quickly we can fight back. Bish, you would probably be happier if we were playing QPR, and Blackburn in our next two fixtures. Just think about it, we are a decent, but not spectacular Premier League team now, who are doing us proud at present, so make the most of it, as there are plenty of clubs that would happily change places with us. COYW
posted by THE CRAVEN (Guest) - Sunday 30th March 2025, 1:07 PM Does your life revolve around posting childish crap ? I’m off down the pub , cheers !
posted by Ted (Guest) - Sunday 30th March 2025, 3:25 PM Not sure about the tacky plastic flags/bin liners?, a Swan was found with one wrapped around his head near Putney bridge , a club spokesman said they will break down in about four hundred years if buried in land fill
posted by Worple (Guest) - Monday 31st March 2025, 7:36 AM But its all true maybe,? we were done over when we had the best chance to win something ,Villa in semi yes please ,but know they never responded at all and you think im wrong ????.And as for spurs !! money to burn 60,000 crowds , do you think next season will be the same, most supprised if it is. IF marco does go i will remind you in large, very large letter .its just a game did you really go home saying never mind the flags were a nice thought even though were did nothing that resembled a very good mid table team .
posted by the real arch bishop (Guest) - Tuesday 01st April 2025, 2:21 PM

Fulham Boy,I agree with most of your comment which is a fair reflection of the game I will be posting my own views when I have more time.
posted by bigboy4650 (Guest) - Saturday 29th March 2025, 9:28 PM Someone said the same thing after the away loss to Man City and got abuse by someone who said we were fast, some of the people on here do not know anything about football but still open their stupid mouths.
posted by LOR (Guest) - Sunday 30th March 2025, 2:07 AM Classy !
posted by Tim nice but dim (Guest) - Sunday 30th March 2025, 6:43 AM I agree, I also think we are relying to much of using the left wing and not using the right wing more often enough and creating more width and stretching the defenders positioning. It is only my opinion I sometimes think Muniz although I like needs to have sharper with an eye for goal if you understand my meaning
posted by Rob Clark (Guest) - Sunday 30th March 2025, 10:14 AM

I would be nice to find a young brilliant midfielder, we have enough experienced player in our squad.
posted by The Time Is Now - Saturday 29th March 2025, 5:56 PM Generally a good post Owen agree with much of it
posted by Tactics (Guest) - Saturday 29th March 2025, 5:58 PM Generally a very good post Owen, agree with most of your thinking. Perreira is awful, slow in possession, awful set plays and lazy. We would have been better to start with Cairney. If SR was better Perreira wouldn’t get a look in.
posted by Tactics (Guest) - Saturday 29th March 2025, 6:02 PM Not experienced enough in that role Pereira plays. Yes' it would be nice to find a young midfield operator who knows what he is doing but if out there we will not get him and thats why i suggest Pogba for a few seasons. We have loads of good wingers but you don't win top games with wingers. Unfortunately, Smith Rowe is inexperienced and we need somebody with experience...
posted by OWEN - Saturday 29th March 2025, 6:03 PM Whilst Berge remains in the team,it doesnt matter who we bring in.The time lapse between receiving and letting the ball go is AGONISING.
posted by T.NO (Guest) - Saturday 29th March 2025, 6:11 PM Smith Rowe is 24 and we paid over £30 million for him, he should have skill ability and experience to play a decent midfield role for us
posted by Tactics (Guest) - Saturday 29th March 2025, 6:32 PM Pogba I don’t think so,£300k a week for an individual that doesn’t give a toss would rather watch pereira although he’s shockingly bad. 70% possession 12 corners 16 shots statistics mean nothing(except for that one with goals in it).
posted by Chief (Guest) - Saturday 29th March 2025, 7:01 PM I can't recall who made a run to their near post but Pereira put one over and he overdid it as usual which simply is not good enough. We obviously planned some of todays long balls into the box. Our problem is accuracy from distribution in midfield which is not good enough. Pereira' on the ball in the middle is hesitant and his lay-offs are not good enough. We had enough in possession the first half hour but not able to capitalise. They have one chance and they take it because we are not aware or switched on to the danger guys and the main guy is Eze. Before Eze it was Wilfred Zaha when Hodgson was in charge. We are a better team these days but the purchase of Pereira for 8 million is a waste, he is not good enough in that responsible and important role of ball distribution. Give him the ball in midfield and looking around he is a lost soul. Paul Pogba knows what he is doing in that role and he doesn't break a sweat doing it. WE can afford the likes of Eze his glory moment if only we take our chances and we have to admit we get those chances in every game but we often don't capitalise. Mid teams like Fulham don't get top midfielders period so we can do the next best thing and that is to get everybody's cast- offs and unfortunately it is the likes of Pogba who would like to find a way back into football again. We tend to do well with ex bad boy players...
posted by OWEN - Saturday 29th March 2025, 7:27 PM Chief' you would rather watch a guy with a fancy haircut ponce around Craven Cottage doing nothing but pose? Give me Pogba and his paracetamols all day long! We lost that game because of that posing ninny...
posted by OWEN - Saturday 29th March 2025, 7:32 PM Spot on T.NO. He’s a good solid defender but seemingly can’t pass forward. Far to slow .Agree with all posters regarding Pereira. Just don’t understand why he start virtually every match.
posted by Observer (Guest) - Saturday 29th March 2025, 8:01 PM Owen I get where your coming from,Pereira is a waste of space surprised Marco doesn’t play Cairney but the reason we lost yesterday was blatantly because we barely had a decent shot Eze destroyed us in 2 minutes of brilliance although basic defensive errors didn’t help when do we ever score from a high cross or set piece? Eze is well out of our price range he should be competing for trophies
posted by Chief (Guest) - Sunday 30th March 2025, 7:38 AM Pereira is now not taking poor corners and free kicks, so what is he on the pitch for. Smith-Rowe tries more often to make progressive passes. Our two defensive midfielder are very good at that job but are wasted as attacking midfielders as they do not have progressive passing ability. Willian kept laying off balls for Berger, then making a run but never getting the ball back. People not qualified to attack were trying to attack without success, not surprisingly. Our centre back we making more attacking runs than I have ever seen. We fell right into Palaces trap and over-attacked so they could breakaway into empty space enough times to win, which they did comfortably. Marco put out a defensive team that kept attacking wildly, very odd. Has Silver got to the stage in his management career where the players are ignoring what he says and doing what they like.
posted by The Time Is Now - Monday 31st March 2025, 6:15 AM Should have stuck reed on at least he puts a shift in and keeps the ball on the floor and goes forwards ,how many times did we put in aimless crosses in for their defenders to calmly head clear
posted by worple (Guest) - Monday 31st March 2025, 7:43 AM

