Dan

A bit more security for him. Sigh.

Extremely naive quote from him in the week. I'd be very interested to see Thomas' contract terms.

Another wage just to bring in another person who'll tell them their stupid ideas aren't actually stupid. Brill.

Macedonia would be country 30 for me so hopefully when it happens I've crossed the border.

Turkish team imploding in England. Who knew.

of course he's lost his head at Fratton Park again. I've not forgotten that game in April.

York's new ground is one of the only ones where I've been outside a football ground and not even realised it at the time. Looks a right downgrade. Next trip for me in a months time. Doing an international break triple header: Albania v Finland Kosovo v Israel North Macedonia v Slovenia Buses between the three. Games are all two days apart. 4 hour bus from Tirana to Pristina. 2 hour bus from Pristina to Skopje. £60 return flight. This felt like an open goal of country tick padding.

Aesthetic I like is November - January in the season, mainly applies to a 3pm, where the game starts in the daylight and finishes in the dark. Don't know why, something I like about it.

I agree and would not put them as low as I was saying there. But I've not been bowled over by either. Neither have been bad. Neither have been great. But they're both players I'd persist with and there are far more I'd get rid of first. Well for the reason I said, they're two of the last I'd be looking to move on.

Thought in the summer Watford could really implode. There were signs of it last season.

I'm not saying that they are the 17th best players in our squad necessarily, but more that if they were, that would be OK for me. You don't need to pad your squad out with expensive squad fillers, they're about the most cost effective way we could pad it out. I've never understood why people would want to just get rid if they aren't our best players. Wilson-Brown is a good example. He's gone to Stockport (who, predictably, look a lot better than us) and is their 4th choice CB - that would've been fine for us, we didn't need to sell him to go and piss the proceeds on O'Hora.

8 losses out of 8 on Saturday home games in 2026. Peterborough felt like free money. We save our absolute worst for that kind of game. The fact we've beaten the teams in 1st and 3rd, but we've been routinely hopeless for this season and last at home in the games against teams down the bottom. We don't just not win but we seem to get very well beaten. We are substantially worse at home than away. Away, we seem to just draw all the time. At home we routinely lose to absolute crap like this. If Martin is still in charge - another pretty comfortable defeat. 0-2 I'll say. I don't know when it'll come but I do think at some point we are going to get an absolute shellacking. It's the one thing that hasn't really happened to us in this era. We've not let in 5 in a game since 2021 - which is a bit of a miracle tbh.

You know what, seen the 2 minute clip of him that's done the rounds a bit tonight. I'll never argue his case for not being sacked but to my surprise, he has slightly gone up in my estimation there. Was slightly more honest than I expected.

In terms of popularity the new owners, with anybody sensible have the easiest job in the world. Put ChatGPT in charge of Leicester and it'd be lauded as genius.

It couldn't have been more obvious tbh. Chalk this weekend off as yet another utter disaster that was predictable in its near entirety.