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Sounds more suited to Derby County

re the concourse catering (and I use that term loosely) is it still the case that it's franchised / tendered out i.e. the club receive a set amount from the company taking it on or do they get a certain percentage as well or is it now back in their own hands? I seem to remember it being a tendering out before?

According to one memo last season, Sandwiches deemed to be larger than medium sized!

If it looked like immediate promotion was unlikely and relegation a possibility, the thought of being away from the PL and full PL salary for 2-3 years minimum may make some look to move on. However with a still decent wage and comfortable facilities plus the idea of moving up a peg to becoming an integral player enough of the squad would prefer that to struggling to find better elsewhere. The likes of Nelson, Choudhury and MacAteer would see themselves as more likely to be more involved and whilst everyone would recognise how tough it’s going to be, enough would stay due to comfort or lack of matching offers from elsewhere.

I have every match day Programme for the games I’ve been to. Although it’s essentially a preview I read it on the train on the way home after the match. Saturdays was full of bull about giving it all. Giving it all? What like the players strolling back as the second goal went in, not showing for the ball, not covering each other etc. I really don’t want to read or hear another word from them, all talk no substance. If I withdraw my fortnightly £3.50 it might halve our transfer budget I know but I’m tempted . Cliche cliche, 100% effort, give it all, luck will turn, bla bla waffle waffle. Maybe run?? Maybe pick our best line up and keep them on?

Rio-lly? That "reflects" on how advantageous it was to be gifted a capacity increase and in turn an increase in revenue as we watch our club come undone.

Jon Jo Shelvey (32) currently training with Burnley. The pound land Cambiasso perhaps?

He’s a water carrier who looks constantly distressed like he’s fighting fires all game, the ball is like a hindrance to him. Maybe he was seen as a replacement for K DH if not exactly the same type of player but with Winks mainly starting, Ndidi dropping back to his old DM role and then Soumare being the preferred cover for Wilfs injury, it appears he wasn’t needed and with our budgets so tight what a waste that was. It’s not like he’s got development potential either. “He’s not phased by the PL, by going away to big clubs, he knows the league” etc isn’t justification enough. I’d hoped it had something to do with having an understanding with Winks through their development together at Spurs like two pieces of a jigsaw but no. We just didn’t need him, I can’t call him a luxury but he’s like a pointless insurance policy. A RB or combined with Okoli’s fee a much better CB would have been a better use of funds or a LW. Really reeks of an agent seeing us lose KDH and do a salesman trick on us, any £25 million player should have been integral to us week in week out this season.

Re the fight and desire, I had to leg it for a bus 6 a.m. yesterday morning to start my journey up for the match, seeing Mavididi and others walking back for that second goal (what is it about Fulham and our players giving up and walking) showing less effort than I had (bad back, slippery pavement, no luxury training facility or masseur to hand), it’s just not enough, show them the footage (of the goal not me running for the bus) and ask them, “same situation next week - are you chasing back or giving up”. In fact don’t give them the option, don’t give them the shirt, what example is that to the u-21’s. Kristiansen was infield covering for someone else’s man, Traore had so much space he couldn’t believe his luck. Watching Everton and others, they want to have no regrets, put everything in, less talk more action, if I read one more of ours bleating “Do everything we can” I’ll send them Saturdays footage.

New manager bounce for Spurs next weekend?

I admit, it was after quite a few pints but the consensus of opinion on my table in the Kings Head on Saturday was for the club to give Shinji Okazaki a call, if nothing else it would put a smile on our faces

Is it worth changing shape to 3 CBs or would that just be one more mutton head around to c**k up the offside line, play poor back passes, collide with team mates, drift out of position and leave runners in space? Would the extra body add a little bit more solidity (I use that word very loosely). Rather than it being one of our 4 established CBs could it be Justin with the new Right Back outside him, leaving JJ to come up with whole new ways to skew passes and leave his man in acres of space?

1 more and a sob story about a Sensi-esque “couldn’t get it over the line in time / it broke down / we were close but still some distance apart” waffle.

His belief that MacAteer and Mavididi were better wide options and would offer better service than Bilal in the last third of the game is something I’d confront him with along with the repeated mistake of starting Ayew and expecting him to affect a game from the start against opposition who aren’t knackered yet. As for Ward vs Wolves, I can only think that was for a bet with money going to Comic Relief.

The club have added to having Hermansen on the books with Fatawu and Bilal, positive young signings, steps in the right direction. Unfortunately it’s not enough, we may never see their generational side blossom, their biggest future contribution may be too save our asses from more severe ffp in future and we’ll never know if they could have been the start of a brighter future. Sorry, you said positive and I’ve done a 360 degree turn with my offering, I’m more depressed now than I was!

The thing I shouted most in the first half in particular was “Who wants it, who wants it”? After being arrested for soliciting I explained it’s a criticism of the team mates movement and desire to take responsibility for the ball. It was worse than ever but I do wonder if Ruud reviewed the Palace game and told them not to take so many risks by committing to runs forward and they took that too literally and hid, never offering themselves or helping out their team mate? It was that apparent, it must have come from somewhere not just the confidence vacuum.

He keeps playing what I call blind balls, usually after a 180 degree turn and into central areas of the pitch - the kind of thoughtless sloppiness that would get called out if I did it in a works staff 5 a-side. Does he watch the performances back between games?

They don’t like us raising our eye brows at substitutions so they’ve found a way of removing them before kick off

Bases his entire footballing philosophy on replicating a dog in a park with a tennis ball

Er sorry, there’s this guy, 2nd in charge at Seagrave

That isn’t our real team sheet, we’re just trying to fool-‘em

Rudkin’s Faxmatic ZH200 machine from Alpha discounts jammed on Friday when sending insurance documents apparently

Ayew, so effective in first halves isn’t he

To the tune of Rule Britannia - Tim - Castagne He used to rule our flank But now we pick James Justin Who let’s admit, is pretty w**k