We can have a moan and a gripe about England and crap players all we like but the good news is that England and players are decent enough but how do you get them to play together? Eze is part of the England set-up for good reasons and we didn't learn from our loss to them and we didn't do our homework. Is there still a dunce step anywhere? Back to school we go, we deserve nothing from today!!!
posted by OWEN - Saturday 29th March 2025, 5:47 PM

The players are experienced enough to see what was going on and change. We over-attacked and made it very easy for a sharp Palace.
posted by The Time Is Now - Saturday 29th March 2025, 5:11 PM So you think it’s the player’s fault
posted by Tactics (Guest) - Saturday 29th March 2025, 5:20 PM The Fulham player are experienced enough to see when what the manager has told them to do is not working and change. Why for example did our two excellent defensive midfielders play as attacking midfielders totally beyond their capabilities and when our attacking midfielder came on he played as a defensive midfielder. The manager is always going to have a bad day and the players should have realised that and acted.
posted by The Time Is Now - Saturday 29th March 2025, 5:47 PM Too many bad days our home form is appalling
posted by Tactics (Guest) - Saturday 29th March 2025, 5:56 PM Our home form is poor because we feel we have to attack when we are better if we defend and break. Play at home the way we play away.
posted by The Time Is Now - Sunday 30th March 2025, 7:08 AM

The oldest player on the pitch was Willian, but he had more energy than any other Fulham player. Our experienced player should of seen what was going on and changed tactics rather that continue making it easy for Palace.
posted by The Time Is Now - Saturday 29th March 2025, 5:16 PM That says it all and Willian is way off the pace as well
posted by Tactics (Guest) - Saturday 29th March 2025, 5:21 PM Yes Willian is a different breed classy on the ball and mainly all forward pass's even at his age
posted by worple (Guest) - Sunday 30th March 2025, 12:46 PM

Took off Willian, the only player with a shot on target for us? Emile smith rowe, what a player
posted by John (Guest) - Saturday 29th March 2025, 3:01 PM No. We didn’t take our chances. Eze made the difference with his finish and once more ref influenced the outcome. Wharton should have been sent off on numerous occasions after his first yellow. Sorry for the lads. Probably the last chance we’ll get under Marco, who don’t forget has got us close 3 times in the preceding seasons.
posted by Dellers (Guest) - Saturday 29th March 2025, 4:17 PM Glasner and Palace were comfortable for whole game. We were punchless and easy to beat.
posted by Iffy Smithy (Guest) - Saturday 29th March 2025, 4:34 PM We attacked most of the game but could not score. Their wingers were faster than our attacking full backs so on the few times Palace attacked they had four attackers to our two defenders. Our two defensive midfielders spent most of their time attacking. Palace have won their last five matches because they have have a strong defence and a fast and effective attack. The Fulham players should have seem what was happening and reacted to it. We were over attacking and made it easy for them. If we had played a more boring defensive game we might have won.
posted by The Time Is Now - Saturday 29th March 2025, 4:57 PM We move the ball too slowly to break down a deep block
posted by Iffy Smithy (Guest) - Saturday 29th March 2025, 5:01 PM We have not missed Mitro much since he left but we did today. They have fast and sharp strikers, we do not. Both our Brazilians missed chances where it looked easier to score. Close to us a boy kept a ball that had landed in his lap until a fan said this is not America and the dad got the boy to throw the ball back.
posted by The Time Is Now - Saturday 29th March 2025, 5:03 PM Forget Mitrovic that’s very old news
posted by Tactics (Guest) - Saturday 29th March 2025, 5:23 PM

Complete lack of ambition, home tie to get into semi final and we bottle it. A great opportunity lost, wonder what will happen against the arsenal bottlers on Tuesday night. I’m sure they will be up for the game, wonder if we will. Wouldn’t be surprised if Marco listens to Spurs offers now as he could probably transform them. Today could have marked the end of our season considering the sides we have left to play. Forget a top six finish, usual mid table I assume, and promises for next season.
posted by Sussexcol (Guest) - Saturday 29th March 2025, 3:53 PM And the only reason we are mid table is because the league is so poor
posted by Iffy Smithy (Guest) - Saturday 29th March 2025, 4:35 PM

Fulhamish.
posted by Mr Ish (Guest) - Saturday 29th March 2025, 1:15 PM As usual lacking the cutting edge. Crystal Palace take their chances we don’t always. Possession counts for nought.
posted by Mortlake - Saturday 29th March 2025, 1:24 PM As usual.??????
posted by bigboy4650 (Guest) - Saturday 29th March 2025, 1:37 PM Humiliating.
posted by Cosh the driver. (Guest) - Saturday 29th March 2025, 2:00 PM Relative to the possession we have, we are pretty ineffective in the final third I would say. How many positive shots did we have and many saves was Henderson forced to make? Palace with probably no more shots on goal score 3. Tells it all. Regret we were outplayed today by a better team. I think also they have more individual quality and the better team, on the day, won. Pity but we move on. No shame to lose just disappointing.
posted by Mortlake - Saturday 29th March 2025, 2:17 PM What a very disappointing result, despite being the far better team, and outplaying this awful Palace team, we just couldn't make our class tell. We had so many chances to score, but failed on each occasion, Palace on the other hand had 4 shots, and 3 of them scored. Hence the difference. I do hope my local team Brighton will go on to win the final now. I was hoping for a Fulham v Brighton final, but that's football for you.
posted by Brian from West Sussex (Guest) - Saturday 29th March 2025, 2:48 PM We weren’t the better team, possession means nothing, Palace-comfortably won the game
posted by Iffy Smithy (Guest) - Saturday 29th March 2025, 4:37 PM Iffy, I don't know whether you were at the match, but I was, and after the first 20 minutes or so, not only me, but those around me, were what we thought we were watching was a comfortable win, then out of the blue, Palace scored with an in off of the post goal. As I am quite close the pitch I could see Andersens face drop, and the wind was taken out of our sails. I'm quite angry about this defeat, as it should never have happened, as we should have put paid to this dreadful Palace side, and to think of this outfit playing at Wembley is so frustrating, and to watch this side in a Wembley final is unbearable thought.
posted by THE CRAVEN (Guest) - Saturday 29th March 2025, 4:53 PM Craven it was clear Palace had a game play soak up pressure first 20 minutes and hit on the break. Sorry you and others could not see this and btw was sat behind Silva watching the disaster play out in front.
posted by Iffy Smithy (Guest) - Saturday 29th March 2025, 5:05 PM This awful Palace team has won its last 5 games and its attack and defence looked much better than ours. They let the other team have the ball until the lose it and then they can break and score.
posted by The Time Is Now - Saturday 29th March 2025, 5:07 PM

