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Yes, we've lost Vardy since last time, but the Vardy of 23/34 was hardly the player that he had been before. We've lost KDH but we have added BEK and also Skipp who has previously proven dominant at Championship level. Even Soumare will look half decent in the Championship. As it stands, to add to our 2024 title winning squad we have Thomas, Kristiansen, Okoli, Nelson, Souttar, Ayew, BDCR, Alves, Evans, BEK, Skipp and Monga. OF those, even the Cooper abberations will be good enough in The Championship. Some may leave but others will come in. HMS Piss The League is ready to set sail again.

I agree, but we've been trying to get rid of him for 3 years. The manager's and recruitment staff absolutely should be blamed but so should Danny for failing to do his job.

I've changed my mind. Anybody else. Literally anyone. Just not Rohl.

I am boycotting this thread due to the insufferable and unprovoked use of that infernal 'Rohl with it' jokelet. But yes. I want him to be manager.

Yes, it is the fault of those that signed him and selected him to play but I'm not having it that Ward gets away scot free. He is paid handsomely to do a job and his epic, consequence-free ineptitude has cost us dearly. He has a responsibility to at least reach a minimum level of competence. He will always have a special place in my affections for the damage he has caused. If Keir Starmer bankrupts the country, do you blame the voters and Starmer is absolved purely because he is a clown?

It's difficult to imagine the events immediately before, that somehow led to ward being in that position - flat on his back, hands together like he is taking a nap, as the wolves players are in their positions and the ball crosses the line behind him. Short of a sniper in the crowd, I can't for the life of me imagine how that happened.

We do. A reset built around our emerging youth. That is our strength along with wingers Fatawu and Mavididi (at this level). Dyche tends to prefer experience and tends to blunt wingers by having them turn and play safe balls. I want to see them unleashed and cry havoc, personally. A Dyche reset might involve incoming players along the lines of Ayew and BDCR.

In some ways Dyche woukd be a good appointment, proven promotion credentials, can organise a defence and I'd just love to see him stick the boot up a few of our prima donna's arses. The problem however is that Dyche doesn't play to our strengths. What we have going for us most of all is our emerging youth players and our wingers. Dyche tends to under use both of these assets and has a penchant for ageing journeymen and I think we have all had our fill of those.

I don't mind that sung from the stands, but if I have to endure that same pun over and over on here... It's already starting to give me involuntary eye twitches.

I used to love the way that Heskey would knock the ball past a defender, run the long way around and get there first. I always thought that Liverpool ruined him. Turned him into a blunt instrument. A battering ram for the benefit of Michael Owen.

Out of the options linked to us, Rohl would be my choice, so pleased that it looks likely. Just one thing, can we all agree that the 'Rohl with it' joke has been done please?

I didn't make an assumption that we would win the league. I said it wouldn't be 'delusional' or 'astonishing' to expect that we would be challenging. You have quoted me whilst trying to counter an imagined point that I never made.

It's possible it could work the other way and create a siege mentality and galvanise the squad.

It's basically the same squad that won the championship title, so why would it be astonishing or delusional to expect them to be challenging again?

There is such a lot of assumptions in that statement. I think we have the best squad in the league with good youth prospects coming through. I think we win the league and even with a points deduction we could get automatic or play offs. And where does the number 12 come from? As far as I'm aware no one has ever had a 12 point deduction for PSR.

How many times? The fact that RVN was a terrible manager doesn't mean that Cooper was not also a terrible manager and vice versa. Those two things can both be true. That said I don't think there is anyone alive that Could have even taken us to the last day let alone have staved off relegation, so I think you lose a bit of credibility by suggesting that virtually any other manager could.

OK. The alternative is Sean Dyche.

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He thanked the fans for their support, if that's who you mean? His statement annoyed me for different reasons. Bland plattitudes again. I never got the sense that he ever gave a toss. Never saw any sign of anger or commitment. He should have been raging.

Van Nistelrooy, to name another.

Even vultures have standards. I think it's more likely that players are still here because no one wants them, including us.

And there goes the last semblance of creativity from our midfield. Dyche will be delighted!

The fact that Russell Martin rates him makes me even more grateful to have dodged that bullet.

I aaam an anti-Dyche!

I'm not anti-Dyche, if he comes in I'll support him, but not the best option available imo and it will be a stark reminder, if we needed any, of how far we have fallen.