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The one where a goalkeeper catches a cross, often unchallenged, drops to their knees then just lays on the ball for an age, when that's challenged by a ref (usually only because they've been bayed on by the opposition crowd) the keeper plays the "injured" card to delay getting up and continuing (I won't say restarting, it's not a restart). Yes pitches are hard, coming down from the air, landing on a pointed foot or bodyweight not evenly distributed, even without clattering into a burly CF, injury is possible but the cry wolfers who do it every time, even grinning as they do it, they're just going to cry injury, I don't know how officials will be brave enough to distinguish. Then there's the constant re-setting of goal kicks, remembering Pope (Nick, not THE) a few years ago absolutely taking the p***, Begovic when at Bournemouth, Pigford and many many others. "I'll take it from the left, no I'll take it from the right even though I never have done before, actually I'll call back a midfielder to take it because I don't fancy....no hang on I'll take it from the left after all...."

A couple of thoughts - Do our friends / posters from Leuven have any anxieties or thoughts over the current situation, secondly although Top and others lack of presence is criticised is it reasonable to say that at the very least he and others involved in KP will be focusing less on us right now than they ordinarily would in order to deal with their bigger concern? Financially due to ffp he's not been able to spend on the squad if he wanted to but the stadium and broader site expansion / investment becomes an even more redundant issue than it was before. Have we had any statement since relegation and this KP situation occurring yet.....or about anything?

I remember a type of duffle coat which included gloves stitched onto elastic. Once kids discovered that if you pull one arm up you smack yourself in the face with the other it was carnage in the playground!

I thought I'd put this in here as it's the most general thread about potential departures / remainers - Is "It's a world cup season" still a thing, i.e. players feeling that not being in a top division will affect their chances of selection or being at the right level of intensity when the tournament arrives? I'm sure it's a narrative which rightly or wrongly the agents of Faes, Kristiansen and others will indulge in. Could it affect our chances of keeping Al Khannous and Hermansen? Could it be used to encourage some to leave - "Vestergaard mate you're never going to make the squad if you stay here" (false tears in eye), "Hey Soumare I hear France are desperate for a long legged loafer to jog around midfield pointing", "Winksy, I hear Tuchel sees you as a potential pound shop Pirlo get yourself in the spotlight son" etc.

Changing trains to go to Coventry to see his old mate Lampard? Heading to JD Sports to buy the full Lionesses England Kit so if they win the Euro's he can run on and join the team photo's despite not contributing?? Come back to visit whichever players wife he would have inevitably had an affair with in his short stint here??? Missing the Haymarket Shopping Centre ????

Can’t wait for the sticker book, I’ll trade swapsies of Forests and Brentford’s chefs for the hard to find Gino Pastalotti of Arsenal (insert prefer Rice joke here) and Man City’s Egbert Nobacon. I think the FFP lawyers deserve a sticker too…..and the mascots! Indeed Game’s gone, World’s gone

There was a German Man His name was Danny Rohl He moved to Leicester, settled quick and Met a Local girl She said "Shall we have Children" And he replied "Nein" She said that is ambitious Two or Three's just fine, When Chelsea came a calling We thought "no not again" But he said "No I'm staying with The Haymarket & Saffron Lane" He got so keen on Leicester And really loved his job He changed his name by deed poll, He's now called Danny Cob, Oooooh (Repeat all)

Danny said he's not signing until the thread has 100 pages

Seconds after this picture was taken he went for a swig of the drink, dropped the pen, dropped the glass and ended up laying flat on the floor with the table cloth on top of him

Could be nothing but I hear that somebody has claimed the best seat in the Seagrave canteen by leaving their beach towel on it over night …..

I’m setting up the fireworks and getting the champagne glasses out ready

Depending on any points deduction and what that does psychologically I’m optimistic but would feel better when I know who our DM might be if not Wilf and who the cutting edge up front will be. Defensively the likes of Thomas and Nelson should be fine. If we lose someone on deadline day without replacing them or get points deducted it’ll be back to negativity though and a track record of dubious mentality at the club when a reaction is required.

Get yer watering can out Rudkin you lazy so and so, it’s all your fault

A half hit deflected shot towards our 6 yard box? Germany watch out, Beadle’s about.

So Wednesday is Sunday not Saturday, West Brom is not Saturday 4th Jan at night it's Sunday 4th Jan in the afternoon and we're not playing Swansea twice at home like the club site says....OK, I think I've got all that

We're at a distinct disadvantage. Everyone else gets to play Leicester twice but we don't

For purely selfish reasons I'd like our Ipswich and Norwich away games to be 3 O'Clock Saturdays but more likely Ipswich will be Boxing Day or moved for TV. Speaking of TV, I found this interesting - https://www.efl.com/how-to-watch/tv-game-selection-process/ apart from the final weeks of the season, the picks will be made with particularly long (up to 5 months) notice instead of the previous 5 weeks, making it a lot less stressful planning trains etc. I'm all for that, well done to any parties who put pressure on to see this happen . I suppose one area of interest may be the games within the AFCON dates, hopefully not too many of the tougher fixtures in that period please . And uncle Charlie from acme Shop Front Shutter Hire wants to know when Millwall are coming to town.

I don't like the "...In Talks" line. The way he rabbits on it could go on for months without conclusion!

If it's Dyche it could be Danny Ings .

Plymouth appoint Cleverley, we appoint stupidly

The previous relegation apparently took them by surprise as the squad had Maddison, Barnes, Tielemans, KDH, Evans etc in it. This one shouldn't have, 5 minutes into the Spurs game as we defended almost from the goal line you could see we were not ready, not prepared, not capable, not good enough (OK we got a point but that's Spurs being Spursey!). They've had 9 months to work out what was going on. What they need to recognize is how uncompetitive we were this time, it wasn't even close, nip and tuck, giving it a go, it was a footballing white-wash, 9 games without a goal stuff. It's like selling tickets to an opera and then having Sue Pollard come on and play Rule Britannia with a Kazoo. They will point firmly at PSR and having their hands tied but what about looking at the money we did have to spend. Tell me Top, Rudkin, Whelan, how useful were Skipp, Eduaoard, renewed Vestergaard and Okoli? Could that money have been used better? Could the loan slot been used better on a hungry vibrant young player? What do you think you saw out there Top? Tell us what you think it was. Then tell us (for the 2nd time in 3 years) how it won't happen again. This isn't about results it's about application and set up, we were blatantly shambolic. Two poor managers, managers who were appointed by who? Not finding another player in January "within budget who would improve the team"? What was the budget, tuppence ha'penny and a toffee wrapper? At least try something, mix it up, new faces, new personalities, new ideas but no, keep handing shirts to uninterested and incompetent players over and over again. Our Badge, Our reputation, our club has been devalued due to poor decisions. Again. Tell us the reasoning behind the decision making. At least then there will be some (a couple of weeks) time between that and the inevitably positive spin on new beginnings, new fixtures (yay Millwall), new kit, our promising youngsters, (possibly) a new manager. Right now though I wouldn't trust any of them with a single decision, the model is broken, every decision digs our hole deeper and deeper.

I think they are questioning the Tier 3 status of O’Rourke by reproducing his previous tip offs - that we sign Lamptey & Ferguson for example which didn’t happen.

And now we’re just a Mickey Mouse Club!