CMON SHED BOYS GROW A PAIR AGAIN AND RUN THIS FREEK OUT OF TOWN

Still no suggestions on a new manager then? Just a load of shouting as normal, at least learn how to spell his name, and houston is supposed to be the clueless one

Wait a minute, are you just drunken hobo's alterego? , soberhobo maybe

AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED HIS NAME IS C**P AND SO F""CK IF i SPELL IT WRONG, SO WESTCOAST ARE YOU CALLING ME CLUELESS?

DONT TRY AND BE SMART

No need to shout!!! Whats the back up plan then oh wise one?? Say houston's out before the aberdeen game, then we get beat up there, struggle against st johnstone and get fired oot the cup by falkirk, whats your plan?

CMON WESTCOST. PUT UP OR SHUTTUP

Still no suggestions on a replacement manager then??

THAT IS FOR THE BOARD TO DECIDE. I DO NOT MAKE DECISIONS, AS IAM ONLY A SUPPORTER. HOWEVER AS A SUPPORTER I AM ENTITLED TO MY OPINION HOUSTON OUT AND I DONT CARE IF I SPELL IT WRONG 5-18 451 DID NOT SPELL THAT WRONG

Surely if he was an alter-ego, he wouldn't be a "Sober Hobo" but a "Sober Monarch"?

Were all intitled to our opinion, i am only a supporter too, but whats the point of trying to hound the man out the door without having future plan, like i said look at what happened at aberdeen, hibs and celtic.

True enough hobo, true enough!!!

Anyway mount pleasant is on

the man has p""sed fans of because of his bad tatics and formation. He got away with it last season because we still had a decent squad and we were never in threat of relegation. This season it not changed and we are indead in relegation threat. I do not know where the "wait for Xmass push" came from,but that is bad. change now not 10 weeks away

what is mount pleasant on about?

I have made my feelings perfectly clear on other threads. I await some positive changes?

I have made my feelings clear on other threads. Give the man a chance to turn it around. Gareth, you asked what my Aberdeen comment was about on the other post. Aberdeen have been going from manager to manager for years with no stability. Yes they beat Dunfermline who beat us but come on, is that what you really want. A revolving manager's door at Tannadice!

Houston will turn this around and the team will be safe from relegation this season.

Once more I ask you who you would like to replace him. Now don't give me I am not the board rubbish! If you are on here trying to start a hate campaign against PH then at least grow a set and say who you want to replace him.

I'd gladly replace him, I'm sure I'd do a better job.

And give him a chance to turn it around? He's been a football manager for 22 months, and for all but the initial 5 of those months he's been awful. He had his chance to show he was capable of changing last season, but no, by the end he was still playing Gomis wide right and Scott Robertson & Buaben in the middle together. It didn't work in Scott Robertson's first game with the club (the 3-1 thrashing by newly-promoted Hamilton under Levein) and it still doesn't work now (albeit with Flood and Rankin rather than Go-ben). Why Houston should still be in a job after 1 1/4 seasons of dire, awful, abysmal, negative football is beyond me.

And yet again Hobo, no name for a replacement. No offense but I would rather have PH as manager than you! It's easy to criticise and think you can do better from the stands. Football management is a hard business. It is impossible to keep all fans happy.

I want to see 4-4-2 football being played at United and I want to see a bettter balance to the midfield. I also want to see Dillon replace Kenneth when fit and I also want PH to remain in charge.

These are just my opinions and I respect yours but things are not as bad as you and Gareth are making out. United will do ok with PH this season.

Keep the faith or give me a name to replace him!

A replacement is not what I am discussing here, it is the terrible tactics being employed by Houston. You can not just dismiss the point being made because the people making them have not offered an alternative. All point made are valid. You are saying that you're sure we will be fine under PH this season, but how can you, in any way, be sure of that? The signs are looking very bleak just now.

You also state that you want 4-4-2 and a balanced midfield along with keeping Houston. It is not possible for all these things to happen in my opinion. He is stubborn and will not change his tactics, so unfortunately we will have to see how close that takes us to relegation this season.

We always seem to start the season slow, and this season is no differant, well even slower lets be honest, but we did lose the spine of our team in the summer. If we beat aberdeen it win be 3 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat in the last 5 games, that is hardly crisis material. But it seems to be our home form thats letting us down, motherwell had had a poor run of form coming into the game at tannadice and i cant understand why we didnt go for the jugular, they were there for the taking in my opinion and that is houstons fault.

Right, but you're already assuming we've beat Aberdeen to make up those statistics! It's a bit "bury your head in the sand" to be honest.
In actual fact it's 2 draws, 2 defeats and 1 win in our last 5 league games. That doesn't paint as rosy a picture, and it's a far more accurate showing of Houston's actual managerial ability. Expand that to make it look it's worst and it's 1 win in the last 8 league games, 4 defeats and 3 draws.

However, it's not just the results/table that people should be looking at, but the performances. They have just been unacceptable. Even the 3-1 win against Caley was a truly dire game and an awful performance, with the same mistakes being made once again.

And for as your "we start the season slow" remark - not so, in the 09/10 season we had more than double the points at this stage of the season than we do now. Whilst we have lost a fair bit of quality, it's not been that significant to take us from 22 points in 10 games to 10 points in 10 games. We still have good players capable of challenging for 3rd, sadly we only have a manager capable of challenging for relegation.

I agree with most of what you say Hobo.

One exception is the point you make about the loss of of quality in summer not being too significant.

The loss of Goody and Conway would be a 'significant' enough loss for me, but with Prince and Gomis off too I think we have lost a hell of a lot of quality - albeit I rekon Rankin is a decent replacement for one of the departed central midfielders.

You can't take the likes of Goodie and Conway out of the team and expect us to be as good a side without replacing them with similar quality.

There does seem to be plausable arguements on both sides, but my glass still stands half full, we are only 10 games into the season and admitidly worse than we have been, but the man has to be given the chance to put things right or get us back into the top 6. We all know the players seem to like houston with the exception of maybe scott allan just now. If you sack houston right now and you get someone else in who turns out to be worse things could be very bad by xmas, if things are really bad going into mid november then fair enough, this is the 1st time we've been out the top 6 for 3 seasons, houston has to be given a chance at least or are we going to change managers the next time we slip to 7th/8th in the league, and i've still not heard a decent shout for a replacement yet.

I dont care who replaces him as long as he does not employ the same negative boring taticks. Also the new guy will be comitted to United and not swan off.