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Ben Hamer Paul Konchesky Yohan Benalouane Liam Moore Ritchie De Laet Jeffrey Schlupp Daniel Amartey Dean Hammond Nathan Dyer David Nugent Joe Dodoo Subs: Conrad Logan Alie Sesay Callum Elder Gary Taylor-Fletcher Tom Lawrence (on crutches because he won't have recovered from his foot injury) Harry Panayiotou Simonas Stankevicius

340 mile round trip would be a bit of a trek for him

Done

Wasn't it Wassermann who phoned up Rudkin? Rather than Enzo applying for the job himself

Yet he's still gonna start the same players in the same old 4-2-3-1 against Hull

so £70k before the 35% relegation wage cut?

hopefully in a chant that's preceding "you're a w⚓, you're a w⚓" or "get out of our club"

Fuching hell Patson

One other thing to mention about Fuchs - he played there under Christian Lattanzio, who worked in Man City's youth setup for a few years, then assistant manager to Patrick Vieira at New York City and Nice, so there's a (tenuous) link to McCarron and the Just Play Like Pep directive coming from Aiyawatt.

Ex-pros can be fast-tracked and/or fines for lacking the minimum coaching badges waived It's all just a racket to protect the interests of the League Managers Association members anyway

then insolvency and administration await

Or until the idiot neo baby's mum decides to stop bankrolling the team, we're liquidated and Rudkin gets the new job title Lord God Emperor of the Idiot Nepo Baby's Horse Noncery

Found a leaked slide from Aiyawatt's strategy presentation

Always find it funny when the oppo commentators have clearly not bothered learning any of our players' names "Makoosa" is a new one

For me that crisp packet on the pitch is the MOTM so far

Have we double checked to make sure the groundsmen haven't accidentally made the Swansea goal shorter and narrower?

the kid with the "Luke Thomas can I have your shirt?" sign 😭😭😭

"There was a discussion about the evolution of the Club’s senior leadership structure, with focus on clarifying responsibilities and enabling long-term development across football and commercial operations." How much of this discussion involved something along the lines of "How on god's green earth can you be so shit at your jobs and why have you come out of it with promotions instead of a P45 slip?"

Get him in front of a tribunal at the Hague

Think it's silly that some are placing all the blame on the players (they do deserve plenty of it mind) and none on the manager. This isn't pub league where talent wins out, at this level it's structure, positioning, exploiting spaces, coaching players to make moves that pit their own strengths against the oppo player's weaknesses. Rowett's coaching evidently doesn't go any further than "kept it tight at the back lads 👍" and he's failing at that. When we concede he has no idea what to do next, and neither do the players. When we have the ball and are facing a parked bus it all falls apart because the players aren't being coached on how to break that bus down, hence they're losing the ball dribbling into dead ends or shooting from 40 yards out. It took 69 minutes before he made a sub today because for god knows why he thought carrying on as we were would magically start working. On Friday it was 75 minutes before a sub – and in both games we were more dangerous after he abandoned the 4-2-3-1 and went to "fuch it we need a goal, put two up top", because the extra body/aerial presence to get the ball to in the box is (at least with this embarrassment of a squad) an effective way to overcome that parked bus rather than trying to naïvely outplay the opponent. A manager who was wise to his players not playing to their own strengths would have made the change at 30 minutes, let alone half time, or lined up with a 4-4-2 to begin with. Cooper and Van Nistelrooy had just as little of a clue as Rowett, as did Cifuentes despite his skin-deep "Three Ps" philosophy waffle.

drinking the Queen Vic dry

Why has he not being playing Richards at all if we were so much more dangerous when he came on as the second striker?

bare goals

How much is the membership tier that gets you an autographed zimmerframe?