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The thread made me think of old Motty bless him

A reserve game a couple of years before they were popularised as family night football, it was Vs Newcastle, not many in the ground which compounded the issue, frosty, freezing cold and absolute **** match. Felt really unwell, turned to mate and in synch we said “This is ****”, so decided to leave at half time. Took ages to find someone to let us out and I think half the team were tempted to follow us out.

Those Albania fans bless ‘em. Putting the shirt on, grabbing a flag and heading to a game where you’re inevitably going to lose 2,3,4-0, and doing that again and again. I mean, Imagine doing that

Foden has looked a bit lukewarm this season. 5-0 to Man City, Foden hat-trick .

We'll be coming into this off the back of a two week unbeaten run

We would be the least deserving survivors of all time including those turgid Everton sides of recent years. It would not happen though. It would not be just our opportunity, Ipswich would see it as theirs too. Their game vs us would be seen by them as their opportunity to take 3 points not ours and in the other games they’re bound to get more points than us - we don’t even score any goals. It May at least give the remaining games a “something to play for” incentive but with this squad it’s the fans who would take motivation from that and not the players. It would be all talk as usual “We have to take this opportunity that has opened up for us blah blah blah” then come Saturday give up chasing back whilst Ruud continues to select bomb scares who are each worth a one goal handicap before we’ve even kicked off. We have no momentum, it’s like trying to jump without a run up, we have nothing, another 2-3 points won’t be enough to finish above Ipswich.

There will be a statement that asks us to stick together, outlines the long term sustainability of the club is secure (to exist but in reality nothing else) and points firmly at FFP and says "Always was going to be a challenging season", "Have to stay within the rules blah blah blah", completely overlooking that we were allowed to spend some money and chose, generally, the wrong players and wrong managers. And ignore that FFP is not some external factor completely out of our control, we overspent for years with crazy contracts which is why we are in this situation and Fulham, Brentford, Palace, Wolves and others aren't. The same people making the same bad decisions and nothing changes.

I think Southampton will be 0-0 so not that day but Ipswich will be a more open game which we lose 2-1 or 3-1. Yay a goal .

Mid October in the 2097 season....this dude scores

Can just one of the happy clappers come on here and explain what the applause at the end was actually for? I’m a polite, well mannered person, I believe the applause in defeat is usually an appreciation of effort, well, what effort? Feel sorry for Mads, Vardy deserves better players around him, other than that, what? You clapped Clown Faes for his “effort” and “performance”? Soumare? Coady, Justin, Winks? What did you see in them? Are you a seal? Are you unwell? You’re telling the board you’re happy with what’s being served up and we wonder why they don’t act in a decisive pro-active way. Happy clap the caterers, ambulance men and stewards as they put more competence into last night that Wout Faes.

I always wondered what it would be like to be San Marino, Malta, Faroe Islands etc, turning up knowing defeat is inevitable, even a goal is unlikely. Fans and players, just on a hiding to nothing.

Should play it the day before. When the ref gets the team sheet he’ll return it to Ruud “Nice one Ruud, very funny, nearly had me there, now where’s your proper line up for a Premier League fixture?”

Just one of the smaller issues but a real bug bear, did Winks realise we were behind? It’s just that he receives the ball, waddle, waddle, waddle then a 30 yard backwards pass, like a reborn Mendy. But he did manage a shot of sorts instantly tripling our XG.

It’s a premium luxury facility for elite sportsmen not a holiday camp for journeyman pro’s on a cash grab. They obviously make no use of the analysis and review / video technologies available to them. Send them to Belvoir Drive and give the ladies 2 months at Seagrave and tell the men to earn it back.

Rudkin, about bringing Cooper, Van Nistelroy, Okoli, Skipp and Eduauard to the club, how’s that looking tonight?

S**t has just lodged an objection at that offensive comparison

And they’ll start the next match regardless

Yeah let’s have a go at it for 7 minutes, well worth sixty quid of anyone’s money.

And to top it off Rat Face gets one Let them face an empty stadium at full time. Stay to happy clap the “effort”? You get what you deserve in that case.

Oh come on you’ve got to score there, do want a gift tag and f*****g ribbon on it first???

it’s like Vidal Sassoon, it’s called “One down so soon?”

The commentary bigging up the threat of Daka’s pace. Just a shame that when you add a ball into the equation it all goes to pot

Soumare and Faes are known to make mistakes which lead to goals. You pick Soumare and Faes. They make mistakes which leads to a goal.

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