Dan

Would be very on brand for our cretinous ownership.

At the end of the day the "PSR 🤓" rules as bad as they are can be bypassed simply by recruiting sensibly.

Anyone who genuinely believes that is a fool. The game is being destroyed on purpose and nobody will convince me otherwise. I would imagine it's to get us the super league by stealth.

Every single thing we've been doing for years is just winging it. We get everything we deserve. Abysmally run club at every level.

Out. Not fit to run the club in 2025.

I did feel that for large parts of this season tbh.

Really do struggle to give a shit anymore. What more can you say that hasn't already been said. I just feel sorry for people 10-15 years younger than me who are having their peak years of football dominated by this completely boring, draining mess.

This is basically it. He is not the worst player, but in terms of a bit of business it's absolutely abysmal. It's quite telling really that the same Crystal Palace side we saved a load of money for have gone on to win their first trophy ever while we collapse to another abysmal relegation. I just hate how normalised this shit has become now.

He could just be less shit or go.

I sincerely hope there are, but fear there won't be.

Would be quite typical of us to get a decent result with absolutely no pressure on the game. 2-2.

The point was less about Yates and more about how few ours score. They're averaging a goal every forty games - its appalling and it needs addressing.

It's extremely on brand for us to win a few completely meaningless games against dross at the end. Exact same thing happened before the 2022/23 catastrophe season where Rodgers managed to fool people we were on the right track. I can actually see him staying.

Find the whole notion of it being OK if we stay down as long as players come through a very dangerous one. That's how you become Norwich or Stoke. It should be totally attainable to do both of these things.

To be completely honest it should've ended a while ago. I think it's testament to how well he did here, and how badly those in charge now are that it's gone on until now.

I do think he's got something about him. I'd not be upset if it was him.

We have lacked players who chip in with goals for years particularly in midfield. Soumare, Winks, Skipp and Ndidi combined have scored 22 goals in 851 games in their careers. That's absolutely abysmal. For a bit of context, Ryan Yates, that absolute Lampard/Gerrard reincarnate maestro at Forest, has scored 23 goals. So he's scored more than the four of them combined in about a quarter of the games. It's a problem.

Hojlund as well is possibly the worst Premier League transfer of all time. It was mental how much they paid anyway for a bloke who scored 9 times in an Atalanta side who seem to be able to get virtually anybody firing 15+. He's absolutely garbage.

Said it last week, I don't know when it ever became this acceptable to be this bad in the league just because you're in Europe. I know there's normally a natural drop off but the pair of them are a disgrace. It's the worst level final since Portsmouth Cardiff in the FA Cup and honestly Portsmouth were probably better than both of these two have been. Bilbao fans should be on Rudkin's case as well. I don't think if we'd actually made a proper attempt this season that United would've gotten away with this showing in the league and they might've not been able to put as much into Europe. I mean even Spurs last week - absolutely ragged all over the place by Palace. This is a Palace side also in a cup final. It's a quite fascinating final in a way - whoever loses has had an absolutely catastrophic season. Also Forest. Genuinely incredible - they looked absolutely nailed on about six weeks ago and there's now a real chance they're mathematically out of the CL race with a game to go. Genuinely an even worse collapse than ours, given they had the luxury of an extra place to get.

The really miserable part of it. When we take the money as a fix so we can bring in Nathaniel Clyne and Danny Ings.

Would be the most joyless ever transfer. Would genuinely piss me off more than the KDH one - which was depressing but out of necessity. Neither fanbase would even be happy with this.

I've been extremely down on us, and I still am, but Christ I think the gap in the leagues is actually a problem. I think even despite this utter disgrace we'll still get a top 6 finish if the play-offs are anything to go by. We're better than Sunderland, Coventry and Bristol City. They've all looked pretty crap in the playoffs. It's good for us in a way but it's bad for the game in general. The gap feels like it's ballooned.

Went to the game. Was brilliant but it was all a bit surreal too, felt so weird that our first game in 14 months was a cup final. Was obviously a total travesty that the ground wasn't full and a shame how many had to miss it when they didn't need to.

We actually did on Sunday - assisted by Marinakis.

This has been the best week in years