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Apparently he was betting on Leicester home games. Each week he was betting on away win, with less than 0.5 home goals. His defence is that it wasn’t really gambling when it’s a certain event.

Rather than heap the pressure on, or argue about the merits of starting him in the first team, can we all enjoy the fact a local lad is starting to do it at the highest level and look like he can go right to the top. As much misery as the first team are bringing at the moment, I’m excited for one of our own who looks like the sky’s the limit. Would In prefer he did it for us, absolutely! But if he has to leave, I will enjoy following his career and seeing if he can fulfill the clear potential and play in world cups and champion league. Good luck to the young lad

She’s got my player of the season vote already.

I don’t think you can say no chance, given Ruud has picked up just 7 points, is there a chance Cooper might have picked up 8 or even 9? Maybe, that’s not to say with Cooper we would certainly be safe and all would be well, but you certainly can’t say there’s no chance we’d have been worse off under him. We were at the very least scoring goals in his reign.

I’ll trade you a complete overhaul of the squad, the recruitment, a reduction in wages and a restructuring of the club and I’ll give you an unpublished internal review with lots of learnings, circling back, and wondering… What could go wrong?

No chance, if we’re going down the Alex Smithies route then I’ll vote for Fatawu or Ricardo to prove a point- Ward doesn’t deserve a participation ribbon even if it is a joke.

Time for some positivity and happiness, I just read on the Facebook Steve Clarridge made his debut on this day in 1996. A 1.2 million quid signing from Birmingham. Never really gets his name mentioned when we talk about legends of the club, but two of the most important and memorable goals in our history. First, this could be the winner from Clarridge… Wembley fell silent for what felt like an eternity, as we got over the shock of Martin bringing Kalac on… Then pure euphoria… on a level I don’t know if I had seen before or since, it was mayhem. The return to the Premier League and what we thought at the time was the start of our golden era. The. The cup final replay at Hillsbourgh, in extra time and he’s done it again! We’ve got our hands on silverware and we back into Europe!! What a legend he turned out to be…

I can’t agree with this, his defending was woeful, we conceded on average 1 per game, and id say most games a striker missed a sitter or Mads made a worldie of a save. Id say if you watch the games back, the fact we were winning games and crap Championships strikers let him off the hook. Yes he could pass a ball, but let’s not let that gloss over the shit show at the back.

Is that more to do with coaches being development driven rather than results driven, allowing players to flourish and attack, and play their football rather than having teams who sit back and keep it tight playing for the 0-0 or sitting I trying to nick a goal on the break.

I remember that last season at Filbert Street, where on the pitch things were every bit as bad as they are now. At about this stage of the season a whole host of players were brought into the first team and it was exciting and gave us some joy towards the end of the season, from memory (So could be wrong) but Piper, Heath, Ashton, Stevenson, Reeves and young Tommy Wright… I think there were a few others too But it was fresh, we knew we were down but watching Piper run with the ball and some of the others get stuck in and give there all. Jon Ashton, I remember thinking looked alright. I think that’s what we need now, just throw some in, there’s no pressure and they can’t do any worse than what we’re seeing now.

Anyone know if the dog can play right back?

Can someone let me know if we score a goal please? and post any goals on here! I need to celebrate something!

That’s not why Chelsea give out long term contracts, they do it to fiddle the books. Also, being certain you’re never realistically going to be relegated gives you certain privileges that the other 14 clubs can’t really take.

I was, and I stand by that. I hold the board and whoever is responsible for hiring and firing the manager way more responsible for what happened that season than I do Brendan. Brendan told everyone who would listen the squad in its form that season wasn’t good enough and needed reinforcements. That didn’t happen and it resulted in pretty much what he told us would happen. My biggest thing is the inaction, Brendan had proved he could be successful with the right parts in place. He asked the board for reinvestment in the squad and they didn’t. So they either thought we didn’t need it, in which case they should have got rid of Rodgers and said if you can’t do it with these players that we’ll find someone who can.

He looked a lot better in the Championship because of really poor finishing from some awful strikers. If you watch any game back from last season, we gave away two or three big chances a game. What makes the three year deal worse for me, is we had the upper hand. He wasn’t going to be offered better terms anywhere else and we knew how bad he was at the top level. At 35 he’s not going to be any betwer

When Rodgers said at the start of the relegation season the squad he had available wasn’t good enough to compete at the level. The board or Rudkin had two options in my opinion. Invest and back him, and bring in the players we needed to compete. or Sack him right there and then. And bring in someone who could get the players we had available to compete at that level. At the time we had just had a European semi final, our profile was high and we could have got just about anyone to come in. They chose neither! And we weee relegated! Appalling mismanagement and should have been the first thing to come from the review.

The two seasons we ended up finishing 5th, the failure to invest in January, and then watch as we fell away at the final hurdle was a disaster. To do it once, was crazy to do it twice in a row was negligence at best.

Anyone saying we don’t know how to score goals is clueless. No one in the Premier League has scored more own goals than us!

Stocksbridge Park Steels (A)

As they are now I’d be quite happy

Just imagine a game towards the end of the season at the Vitality Stadium, where one team is going for Champions League qualification and the other is fighting relegation… Absolutely no chance the relegation fighting team wins…

Jesus, who pissed in your corn flakes? My apologies for having a different outlook to you.

I’d argue ours was the worst of any newly promoted teams that I can remember in the Premier League. Even the shot team we had in 94/95 gave us Draper, Parker, Lawrence and Robins.

I think I’m an addict! No matter how shit we are the previous week(s) I always get excited for the next game. I’ve seen some absolute honkers over the years, and I’ve sworn I will never go again, or I’m giving up! Not watching. Not setting the alarm for 2 am ruining my weekend, but when it comes to it, I get just as excited and hopeful. Now this lot, are probably the worst of all time for me, not just in terms of ability, but effort, general like ability, and lack of change when it’s so glaringly oblivious it’s needed! But I know come tomorrow morning, I’ll be getting excited thinking this is the day Bobby and Ayew click and we turn our season around! Come on you blues!!!

Still less than Hojlund, so however bad our transfers are, at least Man Utd are the 1% worse.