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6’8, so a big presence

The one time we played two up front it was the dynamic duo of Carranza and Ayew . I don’t rate either but Ayew and Daka would complement each other

No I mean more so when person A is banished and person B starts crying

It is tense but I can’t stand the crying when people leave - they’re not actually dead ot banished

Nobody really bought up Jessie gunning for Stephen. Their theories have all been based on gut feeling rather than any events that have played out. I can’t believe they’re how many series in and still fall into the “I don’t think you’re a traitor trap”, the only guarantee is your own faithful status.

It’s like the video of Stoke and Leicester fans at the Brittania in 2008 in Hilde’s recycling bin - the way the bottles are flying in this evening. Glug glug glug

Irish pubs aren't my favourite of the genre but the Grapes (and Fagans) is top notch. Very reasonable prices last time I was in too

Yeah, even hard to whittle those down but I'd say do the Wellington, Gardner's Rest, Harlequin, Fat Cat, Kelham Island Tavern and Shakespeare's. There are others that are pretty good but not quite top drawer (Riverside, Ship, Millowners). Heading back into the city Three Tuns leads onto Fagan's then the Grapes and Dog & Partridge are a stones throw away from each other. Probably a set of 10 as good as any in the country.

I think you'd need a couple of weekends to make a good dent. The suburbs are the best in the country for pubs I think

We started to look a little better (still not great) with Daka in the side because he just stands ands moves like a striker. Then we end up with Ayew in the side again, clogging everything up like hair in the plughole, probably because he's a massive moaner and Cifuentes is weak

The two tower blocks by the station now are a total blight

Some people struggling to pick players they ‘hate’ are coming at it wrong. It doesn’t necessarily mean you despise them personally. Like Ayew is no way near as hateful, as say Ward, but I cannot stand watching the bloke play. The temerity to wear the No. 9 as a winger that never scores, taking the mantle of our greatest ever player to put in dogshit, self-obsequious performances every week. He makes the team worse to make himself look better but doesn’t achieve that either. I also hated the signing, hated Cooper’s recruitment so it culminates in me being wound up 95% of the time he’s on the pitch. He’s scored 3 non-penalty goals this season and one was a total gift at Oxford. He’s started 18 games. He doesn’t press either.

Way before my time, but Norman Leet right?

Are the impairment figures included in the accounts or are they bundled up into one figure?

Choudhury too. These are players that even small sales make an outsized impact PSR wise. This would have been proved by the McAteer sale but we never learn.

I half-agree. Since it's been implemented in England at least there's probably been more variation in the top 6/7 than there's been in the preceding period. In theory it should help Man United but it hasn't at all. Man City have lost their grip slightly. Liverpool benefitted but spunked a load, badly, as soon as they could. It punishes rank incompetence and that's the one thing we've been the best at. Villa are always teetering on the edge but because they recruited a top manager - they're fine. If your model is sustainable then it almost works in favour

I think whatever he does will just fall on deaf ears. Apparently Rudkin doesn't even work Fridays which says it all

Also thanks @Terraloon for the insight, it's hard to navigate this stuff

Yep, one bad window f ucks a club because you're firefighting in year 2 and 3. We deserve it because we were first in trouble in 22-23 (?), hence selling Fofafa for £70m-ish and buying Faes for £15m-ish and only last summer had a relatively (for our standards) big net spend. It was only this summer we started shifting deadwood and spending less. A stich in time saves nine and we thought let's course correct about 280 stitches in. We don't spend much on transfers but we've just never had the wage bill under control. I suspect will still be at about 90-100 % of wages/turnover. The trouble comes next year, we'll have to sign circa 10 players whilst we still have some whopping losses in our 3 year window. Plus a material pay out we'd hope.

It's baking in unsustainable practises. Say we sold Faes for £3m now to get his £45k pw (speculative, with a relegation deduction clause) wages off the books. We take a PSR hit of about £1.5m but we've just freed up about £3.25m in wages. When a club has multiple poor years it's really hard to find the escape velocity to get out of regulatory trouble because you can't sell to raise fast cash and cut the wage bill. Also as already well established it incentivises selling academy players which is hardly encouraging sustainability either. Look at Newcastle selling Anderson and Minteh just to waste it on Wissa type signings. Just scrap the regulations, let teams spend what they want.

Say we were paying Carranza £10k per week, even half of that weekly could go towards a decent-ish young striker on loan. Cifuentes would have worked with Deniz Gül at Hammarby, only gets 10 minutes here and there for Porto, a 6 month loan would suit all 3 parties. My feeling is that we barely even try

Loathe to blame PSR rather than our own mismanagement but when you're constantly in the shit, it makes it really hard to sell players below their book value. You have to incur larger wages, bonuses, insurance for an extra 12/24/36/48 months because a -£4m hit is really costly with -£45m headroom over 3 years. PSR regs prevent getting your house in order in the short term. On the flip side, Top deserves this all on his head for replacing the FD internally and the distinguished Chief Exec with somebody wildly out of the depth.

Leicestershire must be about the worst funded place the country per head. The schools I think have the absolute lowest funding p/h, regionally the East Mids receives the least transport-wise. No devolved mayoralty (not that I want it) and the funding that brings. The stoic, head down nature of the midlands doesn't help us out much in pork barrel land.

She'd just had enough, that's why she was so abrasive about things, she's astute enough to not blow it up deliberately. What is laughable is both a traitor and a faithful have self-destructed trying to get Rachel out and the gorms are like, "All the evidence points to... Jade"

Although I am sceptical of some of their small batch stuff, sometimes I think it’s just barrels of the core range gone wrong and rebadged. Lots of breweries do it