Sage in or out

Sage in or out

  • In

    Votes: 99 31.6%

  • Out

    Votes: 169 54.0%

  • Sit on the fence

    Votes: 45 14.4%
  • Total voters
    313
Casual said:
Lots of support from the stands today, singing sages red and blue army.
Most people left saying we deserved something today.
The negativity on here towards him not reflected by the fans that attend the matches.


I’ll support him all the time he’s our manager and I’ll support the new manager if sage is sacked.

Thought we battled well today, but lacked Liverpools class.
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So 4 straight defeats and 12 goals conceded is quality entertainment? Toxic positivity needs weeding out from our fanbase.
 
Steve Coops said:
Seems a honest man and takes the blame but not good enough ,his system does not work why not try a flat back 4
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Where did Paddy McC play? Why isn’t he being used to organise the defence for set pieces, at least? He may not be in a position to persuade a manager wedded to a back three to change a system that leaves us horribly exposed on every turnover. But, now that Hendo’s back, I can’t believe it would be that difficult to stop the rot from set pieces.
 
Adrift said:
Calm down ladies, did you really think we were going to beat Liverpool?
Look at the stats, we were better than them in the first half. Their goal came from their cheat running into Mitchell and winning a foul, the ref didnt see how that was done.
Goals change games and left us pushing too far up. Hence being caught out for the second.
I felt we played better than other recent games, no one gets sacked for losing to Liverpool.
Sage has the break now, followed by Coventry and Hull those are the games that will seal his fate.
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Ordinarily I'd say no, of course we can't expect a win against Liverpool, and not beating Liverpool would be a stupid reason to sack a manager.

But look at our other results and goal difference.
 
madcap_v2 said:
The first half was the best we have played in a while and if we had Mateta and Sarr playing today it may have been a different story.

However, it wasn't. 4 defeats in a row, 12 goals conceded, 5 to our closest rivals and we sit firmly at the bottom of the table is enough for me to say time for a change.
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It’s a shame because you can see sage is trying to play a bit of football and we’re attacking, but we can’t keep shipping chances and goals, something’s got to change and it always starts with the manager. We’re bottom, but we don’t want to get properly marooned where we need a couple of wins just to get off the bottom, the pressure’s really on then, so the change has got to happen now
 
The fact that Sage cannot see that the high press is the problem and no change is necessary is enough for me to say he must go. We played well in the first half with basically five at the back, created great chances and kept Pool at bay. He obviously made them push further forward in the second half leaving gaps for the Scousers to exploit. I always want new managers to succeed (except Roy second time around) but I think the Sage era has run its course.
 
It didn’t feel like a sackable performance… the players are still putting in a shift.

It’s all fine margins and we’re poor in both areas at the moment. Can we blame Sage for strikers missing chances? On the whole the performance was good today. We’re not getting the rub of the green.

Looking at the available managers out there, no one fills me with confidence. I’d be inclined to give Pierre a few more games. If we cant get some results against Coventry, Sociedad and Hull, I’d pull the trigger then.

With 2 games a week he’s had little time on the training ground. Perhaps the international break he has time to sort out the defence.
 
Lanzo-Ad said:
Football is a simple game made difficult by managers, the old adage's are still true, if the ball is in the opponents half you wont concede and you have more chance to score, over complicating it for managers who haven't got the players is recipe for disasters, that is why Hodgson and Coppell have been manager of Palace 6 times between them.
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Sorry I must have been blinded

So it was the manager who was on the pitch dictating every single move today ?

God you are an anus regards any manger we get even when we win trophies

Get a happy pill you glum plum you master of doom & gloom your life must be so grey
 
Casual said:
Lots of support from the stands today, singing sages red and blue army.
Most people left saying we deserved something today.
The negativity on here towards him not reflected by the fans that attend the matches.


I’ll support him all the time he’s our manager and I’ll support the new manager if sage is sacked.

Thought we battled well today, but lacked Liverpools class.
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Probably because we shall always lack Liverpool's money.
 
Goal Machine said:
It didn’t feel like a sackable performance… the players are still putting in a shift.

It’s all fine margins and we’re poor in both areas at the moment. Can we blame Sage for strikers missing chances? On the whole the performance was good today. We’re not getting the rub of the green.

Looking at the available managers out there, no one fills me with confidence. I’d be inclined to give Pierre a few more games. If we cant get some results against Coventry, Sociedad and Hull, I’d pull the trigger then.

With 2 games a week he’s had little time on the training ground. Perhaps the international break he has time to sort out the defence.
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I like this, but in the post-match interview Pierre Sage suggested that the International break would be of limited use in sorting out the problems on the training ground in view of the irony that much of the first team will be absent...on international duty.
 
As I said on this thread a couple of days ago, even an unlikely win against Liverpool may not be a turning point but just a temporary papering over of the cracks.

And that’s how I feel about this improved performance today. Yes I saw some nice passing and movement in possession. But no finishing in the absence of Mateta and Sarr. Another set piece goal conceded as nobody picked up McAllisters run. And the usual disarray in transition. There really is no point to continuing under Sage because there hasn’t been one single performance this season when we have deserved to win the few games that we have.
He’s not been helped by the hierarchy at the club. Hobbs should absolutely be fired for his part in this mess. And Parish has had a dismal 2026 outside of winning the CL.
On a positive note, I thought the players had a good go today - no lack of effort certainly. But they are hamstrung by being asked to play a tactical game that simply isn’t a basis for winning games at this level.
 
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