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At least they allow substitutions, some of the more pretentious eateries have strict No Substitutions policies.

Do we even have any standards left?

And three from the trap door.

Who, me?

Must win. Do or Dai, even. So I’m a little surprised he’s stuck with McCarthy in goal.

Don’t be blue, Peter.

“Needless to say, I had the last laugh.”

I’ve heard she makes her own clappers.

Would we be in this specific mess? Maybe. Maybe not. Would we be in some mess of similar nature? Almost certainly. Imagine we didn’t sack Brendan when we did (already too late). We probably still got relegated. Let’s imagine the board was happy for him to relegate us without sacking him (if we didn’t sack him in April, presumably we wouldn’t have bothered sacking him in May or June)… well we would then have Brendan being responsible for trying to get us promoted back at the first attempt. We spend Enzo money on Brendan recruitment… and would a man who took a team that finished 8th and get it relegated have what it takes to turn them into promotion contenders? The very man who set the standards (or lack thereof) in the preceding seasons… I’m finding hard to imagine Brendan would get us promoted if he was here post-relegation. Presumably since we don’t want to sack anyone, he’d see out his contract. We’d be in the Championship still - the finances take a bigger hit sooner with a second consecutive season in the Championship. As far as I can picture it, not sacking Brendan puts us in a mess. It may not be League One under Martin, maybe it’s Championship under Martin with rapidly deteriorating finances. Either way, it’s still a mess.

The same thought process that resulted in the promotion of a director of football who had overseen three relegations in four seasons. Almost as many as us… Brendan was spent, he had to go. He spaffed all that money on the squad in the summer of 2021 then bitched he wasn’t being backed when we couldn’t afford to spend on the rebuilt he needed in the summer of 2022 - as the result of his own failures. He was talking himself out of a job and needed to be sacked much sooner. Just look at his second Celtic spell - basically a carbon copy - the difference is Celtic acted much sooner after he started slagging them off in public.

First choice centre back Luke Thomas.

Du du du DU Ack-ah-Dem-me to the tune of Papa’s Got a Brand New Pigbag.

Rumour is Rudders is trying to cobble together a management buyout in conjunction with other directors. Expect a submission from the trusty fax machine around fourteen seconds after midnight on the 15th.

Could do, but we only have about four names to put down in that range.