The Doctor

i mean it's not really counter intuitive this team selection, it's that they've got like 14 fit senior players and no centre backs.

that'd be one long con since Ward was signed by Puel

we'd have shipped even more lets be honest. Ruud is a Mazda mx5 compared to coopers Ford Pinto.

Ward makes me want Plaid Cymru to get power and declare independence so we can deport the twat...

aggregate score of the last 6 wsl matches against chelsea was 34-2 (not in our favour) so more than take that.

1-1.

They're having a lot of territory but creating nothing of note, really good defensive performance this

Leitzig not really had anything to do this half tbh

1-0, Missy Goodwin (on to replace Rose)

all WSL games are on youtube: Rose off injured.

Just kicked off v Chelsea. Leitzig Ale Kees Howard Thibaud Cayman Mace Cain Momiki Rose Takarada Takarada up top again, 4-2-3-1 with mace and Cayman the two holding looking at it. Desperately need a striker next month

2pm kickoff on a Saturday feels weird as hell but reasonably priced

this is an important point to note and it comes down to giving Rodgers more and more power. there's a reason why Man Utd have been a joke since Fergie retired, why Arsenal were a car crash for a few years after Wenger left, and it comes down to the power those managers had, meaning when they left they caused huge disruption to the running of the club. The shelf life of a manager is so short these days that the manager should be a head coach which slots into an existing frame work, with the stability offered by the DoF. That doesn't really exist here now, and you can see that by the way each recent appointment has immediately frozen out aspects of the squad: Enzo with Souttar just months after signing, Cooper with Vestergaard just months after renewing. And you can see why, it's because each had a very different philosophy to the one previous. Not to say rudkin should have more power, but he, or whoever the DoF is, shouldn't just be like the monarch, rubber stamping whatever is put in front of him, but instead should be the long term strategist and the checks and balance to a coaching team straying too far from an agreed structure and vision.

no, I agree Ayew has made a difference in games, to clarify I meant a difference to the overall experience of the squad. with or without those three, we'd still have an experienced top flight squad

reread Harrow The Ninth (Tamsyn Muir) because I love this stupid series and, firstly it really benefits from a second read where you know what the hell is going on and why it keeps switching third and second person every other chapter, but also it's still utterly wild to have a book that is part exploration of grief as told via a lesbian giving herself a bathroom stall lobotomy to avoid consuming her girlfriend, and part cautionary tale as to why your average millennial man shouldn't be allowed to become a god (he spends half his time wandering around speaking in memes).

I mean, not to be a cynic suggesting the NYPD have picked a patsy to ease political pressure, but idk that if you pull off that assassination and set up a series of fake clues like the monopoly money, that you go into a McDonald's several days later with the gun and a 3 page document entitled "why I done killed that CEO man".

not having that when if you look at our squad coming into the transfer window: No PL experience: Hermansen Fatawu McAteer <1 season PL experience but top five league experience: Kristensen Mavididi 1+ seasons PL experience: Ward Iversen Ricardo Coady Faes Vestegaard Justin Ndidi Soumare Winks Choudhury Daka Vardy Thomas We'd come up with a squad that already had a lot of premier league experience, and the ones who didn't had played at least a season in a top 5 league (la liga, PL, bundesliga, serie a, ligue un) with the exception of Hermansen and Fatawu, two of the brightest young prospects in the championship last season. With that considered, I don't think the addition of BDCR, Skipp and Ayew (can hardly count Eduoard given he's vanished off the face of the earth) makes much difference. the difference is that Southampton had huge squad turnover (looking at their squad this season, only McCarthy, Walker-Peters, Aribo, Armstrong, Sulemana, Bazunu and Bednarek remain from those who played in 22/23) and Ipswich are back to back from league one with the squad that implies. now, obviously Ward, Thomas, Choudhury... PL experience doesn't necessarily mean good enough for the division but unlike the other two promoted clubs, we've got a pretty much full PL squad already left over from 2 years ago.

what a goal

start the riots West ham fans

no chance is Coberan going WBA to wolves

god I'd love it if wolves appointed Cooper so RvN could stunt on him in a fortnights time

wolves are awful.

think it was more the ton of cocaine tbh

I mean it wasn't Enzos system that was boring, it was the refusal of other teams to come to play. much as the results didn't go our way, neither of the games v Leeds were boring. nor for that matter Southampton or the two against Schumacher sides (Plymouth at home, stoke away). it was against the likes of Rotherham it was boring and that's because they came to sit 11 men in their own box and punt it out of the stadium every chance they got. that's on the opposition, not enzoball

yes it is. It's a bit weird honestly.