Sage in or out

[PatrickA]

Please, nobody suggest Carrick for the job.

 

[eritheagle]

I like sage and we did play well today but...

I don't quite see how a us centre back who played well in world cup, a former french international who played very well at west ham 6 months ago, an u23 french player who people were raving abouu and an italian international whom chelsea have spent £44m on are bad defenders suddenly.

just bad coaching and tactics have shot their confidence to bits!!

 

[Alexi_the_Eagle]

I’m sorry, but Sage has got to go. 12 goals conceded and 1 goal scored is unacceptable statistics. Anyone who sits on this forum and defends this indefensible record is either deluded or sadomasochistic.

 

[samprior]

Loads of support for Sage in the stands today. He must be the unluckiest manager we have ever had to inherit this defence though.

Sad to say but when we keep leaking goals under Dyche or whoever we end up replacing Sage with, and we surely will, then i hope we remember the decent football we were playing under Sage.

I know that sounds slightly crazy when you are sitting rock bottom after winning a european trophy 6 months ago, and not having scored a goal in the league for 5 matches until the pen, but he has really been thrown under the bus by Hobbs with that defence. I wish we could give him the chance to take us back up, but know that that rarely happens these days.

He has been thrown under the bus by being handed that defence. But then he compounds it by throwing that defence under the bus by setting up in a way that will constantly leave them exposed.

Play to your strengths... I'm not currently sure exactly what they are but you've got to try!

Sage however seems to play to our weakness. Leave a poor defence exposed. Let a physically weak midfield be outnumbered in every game. Attempt to play fast paced one touch play when we struggle to even make a 10 yard pass under no pressure.

He's constantly shooting himself in the foot and it's unbelievable he's still trying it. Our stats are absolutely damning. I can't believe, that even out of self preservation he's not given other set ups a chance.

He came across as a decent enough bloke and was dealt a poor hand but surely he's done. I'm in shock that he wasn't given the chop after Brighton, Newcastle, Spurs games tbh

 

[TomH_CPFC]

I’m sorry, but Sage has got to go. 12 goals conceded and 1 goal scored is unacceptable statistics. Anyone who sits on this forum and defends this indefensible record is either deluded or sadomasochistic.

He must go. He has made the squad less than the sum of its parts.

 

[Casual]

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.

 

[hythemaceagle]

Thanks to Messrs Hobbs and Parish, the quality of our squad is inferior to all others in the PL. We are devoid of leaders and experience, and not being helped by the absence of Mateta and Sarr.
I really can’t see how changing the manager/coach or whatever you’d like to call him is going to help.
We played well today, probably the best we’ve played all season, but were still well beaten.

 

[dreamwaverider]

On the way home. The result was more or less what I expected, but the performance was not. I thought we played really well, and with a bit of luck and better finishing we could have come close. The players certainly put in a shift.
Making a decision on the basis of one game is not a good idea of course, but with limited viable alternatives I've changed my mind and would like him to stay.

Well you are in luck because I really don’t think Parish can afford to replace him.

 

[dreamwaverider]

Hobbs was instrumental in Wolves drop. He then came here swooping back on Larsen for a mere £48m. And Johnson £35m. So both of them were about the same as Eze. Ridiculous when you are looking back in anger.

 

[dreamwaverider]

Hobbs was instrumental in Wolves drop. He then came here swooping back on Larsen for a mere £48m. And Johnson £35m. So both of them were about the same as Eze. Ridiculous when you are looking back in anger.

Hobbs is a total liability.

 

[TomH_CPFC]

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.

I attend many games a year home and away with a 4 hour drive to home games and two fanatical palace kids in tow (others have more even more arduous journeys!). I think he should be sacked immediately. The whole place has felt off since he joined and we repeat the same mistakes over and over again. There's not a number of games attended threshold for opinions being valid.

