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I always remember Mahrez running at Karl Henry when we played QPR in the Great Escape season. Fired off 3 or 4 rapid fire stepovers as Henry backpedaled desperately before collapsing in a confused heap.

Aye, but I Cannae understand why they aren't anti-Niemi? Anti niemi? He's Finnish. He's no finish, he's only 26.

Cooper's games were 90% hiding in our own half getting battered to bits, with an occasional late flury of offense to pull back the odd consolation goal, with the end result being another toothless loss. By the end, the consolation goals were gone as well, and it was just getting slapped to bits by the worst Man Utd team in leaving memory twice in a week, managed by the RVN, the manager that so many of the Cooper defenders would insist he was vastly superior to. If he wanted to keep his job and not lose it to Ruud, maybe he shouldn't have made him look so good at the time by putting on two such appallingly bad performances. So much of his defence seems to hinge about being "above the bottom 3", which was entiely carried on the back of the 4 points taken against Ipswich and Southampton, 2 of the worst teams in Prem history - and two games which we came a whisker away from getting zero points from - he was 2 goals ddown to Brussel Martin until Fatawu bailed him out (off the bench, naturally - can't be starting exciting wingers when there are Ayew's and Bobby Reid's to accomadate). When his fixtures were stacked up against the equivalent ones for Van Nistelrooy, they were almost identical. Both of them got most of their points from Ipswich, Southampton and Tottenham, with a token win (bournemouth, West Ham) for each of them, with almost everyone else beating them pretty easily. Him and Ruud are two sides of the same coin, both deserve to be on the list of our worst managers in recent memory, the only difference is Cooper was put out of his misery much earlier, while Ruud was allowed to fester longer. He was tactically abysmal, the team was disorganised, his signings were some of the worst we've ever made (Skipp is the next 20 million + man to leave on a Bosman once the current batch (soumare/Daka) goes next summer, a nice PSR deadweight to hold us down for another 3 years). He couldn't even conjure up a tiny sliver of hope in pre-season because he was getting his arse handed to him by Papy Mendy. He's an absolute fraud of a manager, gifted a premier league survivial with Forest by default because Rodgers was deliberately tanking us, and sacked by them because they didn't believe he could out perform Luton Town even after spending the defence budget of a medium sized European country on transfers.

Guy Branston says he's 6'8

That HiTC sevens YouTube video about them being "the best championship team of all time" this season is going well so far

So much of the damage has been caused by the brain dead decisions in the first relegation season. The club was so terrified of breaking PSR and getting a PL points deduction, that they got rid of Kasper to save on wages, did the bare minimum to replace Fofana and worst of all, kept Rodgers for months longer than he should have had. Keeping Kasper or binning the Bodge earlier would have been enough to stay up, and fellow PSR breakers Everton or Forest would have gone down in our place. The following season, we would have had a points deduction, but as Everton and the filthy cheating trees have proven, it would have been no great impediment. We on the other hand, intentionally got ourselves relegated to avoid a points deduction that might have got us relegated, fecked our PSR allowances into the floor by dropping into the championship a second time, lost every single player of Any value we had for under market rate, destroyed our squad value and set ourselves up to be marooned in the championship or lower for years to come, whilst adding more expensive shit like Skipp onto our books to cause problems for years to come, because the cheap clueless Gremlin manager we picked up (because our DoF has a contact list so short that it would fit onto a mouse's business card) needs to have an ex-england u17 player with him at all times like a comfort blanket, so he can have one player stick up for him in the dressing room when the rest of them quickly twig that he is a useless chancer with the coaching ability and tactical knowledge of a boiled potato. This has all been entirely avoidable, but the people running the club were so focussed on psr they allowed the real financial danger of relegation to occur instead. Now we are stuck in a league where everyone makes losses, we will not financially recover for years to come. Everything we built up in our most successful period in our history has been destroyed, all for the sake of delaying a compensation payment to Brendan Rodgers that we ended up paying a few months afterwards anyway. And with all that damage done, we didn't even avoid the PSR problem we were trying to prevent in the first place. It is still hanging over us, and will hang over us every season from now on, because there is no way we will return to financial good health in the championship, because out costs are too high and the TV revenue here is shit compared to the pl.

Think it would have been worth switching him and Mcateer at some point last night rather than just subbing him at HT. Alves has the dribbling ability to keep the ball in crowded areas out wide that Kasey lacks, and Kasey's main strengths tend to be his off the ball movement and ability to get into scoring positions, which would probably be more useful in central areas of the pitch.

So immobile he couldn't be arsed to do more than a 2 step run-up.

