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When we eventually go down and stay down (so potentially 2 years away) this pretty much finishes us as a fan base. A majority of people aren't gonna want season tickets to watch us be mediocre for years in the second tier and next to no one is gonna regularly go paying these obscene prices which of course will never go back down. Wel have a half empty stadium most games. When the day comes I give up my st that ls certainly it for me.

We don't need him in the squad. We have 4 other cbs none of whom he's particularly better than plus justin who can fill in if needs be. The alternative is we let the big duffer go and use his wages where its actually needed.

Was worried we'd do this when he started to perform last season (at a massively worse level) I can't really add anything to what most others have said. Those last 2 years of contract will most likely just involve him sitting on the bench counting his earnings after we fail to loan him out or sell him. Absolutely insane decision given we've got 4 other cbs and Justin if we get desperate or play 3 at the back. Just gotta pray that whoever the next manager is doesn't play a high defensive line!

Not really. They didn't have much choice but to react somehow.. Their price rises were so horrific they got national news coverage and even then the reaction is a promise not to raise them again next year. Sounds exactly the kind of 'compromise' our board level f**kwits would dish out. If I may just edit this after looking into it a bit more. Wolves no longer upping the u14 ticket prices given how huge the raises were is actually a big win for their trust. Not at all convinced our board would do the same in similar circumstances.

If he does badly Chelsea do badly and most right thinking football fans should be hoping that happens.

The thought of watching faes and whoever get pressed into mistakes every game and every pl left winger romp into the acres of space left by an inverted fullback deflated me. The idea that we may now get a pragmatic manager actually gives me a sliver of hope.

There's a current belief with the even crazier appointment of kompany by Bayern that a connection to guardiola means you're destined for great things. It's madness. Guardiola is a true one off, much like Clough and Ferguson before him. The managerial careers of their assistants and former players don't generally make great reading. Hopefully Maresca proves more Steve McLaren than Martin O'Neil!

Nah, even if you like him and enjoyed his tedious all out possesion football style you simply can't want him to go on and do well at f*king Chelsea. One of the most vile clubs in world football. I hope he fails miserably and relegates them personally.

Hopefully the wolves fans will boycott this. If they continue to sell out at those prices then surely the rest of the 'other 14' pl clubs will decide to bump their prices to similar levels. Really feels to me that the PL is on the verge of reaching a tipping point as far as the traditional local matchgoing fan is concerned. The whole horrible money obsessed thing really makes my skin crawl.

You are underestimating how utterly woeful Ward is as a goalkeeper. The opposition would still get chances regardless of which players we had in defence, and with Ward in goal most of those chances would end up in the net! If he didn't exist we would 100% still be a prem team.

The defence was obviously a big problem last season but we were relegated by a point. A point we would have easily got had we played an actual goalkeeper as opposed to the extinction level event that is Danny Ward!

This is such a bizarre take. We went down playing with fullbacks so getting rid of them is a smart move? Almost every team in world football plays standard fullbacks. Playing with an inverted one is a fairly bizarre choice especially as we have only a single player who can play it competently. We were relegated with centrebacks as well and two centre mids but we're not going to do away with them. The most sensible position to do away with is surely the lone striker not your right back. And whilst it wasnt solely the goalkeeper, player wise Danny Ward was far more responsible for relegation than anyone else.

Please don't think I'm trying to make Beckford out to be anything other than crap. My point was that it used to be the case that leic fans valued the strikers closing down and running their balls off almost more than them scoring. Hume scored roughly 1 in 4 and Howard and Waghorn only 1 in 5 yet despite this fairly poor return all were at times fan favourites. Beckford with 1 in 4 was never really liked despite being no worse or better than the other 3 goal wise almost purely on workrate. Daka has the workrate this season but doesn't get the pass others used to get.

Oh for sure he was pretty useless but I wouldn't be surprised if his goal to game ratio was similar or maybe even better than the first three I mention but he was largely disliked less for his goalscoring than his attitude and the fact he didn't tear around after the ball when it was in the opposition half. Daka does more of this than our other current strikers and I wouldn't say is spectacularly worse goal wise than the other 3 but takes by far the most stick.

Times have certainly changed. In the past you'd have the likes of Hume Howard and Waghorn being given a free pass for their incompetence in front of goal due to their work rate. At the same time you'd have Yakubu and Beckford being far less popular for lack of effort regardless of them sticking the ball in the net.

I genuinely feel the main reason for the vitriol is that it now seems the majority maybe even the vast majority absolutely hate Marescas style of play. It was rumbling in the background even when we were winning. Now with the wheels hanging on by increasingly loose screws there's nothing stopping people venting about it and his absolute refusal to make any changes just cranks the annoyance up even more.

Not really a surprise that ufc 300 delivered given the sheer amount of talent on the card. Pereira is probably the best pound for pound fighter right now given the no of champions he's beaten imo. Holloway the star of the show though. Surely the best end to a ufc fight ever. Topuria looked genuinely nervous when he called him out afterwards and rightly so!

It's one of the most unenjoyable but no way is it the most stressful. The title winning season takes that easily. I was on bloody kalms tablets the last few weeks of that. Hell I was so tense that I genuinely pulled muscles in my arm and neck celebrating the goals against Palace and Sunderland!!!

Here we are, 5 games to go, top of the league and yet the majority of us are pissed off, miserable and would happily see the back of the manager. Surely this situation has never happened before in football! And it's not entitlement either as far as I'm concerned. It's been a uniquely unenjoyable season due to the style of play and In my 32 seasons bar the ones that ended in relegation this is probably the season I've disliked going the most which is incredible bearing in mind there's a decent chance we could finish champions! Pretty clear as well from the reaction on here over the last few weeks and the murmurs of discontent throughout the whole season that Maresca will not last long here. Despite what some football hipsters tell you his football is dull and shite and he increasingly looks like what he is, a coach promoted beyond his means. The rapport with the fans just isn't there to pull him through any particularly long period of bad form. Hel be long gone by next Xmas regardless of what happens.

Think we can all agree his finest hour was helping Forest towards the Championship trapdoor in the mid 00s. Has my respect just for that!

I was in Madrid a few weeks back and felt compelled to have a look round the club shop at the bernabau. Home shirt with Bellinghams name and number available for the low low price of 120 euros!!! Makes ours look only mildly overpriced.

As the wheels have now completely fell off I genuinely don't see any benefit in keeping him around. Both leagues are ready to smack us with points deductions anyway so you can't use not wanting to overspend as a reason to keep him. He wouldn't last til Xmas if we somehow get promoted anyway, and if we dont he's out in the summer. Frankly our best hope of promotion is to bin him now and rely on the new manager bounce. Even if like last season it doesn't work at least we won't have to suffer his f**king 'controlled and patient' bullshit style anymore!

Yeah I'd done fellowship and two towers there previously as well. For me LotR is the best film trilogy of all time and came out during my uni years so have a bit of an emotional attachment to them. It's also got the best film score ever imo so couldnt not go to these. Definitely reccomend seeing a fave film with orchestra if you've not before. Seen Raiders and Jurassic Park previously and going to see the Tim Burton Batman in a few months. Wonder if theyl have a Prince impersonator for that one 😄

Watched Return of the King with full orchestra at Royal Albert Hall over the weekend. Quality experience. Not watched it in a while and forgotten how spectacularly brilliant it is. Crazy that it's now 20 years old. The whole rings trilogy was truly lightning in a bottle film making. Nothing made nowadays comes close.

Maybe it is pathetic but seeing as you mentioned him I imagine that the vast majority of fans would be pleased to have Ward banned for a lot more than 9 games. Just to be on the safe side!