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Castagne putting it either side of the keeper at the end against Newcastle last season. He'd have had winners against both them and Wolves to keep us up and acheived Cult Hero status. As it was, put it straight down his throat and now goes down as one of the underperforming shysters responsible for arguably our club's most embarrassing season of all time.

Why are we panicking exactly? We had an off day on Saturday, and still managed to make chances galore. As I recall, we could have won it 5 or 6-2 but managed to sky it over the bar more times than Jonny Wilkinson in his prime. At the risk of sounding a bit James Maddison, we'll be fine if we create anywhere like as many chances as we did. More concerning was KDH and Winks both having poor games and losing the midfield battle. Hopefully it's a blip rather than a trend.

https://kerrydalestreet.co.uk/brendan-rodgers-a-thread-t140709.html Nah, not having that, everyone seems delighted at the start of this thread on Kerrydale, which I can only describe as a long, slow descent into madness.

1-0 Rangers!

Was I watching the same game as you lot? Thought he covered well today and put in the usual good blocks and tackles we've come to expect. He got exposed for pace a few times but I think he got no help from the midfield today, Winks and KDH unusually both had a poor game. Find me a centre back who can play effectively against a counter for 90 minutes without suitable defensive mid support and I'll listen, but I see the response tonight less as genuine concerns and more as finger pointing to find someone to blame for a poor showing from the team as a whole. It's been nothing new for us to watch our defense struggle after losing a midfield battle - it was a weekly occurrence last season when he was nowhere near the side.

God Casadei really is a golden boy for Chelsea fans isn't he? Apparently we should be grateful he was on loan with us, and pointing out he was a weak link in the second tier is enough to get them foaming. 😂 I'm willing to put my neck on the line here and say he will NOT be the next Harry Kane.

Casadei effect

You used the monkey paw to get him back, you have to stick with him forever

Let the bottling commence!

Curry > Parmo We win the culture war

Think they've been sleeping in a ditch, we should do these

Might be a minority opinion, but I'd fancy an Ipswich side running on the pure energy of two successive promotions to stay up ahead of Leeds or Southampton. Just having spent some recent time in the Prem is no indication of ability to make the step-up. Of the three promoted last season, the only one looking even slightly likely to stay up is Luton, who are the only ones without any prem pedigree.

Assuming the bleeding obvious happens at the GE, Labour deserve a bit of goodwill and leeway for the first parliament, or at least the first couple of years. The mess we're in is that dire that there can't be a quick fix. You can't just wave a magic wand and fix the NHS, the railways, utilities, social care, knife crime overnight. Be amazing if they did, but let's be real, it's going to take years of hard work to even implement plans that will start to fix those things. Anything that requires trained staff like nurses, dentists, teachers or police officers, we're probably not going to see tangible improvements until the first 5 year term is up, and that's assuming a program for training is up and running pretty damn early. What I hope doesn't happen is that we're sat here in 2038 with them still in power, blaming 'the last Tory Government ' after more than a decade in which they promised improvement but made everything objectively worse.

I'm the sort of voter who is firmly in the 'anyone but the Tories' camp going forwards. Realistically that means I'd consider either Labour or the Lib Dems and I'll probably vote for whichever one is more likely to win in my constituency. That said, the Lib Dems need to do a lot more for me. Ed Davey needs to stop the silly publicity stunts like the 'countdown clock', they're the sort of thing only a lame mid-level manager would find engaging. A mid-level manager full of buzzwords but no actual plans or substance. I don't actually know what the Lib Dems stand for. Tell us what you'd do about the economy, Ukraine, housebuilding, energy security, the NHS, the cost of living, immigration! The last time I remember hearing any policy from them, it was them becoming a single-issue Second Referendum party, they literally talked about nothing else in public for about 3 years after the Brexit vote. Even for their questionable flip-flopping on a few key issues, I could at least tell you a few of Labour's vague policy headlines ahead of their manifesto, whether that's taxing private schools to bridge the shortfall in public ones, closing loopholes for non-doms or the Great British Energy plan, which seems to have survived the £28bn u-turn. By comparison, I don't have the faintest clue what the Lib Dems would do with any single area of the basket case the country currently is. And I don't think it's my job to find out - they need to be making the case themselves with a huge election looming.

It's fairly obvious they've been fudging the numbers since the pandemic to delay the inevitable. A few months back we only 'technically' avoided recession because we had a supposed 'flat' growth rate in the second quarter. In truth, there had been a contraction of something like 0.04%, which they were allowed to round up to zero, despite it still representing £100 million + or so wiped from the nation's wealth. So the reality is, the economy has been shrinking for 9 months now, but the government has wilfully buried its head in the sand and tried to fool us all into believing it isn't happening until the underlying issues are terminal. The more I think about the current government, the more I notice the parallels between it and us under Rodgers.

If only for one more goal, Rangers would be top tonight! Dead level with Celtic on GD as it stands, guessing Celtic are ahead on goals scored or head to head record? I imagine someone as old-school as him is conflicted to know VAR saved their comeback from being for nought tonight!

Massive congratulations to Coventry for getting a point away at Plymouth. Huge statement result.

He looked great when I watched a bit of Plymouth back at the start of the season, he's been kind of off the radar since though.

Just realised that Ipswich's upcoming run is very kind to them. Want them back in second, rather them than Leeds or Southampton.

By my working out, we're 5 wins away from guaranteeing a playoff spot? Based on Hull having a game in hand, if they win that they'll be on 51 points, so a mere 27 points behind. We'd have to lose 9 of 14 to drop out from here, assuming perfect results for everyone below us. What a season. I know we're eternal pessimists, but at this point I'm eyeing up fixtures to look at which game we'll be clinching promotion - Bristol City away would be lovely, but part of me thinks if we beat Leeds we could be there even sooner - imagine doing it against Southampton at home!

They also dropped 8 points from winning positions in that run. We've only dropped 9 all season (3 draws, and Cov). They really aren't all that, they've just had a massively generous run of games since getting schooled by us and other better teams in the division (also losing to Ipswich and WBA before gifting a truly shite Boro side that couldn't buy a point their first win of the season). The Saints still have a soft underbelly that can be exploited by any team that employs a basic high press, as Bristol City did beautifully tonight. I know a lot of it is viewed through the lens of us being promotion rivals, but my God, tonight they did no favours for themselves when it comes to the pound-shop Rodgers comparisons. Lethargic, possession-for-the-sake-of-it football that can be punished by anyone willing to get stuck in.

winnit

Gary Lineker does have quite big ears though. Nuff sed, simple facks We should be worried

Just seen the Cov highlights - ground's back to being half-empty after their cup final against us. Joke of a club.

I'm conflicted about Cov ending up in the playoffs in the off chance they win them. On the one hand, guarantees a local derby next season, and bins off one of Southampton or Leeds coming straight back up too. But at the same time, it's COV, man. As much as I want to avenge last month, I'd also quite happily never have to go to that racist, tragedy-mocking cesspit again, and the off chance they actually end up staying up and getting Prem revenues makes me feel a bit ill.