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Speaking as somebody who works in advertising... Only a fraction of people will have the patience to read through a website. Advertising offers mass reach. It's important the message is communicated succinctly and powerfully without being watered down by personal insults. As someone else mentioned, 'Premier Ambitions, Amateur Decisions', is great. The rest, not so much. It's a missed opportunity, but credit is deserved for mobilising the effort and getting organised.

Around the time of that 2021 West Ham game in the run-in for UCL qualification. Maddison broke COVID rules and was left out of the squad and tipped up at a golf club instead. We lost 3-2 in a game we didn't show up for until the last 20 minutes, by which point we were 3-0 down. Signalled the end of us acting as a serious football club. Everything has felt unprofessional since that moment, and it signalled the beginning of the end of our challenge that season. It has only gone downhill from there, felt like that squad and management never recovered mentally from bottling it for the second consecutive year. We just about managed to find another win or two to clinch an FA Cup, but it was clear we were in freefall by then. Meanwhile the state of affairs off the pitch since then, as has been documented at length, has only gotten more stale since. Whether we gave up when the Rodgers love-in died or our owner and his staff somehow grew more stupid, I'm not sure.

And I've used a knackered, old Srixon Soft Feel for my last few rounds of golf, but if someone offered me a tenner for it, I'd gnaw their arm off. We don't need anybody, least of all somebody as devoid of quality as Kasey McAteer.

This just doesn't wash though, does it? Even if we forgive the money spent this year which has placed us close to the PSR line in the first place (we shouldn't), what is the point in avoiding a points deduction for next season? The alternative is relegation and a likely embargo once we're in the Championship. Throw the kitchen sink at it. Ideally not £25m on another Skipp, and while we're at it, can we make it priority areas that need to be addressed? Is that asking too much? Forest took their points deduction and continued to sign good players. Now they're a good bet for Champions League football. If we were to get relegated, at least if we identified key areas, did our due diligence and signed well, we'd go down in a strong position to bounce back up. Now? We could be relying on the same squad (minus El Khannouss, probably), to lead us back up. Utterly, utterly depressing. Just a bunch of total morons running the show and it's infuriating. So difficult to get behind us. I hate everything about what we have become. It has reached the point that I actually want these clowns to fail. The thought of Top parading around the pitch following the game on the final day of the season if we somehow stayed up is nauseating.

A lot of people have said we're run by people who don't care. I disagree. We're run by blithering morons. Who in their right mind turns down £15m combined for Thomas and McAteer? And that's before we consider the context of our PSR troubles. Just when I thought we couldn't be run any worse, this. I'm lost for words. Truly flabbergasted.

When you've lost interest on FIFA so you just keep pressing square...

Don't worry, we still have all our signings to bed in and turn it around for us...

Thought Ruud was the second coming of Christ when he dropped this fvcking liability as his first order of business. What changed?

Please do not dilute the board out message with noise around the manager. The best manager in the world would, at best, paper over the cracks for a temporary period. That's not to say I agree with all of Ruud's decisions, but it's all a bit inconsequential, really, isn't it?

It's at the point that individual matches feel inconsequential. Even seasons. Say we stay up this season. Are we having a great summer and kicking on next? Even the most optimistic fan would be hard pushed for a positive outlook there. There is no hope, no future with this ownership. We are not the club that was once lead by Vichai. Sack the board.

Here's an idea. PSR breaches to lead to senior board members being removed from their post and served bans from operating in similar roles in the sport. Punish incompetence at source and watch clubs fall in line. These things should never influence the competition element of sport. Makes a complete mockery of the product as a spectacle, not to mention fans should not be punished for financial mismanagement (any more than on-field consequences such as having to watch the like of Danny Ward - again, that is.)

Yep. Came on this thread to say basically this. A decision in isolation is just that. In that game in that spell, he single-handedly took it upon himself to fvck us over. No other way of explaining it. Left the ground that day more angry at a ref than I'd ever been, and have ever been since.

He isn't though, not anymore. Enzo didn't fancy him in the Championship, and he looked awful on the ball the few times we saw him at that level. This is more than just a temporary drop in confidence. In terms of options, while we don't have a natural right back, I'm confident that a centre half in his position wouldn't average an error leading to a goal each game. I do feel for him a bit because he does seem to be of a bit of a nervous disposition. However, ultimately he's not good enough and the limited alternatives simply have to be utilised at this point.

The only thing I can get angry about really is his insistence to keep picking James Justin. And Ward, before he thankfully realised his mistake. The style of play is better and we've had mostly tough fixtures of late. Two signings to give us anything resembling a Premier League level right side and we should start to pick up results against bottom half teams.

I'd rather start games a goal down than start him. He's a guaranteed goal against anyway and at least we'd have 90 minutes to turn it around.

Two or three turns in his own box as he backed himself into a corner, before passing it straight to their winger. Winger duly obliged and pinged it into the box for an easy finish.

Literally anybody else. Please, for the love of all things holy.

He's a good keeper, but that was a mistake today. It wasn't actually the parry that offended me, it was the way he reacted in the 1 on 1. When you're closing the ball down in a 1 on 1 at the near post, you don't dive in the direction of the centre of the goal. His torso, the biggest part of the body you can block with, was leant away from the angle rather than into the angle of the striker. The biggest part of the goal at that angle is the front post, and all the striker had to do was lift it over his leg. I think he just panicked after a bit of a soft parry. As I say I think he's a very good goalkeeper, and it is not a mistake that I'd expect from him. Mistakes happen - it's still immediately obvious that he's worlds ahead of Danny Ward.

* The British implementation of VAR

Can't see Pereira at Wolves being a good fit. They were terrible against us despite the easy win. More misplaced passes than a Beaumont Leys Mastermind Christmas Special. I appreciate the flawed logic there in that we still lost to them despite them being so poor, and we need to be better than them. But they're not going to be gifted 3 goals every week, and neither will we gift 3 goals a week. Mads will be back soon. Look, we're pretty shit. But we only need to be less shit than a poor Wolves side to stay up. Ipswich and Southampton aren't going to trouble us. Our fans can't complain about a lack of effort and belief while simultaneously throwing in the towel themselves.

Yes there is. Listen again.

Anybody suggesting it was more Justin's mistake than Ward on the second needs to watch it back with the sound turned up. There's a loud shout of 'keeper's', which is why Justin leaves it. I'm not trying to defend Justin. He's needed to be dropped all season. But that second goal is mind bogglingly bad from Ward. Not content with fumbling powerful shots off of *checks notes*, the chest of opposition players, he's completely created the chance in the first place. It's one thing to shout and not get there, but he's not even close to being there. Worse, he ends up completely wrong-footed as though surprised that the ball ended up where it did. How can you be shocked about the ball ending in the box when you've just shouted for it? He lacks ability. He lacks concentration. He lacks confidence. What does he offer? How can be possibly be selected ahead of any other professional goalkeeper? 50. Thousand. Pounds. Every single week. Unbelievable.