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Alcohol, drugs, ticket touting, public order offences e.g tragedy changing/gestures

Massively increase FBO criteria = Wow FBOs are increasing, policing football is harder than ever! We need to crack down on fans! Our fanbase is very supine compared to the others on the list, I can only speculate the club are very accommodating when it comes to helping the authorities with evidence etc.

Taco Bell is absolute slop an all. At least that’s cheap

No, some ladies on the plane there mentioned it but with just the two days we stayed in Valletta and quickly visited the 3 cities

Back from two days in Malta. Valletta is incredible for a place with a population of ~ 7k. The war museum, gardens and fortifications are ace, Nice pubs, bars and restaurants and the weather was in the mid-high teens. Remarkably I’ve picked up a bit of colour so I look a touch less pallid.

Rudkin was the biggest issue for a while but then eventually it becomes Top’s fault for his pathetic inertia and incompetence.

It’s been on the cards that he’s leaving for a while. Off to UAE or something

Went well, constructive comments

My grandad moved to Chapel St Leonards so Skegness is like Vegas in comparison, I don't mind it that much

There was absolutely no reason to do it, if the justification is why does it matter, why do it its the first place? Clever stunt from Nike as now they can oh-so-heroically own the gammons

Clappers were also a novelty, they coincided with our best ever run of form. In turn, thousands more people started signing and the claps probably did encourage a better atmosphere for a time. As we got worse, the number of singers dropped so we were left with clappers drowning out the chants. They're a one trick pony and the trick has been done, then tried a few more times yet. The club are happy to pay 100s(?) of agency staff to put the clappers out, or to distribute them at the turnstiles, have thousands of bits of cardboard printed, distributed and binned - every home game. However, safe standing is a bridge too far for them

Forest at least had (reckless) fun with their spending. We signed 7 players for a fee from 2020-23 on a net spend of c. £40m, just shows how out of control our wage bill was - good job the people responsible have all been sa- oh wait.

Doesn't matter if they can't get tickets and there isn't enough availability for them to move in. This is entirely on the club for gatekeeping access.

People building beer mat towers in pubs

Crafty is still the best around.

The overall trajectory is terrible and the non-footballing management aren't accountable to anybody? We're heavily reliant on Macquarie and we're banking on PL TV money that's far from guaranteed. If you worked for a company like that, you'd have an eye on the door.

Even if he comes good he's not a DM, he's fairly similar to Winks and the latter is far superior. He becomes a very expensive rotation option when we could actually recoup some much needed cash. Dearly hope we sell him.

Yes I was thanks

You are miserable, Trent Rockets might be more your scene

I went to the sponsors lunch the other week. Seems a very happy camp, Jarvis and the coaches were saying it's the fittest the squad has ever been, new lads have settled in well. Another hugely encouraging thing is the batting coaching, looking at the scores at the end of the season lots of players have improved with the bat. James Taylor is a gent too.

Ah yeah of course

Patel Harris Hill Handscomb Mulder Cox Scriven Is a very strong batting lineup imo. Budinger, Kimber, Mike, Swindells as options too.

He's a Watford right? I thought Almunia was there because of the Deeney goal before realising it was him smashing the ball into Wood's face

Iheanacho had just scored 12 in 16 PL nineties, the heir to Vardy signing made sense but it wasn't an immediate priority. Vardy scored 15 league goals too so he wasn't obviously on the wane. We did need a striker and I like Daka, it wasn't an overly expensive deal, the one we should be making but that was a low priority move. Vestergaard was bad recruitment, he'd played for a Southampton side that from memory had conceded 60+ in consecutive seasons. He was obviously very slow, you're right we panicked after Fofana's injury but he's a totally different style of player. He was turning 28 and we gave him a 3 year deal on big wages. We unnecessarily lumbered ourselves with him and given Rodgers immediately picked Amartey instead it was unnecessary. Soumare, on paper an exciting signing but his pressure numbers at Lille were really poor and our the scouts should have clocked the switching off and lack of effort - maybe in a functional title winning side it was just masked. In theory he's very saleable still but the wages we whacked him hamstrung us. If we prioritised a RW (Lookman was historically a LW and on loan), Perez only started 15 games, scored 2 and assisted 1 - which would have been sensible we wouldn't have the headroom to make mistakes like Vestergaard. Strategically spending the most (net) that we ever have on non-starters is just bizarre and as we know now the knock on effect is tremendous.

When we splurged in 21/22 with our highest net spend - we spunked it on players who weren't likely to first choices. Daka, Vestergaard and Soumare weren't what we needed at the time particularly. If we'd have just loaned in a CB instead of spending circa 17m on an obvious back up we'd have been far better off. It was gamble signing those three and we didn't have to make a bet like that. A proper RW should have been the priority.