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Rudkin using his 10 Gmail burner accounts to try and twist the vote for us I see.

Easy really

Small point of order on Marsch, since some mentioned it - the board only vetoed it because he wanted a long contract (either 3 or 5 years I think?) and we wouldn't give him more than an interim one. They wasted valuable days trying to convince him to take the short term deal, then he walked away. The board still wanted him. They didn't give a flying fook what the fans thought then, it only fell apart because we were skint and (laughable as it is) couldn't afford him. Smith was the next random name they drew out of a hat and luckily he was more willing to take the chance on a short term deal and discuss again that summer. With that in mind, unless Brussel demands a ten year contract and bonuses for every game we have 80% possession, they'll absolutely follow through on hiring him. Our opinion means nothing to them and some here are giving way too much credit to their thought process when hiring.

Its.... Daniel Iversen

Be interested to know if I encountered the same person, because I heard very similar from somebody before a match last season. Went as far as to call him "slimy" when mentioning him leaving others to do the dirty work. Sounded like he'd been one of the ones tasked with those "not for me" Rudkin tasks. Though as a point, they didn't say anything about him working hard, just that he had a knack of buttering up the right people to "get ahead" and that he was the equivalent of that mid-level manager at your office who has no obvious qualities but inexplicably keeps getting promoted.

Been speaking to folks who were there, and the crowd got a few solid digs at his shins in before the police arrested him. He'll be crawling around his cell tonight, don't you worry.

The 'unbeaten run' is often parroted by Brussel apologists, but they dropped eight late points from winning positions during it, which ultimately was a big factor in them blowing automatic promotion. To Rotherham, Huddersfield, Watford and Norwich. His teams are built like a deck of cards. Him coming in to this squad, with it's pathetic mentality and Sunday League defence, is a disaster waiting to happen.

The game's moved on. Death by possession is so easily snuffed out nowadays by teams who apply a high press and fast transitions. There's a place for it, but it should not be the be-all and end-all. Even Barcelona and Spain don't exclusively apply that style anymore. The most depressing thing? We were the ones to show it could be done, in 2015-16. We (alongside Atletico Madrid) were the tipping point for a trend, at that period in football, that spelled the death of tiki-taka as a dominant style. It's also how the likes of Brentford, Bournemouth, Palace and (yes) F*rest have been able to rub shoulders with the "big boys" while we've rotted as a club. It honestly makes me despair when I see other teams do it to us. Those two losses at the City Ground under Rodgers where they sussed us out were probably the most depressing matches I've ever endured as a fan, not only for the obvious humiliation by our local rivals, but for what they represented - other teams executing the same plan we sprung on other supposedly "elite" teams, with the same results and with us, through some strange boardroom fetish with being a pound shop Man City, becoming the club on the receiving end. We can largely get away with shite Rodgersball in the Championship for the most part due to the huge step-down in overall quality, but even two seasons ago (yeah we can say that now) we had a job done on us by the mighty likes of Leeds, Hull, Blackburn and QPR amongst others. We fell off a cliff once teams worked out that you can bypass pure possession with a bit of grit and a counter attack, and it almost ended up costing us what seemed like a nailed-on title. It's not even that it's boring to watch that bothers me - it's the fact that, like in so many other aspects, the game has moved on and our club is being left behind.

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Getting behind yet another Southampton reject after Vestergaard, Bertrand and Martyn Glover is exactly what we DON'T need right now. It would say to those calling the shots that we're okay with the shameful way they're running us and that we should just blindly support the third consecutive joke of a managerial appointment. He's a terminal loser who just scraped Southampton out of the Championship and then was the main reason they've threatened Derby's points record this time out. He will fail with us. The club hierarchy are frankly taking the piss out of the fanbase and the lack of imagination is astounding. I'm glad that there's vocal opposition to the mere suggestion of him coming to the club. It's louder than it was for Cooper for Christ's sake, and look how that turned out. Our fanbase may be split but one thing we've never been off about is sussing out managers (Claudio's first season aside) - and the verdict was our away end openly calling him a w⚓ today. He's on a hiding to nothing at LCFC. If he comes, gets us up and keeps us up, I'll hold my hands up and admit I was wrong, but i'm going to put my neck on the line and say that Russell Martin at LCFC will only serve to continue our sorry decline as a club.

It's become exhausting rooting against my own team, but I won't lie, I will laugh openly if on matchday one we're outclassed by someone like Hull or Derby letting us have 90% possession then doing us on the break.

What was the atmosphere in the crowd like? Didn't bother watching. Anything spicy?

Might as well get this in here early, since we're not in it. (Though it's hard to argue we were in 2024/25 either)

Big up all the clinically-insane optimists who chose 15th-17th

We get to post this every day from now until August

That's a funny way of spelling Nottingham Forest

Big up Blurbejkraften Scheissenspiele

It's literally all we've got at this point. I sincerely hope those who bothered to go to the South Coast are currently giving our bunch of wastemen both barrels. But who can blame those of us at home for completely checking out from our own sorry state of affairs for a little while? Might as well focus on the one funny thing to happen this season, which we ended up having a pivotal role in.

Fingers crossed for a 22/23 follow-up from them, minus the finishing higher bit

I love and miss you kiernan

Thank god we're done with that shite until August

Which is about what we'll be getting in our second season in League One

As shite as we are, was anyone expecting anything different on a ground we've managed one point at since Kevin Phillips and his Zimmer Frame? Regardless, I hope the crowd give them both barrels at full time. No Vardy to hide behind now, lads.

Yeah heard he's there with a Rudkin Out banner and orange WKD in an Irn Bru bottle