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The sad thing is that the players' attitude has rubbed off on the manager instead of the manager's attitude rubbing off on the players. We're done.

Absolutely buzzing for this.

Wife chose a film the other night for us to watch. It was called "Blink Twice" with Channing Tatum. What a terrible film - like one of the worst films I'd ever seen. The following night, I chose a film - another slasher movie. I thought that I would show her that selecting a random film would be better than the previous night's effort, so chose "Infinity Pool". OMG, it was even worse. Dreadful! Avoid!

Never too late to do the right thing.

Jamie Vardy needs to leave.

Gary Lineker

Who?

Who knows, but I definitely think there are some major issues at the club that we don't know about. Everything is so unexplainable, there just has to be something behind the scenes.

Confident for this.

I really think it's pointless to sack him if the intention is to stay up. There are two big problems: 1. It doesn't matter who the manager is, the players are the same. The talent in the squad is a bigger issue than the quality of the manager. 2. If RVN does go, it's extremely difficult to see who would come in to replace him who would be any better. Given our recent history in the speed of lining up a replacement, we could be down to 10 games to save the season. With that said, there does need to be a grown up conversation which centres on whether RVN will be our manager in the Championship. If he doesn't fancy it, then get rid now. If we think RVN isn't the man for that task, then get rid now. The most pointless thing would be to keep him here until the end of the season, get relegated and then sack him. That would be stupid.

Can we have a third option? "It doesn't matter"?

Nobody would

Yes. I continually find it disgusting that governments seem to always try to find a scapegoat in cases like this. Captain Hindsight and their bunch of hangers on: It was the police's fault. It was social service's fault. It was the hospital's fault. Now, it was Amazon's fault. All of this finger pointing deflects from the actual perpetrators of the crime.

Ruud might be the right guy, but he's here at the wrong time. We need someone who can grind out results with a below par bunch of players. It won't be pretty, but we need to be picking up points with 0-0, 1-1 and the odd narrow victory here and there. RVN might be capable of being a top performing manager, but not here, not with this bunch of players and not now.

Must be a cracking game if most if the comments are critiquing the co-commentator

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czx8rz2y7dxo Trump inauguration? Nope. The planet on fire? Nope. Gaza peace deal? Nope. Rising knife crime? Nope. Everyone stop! This story has a twist! Just in time for the launch of her new show.

Some people already forgetting the absolute banger he scored against QPR. Keep.

Can't believe how many people expressing disappointment. We need a full back. This guy plays full back. We have next to no spending power, we're at the bottom of the league, in terrible form. We're not about to sign prime Roberto Carlos

So basically, he's probably the best paid assistant goalkeeper coach in the world.

03:02 Shocking

Sounds more like he wants to buy the whole city, not just the footy club!

Unfortunately this would suit the big clubs better. As fabulously wealthy as Top is, he can't get close to the owners of Chelsea, Man City, Newcastle and others. If a level playing field is what the Premier League want, then salary caps and maybe NFL style drafts could help. Unfortunately, they don't want a level playing field. Having rules that places a limit on your spending tied to your revenue can only stifle ambition of clubs with modest revenues in the long run.

I love a good underdog story. Forest are pretty much trying to do the exact tying that we did in the same way. Isn't imitation the greatest form of flattery or something? Anyway, it isn't us and would never trump our achievement. The Vardy story, the Ranieri story, "that" Gary Lineker tweet, 5000-1, the great escape and so on. NOTHING will come close to the romance of that season. If our league win was a surprising box office smash from a limited budget, Forest feels like a bigger budget sequel with a different writer that wasn't really needed and isn't nearly as good as the original. Good luck to them though. Even if they do win it, they have to follow it up with at least one more trophy in the next 5 years to be in the conversation about who is better.

True, people forget that there's been more than 50 teams to have competed in the Premier League, it's about half of all the current EFL teams. It's noteworthy too, that it's pretty rare to have more than 10 consecutive years in the prem, unless you are in the big 6 (or Everton). In fact, I think it's only West Ham and Palace outside of those 7 that are currently enjoying a run of 10+ years. Maybe they've got it right?

The issue is that there's a ceiling to all this. In theory, I'd suggest that a well run club of reasonable stature could come from anywhere in the football league and with enough time, good strategy and a little luck become an established mid table premier league team. With the TV money, the right sponsorship deals and clever recruitment, there's probably enough revenue available to have a business model that can sustain multiple uneventful premier league campaigns. From that foundation, all you can do is hope that you can have the odd good season, maybe a good cup run or two and maybe a European adventure mixed in. As soon as you try to regularly push for top 6 or top 4, the revenue cannot sustain it. If you want your players to stay, you have to pay them top 4 or top 6 wages, or they'll be off and you'll drop back down. Or, like we did, fund those massive wages gambling on future success and European competition. To really compete at the very top of the richest league in the world, you need globally generated revenues. Outside of the big 6, it's impossible to sustain it. The likes of Bournemouth, Brighton, Fulham, Forest and others are having their time in the sun, but it won't last. How badly they crash is another debate, maybe they'll have a soft landing to mid to bottom half, or maybe they'll suffer from the same busted flush that we did and find themselves on a cliff edge. Time will tell.