ARM1968

It’s a cliche now, but if you want to go up you have to show some pashun innit!!! Trouble is our system begets arrogance and passivity. Tail end of a championship promotion push that is not what is required. Enzo hasn’t got the balls to change things and wouldn’t know what to change things too anyway.

Might be time to stop calling Spurs the bottlers. The crown has been taken.

I didn’t want to be right but I said early January that I could see trouble coming and felt that we would bottle it. As usual I was ridiculed and shot down, just like the time when we missed out on Champion's League. I said that that would be the start of a rapid decline. If I could see it, why can’t those paid millions to run us? It’s an absolute travesty. We have thrown away certain promotion sticking to a system that EVERYONE had found out. Ahh well, be different next season with academy players and whoever is left of our gutted squad. Sometimes following this club is unnecessarily painful.

You are seeing the final collapse happening before your eyes. We are done.

You know they will.

Yes, don't be too offended, many posters on FT do like a player to hound unnecessarily. Soumare didn’t hit any heights with us, but her certainly isn’t as bad as many make out. Likely better suited to Spanish and Italian football better. I’d take him back personally and see what Enzo could do with him.

Champions League money is significant still. I was talking more about league prize money. Reverse the tiering. But I do get what you mean. Money in football needs a radical rethink to at least lessen the slope of difference if not level the playing field. It would make the game far more interesting. Most teams now just aspire to remain in the Premier League. Few can really dream of the sort of miracle we encountered and that’s a little sad.

It is basically a system designed to maintain the status quo. Almost impossible to fly high enough to compete with the big boys without your wings melting. The big teams have far more revenue and so are insulated to a degree. I wonder what would happen if you reversed the prize money, so that winning the Prem was for winnings sake and not for the money? Probably stupid and liable to cause a mad scramble to the bottom, but we need a radical rethink as the divide between clubs is just getting wider and wider.

I tell you what happens, we take the money and get relegated again. Sort our finances out properly and go again, far weaker on the pitch but more stable financially. Least we won the FA Cup.

Ruskin isn’t going anywhere sadly. Top leans on him too much. The weasel has burrowed in deep and Too hasn’t got the balls or the vision to get rid of the joker. So we are stuck with him.

IF we get promoted, and I’m by no means sure we will, we simply won’t be able to afford the investment required to make Enzoball work. Probably better to take the money, balance the books and accept our fate. This whole sorry episode is entirely down to missing champions league twice and the utter mismanagement of wages and contracts. Top clearly cannot see the issues and they are obvious.

This was all predicted by some here the moment we failed to secure champions league the 2nd time. It’s ok though, we won the FA Cup. Well, the fall has been hard and may get harder yet.

Did you see a swallow? Is it summer?

That needs to start with the players.

It’s in our hands. We have the players. I think we go back to 1st and stay there.

Almost nobody I imagine. Sell yes. Maybe a couple of very low key purchases and a few loans. That will be it.

Better second half no doubt. Helped by the own goal. Gulf in class is astonishing still. Don’t care. Let’s get promoted and worry about next season and all its shenanigans when it comes.

With 10 men against Chelsea? Yeah.

Better that than an extra pointless 30 mins. Salvaged some pride.

Was it a red though? Just seemed like a collision as he ran across him. Harsh.

A dose of reality. Chelsea are a mid table Prem team at the moment, but are a yard or more quicker than us. We get destroyed in the Prem without huge investment in players and we won’t have the money. Second half could be embarrassing.

Gulf in class is quite dramatic. As expected. We may well get an absolute beating. Not going to help us.

It’s a simple answer. Most of us are terrified that we will screw it up. Thats it.

So near……..

I would disagree. Herms is probably better with his feet at close range. Stors better shot stopper, commands the area better and decent long range distribution. I don’t feel we are better or worse with either in the goal.