Also, the empty stands at the end of the match did not scream full support for Sage from those who attended today. Last game I went to was Fulham away Carabao, joined in with "Pierre Sage's red blue army" because we all want the team to do well, but doesn't mean we can't do better.

 

[Adrift]

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.

 

[Casual]

I was talking to loads of different groups of people in the holmesdale, before the game at half time and walking away from the ground.
Not much anti sage conversation.
The section where I stand is really vocal and quickly turn critical to most things.
Today more people were slagging off the ref than anyone else.

I attend many games a year home and away with a 4 hour drive to home games and two fanatical palace kids in tow (others have more even more arduous journeys!). I think he should be sacked immediately. The whole place has felt off since he joined and we repeat the same mistakes over and over again. There's not a number of games attended threshold for opinions being valid.

Also, the empty stands at the end of the match did not scream full support for Sage from those who attended today. Last game I went to was Fulham away Carabao, joined in with "Pierre Sage's red blue army" because we all want the team to do well, but doesn't mean we can't do better.

 

[TheBigToePunt]

I think we looked a bit more coherent today. I still think Sage has to go, though.

We've had a couple of games along the way where the team seems like it's on the verge of being organised and they've turned out to be false dawns, quickly followed by a shambolic mess next time. I don't see why this should be considered as different. He was drinking in the last chance saloon weeks ago. He needed a big win at Spurs and/or today just to buy more time. What exactly happened along the way to not getting those wins isn't the point once you get in the position.

 

[ASCPFC]

I'm sick of hearing "with a bit of luck" Or "ifs and buts". Liverpool weren't that good today. They were there for the taking. Yet we let in soft goals and naively missed all of our chances. We constantly made the wrong choices. A couple of individuals did well, we even looked improved as a team. But rewatch the Liverpool goals and see how soft they were. Then watch how we fluffed our chances. Same as every match.
Somebody tell me our identity under Sage, what is our plan going to be, what are we actually trying to achieve? I can't see it. Under Glasner I could genuinely see what we were trying to do.

 

[TomH_CPFC]

I was talking to loads of different groups of people in the holmesdale, before the game at half time and walking away from the ground.
Not much anti sage conversation.
The section where I stand is really vocal and quickly turn critical to most things.
Today more people were slagging off the ref than anyone else.

I'm surprised. There's a bit of a split between those who think the board is crap and Sage has been thrown under the bus, and those who think Sage is crap and just has to go. Time will tell who's right... Maybe both have a point to an extent. Up the Palace anyway, still time to turn it around.

 

[Frenchaigle]

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.

You think he'll make till after the break ?
Reckon he will be gone tomorrow morning

 

[elgin eeagle]

Hobbs is a total liability.

something i think we can all agree about.

Have to say though, if we go down with Man U and Man C the Championship will be an even trickier place to get out of than it usually is next season.

 

[doombear]

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.

I was at the match and would say we played quite well especially in the first half. However once again our defending was pits. We are not going to win games defending as we have done in most of our games and there's little point in playing our gung-ho press high football if we continue giving the ball away to allow easy counter-attacks resulting in our conceding 2 or 3 goals a game when we aren't regularly scoring 2 or 3 ourselves to compensate. Keegan's Newcastle we're not.

IMO Sage either bins his precious system and tactics for now and focuses on getting the team to defend better or he goes back to France.

 

[elgin eeagle]

I'm sick of hearing "with a bit of luck" Or "ifs and buts". Liverpool weren't that good today. They were there for the taking. Yet we let in soft goals and naively missed all of our chances. We constantly made the wrong choices. A couple of individuals did well, we even looked improved as a team. But rewatch the Liverpool goals and see how soft they were. Then watch how we fluffed our chances. Same as every match.
Somebody tell me our identity under Sage, what is our plan going to be, what are we actually trying to achieve? I can't see it. Under Glasner I could genuinely see what we were trying to do.

If my outlandish bet had come in today i was planning to have Richards killed with the winnings. I know its unfair to single him out but you have to start somewhere.