Hopefully the ref will be neutral too. Don’t bank on it
posted by Dellers (Guest) - Friday 28th March 2025, 8:33 PM Our game against Palace is a conundrum which,I for one cannot provide an answer. Our recent home defeat was probably the worst we have played all season when most of our players were inept, slow and appeared uninterested apart from two or three players. Yet when we met them earlier, winning 2-0 at Palace we dominated the game. In my opinion we have to be positive from the start with all players contributing their maximum effort. We need to use the wings and to ensure crosses are accurate to give Muniz and Raul opportunities to capitalise to score vital goals. Personally, I would start with Muniz as Raul may be tired after the International break. Muniz has so much latent talent that he could become awesome within two years time. Palace have become a team hard to beat and our defence cannot afford to fiddle around in their own penalty area or they will be punished. Fast attacking football is required as opposed to the slow build ups that have been prevalent in recent games. Let us see the long ball occasionally to encourage the wingmen to use their speed and the midfield, with Lukic back, to add extra support. A slow start will provide Palace with the incentive to attack us with the speed down the left flank providing ammunition for the front two. Whatever happens, let us give a good account of ourselves as the team owe the loyal fans a performance which will ensure we progress further in that venerable trophy, the FA Cup.
posted by bigboy4650 (Guest) - Friday 28th March 2025, 9:39 PM No super-sub in Harry Wilson this time who went through a midas touch period when he could not stop scoring coming off the bench, Wilson is still out long term. We forget about Reiss Nelson who is still out long term and i keep saying this, we must find a way to get Smith Rowe engaged in the game. Interestingly enough, when we beat them 2-0, Smith Rowe had one of his better games. It is all over to Marco Silva and tactics now, and all i will say is 'in Marco we trust!!! COME ON FULHAM!!!!!
posted by OWEN - Saturday 29th March 2025, 1:21 AM Like most football games it is difficult to forecast. We keep thinking we are playing consistently then we fall back to mediocrity, which of these Fulham team will turn up. If we underestimate them we will probably loose as they are one of the top form teams. Play at our best and we will win.
posted by The Time Is Now - Saturday 29th March 2025, 8:28 AM TTIN, nowt like hedging your bets.
posted by bigboy4650 (Guest) - Saturday 29th March 2025, 9:26 AM I think we’ll win because I see on YouTube that we are the poshest club. Surely that means we can cope with South London chavs.:)) COYWs.
posted by Mortlake - Saturday 29th March 2025, 10:30 AM

Think you’ll find ergophobia is the main disability in the UK.
posted by Paddy O’Doors (Guest) - Friday 28th March 2025, 5:29 PM I have heard, but cannot vouch for it, that if you mention you are suicidal then you are on to a winner. When I tried it recently they,took one look at me and so go ahead.
posted by bigboy46500 (Guest) - Friday 28th March 2025, 9:00 PM

sorry no. as a matter of interest - does you son want to attend to watch/support Fulham or Liverpool. I assume the latter. good luck.
posted by JohnC (Guest) - Friday 28th March 2025, 3:35 PM ive got a ticket, but im using it.
posted by humphrey badger (Guest) - Friday 28th March 2025, 3:35 PM Have you considered theft of a ticket?
posted by Paddy O’Doors (Guest) - Friday 28th March 2025, 7:29 PM

arent you just a tad negative, archie?. right now, there is nothing to settle other than putting palace away tomorrow. concentrate solely on that, and not anything else.
posted by heres nevill (Guest) - Friday 28th March 2025, 2:54 PM as much as i agree with your comment nevill, somehow i think this is not the real archbishop posting it.one other point- there has been no posts from anyone, other than those deleted, since tuesday. why is this. especially before saturdays game.
posted by tom hark (Guest) - Friday 28th March 2025, 3:03 PM whatever happens tomorrow, Marco will not walk out before end of the season!! No reason to think why we will lose. Palace haven't played in 3 weeks and Matata will be wearing a helmet - we might have the edge!
posted by JohnC (Guest) - Friday 28th March 2025, 3:39 PM Only if he’s wearing it back to front. Seven goal thriller, Fulham to shade it.
posted by Paddy O’Doors (Guest) - Friday 28th March 2025, 5:33 PM

The complete section regarding “God bless America” has been deleted and I wonder if Trump or the American Embassy decided all the comments were inappropriate.
posted by bigboy4650 (Guest) - Friday 28th March 2025, 9:56 AM Only communists inhibit free speech. If only we did have a Trump in this country.
posted by Paddy O’Doors (Guest) - Friday 28th March 2025, 10:29 AM You wanted the mods back... you reap what you sow
posted by John (Guest) - Friday 28th March 2025, 10:39 AM What about the Italian leader... she's a fan of the duce.
posted by Davey Boy. (Guest) - Friday 28th March 2025, 11:09 AM We need a benign dictator...
posted by HBD. (Guest) - Friday 28th March 2025, 11:12 AM Owen asked for his post to be deleted as it had been infiltrated by idiots. Don’t jump to conclusions before knowing the facts!! Owen, please respond, thank you.
posted by MST (Moderator) - Friday 28th March 2025, 11:19 AM Wind ups all round!
posted by bigboy4650 (Guest) - Friday 28th March 2025, 11:42 AM Yes thanks for confirming that MST' i requested my post 'God bless America' to be deleted because the football is near to us again and i just think it was attracting too much negativity and drifting into more about the war which i suppose was the natural way of things but no intension to go that far down this route. Anyway' we have a football match tomorrow and there is big talk of Spurs sacking their manager and the word is that Marco Silva is the number one target to take over which is a problem to us fans...
posted by OWEN - Friday 28th March 2025, 1:00 PM sorry, missed date of bigboys post, lets have some about tomorrows match.
posted by tom hark (Guest) - Friday 28th March 2025, 3:08 PM

