dmayne7

So predictable. But the ref is beyond corrupt

Not exactly like they'll need the help to beat us

He then stops play as soon as we win the ball back

Haha, how is that not at least a booking. Arguably 2 yellows

Winks started like he's absolutely hammered.

Completely random amount as well...

The football club owned by a betting company? Colour me surprised

I agree with everything apart from this bit. We didn't actually try to push the rules initially and gain a competitive advantage did we? Tielemans arguably the only player we bought where there was a question mark over whether he would be interested without a big pay packet but even then that's unlikely. A guy we could have sold for a massive profit but instead let him leave on a free. We had a pretty modest net spend, and it's not like we were spending the money of free transfers where they expect and inflated wage. You're giving the board far too much credit; it's just complete an utter mismanagement not some attempt to be clever with the rules. Over inflated wages out of loyalty, letting valuable assets go on frees and the pathetic attempts to grow the club commercially. We deserve whatever we get just for being so poorly run.

Wiping the slate clean is absolute madness. You're just absolving him of all his errors with absolutely nothing given back.

Unlikely that the goal puts him on a big goalscoring run but have got to say that his all-round game looks way better this season. Lots of decent link up/hold up play

Always fear with those types of challenges as to whether it's big knee damage. Basically how I did mine both times

Didn't have a crystal ball so not what I meant

Daka doing more there defensively than the rest of the back 4 have so far

Quality finish. He deserves that

Wrong pass. We've been honking then get a great chance but awful decision making as per usual

This team has better players for sure so that highlights the failings of thks team

I agree that suggesting he just plays safe passes is nonsense considering his passing ability is his main strength, though he is very guilty of slowing the play down too much. But you just can't blame Ayew for that rubbish pass. No player was getting that and keeping it under control. I'd expect such an experienced player to make a much better decision with the ball, but especially if you're having a very odd day with your passing as JV was. Funny thing is, Okoli's distribution was miles better than his in that game (not for a second suggesting he's not dodgy on the ball at best!)

It's such a low percentage pass though. And he did it multiple times in that match and got away with it. And you surely know that Ayew is going to struggle to get the ball even if it's a go pass (and let's not pretend he could have done much more with it). It's just crap play. Attempting to suggest that it's some sort of chance to vilify him unfairly just makes you look silly and plays up to the cult of Vestergaard. Go and have a look in his thread and see how little stick he's had when he's made loads of mistakes or been partly at fault for goals. Quite the opposite of anything. And the thing is, unlike Faes who is just utter crap, Vestergaard can and should be doing better at this level than he has been this year

People keep trotting this out and it's arguably true simply because he's played so much more than the others. Mind you, Thomas has been crap but he's probably made less big mistakes than Vestergaard which says a lot. There's some weird cult around Vestergaard with some people on here. His distribution last time out was absolutely shocking and led to yet another goal but there's not a whisper about him on his thread? As far Nelson, he should have been the player the team was built around so I can only imagine there was definitely something else going on.

No high enough for my liking . To be fair, there's a few that had higher than I expected (though I certainly don't think are overrated) but still a few undercooked; Evans the main one

He is

I'm not sure you can actually fail PSF. The owners seem to always cover the cost or find a sponsorship to cover it. I sold those guys plus Winks (and probably somebody else in forgetting), loaned out Hamza, Vestergaard, VK. On a test save I did a few weeks ago where I just whizzed through to get a feel of the UI, I managed to sell everyone so annoying I couldn't this time. Daka scored a hat trick and proceeded to bang them in . Got rid of him in Jan. Normally very easy to win the PL from here in 4/5 years so I'm trying to do things that are less FM like. Not signing loads of players on the cheap to loan then sell for big profit/not signings on installments/not signing players for £50m just because I have the budget even if they will be worth 3 times that/minimum squad turnover/not selling players if they have played well just because their attributes or star rating is poor and you know that you're better off without them. Basically no hard and fast rules but just trying to make it a tiny bit more challenging. Have got one stupid 'bug'. Fatawu came and asked for a new contract a good few months before the end of the season which I was happy to do. His demands were £350k-£400k a week . Whilst still in the championship and not promoted. Plus no interest from other clubs. Mental

Haven't been in that place for a couple of years. Nothing happened after the worst relegation in history so why does anyone think he'd start making changes now? And Top's the catalyst, not Rudkin

To be fair though, some of those things (thinking the general rules/constitutions) are actually very important for groups like this. It's just when they become obstructive or are twisted to obstruct well meaning change as I suspect is the case here

Say this every time he gets mentioned but I when I was a teenager, I was at a neighbour's party with Steve Bruce and some other ex Gillingham players and he was saying Muzzy was one of the best players he'd worked with (and he was talking about his playing days too). Was genuinely gutted that he had so many injuries and never got the best of him. And people probably forget, Steve Bruce was actually a decent manager back in the day. Probably one of the most generous and genuine people around; He'd travelled down from Birmingham to Kent straight after a match (coincidentally a draw against us when Elvis Hammond had scored so it doesn't get much worse than that), all for a wedding anniversary party for one of his old coaches. On Muzzy, shows how important timing was as if he'd been around 15 years later he'd easily have been a 50 cap player for England. Stupid that he never got a chance anyway. Reading his book, sounds like Turkey was always going to be impossible for him.