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It’s hilarious to me that they’ve suggested a possible financial incentive should they force people to move to expand the singing section. Generally supportive of UFS and what they do, but there was no regard for people who were pushed out of SK1in the first place (on the club, not UFS). When the section gets going it’s worth having for sure, so no issue with it specifically, but as somebody who moved as a result, the idea that they’d take a recommendation to financially incentivise in the future (especially after Season Card-Gate) is just laughable. The club couldn’t keep our group together (a 5 that they split into a 2 and 3), told us to get in touch to look at options when general relocation opened, which we did and given it was their doing we were moving at all, they then tried to charge each of us a relocation fee

Funnier still is that in all the club’s mention of BC . GAME and the (very limited) promotional images returned by a quick Google search, they don’t once use the stylised B (₿) in any logo, other than that on the shirt. Branding.

A series of unfortunate events

I’m not convinced by Enzo, personally, though I won’t play down his achievements last term. Even if I wouldn’t be gutted to see him move on, I don’t actively want him out. My biggest concern is not ‘look at what happened to Burnley’ but rather that we were so mistake laden last season that if the quality of championship strikers was even close to acceptable we’d have dropped a lot more points than we did. If those mistakes persist (and I’ve no reason to think that they won’t) we’ll be put to the sword regularly next season. That said, there’s too much uncertainty around us to wish for anymore. We’re so slow to react and so useless at contingency planning that we can’t be changing managers ahead of the season kicking off. We have to navigate this window with a hand tied behind our back as it is. We need to be clear and steadfast in whatever the strategy is, and taking Enzo and his vision out of the picture now would be damaging to that in the extreme.

Has to go. Has to. It was refusal to get rid of Rodgers when it was long clear he couldn’t turn it around and it saw us relegated. About to make the same mistake and cost ourselves (what was) a nailed on promotion.

One of them just handed out €100m gross a year to Kante, who played 7 last season and has had injuries in the double figures over the last few years, so this is bizarre reasoning unless money is an issue for some of these teams (relatively speaking). Obviously have no idea about any of these clubs, nor do I care to, but I thought it problematic (sport/competition-wise) when the PIF were allowed to control 4 clubs in the same league. It’s a law unto itself over there though, it seems.

Bloke that clapped at me sarcastically as if to say ‘hope you’re happy with yourself’ as though it was my fault we’ve been relegated wound me up far more than anything that was said. There was a brief exchange. Bizarrely the person who said ‘you’d be booing if…’ went onto tell me that it was the Board’s fault, which just left me dumbfounded. Like, yes? In large part of course it is. I’m sure your applause will send the right message, though.

I was getting an earful for booing at full time and calling it what it was - an embarrassment. ‘You wouldn’t be booing if Bournemouth had scored!’ If my aunt had balls she’d be my uncle. Getting a win on the last day doesn’t undo the past 37 games and these Perspective FC fans that clap at anything are a big part of the problem. Not enough people have put pressure on the Board this season and we’ve gotten what we deserve because of it.

Was at Stoke. Had been through the previous two relegations from the (then) Premiership but was too young to really appreciate the gravity of them. Could appreciate it plenty by 2008, but was still young enough to have some pretty misplaced hope. Stoke fans on the pitch before the final whistle is burned into my brain even still. Not even nervous about tomorrow. This lot have given me nothing to be optimistic about and I’ll be glad to see the back of most of them over the summer regardless. I’m sure I’ll get caught up in it and recapture some of that hope if we go ahead or Everton go behind early, but I won’t lose sleep over the possibility.

We were the model. Middling club to consistently challenging for European places, winning Domestic trophies, a scouting setup the envy of Europe. Even talked about as part of a possible ‘Big Seven’ at one point. We’ve given clubs like Brighton the blueprint on how to push on and plenty will attempt to emulate it for years to come. Now, we’re the model again but this time on what not to do. I don’t know how we got here - yes, the ludicrous contracts, the dreadful recruitment, decisions to hold onto Management who were long past their use by - but how did we lose sight of ourselves so badly? It’s no one thing, I’m aware, but this will be cited as one of the biggest falls from grace in modern sport. This isn’t a case of ‘club gets investment and investment goes away’, or a long, arduous decline over years that the likes of Villa went through and Everton are in the midst of. I can’t think of a time the wheels came off this quickly. The signs were there last year, but even if I expected a poor season from us, I never could have envisioned it being this bad. That’s probably as much of the problem as anything else, though.

Left at half time. Second time this season after Newcastle. It’s miserable. It’s predictable. It’s boring. None of them care. I’ve never been as apathetic as I am at the minute. I can accept us being awful but I won’t sit there and be insulted by their refusal to even try. Even if we’re fighting another relegation in the Championship next season I’ll stay until the end, but the operative word is ‘fighting’.

It would be, but it wouldn’t be misplaced. If the board don’t act now they’re as culpable for where we are in the table as Rodgers. If they aren’t pulling the trigger because we literally can’t afford it, well then that rests entirely on their shoulders.

If he doesn’t go after this and things aren’t going well at home to Forest, the atmosphere is going to be about as hostile as it will ever get, you’d imagine

Honestly only sticking it out at this point because the claws are in too deep. Remember when I was a kid asking my dad who he wanted to win in so many throwaway games and couldn’t wrap my head around him literally not caring. How could he not have a preference? I get it now. Us winning the league felt like a watershed moment where clubs might start feeling like they’d be able to achieve more than they thought, but actually, it just spurred on the cartel and the governing bodies have rallied around them. Any Super League sanctions were just for show and when it comes back around with UEFA support (and it will). I’ll be done. Game will be gone, if it isn’t already.