Finnegan

Patson. Mun. That was it

Just in time for Daka to go to afcon and Ayew to come back in to the team

This is a team third in the league. If we actually get some consistency together, closing the gap isn't impossible. This is what happens when our forwards actually chip in with goals.

Daka and Mavididi on the score sheet. It's happening. We're gonna win the league.

STEPHY. WHERE HAS THAT BEEN.

Lmao Skipp

Reid for Skipp and James in his actual position and it's probably, depressingly, the best we can do. Skipp though. Why. Sometimes managers genuinely baffle me.

In fairness, Australia were probably saying the same Not sure if it's just confirmation bias and I've never claimed to be the biggest follower of cricket but it does feel like there's been far more absolutely wildly swinging scores in cricket over the last decade or so. One side having an extreme batting collapse, everyone laughing/panicking (depending on their allegiance) and then the opposing side following up exactly the same. Bowling attacks at test level seem to be more boom-or-bust than they used to be? But maybe it's my imagination.

I'm a Wales and Leicester fan, do you expect me to have any optimism left?

They'll be extremely fired up and they have a lot more quality than us.

Not a great draw, Italy probably the only team in the whole thing (other than the Irelands but that's just because I wanted us all to qualify) I wanted to avoid. Not that I'm assuming we'll beat Bosnia. The draw implies we'd be at home if we win, though. Surely the highest seed (Italy) are at home? Edit: home / away in the final was drawn randomly (semi 1 vs semi 2) per path. Way to over complicate, FIFA.

I saw this on the BBC earlier and was so triggered by the butchered headline I couldn't look at the article.

Ole

The words "one of" doing a lot of heavy lifting there

In all fairness we were brilliant.

#bellersball

If your honest to god suggestion for a technical director is the club approaching Claude Puel, you should delete the Internet entirely from every device you own and never come back.

Eh. He's right that our fans have always acted like we're tinpot. In a way, as frustrating as it is, I sort of like it. We have the attitude of perpetual underdogs and I'd prefer that to the insanity of Forest or Leeds fans that will always think they're massive. We're a scruffy little Midlands club and we know it, even though we're - by a distance - the most succesful "Of The Rest" club in the country in the Premier League era, having won silverware under two separate regimes. It's all irrelevant to this actual topic though isn't it? Someone is going to take this job based on what potential they see and what they've got to work with to do it. Absolutely none of us have the foggiest idea what the mid and long term financial prospects of our club are and, as much as people can be cynical about this, we aren't really going to be able to lie to potential applicants about that. If our current situation really is temporary and we're a year or so away from throwing off the PSR shackles and spending to the moon then, sure, maybe some elite, world class director rocks up wanting the job. Seems unlikely though. Probably more the case we'll poach someone middling off a Football League club and they'll come in and run damage control for Top while he slowly pumps in less and less to the club because he can't afford it anymore. Either way, nobody is taking the job based on history.

Yeah but he left so we have to have this thread exist forever so we can call him shit to cope. For... reasons?

And this was exactly my point when I said, ultimately, we don't really know because our club is just a mess. We've hired someone for a decade with the title "Director of Football" and he doesn't actually do what anyone understands that title to mean in modern football.

Ref saved him. Ref knows the score, they need a points win.

It didn't deserve a first fight, they're both crap. It's literally nepotism.

😮

Almost like the Saudis want a low key Benn points win for a trilogy...