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[freemuzzy]

I concur with a lot of things written above.

In my view we’re very fortunate to have a dedicated podcast to discuss/listen to matters just on our club, and I really enjoyed the interview episodes both with legends from our history and players/managers from the more recent era (Moniz, Tempest, Aborah etc - all a surprisingly good listen).

But the ones that discuss the current state of play definitely fall into the talkSPORT ‘extreme’ opinions type model, possibly not helped by it being the same guest (Leigh) every week, who shares the views of the presenter.

Of course, things aren’t great but some of the opinions shared every week are ill-informed and frankly border on xenophobic at times.

For example, Leigh constantly mentions that we don’t have enough experience in the side when we probably have more EFL appearances within our squad than any other in this league, while Paul Mace said on a recent episode that no-one has ever been promoted from the National League playing good football.

Every week Rodrigues and Sam are held-up as signings that have spectacularly failed (which in itself is debateable), but no other signings are ever mentioned. The dismissal of IB’s previous achievements because they have come outside of this country is also lazy in the extreme.

It’s slightly concerning as a lot of fans are taken in by this narrative, which isn’t all that helpful.

[TSANHO]

Whatever is said on the podcast, by whoever it is, is all just conjecture....one only has to open their eyes and ears to realise this guy hasn’t got the foggiest, and is well and truly out of his depth now. Are the club really going to trust him to rebuild this team when he’s shown absolutely nothing in the way of getting anything out of ‘the strongest squad in the division’.

People allude to the start of the Allardyce tenure, but although losing there were at least signs the squad was gelling and coming round to his ideas. IB has made us worse and has very little good feeling left amongst the fans, made worse by his bizarre blinkered post match interviews.

What happens when he’s sacked early next year having signed a load of light weight players, it’s just so predictable. I’m afraid the owners have got this one badly wrong.