We won 3 0 which is all that matters. England will qualify easily but must play many all it friendlies against top teams so at least they get so experience of the level of opposition the will meet in the World Cup.
posted by The Time Is Now - Tuesday 25th March 2025, 10:14 AM Fans don’t give a damn about the internationals. I am sure the players rather be somewhere else except for the fact that they are in the England team. Ben white was stupid enough to admit the truth. You can tell the players don’t run anywhere the intensity of a premier league match. Last night, I suspect many fans like me were watching. The baller rather than the England game. Not sure which was more boring. Time to revamp the international format. Or just let the ladies represent and have the England shirts!
posted by JohnC (Guest) - Tuesday 25th March 2025, 1:49 PM I regret that I have to agree with all the above posters. The thrill and excitement which we used to associate with England’s matches has long since died with a succession of managers who have established a fear of losing culture. Players are not expressing their capabilities as they are obsessed with the fear of making a mistake. Last night we once again saw players incapable of making incisive passes or driving forward and releasing shots from outside the penalty area. Where are Gasgoines, Peters, Hursts and the Lion of Vienna gone. Players who wore their England shirts with pride and not forgetting our own Johnny and Cohen. The present crop almost appeared bored to turn up for these with the exception of two or three players. Tuchel will have his work cut out trying to reinvigorating players who just do enough but avoid sweating blood for the cause. He needs to be ruthless and refrain from overly friendly with the players and more of a disciplinarian in the mode of the great Alf Ramsey or Brian Clough. It may well be too difficult a task as the players have acquired a mindset of those people who no longer want to return to their place of work after becoming accustomed to working from home.
posted by bigboy4650 (Guest) - Tuesday 25th March 2025, 9:09 PM Let it not be forgotten that all too often players return from international duty with an injury. With so much emphasis on winning at club level, what player, manager or indeed fan wants to hear that news. Players would rather forgo too much exertion, or even being selected at all, in favour of being fit for selection for their club.
posted by peterjeremy - Wednesday 26th March 2025, 7:48 AM I think there’s just too much irrelevant football. Crap opposition does not help. International football needs to be graded.
posted by Observer (Guest) - Wednesday 26th March 2025, 8:21 AM ‘Irrelevant’ to you maybe, but not irrelevant to the populations of Montenegro, the Faroe Islands, Moldova and so on. And also the international tournaments are obviously a showcase for overseas players to display their talents to club scouts. But in that way I agree that International should be graded. Fans of the Faroe Islands would have the opportunity to enjoy their teams more, just as Fulham fans did when we were in the promotion places of the Championship.
posted by peterjeremy - Wednesday 26th March 2025, 8:47 AM course lets not forget we won nothing with all those exciting players of yester year , even 66 was full of very boring type players with a boring type manager but it worked , and now its just not interested bland kick about .
posted by the real arch bishop (Guest) - Wednesday 26th March 2025, 12:14 PM Let them bore each other.
posted by Observer (Guest) - Wednesday 26th March 2025, 12:51 PM Isn’t it true that all football fans wish to see competitive games. It really cannot be any fun getting hammered year in and year out. At least adopt an FA Cup model, whereby the top teams join a competition only after the lesser Nations have played out the earlier rounds. Only the best of the lesser teams get to play in latter stages. Makes sense to me.
posted by Mortlake - Wednesday 26th March 2025, 12:58 PM You’re right Bish insofar as second rate teams locking up shop and refusing to adopt any competitive approach, a draw being equivalent to to win in the World Cup, is the root cause of the problem. The fact that home Nations, seemingly, just don’t have it in them to form an effective team is a different problem. That said, England’s record, In recen years hasn’t been that bad. Fall at the final fence I know, but hey, invariably a semi final spot don’t seem too bad to me. Ploughing through the dross qualifiers is the problem.
posted by Mortlake - Wednesday 26th March 2025, 1:08 PM All well and good beating teams that are first division. standard minute we meet a top ten team we lose let’s face it we will never be a top 5 team all our supposedly wonder boys get exposed as true level when we meet proper teams
posted by Ipotombi (Guest) - Friday 28th March 2025, 7:46 AM bit harsh there, ipi, we dont have supposed wonder boys, just a good, balanced squad of players, who have achieved some notable wins, remember boxing day?.i notice that some of your recent posts had a niggly type of content, which never used to be with you. if you honestly think we cant become at least established in the premiership, which i believe we are now, and cant progress any further, why are you following the club- just to moan?
posted by mandrake (Guest) - Saturday 29th March 2025, 10:28 AM

Who cares, I don't care. It is enough supporting the English footballers without worrying about Scots. Scottish full has gone backwards since English football started to import foreigners who were miles better than British ones with a few exceptions each generation.
posted by The Time Is Now - Monday 24th March 2025, 1:42 PM Managers getting sacked, along with who is going to replace them, is a popular topic amongst football fans, and “You’re getting sacked in the morning” a popular chant. British football (both in England and Scotland) has plenty of overseas players, the quality of which are dependent on the wages being paid - and the English Premier League more money. (Not that any influx of FOREIGN players of any quality should impact favourably on the ENGLAND team.) But older fans will remember the great Scottish names like Denis Law, Kenny Dalgleish, and others who were once household names. Now the Scottish team is entirely forgettable. And perhaps so should the manager be.
posted by peterjeremy - Monday 24th March 2025, 4:50 PM It a metropolitan world now , and we have champions league football. Stoped watching international football years ago go outdated and boring
posted by DMK (Guest) - Tuesday 25th March 2025, 6:46 AM Was a time when ffc was interested in him decided to go to bigger and better things dodged a bullet there hopeless manager
posted by Ipitombi (Guest) - Tuesday 25th March 2025, 8:35 AM Scotland know they are rubbish and no manager the Scots can afford is going to make them look better.
posted by The Time Is Now - Tuesday 25th March 2025, 12:26 PM Might be the tatties and neeps. Bound to lie heavy on the gut. Washing it down with Irn Bru won’t help either.
posted by Paddy O’Doors (Guest) - Tuesday 25th March 2025, 9:10 PM Fried pizza in the gut...
posted by Big Dougie. (Guest) - Friday 28th March 2025, 6:02 AM

