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Because Hamza is injured and the squad depth is shite.

Lascelles has had serious injuries for the last 4 years. Just like Ricardo for moat of the last two seasons and other players over the years he can't do two games a week. He's very obviously not dropped.

Maybe if Hamza wasnt injured and the club brought in a replacement he wouldnt have to play him. I dont want him there either but instead of carping lets hear your option. He's literally got VK or Thomas and Aluko or Ricky. The squad depth is shite. The team is shite. But King's there to keep it ticking over til Martin, Southgate or plan C turn up. He's got an impossible job.

Dropped Stolarcyk and Ayew already, Lascelles is a poundshop Ledley King with his injury record. Luke Thomas aside what do you want him to do? He's a literal caretaker keeping the seat warm. Give it a rest.

27k according to the club. 29k if you're the Brockmeister. Debating over watching a corpse of a club or staying in and watching a corpse on Silent Witness.

Lock this thread, it started as a pisstake but has attracted some real clown comments. Two games ruined by two dumb sending offs as if his job wasnt hard enough he's doing it for about 130 minutes with 10 men (9 if you count Daka). Even if he's in til May he has my backing 100% just for having the b0ll0cks to try and get a tune from this bunch of cretins.

I don't know how this guy gets put in the firefighter bracket. Keeping Burnley up for a bit was great work but he did nothing at Everton - arguably made them worse - and if you listen to Forest fans on various phone ins he's turned the Nuno top 6 side into dull, goalshy plodders who are giving West Ham hope of staying up. In that respect Marinakis might just sack him and make him available. He'd also be disapppinted if he wanted to walk into a club and find a group of players willing to put a shift in.

Any last minute spares?

Nope, they've been posting this wanky "in it together" crap all season. Posts and performances are a mile apart.

No hard feelings, he's not the biggest issue and you could see from a few interviews he was frustrated at the complete lack of backing and willingness to change the club from above. But as John McClane once said "if you're not part of the solution you're part of the problem" and his (lack of) tactics and abysmal subs were definitely part of the problem.

Management-wise maybe but player-wise you look at your potential team mates, the club situation - debt, deductions, no promotion prospects - and whether you'd be retained long term and we're looking shaky on all those fronts.

Weir was a loan? Used to pretend to be him in the playground (before Tommy turned up) thought he was here for at least a season. Great call. Campbell for saving our season. Galloway - cult hero. Izzet for being a catalyst for promotion and the start of the O'Neill era. Huth for the Great Escape and 2016.

Absolutely not defending Rudkin but if you had a half decent career, would you come here? We're in the brown stuff and only desperate, half fit or half retired players needing a shop window or a pay rise will come here.

Sorts out mercenaries. He'll love it here then. https://x.com/i/status/2018097071107264769

A) he went to Norwich B) he's injured https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c205jjm5znvo

If the SM team put a steel band together and knock up some jazzy reels, they can announce it at midnight if they want.

No it means our notorious social media team are putting a video package together with smoke machines and atmospheric lighting so we can finally announce it at 9.53pm

Jarrod Bowen. Bossed it at this level with Hull. Scores, assists, leader of men, shagger of Dani Dyer.

The defence and keeper work as a unit and need confidence in each other to be effective. You can see from the second and disallowed goals yesterday, the defence have zero confidence in him, they're bricking it on every cross.

It wasn't full. Plenty of gaps and there would have been even more than there were yesterday had the club not have handed out around 1000 tickets for the Family Stand to schools on the Thursday and Friday before the game. There barely needs to be a boycott, the attendances for the last 3 or 4 games are already dropping near the 25k figure. Another relegation will take 4-5k off that again.

Exactly this. Has experience, mobile, leader. And he isn't Okoli. Anyone saying no, cannot have seen our defence today (or recently).

I'm not even raging at Ayew at this point, just the people that bought him and left him as our only option up front He's been a limited player throughout his career, rarely a regular just workmanlike sub to close out games. Yet he's ended up being our only option. We ditched Vardy with no credible replacement. And if you're Andy King needing a quick fix when the only other player in that position is Patson bloody Daka, you'd play him too. Kingy's probably just as pissed he's in this position.

People wanting experienced heads....we started this season with Ayew BDR Vestergaard Winks Faes That sort of experience is invaluable at this level 😂 We need a striker, a massive double well-hard shouty bastard at the back and to put Begovic in place of Jakub who looks afraid of every cross and corner.

Copy and paste most of my comments from every other game this season. Won't need a boycott soon, the seats are already being left empty. Nosedive.

Ashley. Turn the club shop into a massive JD or Lonsdale Outlet. Take up 3 seats in the directors front row. Hire Steve Bruce to get us out of L1 with Dennis Wise as DoF.