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Hopefully not, would much rather some up and coming league 2 players i.e. braybrooke, Joseph, Wilson brown than sign yet more "experience".

Jordan Ayew is but agree Daka's terrible.

With 19 players on the pitch we will still end up with Winks and Vestergaard passing it back and forwards between each other.

How else is Rudkin going to fund one more year of Ayew?

The worst thing is that if Page was putting in similar performances on a fraction of the wage, we would be hearing endlessly about how we: wouldn't be in this mess if Winks was starting; missing out on proven championship quality etc.

It's preemptive for the season after next.

Anyone who bins off the likes of Winks and Faes gets a thumbs up from me. We need to prioritise getting these cockroaches out of the club, it's more important than results on the pitch even. Although as we've seen the results inevitably go tits up if you keep them around.

Yes, Kasper managed it, Simpson managed it but Winks clearly can't manage his current working situation. Van Nistelrooy had every right to try and improve Winks's performances. Just because he didn't know for certain that the distance was why Winks is playing awfully doesn't mean that he shouldnt at least try and remove one of the potential limiting factors.

I'm sure we would all be a lot more valuable if we had Jon Rudkin determining our value.

Can we get drawn against our own U21s in the vertu cup next season?

Winks will probably got to Wrexham, get binned off early on like Coady, play some testimonial matches for the likes of Son and Kane then go into management and become the next Russel Martin and/or Maresca's assistant. Don't think he will have much of a playing career left after this year.

Will he be on a contract like players and managers or is he treated like a permanent employee? If he's a permanent employee we can just let him go without paying him out like you would need to do with a contract. The reason you have contracts is so that the person isn't snatched up by other clubs but there's no risk of that with Rudkin.

The thing about rot is that it starts long before it becomes visible. Most of these examples are when it became visible. There were two levels of rot that started: 1. When Rudkin was appointed football director and when Pearson was sacked later that season. Rudkin was always an incompetent, purely administrative director of football that initially performed ok because he didn't get in the way of the competent people around him. Pearson was the one who originally put that competency in place and without him there was no one to maintain it. 2. When Rodgers was apponted and dismantled the remaining competency within the club. Rodgers brought in Congerton which led to rubbish signings and got rid of David Rennie which led to a pile up of injuries. Most of the club's best scouts left during the Rodgers era as well. As other's mentioned he also set the "we shouldn't even be here mentality". When that surrounding competency was dismantled from around Rudkin and the remainders of the Premier League winning squad moved on there was no one left to set standards anymore and it all fell apart.

As bad as this season has been, for me I have never felt lower about the club than the days we signed Ayew and Skipp. For Cooper's involvement in that alone I will always consider him to be worse than RVN, Cifuentes etc.

Evans on the bench. Bit strange considering he scored last game and that was over a week ago so he will be rested.

That always happens. Even this season you have fans saying the youngsters failed to deliver this season so why should we build around them in league one. As if any of them had been played regularly enough to fail. Only Ben Nelson has had enough minutes to be judged on and we're no better defensively with Vestergaard and Lascelles.

Grimsby fans were raving about Braybrooke the other day. At this rate we might need to be concerned that a championship or SPL club will send us an offer we can't turn down in the summer and snap him up.

"Why is everyone so mad? League one is number one league, no?" - Top

It's actually depressing to consider the reality that there's a good chance he won't be here next season. One of the few players we have that have value, and it's a lot less than it should be because we dumped him back in the U21s for no reason.

Southampton are run poorly but we are in a completely different league in that regard. They have been slowly dropping down the football pyramid and will likely to continue to do so, whilst we are lurching downwards, making them look relatively well off in comparison. In reality they are going the same way as the likes of West Brom and Norwich, so not great but from where we are it looks like daisies and sunshine.

It's pretty standard to get time off work to go to a funeral.

Monga has 3 goal contributions in 800 minutes. Mavididi has 3 goal contributions in 2500 minutes. No reason that Mavididi should be favoured over Monga aside from perceived seniority.

Why would the pressure on Blackburn be immense? They are 4 points above the relegation zone with 4 games to go. Oxford will struggle to rack up 4 points alone in those 4 games, let alone 4 more than blackburn. They will be safe on the final day. Blackburn are all but guaranteed as safe, the only teams in a relegation battle are Oxford, Portsmouth and West Brom. We're a pretty safe lock in for league one next season at this point.

Was hoping Faes might convince Monaco to get him permanently after a decent run of games. If he keeps this up he will still be here next season.

Every new manager we bring in is labelled our "worst manager ever". 12 months ago RVN was considered our worst ever, now he looks like a footballing genius for getting any wins in the PL with this team. I wont judge any manager unless the club has given them a full season to weed out the underperformers. Currently we are just in an endless loop of giving the same old suspects clean slates and things not getting better (which a majority of our fanbase supported last summer by the way). We need to go through that process of the manager coming to terms that the majority of our starting XI need to be sidelined, otherwise it just feels like groundhog day where manager comes in -> picks established players -> established players underperform -> manager sidelines established players -> manager sacked -> new manager brings underperformers back into the picture.