It is a slightly worrying phase of time because Marco has been here since July 2021 and that is a long time in a managers football career these days. I wouldn't blame him for peeking around the corner to see what opportunities are out there but you are correct in saying there is unfinished business at Fulham. With 9 games to go there is still a lot to play for considering Europe and we are still in the FA cup which holds more prestige than the milk cup which Newcastle are drooling over, you can't blame them after 50 odd years of winning nothing i suppose. The FA cup game against Palace is huge and Marco Silva will be up for it. Beyond this season is a lottery on whether we keep him or not because they will come looking trust me, and the likes of Robinson will be tempted also, its human nature and they all have agents who will tell them its a good thing and a great move going forward in their career especially Robinson at age 27. Just think about it logically. Robinson at 27, it might be his last big money move and they will highlight this. It is what it is and there is not a lot we can do about it but hope the nucleus of our squad stays together...
posted by OWEN - Sunday 23rd March 2025, 5:58 PM Would also say that if we sneak a Euro spot the budget will have to go up ten-fold next year because i expect Marco will demand it and there is the extra worry of the volume in games. Remember what happens to smaller clubs who compete in Europe and the league? Saying that, let's just go for broke and see what Santa can gift us...
posted by OWEN - Sunday 23rd March 2025, 6:07 PM Said it before and will say it again. I think that Marco is still smarting from his Everton exit. My firm belief(can't read his mind though)is that he feels he can take us to greater heights and not even a bagful of money will turn his head until he achieves that.
posted by Aussie Mal (Guest) - Sunday 23rd March 2025, 7:25 PM Owen, you are probably, although not certainly right about Robinson moving on during the summer transfer window, and although that is a bit sad, if we have a choice of either losing Jedi or Marco, I know which one I would rather see staying at CC, and it wouldn't be Jedi, despite the fact that I would be really sorry to see him go. Players, whatever quality, can be replaced, but managers like Marco, are few and far between, and without him, we could see a complete change in our fortunes.
posted by THE CRAVEN (Guest) - Monday 24th March 2025, 10:24 AM the spurs job is the poison chalice- an impatient chairman, fans who expect immediate results, probably an egotistic squad , and not the harmony the whites have. fulham are a project in the making, spurs dont have one. best he stays here.
posted by herss hughie (Guest) - Monday 24th March 2025, 10:58 AM Marco probably leaving us if not the end of this season definitely end of next,5/6 years is a very long time for a manager to stay at 1 club. He def wants a crack at a so called big club Man U or Spurs spring to mind very difficult for him to improve with us after last few years.
posted by Chief (Guest) - Monday 24th March 2025, 1:00 PM Wonder if the current Dungannon Swifts manager would consider a return to Fulham?
posted by Paddy O’Doors (Guest) - Monday 24th March 2025, 7:02 PM Nothing last forever in joy while you can
posted by DMK (Guest) - Tuesday 25th March 2025, 6:53 AM Depends what money he’s offered
posted by Ipitombi (Guest) - Tuesday 25th March 2025, 8:38 AM In joy ? Who is joy ?
posted by Ted (Guest) - Tuesday 25th March 2025, 8:56 AM If Spurs are offering big money give him much more, we have never had such a good manager do not let him go specially to a useless team who used to be good once.
posted by The Time Is Now - Tuesday 25th March 2025, 3:56 PM chief, why would marco wish to go to either of these deeply unsettled, unhappy clubs?. size isint always the deciding reason to go, despite what you clearly believe. neither of these clubs has much patience, in either the boardroom or the stands. going to spurs would be a mistake.
posted by heres hughie (Guest) - Wednesday 26th March 2025, 10:50 AM

So what we’ve learnt from yesterday is that to isolate Britain from the rest of the world you can either attend KGB espionage school for years, arrive in Britain under cover as a diplomat and fiendishly plant a highly technical explosive device. Alternatively, get ferried in by the RNLI, get issued free clothes, a phone, free food and healthcare, rest up in your four star hotel for a day or two, use the free bike given to you, cycle to the nearest electricity substation(via the local primary school) and chuck it over the fence.
posted by Paddy O’Doors (Guest) - Saturday 22nd March 2025, 3:26 PM Plus...why have the ladies come out of the woodwork now?
posted by HBD (Guest) - Sunday 23rd March 2025, 4:36 AM He now say he wants to join the Commonwealth because he likes the King. Has he forgotten about 1776 or does he not care about any history.
posted by The Time Is Now - Sunday 23rd March 2025, 11:54 AM Dont forget wendy burgers on your door step,thanksgiving for letting us join the union? another holiday , no more new year honours to utter nobodies.Emagine subs that work, disney world in hyde park its just over whelming.AND THEN I REMEMBERED THOSE HAPPY DAY PLAYING IN BOMB SITES AND LIVING IN CONCRETE AIR RAID SHELTERS FOR 5 YEARS .NO WEETS TIL 1954, BUT DID WE CARE ???? .
posted by the real arch bishop (Guest) - Sunday 23rd March 2025, 12:06 PM Nothings changed even if we was in the common market putins henchmen would still blow up substations and gas and oil instillations record numbers crossed the channel this week starmer has dragged this country back to third world status in record time Future is looking very bleak indeed this lot could not organise piss up in a brewery
posted by Ipitombi (Guest) - Sunday 23rd March 2025, 2:24 PM Trump is a chameleon and to get those votes and people on board he morphed into the Christian thing about abortion, trans, man is man woman is woman and so forth, he is what they would call a wolf in sheep's clothing. Trump Vance and the rich idiot Musk are slowly and surely destroying the great American Constitution piece by piece. How they will wish for the likes of sleepy Joe Biden now he is gone. Biden slipped and stumbled on steps from aeroplanes and they mocked him. Biden forgot his lines and what what day it was or what he had for breakfast and they mocked him. They are all waking up now or they will wake up and say' it is okay to slip and stumble and sometimes we as humans forget where we put our car keys or a sock in your fridge etc, its only human. While Trump deports construction workers and families stuck in the us sytem for ten years' (whoops' the wrong ones to deport because they need construction workers) Elon Musk mocks a compassionate senator for visiting injured soldiers in the Ukraine and calling him a traitor by name not realising that the senator owns a Tesla of all things! Serves the arrogant and traitorous Elon Musk right that his Tesla is not wanted, i will buy a cheap Chinese electric if i need a run-about-town jalopy future-wise. I have no good words for red-kneck Vance and he can take his sorry-a-s backside back up yonder. Zelensky should have socked him a good one and then said 'thank you'. What are those creeps doing in the White House anyway? and who where the sorry clowns who voted them in? Rant over!!!!!!
posted by OWEN - Monday 24th March 2025, 9:22 AM and once having chucked it over the fence, cysle back to 4 star hotel and apply for a student loan (with no intention of studying).
posted by Old man river (Guest) - Monday 24th March 2025, 11:03 AM Funny you should say that. In my previous company a swathe of Polish and other Eastern European staff signed up for full time weekend courses(16 hours), I’ve been told they average living costs of around £12k a year as well as tuition fees of £8k a year with no intention of paying it back. Universities love it as they get get full full expenses for courses that cost them virtually nothing to run because nobody attends. Back to the days of the technical colleges and proper universities running actual courses would seem to be the answer. Universities are a disgrace. Along with many other things in Britain, from pot holes to asylum hotels.
posted by Paddy O’Doors (Guest) - Monday 24th March 2025, 7:13 PM Love these international breaks wall to wall coverage of the ladies games !!
posted by Ipitombi (Guest) - Tuesday 25th March 2025, 8:42 AM ippi, there was only one womens match on- but plenty of women telling us how the men should be playing. that farah williams is on everything. she will be on panorama next week . wont be as good as richard dimbleby though.
posted by tom hark (Guest) - Wednesday 26th March 2025, 10:58 AM

My apologies, I thought Tuchel would make a difference. I was wrong!
posted by bigboy4650 (Guest) - Friday 21st March 2025, 9:13 PM No other country in the world plays friendlies and qualifiers looking like they will win every tournament by a landslide. Only England fans hold England to the such ridiculous standards for lower games.
posted by John (Guest) - Saturday 22nd March 2025, 7:50 AM One match bigish boy!
posted by Davey Boy. (Guest) - Saturday 22nd March 2025, 8:03 AM Boring, boring England. Just goes to show a new broom doesn't always sweep clean and nothing changes. The damage was done under Southgate and TT has work cut out to change the mindset of the same old players(Henderson ???) .
posted by mwk (Guest) - Saturday 22nd March 2025, 9:30 AM I apologised in advance, otherwise too many people would have shot me down. However, Albania are ranked 65th in the world whilst we are ranked fourth and we were playing at Wembley. Tuchel does not appear too happy at the performance of certain players and there will be changes for the Latvia game. The demise of Foden, who hardly touch the ball, has been significant and there must be question marks over his future. I thought that we reverted to Parker ball instead of fast incisive play which was needed against a poor side who just frustrated a slow English attack. The game against Latvia, ranked 140th in the world, will bring changes and hopefully a more fluent attacking formation.
posted by bigboy4650 (Guest) - Saturday 22nd March 2025, 9:49 AM tuchel has had one game-ONE GAME!.to make any judgements now is just not on. albania came and parked their bus. they had no other intention other than to play as much as possible in their own half, and to a certain extent, they succeeded.
posted by heres harold (Guest) - Saturday 22nd March 2025, 10:26 AM It is difficult at any level of football to get players to give more than they think they need to give to win a match. Equally if a player has run from one end of the pitch and back again they may be tired no matter how fit they are as 95 minutes is a longtime to keep moving constantly.
posted by The Time Is Now - Saturday 22nd March 2025, 10:29 AM Just a reminder, my original post was “I wonder why” and unfortunately, I made a forecast on the game against Albania. No one commented on the article which was about Fulham.
posted by bigboy4650 (Guest) - Saturday 22nd March 2025, 10:45 AM England were absolute garbage last night, and the new broom is certainly not sweeping clean. there was a time early in the match, when we must have had over 50 passes between us, and we gained about 10 yards, and we spent more times passing backwards than forwards. Why is it, that we all have great hopes for England, but once they are playing on the field, it is the usual rubbish. I hope that Dan Burn enjoyed his England introduction, as it will probably be his first and last appearance, and as for Rashford and Foden, what on earth has happened to these once talented lads ? In my humble opinion, I have more chance of winning the lottery, than England have of even reaching a final, let alone winning it. Back to the drawing board.
posted by LTS (Guest) - Saturday 22nd March 2025, 11:31 AM LTS, I always enjoy your comments and although, on this occasion I consider you might be overly harsh. However, I for one agree with your sentiments but most posters were aggrieved when I mentioned similar comments in a more kindly manner. It was Parker ball at its worse with slow over elaborate build ups without gaining ant advantage. Of course you are correct regarding certain individual players and I expect four or five changes against Latvia who, in theory, we should thrash. I was impressed by Thomas Tuchel pre-match comments that Southgate was scared of losing and was not adventurous enough to win tournaments. He was also mildly critical of the team after the match so I expect he will inform the players that their international futures are on the line. Unless the mindset of our players cannot be changed then we will only progress so far and always end up losers. My son, an avid Fulham supporter, often travels abroad both with Fulham and England to watch away matches and about ten years ago he stared he did not expect to live long enough to see England win the World Cup. He is now 50 and his comments are very akin to yours. We need a broad spectrum of views on our board which sometimes I believe is lacking so, please post more often with your comments.
posted by bigboy4650 (Guest) - Saturday 22nd March 2025, 12:56 PM Excuse the typos in my last comments which is due to this stupid predicted text which changes the words that you actually type.
posted by bigboy4650 (Guest) - Saturday 22nd March 2025, 1:01 PM The last time England lost in a qualifiers was 2007 and brolly-man- Steve McClaren was the unfortunate fall-guy who got the bullet. These early stages are rarely enjoyable and we almost morn for prem games but i think there was a little something of interest coming from last nights game. I like to see great movement in games and i would like to say that if that peach of a pass from Bellingham to Myles Lewis Skelly was created at Fulham, i would have spoken about it for a week, the pass was exquisite superb. I think Scott Parker would like to finish a move like that after 20 boring passes and if you can pull it off no team and staff will complain. I also think the goal from kane was top draw and you have to be decent to play and score that many goals in the German league. This is the difference between a top striker and a average one. Most target-men would have pulled the trigger without thinking about it but Harry Kane has learnt that timing that brings out something extra. Lastly i think Tuchel needs more technically minded players than Dan Burns etc, i know he did well but he and others will get turned and bamboozled by the more technical and tricky players.
posted by OWEN - Saturday 22nd March 2025, 8:26 PM A leopard never change its spots nothings goiing to change
posted by Ipitombi (Guest) - Sunday 23rd March 2025, 2:49 PM In any football game the aim is to win how you do it is unimportant as most fans do not care how you win as long as you do. England have become very efficient at that aim so do not complain as we scored two very good goals and the opposition lost so we won. Well done England keep on winning.
posted by The Time Is Now - Sunday 23rd March 2025, 6:29 PM Cant judge him on one game against inferior opposition like judging a manager on a pre season friendly not that I care any more about England games don’t watch them anymore
posted by Ipitombi (Guest) - Tuesday 25th March 2025, 8:46 AM

