The Doctor

fair play, thats a stunning save

Clear advantage there. If you're stopping it it should only be to send that twat yates off.

they genuinely must be the most dislikeable club in the country. like what redeeming features do they have? a fanbase that makes Nigel Farage look like a beacon of tolerance and a drug lord for a chairman on top of footballing terrorism

that's a dive, clear as day

God, Meslier makes Danny Ward look competent.

No, he came back and looked fine until Leeds, where he had a perfectly good goal disallowed and then missed a great chance moments later, which just crushed him. So, again with emphasis.

I mean Mavididi made perfect sense. Reasonable top flight player in a big five league (ligue un), low fee. Hasn't really made the step to PL but thats the sort of deal we should be doing

Stringer shit stirring? that's so out of character for him

having got 7 in 20 games, with minutes equivalent to 12 games, last season? behave, as a main man in the championship, evidence is he'd be a 16-25 goal a season player. He's a reasonable striker when confident and would be a perfectly serviceable championship striker. He's just got mentality issues holding him back, much like Iheanacho (who was only good when there were no crowds watching)

who said anything about selling him in summer 22? once it was clear that Vardy was struggling that season, we should have had alternatives to play instead. the only alternatives we had were Iheanacho and Daka, both of whom are massive confidence players who'd had their confidence absolutely destroyed by some pretty poor management around their rotation with Vardy. That's on recruitment not finding players with strong mentalities and on the management over emphasising Vardy to the long term detriment of the club

eh, yes and no. Managers are so short lived at any club in the modern game that succession planning isn't often a consideration for them but fundamentally if he was planning to be here long term he needed to actually do succession planning and have a replacement for Vardy long term who was managed properly - honestly we'd not be in the position we are now if he had because a huge part of the relegation in 22/23 was that lack of succession plannin: two key players, both aging, one we still haven't got a long term replacement for (Vardy, and he scored 3 goals in 37 games that season, his worst ever season for us) and one the replacement for was just not up to scratch at all (Schmeichel Vs Ward). Had we signed a proper keeper, we'd have stayed up, had we not just stuck to "Vardy is first choice no matter what" we'd likely have stayed up as well

the point remains they didn't batter us by any stretch, they had a high shot count but created very few chances of significance, we very much deserved a result that game. feel free to go present your vibes based argument to someone else.

I would suggest that's been mistranslated then. His work permit wouldn't have run out, it may instead be that the home office have flagged an error at some point (our end or theres) in the renewal last summer which wasn't picked up when registering him.

that is obviously not true though, not least since we're midway through a season. The international sportsperson visa is the work permit, that lasts for 3 years and can be renewed as long as you remain employed and are meeting the qualification requirements for it. his initial visa from when he signed would have expired last summer and been renewed, so it would expire summer 2027. It would not randomly expire in March, that's not how visas work.

don't think that so much a conspiracy theory as just a basic reading of his behaviour tbh

six clear of palace with Palace, Spurs and Wham to play, no reason why we shouldn't be targeting a midtable finish

world class save from Janina that

on another day Bowen doesn't get a hat trick because he had one shot of note. Like if you wanna play even Daka scored, dakas goal was actually a better chance than the vast majority of the ones that Bowen had. You can take your vibes based analysis if you want, the facts are that West Hams ton of shots were by and large, very low quality chances regardless of the quality of finishing

it was the most shots they've ever had. their xG was on a par with ours, the goal and one blocked by Coady were the only chances of note though: https://understat.com/match/26738 it was a lot of low quality shots from tight angles and long distances. High shot number is not the same as creating a lot of chances.

wolves getting away with everything as always. disgraceful club.

they really didn't, they had a lot of long range pops but very few chances of real significance

idk, I remember us watching the man City and Liverpool games and thinking there were some green shoots, that we were just mads and wilf being fit, and a couple of sensible huth type signings, away from being able to compete. since mid January though we've become absolutely nothing. I do think he learnt the club lied about the finances for signings and just started half arsing it.

yep. Dyche is a dinosaur and would be crap for us. I'm almost at the point of wanting him to take over just so everyone can see that and stop suggesting him

might as well. just want a goal.