orangecity23

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:

If he did get any offers from other clubs, he'd probably be checking out the walking distance between their car park and training pitchs before he could decide if he could be arsed to walk that distance. I'm half convinced the "good at winning free kicks" thing is a skill he's developed to get out of having to run with the ball.

Just did this as well, popped out to Fosse Park on my lunch break and picked it up. No bundled Mario Kart now, but hey ho, at least its here.

Amazon pre-order still saying expected Saturday delivery

There's a couple of other Monkey Ball games on switch, Banana Blitz which is a hd version of the Wii game, and one other which supposedly was better (Banana mania - I never played that one). Banana Blitz gets quite cheap (£5) when it's on sale in the shop.

I'm another one who'll be all over that GameCube app on the Switch 2. Love the cube, ever since I picked one out the window display at Gamestation on Granby Street and took the magnificent purple brick home with a copy of the Resident Evil remake on it. They've made some nice picks for the list of titles announced so far, the Pokémon and Fire emblem titles cost a bomb for original copies these days so it's a nice way for lots more people to get a chance to play them. Would love to see some of these get a release as well: Mario kart double dash Smash Melee Twilight Princess Wave Race Resi 2 Resi 3 Donkey flipping Konga Eternal Darkness Warioware Mario Tennis Mario Golf Mario Strikers Metroid Prime 2 Star Fox Assault Metal Gear Solid Twin Snakes