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We have to, and I expect us to cramp the midfield up against these or they will easily play through Winks and Skipp.

                     Begovic

Ricardo Okoli Nelson Thomas

            Aribo Winks Skipp

 Monga.        Mukasa.   Mavididi

Obviously Fatawu comes back in if fit, and personally I’d play Ricardo at RW, Aluko at RB and drop Mavididi.

2 minutes ago, Les-TA-Jon said:

Did we? I thought the points deduction was for the 3 year period ending with Maresca’s promotion season? 

Yeah you’re right actually….ill give it 12 months or so before I edit the post though!

I think last summers window was far more damaging than the Soumare/Daka one.

Ayew, BDCR, Okoli, Skipp, Bilal - and we still broke PSR.

Glover is absolutely dining out on Fatawu (who was an absolutely fantastic pick out) and Bilal, but so much shit has come in under him

Guessing Abdul is injured if he’s out. Still back us for a scrappy 1-0 win. Mukasa with the goal. Rowett ball in full effect.

Fancy us tomorrow - as much as this team has a super ability to let you down over and over again, really confident that Rowett gets a bounce

Think Callum Davidson is one of those players who I must have seen play for us more than 30 times live and cannot remember a single appearance.

Still, him and Rowett certainly don’t seem the characters to allow any shit to happen. Like that

Nepo baby has thrown his toys out the pram because somebody shouted at him.

He’s a joke

Ignoring his time at Stoke (basket case club over last few years), he’s got a good record. Appreciate Oxford got rid but feel they aren’t good enough to survive anyway, and he certainly did well last season with them.

5 minutes ago, Foxin_Mad said:

I don’t see how anyone can defend the Marti fraud.

 

1. We got worse every game under him

2. Almost every player got worse under him

3. The running stats appalling 

4. Pressing stats appalling 

5. Xg appalling 

6. 2nd balks won appalling 

7. Fitness looks appalling 

 

There is little defence for that clown

 

On 7 (and 3,4 and 6 too tbh), obviously it was Marti’s responsibility- but I do wonder if any of that was impacted by how late into pre season we hired him

Can you imagine us playing with anywhere near this intensity 

43 minutes ago, lfu said:

read: Rudkin's spent the last two weeks trying (unsuccessfully) to get a hold of Graham Potter again without realising he's the Sweden manager now

We joke,  but there’s a real joke that our shortlist was just the only managers Top and Rudkin are aware of

Enzo

Dean Smith

Potter

Martin

1 minute ago, Arriba Los Zorros said:

Lesta Fosse FC please. Blue shirts and white shorts.

Away kit

black with blue sash for home.

There’s no structure in place at this club to get anything done other than the whim of a nepo man child.

Im so worried about our future - clubs displaying everything we are, go perilously close to going out of business. Pompey, Derby, Bolton style 

Just watched this myself and boy is it concerning.

if I’m summarising correctly:

KP are completely ****ed (we knew this)

If we go down we are ****ed

If we stay in the Champ, we need to dramatically change our financials (no “we promote next season” Top you ****ing ostrich)

If we go down and don’t immediately return, we are all starting a phoenix club

Just now, teblin said:

They don’t care, I’m sure of it, they can’t be this incompetent surely 

They’re too arrogant, there will be a feeling of “only in the relegation zone cause of points deduction, can’t get play offs so there’s no rush”

Despise it 

Speakman literally did the job we’d need him to do if we go down this year, and regardless, has shown he can reset a faltering football club.

It’s an absolute no brainer, which I can absolutely guarantee we will not go for

Hilarious that betting odds haven’t moved in two days - the club is in absolute paralysis 

Just now, Lad1966 said:

I don’t understand why Top wont appoint NP. Wasn’t it Top that reinstated NP, when Vichal, supposed to have sacked him in 2014

Other way around I always thought? 

3 minutes ago, AjcW said:

How has this not been spoken about more?  when did the pod come out?

Cleverley isn’t exactly doing great at Plymouth. Would he swap that to be assistant to Nige? Bassett/Adams style?

I have a particular annoyance with people switching to a back 5 as a defensive move - it doesn’t work, it creates far more space than two solid banks of 4 would.

Kingy isn’t the first to do this, plenty do, but he would have been far better bringing Mukasa and Mavididi off, putting Fatawu up to play off Daka and playing double full backs on the wings.

Getting down to 75% of turnover  would be a struggle but player trading would see us right, especially as we’d be selling Fatawu