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I've mentioned dit before punditry is just completely unmeritocratic. Fame is basically the yardstick rather than insightfulness, it's crap. The likes of Danny Murphy and formerly Jenas being so overpromoted is the worst, mediocre players and pundits. At the very least Owen and Rooney had good careers but it doesn't excuse crap punditry. Steven Warnock thought Red Star Belgrade (60k full ground, European cup winners) were semi-pro, should never have gotten a job in the media again after that.

Crucially, he seems like a strong character and he's not been tarred by being an absolute shit willy puller in successive failure squads. Nelson and Souttar in a slightly deeper line would be formidable, if we can't create much in open play we absolutely must be a better SP team and these two are massive.

Ah the old 3321

Too many people revel in the idea the fan base doesn't care. Yes there are happy clappers but they don't make any real noise, they're not passionate, they're not going to counter protest.

Away support is more pissed off usually too

Top will get asked softball pre-prepared questions that reveal nothing and half the fanbase will lap it up. We just have to ignore these morons, they’re geriatric and moan on Facebook - they’re not counter protesting are they

I think Top probably just has no idea about this

The FD was promoted within (finance hasn’t been our strong point, a lot out of their hands admittedly) relatively recently. It’s already too insular and he’s the most senior business figure. From what I’ve heard there’s people out of their depth behind the scenes and it sounds a sinking ship. The worrying thing is none of this make us very saleable.

We need a new CEO rapidly and I just don’t think Top is bothered about sorting it out

Careful what you wish for like Mike Ashley running the club in a stable manner!

Protesting to force a sale

Been saying this for ages

We could afford to be so frivolous, even now to a degree (!), if we managed to shift players instead of letting their contracts run down. Rudkin has a unique ability to overpay on transfer fees and wages on shit players, they turn out to be shit and then overvalues them, walks away from deals, there aren't forthcoming offers due to said wages, we loan players out with options that aren't exercised and then we pay most of their wages... only to leave on a free. Our business model is essentially sell good players to fund the runaway wage budget spent on dross we can't or won't sell. Eventually we'll run out of the family silver through the 1 in 4 or 5 good players we buy, plus the academy pipeline won't always reliably produce. All of this is secured against TV revenue of a league we won't return to whilst Top and Rudkin are at the club.

Blue Bell - tiny and almost one of a kind. Very congenial and fun, beer is well kept. The Phoenix - where I'd drink if I lived there. Great lager and cask options, multi-roomed, by happenstance my girlfriend and I ended up there with their quiz on so they brought out a massive plate of pork pie for each table, even though there was only two of us. Came second or third which was a good showing. The Swan - feels a little like the Bath Hotel in Sheffield Golden Ball - community pub so very buzzy and fun but felt a little like being at house party to me. Then Market Cat isn;t on the guide but the best new Thornbridge pub, beer selection is excellent, likewise with Pivni. The only one that I stumbled on that wasn't recommended anywhere was the Three Cranes, very nice cask-led old man pub.

The Cannon and McAteer sales are the only good sales we’ve made in years because two teams were stupid enough to go in with a high offer.

https://theeuropeanbarguide.com/a-day-out-in-york/ Did this in February, absolutely spot on as always. Black Swan is skippable

All these Groby foxes on foxestalk? Bots. Thai bots running interference to make sure we don’t criticise larbsticks.

It was about £55m - we had a better squad than Ipswich and Southampton. The issue is we bought absolute shit for a lot of money - Sunderland far outspent us but who would you rather have, Xhaka for £15m ish or Skipp for £25m? We never ride our winners again, we make a successful transfer and never look to tap into the same markets again - we revert to buying shit domestically

His touch isn’t obviously shit but he never has the ball fully in control, to such a degree he never links up well as he’s stretching to play the ball. Doesn’t have the strength to hold the ball up, not good in the air, paceless. He wouldn’t stand out in League 1.

I think he’d perhaps work best as an assistant now. He’s had lots of surgery and I don’t think stress of the manager’s job would be good for him. However him being back in any capacity would be great. I’ve pushed back on the idea in the past but he was the visionary behind it all.

Quite a few roles have gone unfilled behind the scenes so I'm not sure we have the competence to order in displays currently. The acting CEO can't be bothered to turn up at all.

I agree however I think there are very few managers that would fire up this squad. 7 of the players that featured on Saturday have their deals expiring in June. I don't think Maresca was inspirational he just had conviction in his coaching and was good at conveying it - if Cifuentes was a better coach in footballing terms the rest would follow.

I swear love, I tried to kill a fly and I swatted the remote and it just went onto that channel

Extremely unlikely we're signing a player directly from South America, even more unlikely we sign somebody whose buy option will be exercised. Far too much complexity for our clowns all round. If we (needlessly, oh wait, makes it more likely) sign a centre back it will be a Jamal Lascelles type figure, rather than just playing Nelson and spending the money where we need at LB, CM or upfront.