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Little Cabbage is worse (kapusta), Vesty is worse, but nothing beats the horror of grown men referring to Castagne as Timmy Chestnuts.

I don't think there is any revisionism going on. Many people have reached a conclusion now. He has had a lot of chances here, but I don't see anyone claiming to have known it was a bad signing at the time. Like you say, we were all buzzing.

We had a truly great lineage of goalkeepers for 20+ years with Banks, followed by Shilton, followed by Wallington. Wallington was the keeper I grew up with as a child and was often called England's best uncapped keeper.

I hate this phrase. I find it beyond pathetic that one section of the support has decided that all the things that are wrong with the club are partly the fault of another perceived section of the support. Grow up.

1. Southampton. That is all.

I think you're being incredibly generous to Cooper there. I think he wanted Prem experience above all else. Reid and Ayew weren't signed as back ups. They were Cooper picks, Ayew is a Cooper player, they have history. Don't forget coopers shit tactics of getting the wingers to tuck in and to rotate our totally unsuitable full backs as wide attacking options, thus, no need to have wingers with pace. Cooper knew what he was doing, sacrificing any semblance of flair or creativity (Fatawu, Ricardo...) in favour of experienced journeymen duffers.

I think the issue is Vardy's wages relative to his waning powers. It will be a sad day when he leaves us, but for the best in my opinion. Welcome to the forum Johnnyboy

Loved Garry Parker. Classy player. Imagine having a midfielder that could actually pass, create, take a dead ball and score the odd goal.

Very unfair to call Ruud second worst. He deserves the undisputed worst ever, hands down. He's earned it.

Martin might see it as the ideal time to take over then and restore a languishing juggernaut to former glory and with it his reputation.

Imagine the old firm smarmfest. Rodgers V Martin. The snake oil derby.

Just to play devil's advocate here, Rodgers' 'silver medallist' approach to transfers was the idea that we could take players that were a tier above those that a club like ours might otherwise be able to attract. Attainable because they had failed elsewhere. It does happen. Players fail at one club but thrive elsewhere. That said, it didn't work for us and it's testament to the ocean-going ego of Brendan Rodgers that he believed he could succeed where other managers had failed. We also had a very successful transfer strategy pre Rodgers/Congerton that we should have continued with.

Yes, I had to stop buying them for that reason. They don't last 5 minutes in our house. King of biscuits? May well be, but allow a shout out for the humble bourbon. If you open the packet, allow them to go stale, you basically get an upgrade to cake. Delicious.

I was working (sort of) up in Merseyside and got chance to work in the Midlands for better pay. Anyway, I kind of lied on my CV making out that I was more capable than I actually was, but what's the harm? I thought, no one will ever find out. Trouble is, they did find out. My superior left for a job in France and I got promoted into his role. I looked the part, wore the whole uniform and everything, but it was carnage. It was obvious that Ihad taken to the role like a fridge to water skiing, but the pay was so good I just had to brazen it out. I think I just about got away with it. But that's the last time I pretend to be a goalkeeper.

Ricardo? Yes. Big oversight on my part. Evans? Yes. Justin? Hmmm...that's a matter of opinion. Fofana? No. Very good player. A signing that worked out terribly for us. Castagne? Average. We should have done better when Chilwell left given our standing and the length of time we had to plan. Mavididi? Ok. Inconsistent. Good Championship player. Soyuncu? Master of the meltdown. Another that downed tools and left on a free. Obviously I'm not privy to the inner dealings the squad but when he was criticised for play acting injury on motd, in the lead up to a goal conceded v Spurs he was rightly dropped. We barely saw him again under Rodgers. I think that it is reasonable to assume that he reacted very badly to that instead of swallowing his medicine. We needed him in our relegation season and he was sulking. Not for me. Don't care how massive it is.

Yeah, but I'm ace on the piano!

If we win this, we can start a teams that cannot catch us thread

Bet they're not so excited at the moment

It doesn't matter who we play. To paraphrase a certain coiffured orange ape, we have no cards.

I think they will beat us because we are that bad but we won't finish bottom. I can't see Southampton getting a further 4 points from their last 3 games.

We won the title with gems signed under Pearson - Morgan, Schmeichel, Vardy, Albrighton, Mahrez, Huth and with the addition of Fuchs and Kante of course. The likes of Schmeichel, Vardy and Morgan became the spine of the team for years to come. We were also helped by the emergence of academy graduates, Barnes, KDH and Chilwell. The old guard plus academy players has been the basis of our success. Good signings, post title, I can list on one hand - Tielemans, Maddison, Maguire, Hermansen, Ndidi .... struggling after that. Fatawu maybe.

Regardless of who is worse between two awful managers and I think that Ruud takes it, we have to be aware that at the time of Cooper's sacking we were ahead of wolves and palace who now sit on 41 and 45 points respectively. The first club outside of the bottom 3 have double our point tally on 36. Neither of our two managers gets anywhere close to survival.

I didn't realise centre backs were allowed to score goals

You can when our other centre backs are Vestergaard, Faes, Coady and Okoli.

Can't believe I missed out Faes! If ever there was a player emblematic of our decline...