Manley Farrington-Brown

The Ravens will win the Superbowl. Unless they don't. But they will. Maybe.

Everything everyone's said. Plus Pork Pie Island.

Lol - so it is! Mighty impressive of me to miss that!

It needs some older stuff! Off the top of my head: A sixth swan straggling behind the other five, flying over the double decker Keith Weller's white tights Gordon Banks catching a dog

We're averaging 2.5 points a game. If we keep going like we have been, or anywhere near, ain't nobody gonna catch us. If we drop to 2 points a game, even if they won every match from here on they'd only be seven points ahead of us. So even if we do substantially worse from now on, they could only afford to drop seven points in the last twenty games to catch us. If we do carry on like we are, Ipswich would need to win every remaining game to end up level on points, and Southampton coundn't catch us even if they did that. Which they won't. I know 'nothing's won until it's won,' but...

I can say with some authority that yes, it is.

I think it's fairly clear that what he means is he doesn't like counter-attacking as a primary tactic. He's never going to send a team out to sit back, let the other team dominate, but plan to hit them on the break. But while we'll always aim to control the game by dominating possession, the other team's always going to get the ball sometimes, and when they do attack, if they commit numbers forward, he wants us to be able to hit them hard and fast. TL:DR - he has no problem with 'counter-attacks,' but he doesn't like 'counter-attacking' to be the main tactic.

Smith yes. Shakespeare yes. Terry an absolute and unwavering no.

I wouldn't mind that at all. If he'd come at all though, presumably not till the summer )and assuming Cov don't go up)?

True enough!

This is just one thing that worries me, I would rather two up front Although It does rather depend who the one up top is, and indeed the three behind him.

Well you'd imagine that any incoming manager would have a look at at least our last half dozen or so matches, either before taking the job or first thing after... Nobody's going to come along and think 'Ah, Jamie Vardy - I remember he was really good when Leicester won the league seven years ago, he's the first name on my teamsheet...'

Except when it does. It's a gamble though, right enough.

This is based couple of assumptions - 1) that Barnes is fit, and 2) that Tielemans and Evans aren't. Well: the team to stay up has to have Maddison and Barnes in it, and Daka & Iheanacho. There's the attacking side of it, and that's the easy bit. Barnes is the only one of them I'd want playing predominantly wide, so we might need three centre backs so that Kristiansen on one side and Ricky P/Castagne on the other can get forward. The only way to do that without having Amartey on the pitch is Souttar, Faes and Soyuncu. And before anyone says 'so-and-so is rubbish in a three, or on the left...' etc - I'm not having it. All three are internationals who have been playing professional football for years; they can cope with stuff like that. Ok, I know this only leaves room for one CDM - who might have to be Mendy, purely on the grounds that he's the least likely to make a catastophic mistake - but you can't have everything, and if you can defend and score goals, how much midfield do you really need??

Money, basically. The rich clubs can pay them more. And offer them a decent chance of being in the running for trophies quite often. And money. And European football. And money. Other clubs, clubs like us - all the clubs who aren't the greedy six (seven, now) can't compete financially at all. And never will be able to unless they go down the Man City/Chelsea/Newcastle route - and I'd rather not get success than get it like that.

I can't imagine many on that list regret leaving.

I'd like City to win a title too, I'm sure everyone on here would, but get real mate, we're not going to.

The linesman will probably get sacked, which is ridiculous because he basically just fended off an agressively threating sh*t of a spoilt little millionaire, but why the f**k can't the game do something about players getting in the faces of officials? It really wouldn't be hard.

They like the sound of the massive pay increase they'll get from moving to the Premier League?

I'm so jealous of you youngsters! That's so much better than the Jimmy Bloomfield, Mark Wallington and Keith Weller of my (distant) childhood...

Fair enough. Although that group is always a bad run/a bit of bad luck away from a relegation battle. Seems like five minutes ago us and West Ham were looking comfy up there...

Fair point. Maybe I'll just salvage Amartey then and put him in the garden as a big useless ornament.

There was never a chance of this. No way on earth we, or anyone, could compete long-term with the greedy six except by going down the Newcastle route (like Chelsea and Man City did), and in all honesty I'd rather not have success than get it like that.

He's one of the best we've ever had (possibly the best, but I've lost interest in trying to rank players), but he's done. Sub on for the last ten minutes at best for the rest of this season, then call it a day. Gary Lineker was brilliant for us once too, but it doesn't mean he should be playing now.

It's crap. The answer is to tell them to stick their insanely expensive seats up their you know whats, and we should all go and watch non-league football.