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We weren’t newly promoted in 22/23 - it works both ways and we f ucked both.

Cooper had a dogshit PPG at Forest, when it looked like we might have a deduction coming it was an even worse appointment because he’s so negative. The board’s usual lazy managerial recruitment costed us in the summer and the same lazy recruitment confirmed relegation with RVN.

1850 is a pretty good number. Far beyond what most surveys get. It’s the club’s duty to make sure people fill it in - it doesn’t feel like they flogged it. They could have texted it out, left cards on the seats, announced it at a home game but that’d require a bit of effort for an answer they’d rather not get. @Sol thewall Bamba how many surveys have they actually done over the years? 3?

I feel sorry for Iversen, we’ve completely ****ed his around for a decade and then refused to sell him when an offer came in

The DoF should have told him Ward wasn’t up to it but he’s too meek. A vole of a man.

Great ball. 2 assists in 300 or so minutes

Finally set up a trading 212 account. Put what I stupidly had sat idling in a current into ETFs.

The back 3 or 4 rows of the Kop stand away right? I have a feeling a few more rows will want to stand now. The common sense solution is to quickly install more safe standing ‘seats’ but I have a feeling the club will spend more (than additional bars) on stewarding making people sit down. On the upside, the new ops director has came across well from what I’ve read - seems a bit more proactive.

The Rutland & Derby didn’t need much of a refurb - if at all, certainly didn’t need this doing to it. Looks terrible in this photo

I asked AI and the average salary for a manager in the Portuguese league is about to £100 - 300k p/a. If we showed a bit of iniative we could very easily 4/5/6x their salary which would be a big incentive to join now. Vasco Matos is doing incredibly well at Santa Clara. Marco Silva joined a doomed Hull side, admittedly he was unemployed but we're a global name, pay well, we have the skeleton of a talented squad and a top 5 training ground in the world. Getting somebody in now and giving them 5 or so games gives them a massive head start.

We could be prepping for next season with both a new manager and blooding young players. We’re doing neither. RVN can’t coach an attack, it’s not just the players aren’t up to it - I’d expect a bottom half championship to offer more than we are. He’s also barely played Mavididi and Buonanotte, neither of whom are world beaters but they’re not worse than Ayew and Reid. Persisting with players who are only getting worse is dumb, particularly when we actually have a promising crop coming through. There is essentially zero point in Seagrave if we don’t appoint managers that will play youth teamers. If Yamal came through our system he’d get his first start in 18 months time not before being loaned to Stenhousemuir first. Rudkin wields the power at the club and is also the academy director and never does anything to help academy prospects with that autonomy.

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Not sure how unpopular it is but the Premier League and Champions League eras are much more relevant than whatever came before. I sympathise with 'football didn't start in 1992 sentiment as there is some general erasure of the past - but it's almost a different sport now and that revolution happened in the early 1990s with the confluence of major rule changes. The offside law changed in 1990, the backpass law in 1992, the Bosman ruling in 95 - modern football is so different from what occurred before that it makes sense to differentiate the two. The PL and CL both rebranded around 1992-1993 and football is completely different. Dixie Dean scoring scoring 60 goals in a season as forward playing against 2-3-5 formations with 3.9 goals per game just isn't relevant to the modern game. There;s lots to complain about modern football now (so much of it is crap e.g ticket pricing, over saturation, refereeing discourse) but when you watch a 30+ year old game it's a chore.

Wharton is back fit and exactly the sort of player we're crying out for. Henderson and Walker will be 36 at the World Cup ffs.

It’s still the case. It’s not like we benefit from the infinitely larger non-fan pool with better experience, ability and execution. Stems from the crap, zero-accountability owner and CEO. Football marketing should be EASY because you have 10,000s of fans that would love to give you more money.

There’s all sorts of top of the funnel out of home stuff they could do. They could afford to install digital billboards all over and even use the space for additional sponsorship - that’d require some slightly unconventional thinking. They like safe-not-quite-failure instead

They’re complacent because the footballing department was competent 10 years ago. It’s like we won the euromillions jackpot with a £2 scratch card. The only advertising channels are digital which is a bigger problem than the digital itself (although the emails only ever try to flog shit).

It’s a classic case of the club not realising fans pass on tickets as a consequence of a sclerotic ticketing system

West Brom aren’t bigger than Birmingham City in *Birmingham*

He's not 21 years off state pension age tbf

It should be exciting and I really hope it it is - but I can't shake the feeling they'll roll it out in the most KPFC fashion

We deserve the ignominy of it

Should be - but it's like saying we're signing a new winger, sounds exciting but it turns out to be Joe Aribo

He seems more competent just by virtue of having a football background, compared to his predecessor

We're already on 62 conceded , won't score that many either - I thought this was pessimistic too