I'm predicting it will be OKBet. Completely different to KBet, and completely above board and legitimate, the name literally says its OK. (The O might be drawn on by a Sharpie pen)

If your vision is based solely on movement (or lack of it)

The women's team sale thing is odd, as women's team losses were one of the allowable deductions from PSR - so if you don't count the losses from that, why should you be allowed to count the profits? Could you do something like buy the women's team back later, and the cost of that would be deductable, before selling it again?

Hey now don't make a sound Have you heard the news today? One manager taken out, bring in another in his place A heavy job he'll have, our stubborn board remains unchanged No staff, no cash, no plans Just 50 fans singing your name Away loss this season, Under a Charlton Valley sky Oh god its sealed his fate, Caretaker for Hull, replacement can wait Long road to ruin, Rudkins alright Under a cold floodlight No promotion, no end to PSR in sight

I want Danny Rohl, but your gonna get a Dyche and Jutkiewicz, baby. I want Danny Rohl, but here's Michael Keane and a free Ben Mee.

Skipp transfer boggles the mind on so many levels. How could anyone think it was a good idea to spend that much on a defensive midfielder who will never be worth what we paid for him in the future, let alone turn a profit? Especially given that we've spent years failing to shift Soumare, who plays in the same position, was similarly expensive and has had no one put in a proper transfer bid to buy him. We've got one more year of amortisation losses on Soumare before his inevitable Bosman exit, but now we've filled up that credit card again for another 4 years for Skipp. All this for two players, neither of which has ever looked particularly better than Papy Mendy was for us. We would have been 40 million better off keeping him and never bothering with the pair of them.

What is even more worrying is that Ben Mee, Ashley Young and Ashley Barnes are all in the free transfer list as well this summer, so there's scope for him to make something even more horrific Ings Barnes Reid Ndidi Skipp Ayew Young Mee Keane Justin Begovic Got rid of all that horrible youth, and got a lot more much needed Experience(TM ) in there. Oh, and Tom Heaton on the bench as well.

He says that's a little on the low side, but pay a billion and he'll think or say anything you like, and would you like your World Cup delivered in the Summer , Winter or hosted on the moon?

Arsenal were incredibly bad for it as well, I recall one second half against them in recent years where barely anything happened at all, think the ball spent most of its time waiting patiently for Aaron Ramsdale to move towards it at the speed of coastal erosion, before he carefully transported it to the other side of his six yard box and completed reading his copy of War and Peace he brought with him. Then he'd take a couple of practice run ups, before finally committing to taking the goal kick just as the full time whistle went.

I've seen plenty of Dyches teams play against us at the KP, and if you think having him as our manager will avoid "dull" football, you've got a nasty surprise coming. Say goodbye to side to side passing, but replace it with repeated 5 minute breaks while Ashley Barnes feigns injury or goal kicks that take 2 minutes each to set up before sailing straight out of play for a throw in. Thrilling!

Should have just removed Forest and Tottenham from European competition instead, then everyone is happy

Links awakening is a cracking summer time game, great vibes.

Yeah, I was referring to 2024/25, shouldn't have said last season, I guess we are in the weird no mans land where that phrase could mean one of two possible years.

Based on pure guesswork, but last season's accounts surely can't be great either I'd have thought - no sales bar Cannon (KDH was in the previous years accounts), lots of expenditure on new signings and a managerial payoff included, plus crap league money as we finished so low.

I know, but it's just funny how many players and people the club acquire or are linked to have Southampton on their CVs. Vestergaard Bertrand Glover Plus the links to Brussel Whispers about Angus Gunn, Hassenhutl The more concerning thing is that this is bound to be another player signing a multi year deal on what will no doubtedly be high wages, at a time when we are constantly getting into trouble off the field for a too high wage bill. The club just doesn't seem to learn any lessons about how they got into this mess in the first place.

Feels like Rudkin is trying to complete a real life Southampton reject Pannini sticker book.

So far, impressed with the console. Have spent a fair amount of time having to sort out my downloads though, have loads of digital games on Switch 1, so the 2 has tried to download them all, and they won't all fit, so I have to go around quick deleting them to free up space so it can go on to trying to download the rest. Fingers crossed those Micro SD expresses increase in size and come down in price, because 250GB doesn't last long when you've got an eShop sale addiction. Haven't even played much yet, quick blast on Soul Calibur 2. Unfortunately, last weekend I got the idea to start playing Hades, as it has been sitting there for a while and I hadn't started it. Have been playing it most of the week. SInce it was the first thing on my Switch 1 menu, it was the first thing that downloaded on the Switch 2. So I had to give it a go... found out 3 things 1. Hades works completely fine on the Switch 2's backwards compatability 2. Midnight arrives sooner than you would think 3: