Lionator

The ultimate decision to save money by letting Kasper go on the assumption Ward was good has ironically cost us probably at least 100x more than Kasper’s wages for that one season would’ve. One of the most horrendous decisions in club history?

At the very least Iversen does not concede the third goal yesterday, and who knows with the first given the clear communication errors.

I’d be willing to give Stolarczyk a run if it meant using the funds in other areas that would 100% need the investment more.

Like Tom Collomosse said on the BSLB podcast, Rudkin got lucky in Maresca. He wanted Parker, he ended up with the best current coach in English football. Everything is making it up as he goes along, there is no strategy. The clubs that do well have a strategy and they recruit around that strategy. It did not have to be this way and it does not have to continue being this way.

Yeah, you can include Leeds in that too. It was catastrophic for all three of us. There’s now clearly a ‘Prem-Champ lite’ of team who will probably jump between the two leagues for another few years such is the gap.

Three promoted teams getting relegated two seasons running is a shocking indictment for the league isn’t it? Like somewhere something is going badly wrong. Other fans just pass it off that us, Ipswich, Burnley, Luton, sheff United and Southampton are terrible teams but there has to be more to it.

I think on reflection the thing I most dislike about Brendan Rodgers now is that he didn’t walk at the beginning of 2022/23. It was clear he’d lost any belief in the hierarchy but waited for the pay off. If he’d have walked then it would’ve brought a lot more attention to the situation. Likewise I wish Maresca had been a bit more vocal on the things that clearly made him uncomfortable at the club. I assume Top is a nice person, so a) those people won’t slag him off publicly which is fair enough b) it means that it’s incompetence rather than anything more toxic, and I’m not sure that makes it any better.

Always use lubricant.

They were decent keepers in their day though, just ancient when we bought them. Ward is and always will be crap.

What’s worrying is that any manager who had done their due diligence and watched Stolarczyk’s FA Cup performances last season, would’ve thrown him in over Ward.

That would be suicide for the club. Might as well suck up another relegation.

Cooper was just about containing the bottle from overflowing although terribly. It’s now fully bubbling over.

Bookies heavily slant to established teams. We will only become favourites in these games once safety is basically established.

There’s a few things happening at Man City which have basically led to a perfect storm. First the obvious one is Rodri being unfit, with Stones and De Bruyne too. Obviously one man doesn’t make a team but you don’t win ballon d’or unless you’re decent. And frankly his replacements are massive step downs. Two, Foden was exceptional last season scoring in so many big moments. He looks tired and lacking confidence atm. Third, they’ve signed some absolute tripe. Gvardiol is a good example of this, I don’t really rate Doku and I didn’t see the point in bringing back an aging Gundogan. Fourth, players on the genuine decline. Walker is finished, Grealish is a shell of the player at his peak. All in all this is a good recipe for a crisis. The recruitment has simply not been as good as it has for the past decade. Pep seems manic at the moment and that doesn’t lend well to getting out of a crisis. He needs a holiday, maybe even to leave City and just rediscover his love for the game, as he looks strained. He is still a revolutionary and a top 3 GOAT manager. This happens to all teams.

Who does Dubois think he is? 🤣🤣🤣

Everyone said it would be rigged the other way, but blimey.

He’s nailed it really, it’s just that Usyk is a machine. Can still do it

Could’ve peaked even earlier though, seems like he’s struggling a bit now.

Same as last time then, until Usyk battered him later on.

Refs view is clearly blocked so the ‘not clearly wrong’ stuff is nonsense because he didn’t have the full view of the incident. Pathetic from the VAR.

Yes it would be the same, the FA aren’t going to manipulate their processes to benefit Liverpool and impede Leicester. It’s just one of those frustrating things that we need to get over.

If Meikle had any bottle he’d be two sets up here.

That was the Premier League, not the FA.

Win and there’s a high chance we’ll be 15th at Christmas.

Arsenal have also been crap this season compared to the past two.