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Good to see Braybrooke and Alves straight in with the first team. Hope they can have good pre seasons

But that doesn't show the most important statistic of all; his shot conversion rate. By my maths that would actually put him above pretty much every other striker in the PL over the past 10 years or so. Well, apart from some Norwegian guy. Thought I'd try the optimistic take; it's been a few years...

And Ryan Betrand to remind us of the good times

Why? What's rubbish about him? He actually does his job and doesn't make it all about him. Who would you say is actually a good football commentator?

Seen a fair bit of this tournament and Nuno Mendes has been by far the best player I've watched. Probably been dreadful for the bits of this game I haven't watched

Steve Wilson is great. He's one of the few who doesn't sensationalise everything or goes for stupid soundbites. Sit him next to a potato and he'd have as much chance of creating a 'vibe' as he would do next to Danny Murphy.

To be fair, plenty of them didn't help themselves with their holier than thou attitude. The second somebody questioned it (as you would when it's somebody you don't know or not a 'professional') they threw their toys out of the pram. Of course plenty of people got overly hysterical but I don't recall seeing anything overly personal or nasty

Still think if we'd been relegated in the exact same manner, minus the FFP stuff, we'd have had a huge springboard and been able to get back to where we were a lot quicker. Wouldn't have had a lot of lasting damage. Unfortunately, I think even your 10 years is optimistic. All if, buts and maybes, but if we have got CL in both seasons, we'd have bridges the gap to the top 6 massively (assuming the board actually capitalised on it commercially speaking) and a bad season would have been finishing 10th or so. Think that's never going to happen now, sadly.

Yep. No disrespect to Mansfield but this is a completely different type of move for him.

Nice to see a statement that he actually prepared rather than being done for him. Crap timing to sell him and maybe a little under value but all in all, it's one I'm at peace with (give the current shambles of this club). He'll have the chance to achieve things at Chelsea he can't here and it's a massive step up for him so he has to jump at that chance. Might take his game to the next level but if not, could end up back here in a few years time.

He's not technically poor, far from it. It's more than he can lack composure and decision making can let him down. Agree that that price is probably ok, maybe £5-10m more with the English tax but hardly like we're getting our pants pulled down

That's not even hindsight though. It's so obvious that the ground should have been done before (plans should have been in motion several years before they actually were). Seagrave can make a difference but it's more of a vanity project than the stadium expansion, especially with what is planned.

Certainly didn't drop off a cliff but equally, was nowhere near where it had been. If he'd been available on a free 2 years or even 1 prior, every top club in Europe would have been considering him

If that had been in the middle of the pitch KDB would have been sent off. Or if they keeper has done the same and cleared the ball but followed through like that, it would be a red card. Don't want to see goals disallowed but the inconsistency in decision making is yet another crap thing about football

Totally understand not wanting him but he absolutely isn't one of the worst. We've done our best to hire some of those in the past, and succeeded.

At least they'd be good at barking out the orders on the touchline

. I think that last bit is true for many who are so ambivalent to it all now. Personally, I'd come on here for a good laugh at the people bitching

This is quality. Worth it just for the histrionics on here

Ok, glad you clarified because I was about to call you out for it! I do get it with Cooper but he's not half as bad as has been made out. I'm just pleased we're not going for a Scott Parker, Steven Gerrard, Jesse Marsch type

What are the values of Steve Cooper that don't align with yours?

Which is Potter's preferred system also?

Probably the system that requires the most tactical work to get right. Conte's Chelsea played it brilliantly and had attacking threat but we when we played it under Rodgers we had little attacking threat (Iheanacho aside) and for all Brenda's flaws, it's a system that most teams struggle with unless they practice the hell out of it.

Brilliant. Obviously you should get a pretty decent discount for a season ticket but when you put it like that. Madness

Everywhere else it's north of £100 (maybe I am way out on how many cat C games there will be), so even worse. Either way, it's ridiculous when your average ticket price is floating around £55/60 for most games. The fact it will price out people coming from the surrounding areas is ridiculous. I'd be coming up from Kent so would cost me and my old man £200 to go probably, if it's cheap as well. I accept they can't cater for fans like me (but they absolutely screw us on memberships), so the fact they're going to alienate more local supporters is stupid. They can do no good. Useless

It's because they totally messed that up (i.e. training ground before the stadium expansion) and their general incompetence that has 'forced' them to do it. I'd like to commend them on this massive hole they keep expanding for themselves. Outstanding