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But it's been like this for years. I get the inconvenience/ hassle etc etc but this isn't a new thing anymore and the late changes are all part of the end of season run in. The clubs will never protest because they're fvcked with the Sky money, without it it'd be like the ITV digital crash all over again Being on telly twice in a week is rough but I never understand why if you're travelling to the game or having to stay overnight why you'd book before the TV picks are in?

Me too. If you have two let Jim have one and I'll take the other 😆

The only way we stay up is by someone being worse than us. And right now it'll take Oxford fading away again and Pompey staying on this run they're on to do it. This group of players won't do it with their own farm.

Incredible that we watch that lazy **** Ayew lumber round the pitch and Dakinbiyi miss chance after chance and 17 year old Evans is 40 miles down the road with a couple of MOTM awards under his belt and Maswanhise is top scorer in the Scots Prem having never got a look in here. The DoF's speciality was spotting youth talent wasn't it?

Unreal. Even the Zambians on FB have given up their "why you no play my Patson" bullshyt.

No idea how Okoli still gets to stink this team out every week. Nelson's a kid with little experience, needs a Lascelles in there to be the senior CB but instead gets dropped and that sad sack of shyte keeps his place. We can only hope Watford have an off day. The winter signings can't really help us if they're not even playing 🤦🏻

Yeah and it's the gaps that are the issue, you'd find similar records at a lot of mid clubs - Norwich, WBA, Fulham, Burnley in recent times. Yo-yo to me is between top flight and Championship one season to another. On your list that's between 01-03 and 22-24. If you're up there for 4 or 5 seasons that's not yo-yo-ing.

This was true until the 80s. We had established ourselves in the top flight for nearly a decade after being away for a decade. That's a very long YO.

After today put a Rudkin focus on it

I used to think Akinbiyi wouldn't be topped as our worst ever striker and Jermaine Beckford ran him close through sheer laziness (masked only by one outstanding game against Forest) but between Daka and Ayew I can't see the title ever being taken. Ayew took 68 seconds of his sub appearance to fall over today and his 15 minute cameo trot round the grass was woeful. But pound-for-pound, goal return & everything Patson will take some beating. The fee and wages spiralling into the 40m region is truly staggering. When you look at the likes of Ayew, Daka, Faes, Ward, Thomas and what they replaced, it brings our downfall into staggering focus. It's just a shame ratings don't decide wages.

Porentially but its a brave manager that changes formation with 12 games left.

About two years ago I took myself out of every one of those groups. Blue And White Kop was getting to the stage of keys in a bowl and any of the rest using phrases like "the fox family" to describe their mates on there were like being caught in a Waltons re-run. Do the same, it'll change your life 😁

Engine room gets us that point. Skipp, Winks & Mukasa had a grip going forward and defensively. He's got a huge decision when JJ is back fit.

Stoke-holm syndrome?

It's not unlucky. Lip read him after the chance "Got to fVckin score". He knows it himself. Closes his eyes, doesn't head it right. If you're any sort of player you pile into that and take everything into the net, you, the ball, other players. He just glances it instead. Hopeless.

There's already a phoenix thread, cant be arsed going over it all again

I've seen 2 or 3 this season where you know he'd have been saving them back in the day. He'll definitely quit internationals after the World Cup. Just a case of whether he calls it a day at Celtic too.

The nearly 4 weeks its taken to 'secure' his services, no. But that its virtually done, yes. His only aim this season is to get us to 21st, grind out about 15pts and do enough to stay in touch with Pompey, Blackburn or Baggies. The last few weeks should tell you that no-one else wants the job.

We used to laugh at other clubs being ran in this way.

Actually, Vichai chose Puel. He died before having the chance to sack the useless cvnt.

5Live just covered the West Hams plane banner over the Pirelli stadium. West Ham banned banners inside their owm stadium so theyve gone airborne.

We shouldnt wait for that lowest ebb. Last time down there Mandaric finally got lucky getting Pearson after all his previous 4 choices sent us down. I dont trust Aiyawatt to put on matching socks in the morning let alone pick a manager or turn the club round. Football is cyclical - Liverpool, United, Forest, Leeds....they've all had highs and lows, we just need to make sure we've already had ours.

Straightforward to the Go West tune Aiyawatt! Sell the club!

Those second half tactics reminded me of the Sadler and Stowell game (Brentford away?) But to take off evwry attacker when you're clinging on is football suicide. That said,he shouldnt be in this position. 3 weeks drifting with no plan, no replacement manager, when the club is on its arse is criminal. I feel for the guy, its like having the boy scouts leading you through the Amazon. He's as out of his depth as Top and Rudkin.

Spot on. That's me done for the season. Just like you "empty chair" people in a protest, this lot need empty seats game after game til the club is sold or some sort of major action is taken to shake the whole club up. King Power out.