Ric Flair

Yeah that was it. I honestly reckon my memory must have been me wearing it to the game 😂😂😂😂

I had vague memories of us wearing it at Brammall Lane but I might be wrong. Maybe I just wore it to Brammall Lane, we won. Scott Taylor masterclass.

Yeah, pretty unheard of for a not long turned 15 year old to be in our U21s.

Given the sad state of the game, we need to do both. Had we not sold Chilwell, Barnes and KDH for £110-120m we'd have been in a world of bother.

If we build a track record for developing academy players through to the 1st team, which we've done well at times but in others been slow to bring players through, then it will help prevent these youngsters going elsewhere. It doesn't change overnight but I agree with you that we can't just play a 15 year old if they aren't ready to try and stop them possibly leaving. We know a few have left which is disappointing so the goal has got to be to build an environment that's as good as anything in the country, it's do-able. A lot of the hard work here has been in progress for the last decade.

The culture of our club should support that which doesn't change over night but needs to be a priority of ours.

The hard work of the last decade or more. I don't care whether we are a successful Premier League team as much as I care about us being one of the best at player development through our academy. We stand a better chance of doing the latter by being the former but it's not always how it plays out. It needs to always be one of our primary objectives.

Please make your own dough, it is extremely easy to do. This recipe has been my go to now for several months but it changes over time. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6OcHVnLLcP/?igsh=cmlvOW83Z243eW4= The good thing about this is if you don't want to wait 24 hours, just increase the yeast amount and it's still excellent. On Saturday I turned it around in 5 hours, which I used a sachet of yeast rather than just a gram or so. * Appalling jalapeño spacing

Its football heritage, if I were a footballer at a certain stage of my career and the finances were do-able then I'd much rather experience a league in Brazil or Argentina than say Saudi or even the US.

Nowt wrong with that mate, it's my preferred style of pizza too. Although I pretty much love any style haha. My monitor oven is 6 years old now, it's one of the early years editions and it takes some delicate work to create the right temp for the type of pizza you desire. I borrowed my brothers Ooni Volt last year, which is electric and created some spot on NY style pizzas. Just need a spare £500-600 for some new gear.

That's some wizardry right there pal, incredible work. Love that

The important thing here is, the rules aren't aligned.

The club must have been confident of the outcome that has occurred. Whilst the two scenarios and the financials needed for both are somewhat different, we must have been switched on to this. I suppose if we were confident of the 22/23 outcome and the saving in points deduction it was likely to yield, we may well view the 23/24 penalty if there is one to be less and that was the worthwhile end result. Only issue there is, we still aren't 100% sure if the EFL have grounds to now take on trying to hit us for 22/23, where the possibilities would be either a fine or a deferred points deduction when we're next in the EFL? So many uncertainties and all very messy.

Not disputing that, but Hermansen's shot stopping ability gets somewhat diluted because his real star quality last season was his distribution in a team that dominated. I've seen enough last season and this season of his rare ability to make exceptional saves that puts him right up there with the very best.

Leicester don't breach And we've made up our mind, we're gonna keep Jon Rudkin

Palace fans accusing him of being extremely lazy, never presses and doesn't show any physicality in the air.

Hermansen is a better shot stopper than Pickford.

Yeah possibly, although I think he makes up for that with some of his reflexes and he's not afraid to command his area that Schmeichel never would.

Might be biased but there's not a keeper in the Premier League that I'd want instead of Hermansen.

Our wage structure is certainly a collective decision. I'd still mark a good chunk of that on the Director of Football in their negotiations with players, likewise the transfer fees as its well documented we've paid extremely well and not been able to move players on as a result of it. However, it was a clear strategy of the club that in order to try and remain challenging the top 7, we had to have a wage structure that enabled that. I.e reward players with new contracts comparable to salaries they'd get elsewhere (within reason) and starting salaries that aren't too out of kilter with our best players terms. That's a hard process to juggle and what we've fallen foul of IMO. Who's fault that is, it's not one singular individual but certain areas who are massively involved come under the Microscope.

This debate about how to set up is very difficult to land on either way. How does one prove that one set up has the best likelihood of a positive outcome than the other. It's easy to say, if defensive football was the best avenue to getting results then all teams would do it. It's not as simple as that. It's fairly understandable that trying to frustrate teams who have the confidence to set up to attack with superior players might reap rewards because you sacrifice going forward and allowing them space for them to execute their prowess. But it very much depends on whether you the opponent are actually very good at doing that. The criticism some of us have raised this season is not that for 3 games we've set up defensively but more the personnel we have used does not support the execution. For example vs Villa, we had more possession than them and whilst we selected 3 defensive midfielders, 1 of them played further forward. So we neither tried to stifle the opposition being utilising a low block nor did we look to attack with our best attackers and creators. We went for some weird middle ground and sadly paid the price. I think it's the team selection rather than the tactics he's deploying that I'm struggling to understand.

Just get him gone, it's highly likely he goes on a free at the end of next season so just try and recoup all his wages if possible.

At some point the new rules kick in, so I don't think it is 3 years of £83m from 2024/25 onwards.

Why the PL and not the EFL? Or because we've argued we weren't a PL club on 30th June 2023 for 22/23 PSR it now works that on 30th June 2024 we were a PL club for 23/24 PSR? I can't fathom which would be best if either rules we've broken PSR for 23/24. Surely we'd have got our house in order for 23/24 knowing how this would all blow up.

I'll see what we can do, Jake might know.