gerblod

So, why is he still getting picked?

Thank you for the unnecessary and unwanted info. You and your pals seem to be only interested in having a fresh set of players to target for your unjustifiable ire. You're not fans or supporters - I'm thinking you feel more justified about slagging the players off now we're in League 1. You know why we're doing so badly and it ain't the players.

Absolutely spot on, Suzie. I'd go so far as to state that Top doesn't give a toss where the club ends up, which is just one step from actively sabotaging the club.

You've all got your wishes granted as far as those other players you couldn't stand have been released. Yet the team are still losing, still mediocre. Presumably you all believe Thomas is the sole reason that's happening then. Or is he just an easy scapegoat to pick on?

Good question. Suing is usually only useful if the loss of your revenue isn't outweighed by the cost of pursuing the case - unless they choose to make an example to discourage any other dissatisfied customer. If you could no longer attend then justifiable cause would be a matter for a court or arbitrator to decide. People change their electric and gas supplier all the time. Have a look at the contract conditions. Shame the contract doesn't have an unsatisfactory performance item in it.

Any excuse to have a go at him. Is there a 'We Hate Luke Thomas Club' on here? The 'hate' he gets is ludicrous - I see he gave the assist for the goal and yet you have a go because he's cut his socks (like many other players are doing). Pathetic.

Picking out one player to vent your ire on when the whole fvcking club is a shambles appears to be vindictive - rather than appreciating the fact that six from seven of the managers employed by our selectors have all been lambasted by the insightful 'supporters' commenting on this forum. Top and Rudkin keep getting it wrong - that's the key issue. The truth is that we have incompetents running our club. Connor Coady got it right - there's something deeply amiss at City and blaming the players is the easy option and the wrong one.

Luke Thomas could make the transition to being a defensive midfielder. In his pomp seven seasons ago he was quick, creative, eager to get forward and formed an effective link with Madders, Harvey Barnes and KDH - until Rodgers turned mardy and things began to fall apart. His lack of height and physicality wouldn't be so important in midfield. He's not found his level in League One - he's lost his way and found himself in League One. And despite his detractors on here, he still gets selected.

The one thing that a relatively fresh set of players doesn't need is brainless barracking. It's not support - it's a focus of something nasty from individuals whose issues aren't about football, but get expressed where they can get away with it. It's not a new thing - I recall a match I attended some time in the noughties when a bloke started to, as soon as the whistle blew, direct a stream of invective at a single player. It spoiled the game for me and, as far as I was concerned, was in no way justified - if ranting at a player can ever be justified. I've become chary of logging in on this forum because of being met with the hail of negativity centred on the team and individual players. That this negativity has spread towards fans who do applaud the team at the end of matches is symptomatic of how far this mindset is endemic now among followers of the team. Rudkin and Top I can understand being slated, but the words supporters and fans no longer apply to what's being expressed by a significant faction of people at matches and on here and other forums. Why do they go to matches, indeed.

I saw the result and thought "that's it for me now" but I'm sstill doomscrolling' through this thread hoping to find a crumb of comfort and finding nothing. I've supported City since 1960 so that emotional involvement isn't going to go away without a lobotomy. I think Top should pay for counselling for all us fans. Or eff off, him and Rudkin, and give the club to a supporters consortium - because it's clear most of us know a damn sight more about football than those two imposters. Football isn't business and it isn't a hobby. It shouldn't be about moneybags foreigners splashing out their extra cash on some fun new pastime. But money talks - much to the detriment of our national game.

Just over the border with Leicestershire - north-easterly direction - 27 miles (about as far as Derby - same direction). They're now our local derby rivals, them and County, for the foreseeable future. We can forget about Cov, Forest and Derby - unless we meet them in a cup game, and then not so much rivals as underdogs. Incidentally, Burton-on-Trent is the beer brewing capital of Ingerland - once the home of 'Bass' and 'Marstons' bitters, but that was before Yankee brewery concerns couldn't leave a good thing be.

I recall Liverpool fans warning, when he got the job here, that the atmosphere between him and the players, fans and executives would turn sour. Then there was the KDH story of him beating Rodgers at pool and getting loaned out to Blackpool very soon afterward. The ego of the bloke is monumental. He inherited a fine squad of players, won the Cup, but it all went downhill from there. Football is a mercurial mistress.

Yes - he's a boy - six foot+. He got on as a sub in a couple of Spurs' friendlies in New Zealand. He's captain material imho but whether he's good enough a player to supplant one of their expensive imports is to be seen. What I was stating was really about the insistent and, for me, the banal and tedious one line "they're all dogshite" comments. That's been the tune since Rodgers got the boot - even Maresca was coming in for abuse in the bad spell they had. I believe the club needs a complete makeover and the Top/Rudkin incompetence has infected the team's attitude. What we needed was committed professionals but we got cast offs - Bertrand, Vestergaard, Winks etc. Looking back, even to Ranieri, there were excellent players who were cast off - Kramaric for one. Then Maddison, KDH and Barnes left - rightly so. If you can't do well with players like that then what's really going on. Schmeichel, N'Didi, Castagne, Tielemans (exceptional with Villa), Soyuncu - all first-class performers. I'm getting depressed now. Thanks for your thoughts.

For me it's interesting that the reactions of so many commentators on here who are complaining about the same old crap happening on the field are replicating the same old complaints that they've been making since we won the Premier. Of course, it's become noticeably more toxic since the Rodger's regime ended with our first relegation, but it would be almost funny if the situation with the team and club weren't so tragic. The academy lads are, at the moment, the bees' knees. I wonder when, if we find ourselves in a mid-table mire (or worse) those boys will become the target of 'supporters' ire. I get it - the Club has been run down by incompetence - Top and Rudkin being the villains most selected for criticism - justifiably for me. We've been constantly frustrated and helpless watching this shitshow go on for season after season now. But the response has become monotonously tedious now. No chance of me not following City after sixty+ years but I'll be focusing on Tottenham for now. Before you all start mocking, a close relative has just transitioned from their academy to the first team squad. That's a good enough reason for me to get a little positivity out of football now.

I did not mention Choudury. Repeat after me - 'Gerblod didn't mention Choudury'. Are you now clear about it or should I go over it again? And you call me "sensitive" 😂