JimJams

We might need him in the shop window to be fair.

Fighting over who gets to hold it up?

Souttar can really endear himself to the fans if he just flying headbutts Cooper now... You know it makes sense.

Apology accepted.

Excellent tackle followed up with that.

He's being stretchered off...

The players have been doing that all season.

King Jeffrey of the Schlupp is being released by Norwich. What an opportunity.

I guess the problem is he doesn't give a shit about next season...

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Agree. But at this stage he's likely beyond caring.

Hopefully Souttar plays an absolute blinder and prompts Wilder to part with £15mill this summer for him. I have my doubts.

We can only hope.

I mean if we had 6 points docked once we'd already won the league so we'd end up on 91 and effectively not mattered, so the subsequent stuff doesn't happen. As you say though, fighting it on technicalities has ultimately been far worse than the deduction itself. Whilst we have the benefit of hindsight, if we'd have taken it in the Premier League we'd have fared no different, we'd go down either way. Same as this season. But what's happened in the interim of getting promoted and Maresca departing is an air of uncertainty with spurious claims we'd be getting a record deduction, or multiple deductions etc meaning that no manager worth his salt would touch us with a barge pole. For any promising or established manager, there was no upside to coming to us. A relegation was always probable. So we ended up with managers where they were in such low standing that it wouldn't really make a difference to their future prospects whether they were successes or not. Essentially it was too much of a gamble for any decent manager and a free throw of the dice for the proven failures. And that's snowballed ever since.

How apt.

Sold them already?

If that's legit, the EFL are cxnts.

It's got it's own thread mate. Cos West Brom are massive!

One of those freak situations where you'll be pissed off with a win in many respects. If he plays a different side and gets some of the young lads in, then I'd want them to win, as you'd expect. But there's something about playing the same old shit, which we likely will, and seeing them win when it doesn't matter anymore after the showing this season that boils yer piss. So basically, I never want us to lose, but I won't be happy if we win. And draws can fxxk off. Fxxk you football!

There's no point. And I'm a bit cynical about it really. Why has it taken until this point in the season to apply it? Not having a pop at WBA, we're shit and deserve to go down, but what's the point in applying a points deduction when it ultimately has no consequences? 2 of 3 teams are already relegated and the other needs to win both games with WBA getting nothing, so while there's a chance, it's incredibly minimal. It seems very unsporting to apply deductions to one team where it has an effect on their season (although ultimately it's meant fxxk all, but nobody knew that at the time it was applied) and then apply a points deduction to another when it'll have no effect. We could have had a 6 point deduction once we'd sealed automatic promotion 2 seasons ago and we wouldn't have had all the shit since.

Personally don't believe it at all. No manager is going to stake their reputation and risk their future by playing the way someone else wants them to. We just recruited poorly and the players that we do have that have performed in the past like Winks are tactically limited to one style of football. Those that could do more have fxxked off. So we're left with shit players or players that are only good in one system. And that system is now missing many integral parts. So you can't even revert back to "The Enzo way" either. Since Maresca we've employed managers with no particular style of play though either. Aside from the safety first defend a 0-0 approach which ironically is fxxking suicidal.

Would his ego sink itself to league one?

Except for Bare Goals. We should give him the last 2 games. He's out of contract at Chelsea in the Summer, we will have no strikers on the books and despite the manager saying he's for the wing, the lad describes himself as a 9. Make the last 2 games an audition of sorts. If he's shit, no harm done. If he's got something, then there's possibilities there. No point wasting it on Daka or Ayew. Unless Rowett brings in Hutchinson for a few games. None of this will happen of course.

Having watched Newport before and after his appointment to keep track of Braybrooke, they were absolute dogshit before his appointment. They're not exactly great now, but he has improved them. Any calls for him, or frankly any of our former players bar Robins and probably Wellens is pretty ridiculous though. Unless I'm forgetting someone who has proven themselves.

He's got another year at Wrexham, so why bother?