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One of principles in my life is: "Do not argue with a fool. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience." So, I graciously leave you in the bliss of your ignorance and impertinence.

Mate, you have passed the stage of entertainment and are now firmly in the area between ridiculous and ludicrous with this type of questions/statements. Really, leave it out.

The only plausible reason why Potter is still in place would be that Ted and company have already made a deal with a top notch manager who will leave his club end of season and join us. Only this arrangement makes sense now - would be pointless to replace Potter with a half-decent manager for short-term engagement, and the reputation of the new manager would have a sufficient pulling power to attract class players to our club regardless of where we finish end of this season. Just a wishful thought.

What is the kindergarder? Anyhow, now you are asking me for an advice how to write. Well. firstly formulate a thought in your head, assess it for logic, balance and factual value and then progress to expressing that thought in suitable words, further consecutively pressing those keys on your computer keyboard to type the chosen words. Is it clear enough for you? Please don't thank me, I am just a helpful guy.

Well, I asked you first to list manager's responsibilities. You answer my question and then I will answer yours. That is how a discussion develops. In eager anticipation of your thoughtful response to my original question.

Nice deflection. Helps in any losing argument.

I would like to replace Potter. Same results guaranteed, but for much, much less money.

Yes, instead lets sing out loud something praising Potter. That would help immensely, the goals would just flow in.

Could you remind me what are the manager's and his training staff responsibilities?

What Potter is going to say is as follows: The grass was green, the ball was yellow. People ran around on the pitch and kicked the ball. Blah-blah-blah. See you at the next game.

Call me cynical, but Potter is very good at deflection. Forget about sh*t performance on the pitch, lets all talk about worst pre-season 8 month ago, about new players, about death threats, about his deteriorating mental health, etc. I do not want to hear banalities and excuses from our manager. I want to know what he is currently doing to win games, and I find it utterly disrespectful from Potter to feed the fans with drivel and nonsense for the past 4 months. Popular definition of deflection: it happens when we redirect the focus, blame, or criticism away from ourselves in an attempt to preserve our self-image and avoid dealing with negative consequences. It can be used as a reactive coping mechanism to avoid feelings of guilt and shame, or as a narcissistic abuse tactic to avoid accountability.

From the legal point of view a death threat should be credible to be considered a serious matter, otherwise its just a form of verbal abuse. If some nobody threatens you via an email, you would be stupid to take it seriously and the cops would laugh you off if you had bothered them with that. If a known drug lord threatened you, then this becomes an entirely different thing. In Potter's case he clearly reached out for sympathy unjustifiably using a sensitive subject and it says a lot about his character.

I would like to put myself forward for the manager's job. I can surely dish up the same abysmal performances but for a mere fraction of Potter's current salary. And indeed, it would be a whole new learning process for me at it, but I am confident there will be plenty of apologists for me even on this forum calling to extend my contract until 2025 at least, as the miracle will definitely, 100%, dead cert happen, you just need to be patient and think positive.

Can you name a few positives please (or maybe you meant from Dortmund's perspective..)

Winning a Swedish cup is really impressive. Wow, what a guy! Now I am filled with confidence.

He is useless beyond any hope

You either have football nous or you dont. Gallagher never owned one, Sell him to Crystal Palace.

In the on-going discussion on Potter's performance it could be good to agree on some basic points in the manager's job description to avoid any confusion or misinterpretation and then judge his performance against those points. Anybody to highlight great achievements so far? What's the light at the end of the tunnel? And I am not being facetious, just very concerned.

This squad lacks strength of character and massively lacks will to win and leadership. But it is not GP's fault. Did I get that right?

Even we had thirteen players on the pitch, we would still be sh*t - just in a slightly bigger amount.

Would you rather have a horrible end or endless horror?

Looks like GP's team selection is based entirely on drawing straws

He just does not want to be with us. I would cash in last summer.

There was a blogger who attended our training session and he was totally appalled at the complete lack of coaching. He witnessed our players f**king about, rolling the ball for a laugh, no effort or exertion whatsoever, and the coaching stuff not giving two sh*ts, just encouraging this clownery with "Great job, boys!" occasional shouts. I am not surprised to see what you all observe. I am just patiently waiting for Potter to leave the building.

Brace yourself. We are not making top 6 this season.