Paninistickers

Dont pick Thomas. Don't pick BdcR. Don't play Ayew up top. Don't play 4231..Make the players work hard.

Tbh, I'm delighted he got a red. Hes one of the worst players I've seen in a good 25 years.. Feeble, tepid, slow, effeminate, limp, mince

Again, it's not a league rule that you have to play a formation that the mast manager did.. Particularly when it loses every week.

It's not law you have to play a 10. Both the club and fans seem to think 4231 is obligatory

Well, I saw post after post after post selecting him on posters' preferred team. He's absolutely ****ing useless.

Well, 90% of posters on here pre match were praising the line up. Same formation, downgrade of winks to Aribo, physically feeble players in Reid, Ricky and Thomas. Why were so many happy at the start? The selection and tactics were as obvious as they were painful. The definition of madness.

Playing him will get us relegated

Most of this board love this lad to death..play Bob up front, number 10, never any resistance to him playing.. Absolute first class shite from the minute he stepped in the club

Amazed how many people are happy with that. Some no mark from Southampton in for a far superior half arsed Winks, so apart from Lascelles, it's the same old gibberish. But most seem happy

Plus Bob, who'll achieve a invisible man stunt worthy of a Vaudeville theatre

When I was at primary school, I had to do a recorder concert on stage. But didn't know how to play the recorder. So I stood there and just moved my fingers over the holes and hoped nobody noticed. That's Luke Thomas that is. But him having had 8 years of elite recorder lessons. And paid millions to play the recorder.

As unsurprising as it is sickening. I've become numb to the torture of seeing BdcR and Thomas

20 mins til the soul destroying sight of Thomas and BdcR on the starting xi teamsheet

That's a great post @Iwebema and the line above is particularly astute. He's a youth coach by trade. He isn't qualified to lead an organisation in terms of culture and strategy and certainly not finance. The grotesquely overblown contracts he dishes out tho are the fault of Whelan. He should never have had the authority to send the wage bill spiralling to 116% of revenues. What can be laid at his door, for sure, is footballing performance and a lack of authority over managers. I'm one of those that still think a decent recruitment policy is there, somewhere. But he seemed bullied by Rodgers into bringing in Rodgers' mate as recruitment boss. 'Managed upwards' by Enzo, who took over the transfer policy in the summer window and scaled long standing coaches like Sadler. And he showed no backbone with Cooper, whose demands for clapped out garbage from poor performing rival EPL clubs should've been overruled. He's weak.

Beta

Basin's statement to the deduction would've first needed a six month consultation period with various sub committees and then - after much teeth gnashing - only include a strongly worded sentence about stadium access for ADHD sufferers

Would be lovely just to give ourselves a chance in a game and play 11 men. Even bad men. Instead, we play 8 plus BdcR and Ayew who make no contribution at all and Luke Thomas who does make a contribution, but for the opposition. Troublingly, they seem to be the first names on the teamsheet

My take is two things; predominantly a cultural thing of KP of 'the less said the better' ....he's been schooled in that way. Second, there's probably an element of imposter syndrome. He's out of his depth and probably knows it

Talk about blue tinted specs! Our esteemed DoF is only just brushing down his windows 95 PC and typing (one finger) into AskJeeves 'how do I find football manager?'

Yes, you are quite right. 58 games for us. Amazing how many strikers Pleat got through who had some pedigree. Newell he inherited (tho coincidentally helped build his career prior to us) Cross, Wayne Clarke, Jimmy Quinn (strange one that, division top scorer but he barely played him) David Lowe, Rooster Russell, David Kelly, Ashley Ward.

Peter Weir and Nicky Cross were the shrewd, clever sort of loan signings we thought Pleat was going to deliver time and again. Alas,.both left at the end of their half season loans and Pleat went doolally

Just thinking the same! There's some bitterness in his writing. I suppose any supporter that's been (figuratively) bent over and gang bummed 9 times in a single night - the indignity witnessed live by tens/hundreds of millions worldwide - is bound to feel a little sore.

Plenty of mid 60s husband/wife big long scarf drongos clapping at the end

'Wee wahhh smarrr cub'

Just waiting for bankruptcy until we can move on. The whole club, the whole City even, just waiting til this strange little Thai man destroys himself, his family wealth and the club with it