Dan

I went in at Malaysia and ended up doing five seasons at Terengganu. I kind of think I'm insane.

Just get rid full stop. Completely disrupting the flow of the game by design. Much like VAR.

They need to bin this water break immediately. It's totally stunted the Curacao momentum.

He has to be sold out of necessity (due to Top and Rudkin) but will join a side far better than what those two assemble. Says it all about the calibre of those two.

The whole point of "we're a League One club what did you expect" spectacularly misses the point. Our fans would've got well behind Challinor.

Club team would win the vast majority.

By an absolute mile our best centre half. It isn't close.

Imagine any of our other centre halves doing this

Totally concede that they might lose this and make me look silly but Australia just never give a bad account of themselves in a World Cup. They're a proper banana skin of a team to play.

Souttar is so much better than any centre half of ours it's unbelievable. How has he had this little of a look in? I know he's had injuries but he could definitely have played more.

They probably blame the fans for the relegation after being vocal about not wanting Martin a year ago. As much as I dislike Martin it pales into insignificance compared to those two and that needs to be remembered. Unfortunately Martin is enough of a clown to distract people from the real poison.

Utterly ridiculous.

Martin Experience something we've unfortunately got on the way.

I did think one of the hosts would do well. Really impressive half - another level to what Mexico did yesterday tbh.

USA have been superb. What is going on.

Christ I wasn't even joking.

Will be watching some proper degen kick off times games but I was ruled out of this one unfortunately. And it's annoying as by all accounts it was everything the World Cup should be - total contrast in styles and fun game.

He was during the season. It had completely slipped me how good he was. I think they may have lost him over the summer but could be wrong.

I'm anti 48 teams but the last two openers both involved an absolutely rubbish team as well - Qatar were as bad as South Africa, probably worse. Saudi Arabia at Russia absolute garbage.

Flew through my first season with Bochum. Here's how it went... Straight in there with the same formation I played at Vrsac and Kallithea. I'm not actually having all that much joy with much different this year which is a bit concerning and probably gets found out in a better league, but Bochum had on paper a decent team for this level, predicted to finish 7th. It couldn't have started any better with a 1-5 win at Darmstadt. We then battered Elversberg at home for a half before loanee Callum Marshall picked up a straight red card and my whole 'keep it tight' lasted a whole 5 minutes of the second half. It ends 1-1. We beat a fifth tier team 1-5 in the cup as well. Our first derby game, and the first I've played in any form for god knows how long came away at Schalke and it was a catastrophe. 3-0 down at half time and a 4th added late on. But we bounced back with four wins in a row over the rest of August and September. Kwadwo Baah joined on loan from Watford at the end of August. October was pretty brutal. The Hertha win was really impressive as we picked up yet another red card on the stroke of half time but actually managed to hold out this time. The other three performances were awful and if we'd lost all games by three goals I wouldn't have deemed it unfair. November was a slight improvement with two good home wins, but the disparity between our home and away performances were mental and this is something I haven't really suffered from a great deal. We were beneficiaries of opposition red cards in both the Magdeburg and Braunschweig games but ended up going behind to 10 men in both of them. December was more of the same, a disappointing albeit slightly unlucky draw with Bielefeld and then frankly a miracle we didn't lose at Hannover, topping the year off with our first home loss. This isn't a team getting promoted for me. I was extremely busy in January, seeing 6 players depart and 7 arrive. I really didn't trust this squad after all. Two centre halves who were out of contract and not really playing in Masovic and Loosli were sold to Saudi clubs for a combined £1.5mil which was great business. They were replaced with Georgian Saba Sazonov and Spaniard Manu Hernando on loan and for £450k respectively. The big deal this month though was our best youngster joining Porto for £9mil, Cajetan Lenz. He'd actually been very disappointing although I'd sooner have held onto him due to the home grown thing. We got him back on loan which meant no replacement was needed, and this meant we could make a few amendments elsewhere, although not after Oliver Olsen (£475k), Marcel Sobottka (£275k) and Mortiz-Broni Kwarteng (£1.3mil) had all left too. We returned to smash Darmstadt again, hilariously going 5-0 up after 15 minutes, but I could never escape this idea that we were a pretty bad team running a bit hot. Even in that we ended up outshot and conceding a couple. We drew with Elversberg again before picking up a potentially huge 1-0 win over Schalke, who were top at the time. We started February by putting away an abject Munster 1-2 (our first away win in four months) but floundered throughout the rest of February. What I have to give us credit for is we seem to deliver in most big games. We very rarely lose them and we beat nearly all of them at home. I must mention the form of loanee Francis Onyeka, who by this point frankly was carrying us. The defensive overhaul was paying dividends as we managed four clean sheets on the bounce, including away at Hertha who were clearly going to win the league by this point. We clicked just in time and ended up only losing one more game for the rest of the season which was essentially a dead rubber on the final day, having finished 2nd. We never felt overly convincing, and I do wonder if I'm a mix of too used to being in a bad league that I've lost all appreciation of a better standard and just being a bit harsh because of how used I got to winning about 85% of my games, but we did get over the line. We still have quite a bit of money left over from the Lenz sale and they've doubled our wage budget, although I did make a late discovery, after spending quite a bit of it that pretty much my entire squad have good promotion wage rises which eats into it. January was a precursor for the summer. I will be overhauling this squad because I really don't trust it much.

That budget FFS. I'm a bit of a sicko though I kind of like taking financially broken teams because I'll fix it. Not for everyone though

Last 20 have been really good. We could've scored about 8 here.

These have seriously fallen off. They used to be a decent-ish side. I'm not convinced they're any better than Lithuania now.

They need to sell him this window IMO because I think that's well over his value. If they seriously push a British record then fair play. He's a good player but I don't think he's that, personally.

We'll be right in the thick of a lot of this, both for and against. We'll have some sort of case against Man City I'd imagine. Just looking at the Championship 2023/24 - teams who could argue they missed out as a result from us. Ironically those who finished 3rd (Leeds) and 7th (Hull) are now both in the Premier League. But bring on the joy of this though. A load more legal drear and Stefan Borson's name appearing everywhere every day. Joy.