Steve Earle

We are in the Championship after the most avoidable relegation I’ve ever seen - and it was my ninth. I’ve just watched Burnley v Aston Villa on MOTD2 and each time I watch Villa it hurts. Ifs, buts & maybes but if we’d sacked Rogers when we should’ve, there must’ve been a fair-to-middling chance we could have recruited Unai Emery? I’m delighted with Maresca in the here and now, but if we’d got Emery last autumn I’ve no doubt at all (a) that we’d have avoided relegation and (b) we’d be odds on for a top seven finish this season. What a shitshow we saw, from top to bottom, last season. Bastards the lot of them!

He plays where he wants He plays where he wants That Mama Balde He plays where he wants 🎶

Lazy journalism. He wouldn’t come here to compete for a starting spot with KDH, Casadei & Praet

Thought so - do you know if he was technically on loan for that game, or had already signed permanently though it hadn’t been announced?

Didn’t he play for the U21s this week @moore_94?

...you'll never sing that!

Now there's something no-one would have said 12 months ago...

Don’t forget the Rogers effect..

Thought he’d go on to have a stellar career…

I’m guessing you don’t normally speak like that @Ryy?

And Andy Feeley, Jack Curtis, Alan Paris, Gary Coatsworth, etc etc

Fair points by and large Sly and I’m with you on the bold bit! Like many he was superb (IMO) in the peak Rogers period - and terrific in the FA Cup final - and like most, average as Rogers brodgered the whole squad. I suspect his poorer performances in the last 18 months were more down to shocking leadership, coaching & management than to anything missing in Castagne’s game. I guess we’ll see?

I wish you well in your football viewing over the next 50 years. If he’s ‘meh’, what did you make of all the RBs that we’ve had to endure since Steve Whitworth left (& until 2015)?

Eligible for Tranmere?

JJ

Has anyone heard of how talks with THB are progressing, if at all?

That’s rather rotherful.

Off to Man City I’d guess?

No

Entirely justified comment unfortunately

My bad - forgot Kristiansen and yes, maybe there’s something happening with Daka too

I’m struggling with this @moore_94 ? On my left hand I counted Brunt, Castagne & the two wingers. My left thumb & right hand remain unused. Who am I missing?

Not just them. Bar Maddison, Brendan brodgered every single player we had, mentally or physically or both, over an 18 month to two year period.

His level