Dan

I think he's in genuine danger of non-league, maybe retirement before he's 30. There are real shades of Jack Rodwell. It could be with him that a bad injury just completely knackered him as a player and we were the club stupid enough to totally miss this and cough up that sort of money. In a line of absolutely dreadful deals this is the single worst. I didn't think they would manage to top paying similar for a bloke they failed to even register but lo and behold - the same bloke was still in post seven years on to make this deal. We get everything we deserve. Absolutely pathetically run club - probably the worst in the 92 outside of Sheffield.

Like I said the other day we just play dirge and slow football. We've become the total antithesis of everything we were in 2016 - we're obsessed with unthreatening ball retention. Our chance creation has been woeful for absolutely years now. Even yesterday where I actually thought we did knock it around fairly well for a while, for pure chance creation we really haven't forced much at all. It was probably a fair result on the whole - and Wrexham weren't good.

I'm not getting another season ticket under this ownership. My hand has sort of been forced as I got banned a year ago for letting smoke bombs off at Palace (which I didn't actually do) so I went from the extreme of doing 90% of our games to none of them. I got out at the right time though because what I've really realised is that I just don't miss it. I still see people on matchday anyway, I'm perfectly happy just going into town and watching games in a pub. I actually prefer it at this point - and that's sad. I've realised how much it was force of habit and how little of it was due to enjoyment. I've not truly enjoyed our games probably since coming back from covid to be honest. I've just known something isn't right. I sensed this disconnect years ago. But yeah - I'm not giving this lot any more money. I'd do away games to be fair but if I was unbanned tomorrow I'd not be going to home games.

Yesterday it really dawned on me that there's a decent chance we don't see Premier League football for a good 5 years, maybe a lot longer if the current lot aren't hounded out. That just isn't a team that'll be promoted and if we don't do it this year, we are stuck - needing to be creative, think outside the box, needing to get good value for money, while we still have Aiyawatt and Rudkin running the club. What hope could you possibly have? None of this should surprise people. We were the 3rd team in the Championship to confirm our position in the league and the 23rd to have a manager in place. If you think Cifuentes was some well thought out plan rather than the usual hail mary then more fool you.

Just intrigued to know if this is as common or as frequent at other clubs or whether this is just more short-termism from us.

He's well within his rights to push for a move. Anyone sensible would.

Imperious at this level apparently. Pure crap.

The people responsible for this remain in post. It's egregious.

It's gotten to the point it's almost a bit sad.

It feels so obvious but this just absolutely screams a draw again doesn't it. These haven't lost at home since March.

Very good signing. Took him under two 90s to manage a goal from a central midfield position. Meanwhile Soumare....

He's mostly been getting the line up wrong and fixing it somewhat with the subs. Today it flipped around as he named a line up I was sort of happy with. Nowhere near perfect but lots more round pegs in round holes if nothing else and this produced, for around three quarters of the game, probably our best performance of the season - albeit I think you would have to take into account the relatively weak opposition. The subs were horrible though, totally threw the initiative away and by the time their equaliser arrived nobody was really surprised by it. When you couple the mismanagement of this game with the ever increasing nonsense situation with Nelson you are left with very little to cling onto. We're doing nothing for the long-term and in exchange we're barely even getting the short-term right either. 3 wins in 8 games. Not a single person on here would've accepted that in August. The manager is not convincing me. But as ever the problems were always far deeper. As I feared though, he's lacking the ruthlessness this job needs. It's a pig of a job currently but it really needed something radical. He's never really shown any signs to me of delivering that.

I'm not there but I'm getting there.

Appalling stuff. Football is totally broken if we're promoted this season.

Absolutely stinks. **** off.

Ah surprisr surprise. You nearly had it Marti. Get Nelson in the team for **** sake.

Really hope we don't pay for only being 1 up.

Its all this. Its just far more balanced. I'm far more confident if he goes with this going forward.

Much better that. Much more balanced side and we look far better.

Slightly happier with that tbh.

Yeah Carranza played in USA for a few years so he probably can. Don't really get the point about midweek games. They're crap journeys but we're a massive beneficiary of location. The worst thing you have here is relatively crap train services - being unable to get back from West Brom for an 8pm game via train is embarrassing. I think the crap train service and our central location probably gives us the highest % of drivers in away ends in the country.

I think their fans would completely forgive it. Part of me thinks though they won't because it would just render everything they've already done pointless.

They really ought to just refuse to play now.

Why does she keep going on about "Hampstead"

Promotion is still pretty imperative but we've got to do it in such a way that we're well set to not completely tank like last season. I don't think we're managing the latter whatsoever, while barely even looking like a side that will go up. Make no mistake though there is no way that being in this division over the Premier League is better for us. The really crucial point is getting the recruitment right though, and that is true of any team in any division - you only have to look at Sunderland. We completely blew it a year ago.