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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.

Get the bloke gone. Completely directionless. No fight. No desire. Nothing. Sick to the back of my teeth of it.

Can’t believe this would happen/would be allowed to happen but if it did I’d be about done with football. Apathy. Apathy for all of it. Until the weekend when I let in a soon-to-be-stomped-out flicker of excitement back in.

Need to praise this article on two counts; It’s raised my spirits a bit after what has been a pretty miserable close season, all things considered. I know a bunch of people have been saying everything that Dorsett says, but sometimes it’s hard to see the wood for the trees. He also has a bit of a dig at Mahrez’ behaviour when he tried to force a move, which I have a lot of time for.

Not sure where I land on ‘he’s sending a message to the board’. He might come across a complete idiot at times but as others have said, Brendan Rodgers knows what he needs to do to look after Brendan Rodgers and to throw away a comfortable lead to make a point seems like he’d be cutting off his nose to spite his face. If that was the case though, he’s still tried to create the illusion he’s not a key reason we’re in this mess with some of the signings he’s made. It was interesting that he brought on Daka when there was zero need - arguably his last hope from his 2021 signings that might not be a complete bust. Says a lot for his recruitment when yesterday, only 3 of the starters were his signings, and 1/3 of his signings on the bench are deemed to not be of a high enough quality to get onto the pitch.

8th feels a bit flattering given that the majority of the season has felt like such a disaster. Going around in circles with myself. Thinking that actually, 8th is somewhat of an accomplishment given the number of injuries we’ve dealt with and games we’ve had to play. But then I think back to the number of collapses we’ve had. The number of set pieces we’ve failed to defend. The amount of turgid and blunt performances we’ve put on display and I can only think about where we could have finished. I’m conflicted. Given the pitiful defence of the FA Cup and underperformance in the Europa League (though a good run in the Conference League was some recompense), I’m glad the season is over because I’m just feeling burnt out. Worry about this ‘rebuild’ but we’ll go again in August with whatever we’ve got and by then I’ll be in chomping at the bit for it.

It’s said a lot about a bunch of people but in this case, there really will never be another. What a legend.

Milan Mandabeach? Am I doing it right?

Seems to love interacting with younger fans and really embraces getting to be involved with younger fans and with kids going through way more than anybody should have to in particular. Easy to chalk that up to ‘good press’ but he has previous for going above and beyond and when you hear him talk about the way he looked up to Beckham when he was growing up, I think he’s incredibly sincere when it comes to that stuff. Also noticed he has a fox tattoo and I have a lot of time for that. Blown me away with his application this season. Fair play to the lad.

Really acclimatising to the league, now. Great carrier of the ball and it’s nice to finally see somebody in the middle actually try and drive forward in possession. Just needs to work on that decision making at the end, got a bit panicked after doing the hard work last night, resulting in the ball was getting caught up in his feet on a couple of occasions. No criticism of him otherwise, I think he was probably our best player over the 90. It was one of his driving runs that led to Daka’s opener, as well.

Think it was evident in their body language after they equalised. They score barely 15 seconds from the final whistle and in any case, equaliser or winner, almost any scorer/team are going to celebrate a goal like that more than the average. There was none of that. They were desperate to restart. Can’t stand them, but have to credit that mentality.