Maybe Khan should out a few quid each way on Rockley Point tonight and treat us to the misfiring Danish pastry with the winnings. Might even be enough for a banjo and a cow’s a*se too.
posted by Paddy O’Doors (Guest) - Thursday 20th March 2025, 5:50 PM He is another one of these many so called strikers who do not score many goals. £50m Man U must be joking they will be lucky to get £5m.
posted by The Time Is Now - Thursday 20th March 2025, 6:01 PM No morals in football rich if he does the job on the pitch that’s all Villa will worry about makes you wonder about his wages though Villa must be getting him at a very good discount
posted by Ipitombi (Guest) - Friday 21st March 2025, 8:07 AM

Putin taking him for a mug he’s to thick to see it that little prick only understands one way of doing business it’s by force time for trump to tell him where he stands make him understand he’s having a chunk of Ukraine minerals with or without putin
posted by Ipitombi (Guest) - Thursday 20th March 2025, 1:34 PM Trump is not worth talking about he will be gone in 3.5 years unless he causes a revolution that make him America's dictator. Assume this does not happen who every get in next will reverse everything stupid he has done which is everything he has done.
posted by The Time Is Now - Thursday 20th March 2025, 5:52 PM Couple of paddy’s went in today paddy has two and the first one fell at the last when clear one a couple Bob though
posted by Ipitombi (Guest) - Thursday 20th March 2025, 7:11 PM

Great player. I’d rather watch him on Football Focus than the DEI hires they currently finance with my money. Wouldn’t you?
posted by Paddy O’Doors (Guest) - Wednesday 19th March 2025, 10:39 AM Other actors, authors, singers etc get gongs why should not football players a lot of whom give huge amounts to charity and while playing do good act in the community. I personally do not like the gong systems as it maintains the have and have not system this Country runs on. While it exists however everybody who deserve to be rewarded should be rewarded.
posted by The Time Is Now - Wednesday 19th March 2025, 11:32 AM Still just a job, how many life boat crews get gong ??? none , not in public eye, and surly if you are in the public eye its much easier to help others and not expect a bleedin gong,it should be an honour and let not forget these charity folk in show biz get paid for there stint and take it.
posted by teh real arch bishop (Guest) - Wednesday 19th March 2025, 2:12 PM Life boat crews only cost the country money with the dinghy drop offs they’re complicit in. To my knowledge Alan Hudson has never helped socialists freeze pensioners or batter farmers. Wonder if Starmer will be letting the UN parachute aid into Liverpool after yesterday’s benefit cuts.
posted by Paddy O’Doors (Guest) - Wednesday 19th March 2025, 3:10 PM No matter what you are paid if you do unselfish good with it or without it you should be in the running for a gong.
posted by The Time Is Now - Thursday 20th March 2025, 9:10 AM Now now arch you know paddys a bit touchy about lifeboats ( two paddy’s running today crap odds !!
posted by Ipitombi (Guest) - Thursday 20th March 2025, 1:39 PM Yes but ttin, they actually get paid to turn up at a charity do, then they make a speech sign some aut o and go , some like the rugby guy actually dont get paid for turning up but do it because they care then make dosh for there cause.
posted by the real arch bishop (Guest) - Thursday 20th March 2025, 2:07 PM Yeh missed the bit about paddy and boats.
posted by the real arch bishop (Guest) - Thursday 20th March 2025, 2:08 PM THEY DONT GIVE THERE FEE TO CHARITY.IT GOES HOME WITH THEM .They hope to make dosh by being there . wow !!!!
posted by the real arch bishop (Guest) - Thursday 20th March 2025, 2:10 PM Paddy! Have you done your lifeboat will?
posted by Dover Dave (Guest) - Friday 21st March 2025, 8:24 AM Only if there’s a charity that torpedoes them. They can have the lot.
posted by Paddy O’Doors (Guest) - Friday 21st March 2025, 3:34 PM God bless the brave RNLI , long may they continue risking their lives to save people , whatever race etc !
posted by Bob (Guest) - Saturday 22nd March 2025, 8:03 AM

Only I care then.
posted by The Time Is Now - Thursday 20th March 2025, 8:51 AM we all care, but this has been discussed only recently, so there is no more to add to it.
posted by heres harold (Guest) - Thursday 20th March 2025, 5:05 PM Ttim
posted by Idiot (Guest) - Saturday 22nd March 2025, 10:57 AM

