Bourbon Fox

What are the chances of someone getting a season ticket who hasn't been able to attend matches until this point? I spent years working Saturdays. I've got a handful of points, literally. Any point trying to 'buy the dip' and get a membership with a view to a ST, or is that just impossible?

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Keeping Ricardo on ice was one of the worst crimes of Cooper

Seriously every time I watch this I get more angry. The way he starts sprinting when it's far too late. Why is he playing CB?

Luke Thomas just stood there watching it ffs

He's actually going to reference that in his post match interview, isn't he?

On the plus side it looks like we'll get through half time without them scoring a fourth

To be honest I think a penalty would be the worst thing possible, we would miss it. Things just keep getting worse. At least for there to be a penalty we'd have to have got someone into the box.

Do you think you would play better if you had a) got up at half 8, had breakfast then popped down the road or b) got up at half 7 and spent a couple of hours driving up from Hertfordshire?

We're talking about one full day a week spent in a car on the M1. I've done it and it knackers you. And assuming they train from a reasonable time in the morning, it'll also be costing him sleep. Seems like if you were looking at elite performance, wanting a player to be fully rested the day of a game would be a fairly fundamental place to start.

200 miles

In a winning team, perhaps not a problem

This season should be the end of him, no question. A complete **** up in all areas. The worst **** up in the history of the club. He's the director of football for God's sake.

This is a culture and operations issue fundamentally, I agree. Enzo (indirectly, through Ballagué) said the same - that a club with elite aspirations has to have an elite mindset throughout the offices AND the training ground. I feel like this was the major contribution of Nigel Pearson, and it's why I'm only half joking when I say we should make Bielsa the manager, DoF and head of recruitment and just hand the whole organisation to him.

Where did this idea that Andy King has any business being a football manager come from?

This didn't cheer me up at all

My point is that it's not worth arguing the toss between 100% bad and 95% bad, when it's very very very bad overall. The performance in the specific game you're talking about is immaterial.

I don't think we can seriously argue the toss over one game when the numbers are this bad. Notwithstanding the recent poor running of the club, we are the worst we have ever been by every metric. That's not vibes, that's stats. Goals scored, goals conceded, points, wins, xG, second balls - Ruud is presiding over some of the worst stats in our history.

That was a massive moment. Wrote him off at that point. Sod Vardy, back yourself and finish it.

Just give the whole thing to Bielsa and let him be DoF, Sporting Director, first team manager and Head of Recruitment

I don't know exactly the answer to the question but on a tangential note I have been looking into the Thai monarchy today and jfc they are an oppressive bunch of bastards. So to be billionaires and pander to the royal family of Thailand the way the family does, I don't like it one bit. When you realise they support a guy who's had someone jailed for 50 years for criticising the monarchy on Facebook, you begin to understand why they don't treat us fans to the time of day. https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/08/thailands-lese-majesty-laws-explained-in-30-seconds https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/04/king-vajiralongkorn-who-is-thailand-new-monarch https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/18/man-jailed-for-record-50-years-for-criticising-thai-monarchy

Imagine getting something like this from any of our lot. A plan. Some clarity. They treat the fans with absolutely no respect.

Discovered this a couple of weeks ago, love it.

Oh my sweet, summer child