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Them calling us Bin Dippers is especially funny while they're owned by Stig of the Dump

Gonna ruin your evening and tell you I put him in my dream team earlier

My main takeaway from this is being annoyed at how we almost let the title slip. The poor run in Feb and March could have been costly in the end. Brendan bottling top-four levels of embarassing. Easy to retroactively say Enzo's style was better / more cultured or whatever, but those 3 back to back losses to M'boro, Leeds and QPR in particular were chastening. 1/6 against Hull and Bristol City not long after didn't help either. Doesn't matter in the end and the final points total is all that counts, but we clearly had the same soft underbelly and ability to embarrass ourselves under Enzo as Southampton do under Brussel.

Very kind on Rodgers that. Emery is actually capable of doing something in Europe (won the Europa League FOUR times!) whereas Brendan has historically stunk the place out the moment his sides get into a UEFA competition.

See they've rowed back from giving us whole coconuts now they've realised they were effectively handing out heavy projectiles.

I was about to say that stat isn't true as they've been in it before twice, and won the damn thing, but I think it's funnier to just roll with it and pretend that, a bit like with the Prem, European Football started in 1992.

every time i've said "winnit" before a game this season on FT, we've not in fact wunnit. so this time i say drawit and/or loozit you're welcome, everyone

Taking things back now, but I will never forget the legions of Algerians on Facebook c. 2017-19 telling us "YOU WILL WIN THE HAIR WITHOUT MEHREZZ" followed by them spamming this one GIF over and over again Guessing it's a mistranslation of "nothing", but I still choose to believe that Mahrez leaving coinciding with us starting to play lads with massive barnets (Soyuncu, Faes, Choudhury) is no coincidence.

It really is one of the best out there, we're incredibly lucky to have it. One of the few that has seemingly weathered the storm of modern social media, and which has in fact flourished while fans on other teams' forums (and a decent chunk of Bentley's Roof in our case) naturally migrated to shared platforms like Reddit and Facebook. For what it's worth, and this is more of a general observation / prediction, I can see fan forums becoming a more popular thing again in the coming years, as centralised social media sites like Xitter and Facebook become worse and worse to the point of being unusable. I gave up on getting any football news / discussion on those sites because of the prevalence of bots, global "fans" and blue-tick pricks, and it feels like formerly safe spaces like Reddit are going the same way. Plenty of people here (myself included) talk some absolute shite, but on the whole you can have an actual discussion about your football team without it being derailed by WUMs and some guy with an Arabic name trying to sell you a guaranteed return on the day's betting. That's a big part of the problem, by the way. 95% of conversations going on under football posts on Xitter nowadays are bots and scammers, often with zero relation to the actual topic of the post. Why would anyone bother to engage when it's obvious no other actual fans are?

I already said it semi-jokingly but he does have the makings of a cult hero. Clearly he's technically limited and as slow as a snail in treacle, but he brings other things we've missed up top for years. His hold-up play is good, he gets stuck in, the free-kick winning is a meme at this point and, as he's shown when he actually has had a pop, he does know where the goal is. It's like having a slightly more nimble Steve Howard back in the line-up, though clearly without the habit of getting booked within a minute of coming on...we don't talk about the shirt pull. Honestly, if he bags again against Forest after Saturday he can have the keys to the bloody city for all I care. Signing of the season. For the folks who have wanted a "plan B" up front for the past decade, he's your guy. He's not getting dumped up top on his own and having it lumped to him, that's not how target men really operate in a modern team and you''re just as likely to see him doing the holding-up job out wide which is intended to bring wingers like Abdul into the game and let them flourish. The issue with his game, which has been bleeding obvious to most of us so far this season, is that it's better against tiring legs than at the start of games when stamina exposes the lack of pace, but hopefully Cooper can see that now. ...inb4 he starts Friday and has an absolute stinker now i've said all that.

Crikey that looks better than a lot of sit down places, and it's scarcely more than a pint is now at our place. In London! We're so shit at so many things.

Think it's two factors: We got a massive influx of followers from the EPL win, which was largely casual / short term interest that has waned. Those people still follow the club but haven't actually cared about anything we've done for years (save for perhaps during the helicopter tragedy and FA Cup win). Our social media teams are almost uniquely shite and tone-deaf, and have to vet a lot of comments sections when lurching from one crisis to the next and trying to pretend nothing is happening. Still ongoing now with Cooper in charge, but has been true of us since the wheels fell off under Rodgers, and continued during the iffy periods under Maresca. Hard to have reliable engagement statistics when you're holding a bunch of comments for "review" or even going as far as to turn comments off on some sections.

Just looked it up and you're right, he bagged in a 2-2 draw in the promotion season. So it's been 10 years. No time like the present Jamie mate!

Dawned on me that I think Vardy has never scored against these. Even in the 4-0 in that sorry season, it was Madders, Daka and Barnes, and can't recall a single one in Championship days either. Pile on first goalscorer, it's written.

ugh, sorry but i just can't ever want these c***s to win, draw please

Begrudgingly must admit this is an entertaining game for the neutral. Couldn't call it at the minute. Ryan Yates is a cheating bastard, while we're at it.

Forest love pumping it into the box, gonna need Wout and Caleb to be strong in the air on Friday. Reckon Palace are shading this so far, Nketiah was proper unlucky with his strike.

We did it after Bournemouth, but of course Facundo doesn't have a song, so they just defaulted to "Vardy's On Fire" and "Fata-wu". Felt proper weird at the time considering neither were really very involved in the win. Worked last season when they put some actual thought into it, and could do again, but like i said, weird vibes when it's players who didn't really do much for the final result. I don't really expect much deeper thought processes from the folks currently responsible for the "matchday experience" mind you.

Hope the dribbling suits at the KP don't get any funny ideas from Southampton's player-tailored goal music. They've already done the "post-match playlist" thing to death with Freed From Desire / Voulez Vous.

Do more, do more! Up the batch if you can and this will make you folks a LOT of cash in the run-up to Christmas.

Unironically would cement cult hero status for him if he does bag the winner somehow. Can go in off his arse hairs for all I care.

I think the KP is better known around the world than the City Ground in 2024. It's been exposed to the global PL audience far longer, and things both good and bad have happened there in recent history - the EPL win of course, but also the UCL run, the helicopter tragedy and plenty of crazy games in the hyper-saturated modern era. For Forest on the other hand, you have to turn the clock back to a time when the likes of Gary Numan, Rubix Cubes and Jimmy Saville were culturally relevant.

Is it sad that i'm wanting the little fist pump thing to become a thing? That alone would go a long way to connect fans and manager. People call it tin pot but i think they just have PTSD from seeing so many away managers do it to their end down the KP over recent years - the ones that didn't leave after 75 minutes in home defeats that is. Think they're just jealous to be honest. We've not had a single manager who does it down the years. Pearson might have raised his fist now and again but nothing more, and even Enzo despite coming over to the Kop after every game didn't indulge in the theatrics.