We are our way into some form of European football, Spurs are not. What ever Spurs offer, offer more and he will stay as he knows where he is well off.
posted by The Time Is Now - Tuesday 18th March 2025, 1:01 PM I for one will be absolutely gobsmacked if Marco leaves us in the summer, especially to that graveyard for managers club, Spurs. Marco has gradually built a decent squad here, and he has pulled us up from our bootlaces, to make us very competitive, whoever we play, and hopefully he is only halfway to making us European competitors over the next couple of seasons. If the Khan's are also just as keen, they ought to increase his wages to match his ambitions, with where we can, under financial policies, strengthen, what is already a pretty strong squad uad.
posted by Brian from West Sussex (Guest) - Tuesday 18th March 2025, 2:06 PM Other than falling out with the Khans,i see no reason why Marco would leave.whether he gets us into europe or not (from sess dressing room video on instagram its evident the lads are going for it)any financial request Will be cheaper than a "go to start" situation. He is building a reputation internationally which Will put him in a very tempting position soon,so why risk and blow all his good work now by going to the other side of london.
posted by TNO (Guest) - Tuesday 18th March 2025, 2:34 PM I'm with you all on Marco. Who in their right mind would take on the poison chalice of Tottenham and Levy. Look at the quality of the managers who are in the Spurs cemetery. I bet that Forest fans are happy that they have Nuno at the helm after the impatient Spurs let him go. The signs are clear to see Marco. Can't see him leaving the cottage myself.so much yet to be achieved at Fulham.
posted by Aussie Mal (Guest) - Tuesday 18th March 2025, 6:13 PM Of course Marco Silva knows what it is to be sacked, when Everton lost confidence in him. The most important issue for managers is the outlook that the club’s owners have. That club wanted to sell their best players. With results and finances deteriorating, what manager can survive that? Spurs are actually a very successful club, if one just considers profitability. Records show that to date this season 919,404 spectators have attended the games at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, whereas merely 398,883 of us watched a better side at Fulham. Spurs sold Harry Kane. They made lots of money, but reduced the quality of their team significantly. There is little doubt that Spurs can pay Marco more than Fulham if they chose to (which they probably don’t), but producing winning teams and not having the carpet pulled from under him suits Marco better. (And he could probably go to the Middle East for even MORE money)
posted by peterjeremy - Wednesday 19th March 2025, 9:28 AM More deletions!
posted by Here's Keir. (Guest) - Thursday 20th March 2025, 9:22 AM Peterjeremy you are the most astute fellow on this message board.
posted by Montague (Guest) - Thursday 20th March 2025, 9:54 PM I recon we could squeeze another 3-4 thousand supporters from the other three stands, which could take our capacity to 42,000. We need a big ground to support our big plans.
posted by The Time Is Now - Friday 21st March 2025, 8:42 AM

Slainte Ari. I’ll be having a zero per cent Guinness for you later.
posted by Paddy O’Doors (Guest) - Monday 17th March 2025, 4:07 PM Don’t bare thinking about
posted by Ipitombi (Guest) - Thursday 20th March 2025, 1:41 PM

Got fed up with the geordie Love. In won a third rate cup thought they had won the euro cup the way there fans were carrying on
posted by Ipitombi (Guest) - Tuesday 18th March 2025, 11:32 AM When you become a commentator you must become neutral and forget any loyalty you have for a particular club(s). The best commentators and summarisers do. The media companies who have biased sports employees should tell them to change their ways or get sacked.
posted by The Time Is Now - Thursday 20th March 2025, 8:55 AM

Ryan Sessegon got himself injured a lot at Spurs, that is not mistreatment. Wait for the first time Sess playing for us get a long term injury. Hope it does not happen but certain bodies cannot stand the pressure of PL football.
posted by The Time Is Now - Tuesday 18th March 2025, 1:06 PM

We do not get any credit. Even if we get a Championship League place it will be luck rather than skill. The report in the Times on the match is full of praise for Fulham. Even the Sun mentions us. Mind you MOTD were right, I noticed Spurs had out a virtual reserve team, but we scored our two goals when they brought on their first team squad substitutes. But of course you can only beat what is in front of you. Another point if Spurs were going to play seven reserve we might as well played the game on Saturday at !5.00 hrs, a rare kick off time these days. Mind you the advantage of Sunday kickoffs is a lot less traffic.
posted by The Time Is Now - Monday 17th March 2025, 7:28 AM spiz, i agree with you, itv took the sky broadcast of the game, and in a brief review of games. they said there were wins for rangers, and in london, for arsenal----- and that was that!. why they had to have deeney on motd as an expert, when he lived for the long ball game ,and clearly doesnt understand about close passing ,and controlled possession ,is beyond most. thats grumble over, a jolly good win by the whites!.
posted by heres hughie (Guest) - Monday 17th March 2025, 11:14 AM Diversity is our strength. Merit is not welcome in the new world order.
posted by Paddy O’Doors (Guest) - Monday 17th March 2025, 11:41 AM Rooney lost me with his analysing !thought football was a simple game got coaches sitting on touch line studying iPads
posted by Ipitomb (Guest) - Tuesday 18th March 2025, 11:37 AM The format of picking out a player and showing what he does seems very old fashioned, why not talk about the good moves in a game, including any goals. Both our goals were good ones against a very tired looking defence. They stressed the stupid Spurs tactics of making wholesale changes in the team, but did not mention the clever way Fulham took advantage of this in attacking hard in the last twenty minutes when the Spurs defence visibly tired. We have a very clever tactical manager who will of told his players how to beat Tottenham.
posted by The Time Is Now - Tuesday 18th March 2025, 1:14 PM

I should have said ON MOTD.
posted by THE CRA V EN (Guest) - Sunday 16th March 2025, 11:16 PM Just watched the Fulham vs Spurs game on MOT2. Five minutes of analysis 99.9% talking about Spurs, no mention of the two superb goals.
posted by Miks (Guest) - Sunday 16th March 2025, 11:29 PM I'm really angry about tonight's MOTD2, and all I heard on the summing up by the experts, like that useless manager Rooney, was that Spurs put out a weakened side. No mention, that we were also missing a few of our players, and as pointed out, no mention how well taken our goals were. If, and it's a big if, we won the FA Cup, it would be that we were so lucky, and our opponents had an off day. It would be great to have a Fulham v Brighton final, but it will probably be Man City against Forest.
posted by AC (Guest) - Sunday 16th March 2025, 11:44 PM MOTH lives in the past. I know we have not won anything but when did Spurs last win something, they have been ordinary for a very long time. History counts for a lot in football. Our next four League games are against top team but if we play at our best we will get a lot more points against them than most people expect. If only we had not dropped 11 point against Man U, Ipswich and Southampton we would be high in the table now, but people would still not take us seriously because our history, that started in 1879, is not scatted with League or cup wins like most of the teams in the top two divisions. If Marco stays with us anything is possible now and in the future.
posted by The Time Is Now - Monday 17th March 2025, 12:02 AM Thought the editing of our game could have been better apart from the start of second half we were the better side as for weakened sides we were 3 or 4 down spurs are so bad at the moment difficult to say what there best side is
posted by Iptombi (Guest) - Monday 17th March 2025, 7:45 AM Man U game one going down one going nowhere waste of time
posted by Ipitombi (Guest) - Tuesday 18th March 2025, 11:39 AM About time motd changed its format far to much with idle chit chat
posted by Ioitombi (Guest) - Tuesday 18th March 2025, 11:40 AM Our game did not make good television, the first half was one of the dullest I have ever seen.
posted by The Time Is Now - Tuesday 18th March 2025, 1:17 PM