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I mean the cynic in me thinks theu are posting that ad now knowing every fan and the neutrals will be bouncing on every post thinking it's a sacking announcement. Yay engagement with sponsors etc etc.

Never underestimate the power of a narrative in football. Plus, with that narrative (back-to-back-to-back, next stop PL, etc etc) they could probably justify a significant increase in sponsorship. They have one helluva headwind overall.

Ah Leeds. Apparently they are contemplating sacking Farke, despite promotion, because their owners are concerned about his poor track record in the PL. But Cifuentes doesn't have any record in the PL, so that would be weird. This I could see, and would make sense for Cifuentes and WBA.

Could be Norwich, maybe?

Could use some work, but as a one-off... 🎶 Vardy had a dream To climb the football leagues He came from Sheffield Now he's one of our own (One of our own) The ace in the pack Our GOAT in attack Champions of England You made us sing that. 🎶

The only objective for the rest of this season has to be get him to 200 goals. Hell, imagine if he managed to surpass Owen's record as the true end to his shit housing career with us? I honestly don't think I'd care if we concede 6 in every game remaining if it meant he scored enough to beat that record. (Also how funny that he mentioned everyone but Rudders!!)

Thanks - unfortunately just shows an article from three months ago rather than the current article! Not that anything has changed to be fair 😅

Does anyone have an alternative to 12 foot ladder? Doesn't work for me anymore, or archive.org and the like.

A lovely thought, but I won't hold my breath 😅. If Liverpool are set to win the title with our game, he'll stay for the celebrations. If not, I bet he'll leave at half time. I'm only half joking.

Surely he won't...I know it wasn't a winning team, but the team lineup against Brighton performed better than before. Fine to include him as a sub (and use the excuse that he's only just back from injury), but surely he won't just chuck him back in... (I am resigned to the fact that Ruud will do just that and exasperate us all, but **** it, what else do we have to hope for at this point 😅)

I'm not completely against Martin being our next manager...but it doesn't seem particularly smart? Purely from an optics point of view, this would mean we have been relegated, and then hire the manager sacked by the only club worse than us, points-wise (although watch this space), this season. That seems like a backwards step unless Martin has made significant improvements while out of work.

The strangest thing for me is the lack of talk about the youth sides. In a time when the first team are doing terribly, why not talk up the youth side of the club and get people interested/excited for the future? Since they're "homegrown", a number of the lads are from the local area too, meaning you tie the club back into the community and give us something to be inspired by (or at least get behind). Tip of the iceberg though, I know. And those cultural days are absolutely fine for broader events like Eid etc. But Greek Independence Day? That's purely to honeytrap new followers. Nothing about the club or brand even. Those posts could be posted by anyone, any club. Soulless.

We all love Kingy. Poor guy does not deserve that hospital pass whatsoever.

Going down can only be a good thing if a) we focus on developing/building our young players (El Khanouss, Alves, Fatawu, Nelson, Stolarczyk) and b) shed the "chaff" we often speak off. Thankfully Ward and Iversen will be out of contract, but it's the likes of Vestergaard, Ayew, and BDCR that we have no means of shifting. And that worries me that the manager in place will end up using them rather than being forced to rebuild properly.

Alves, El Khanouss, Fatawu + A New Striker would be so fun to see play together 🤞🏻

Anything trotted out like this is tone deaf. All he had to say was that things haven't been good enough this season, but they're not giving up and will work harder and harder each week to try and stay up. Doesn't throw anyone under the bus, acknowledges the situation, but shows some determination and fight. Up to the squad each match day to then showcase that.

Brentford are a good team, but Ruud has added nothing to this team. He's not cut out for this level, and needs to go. We may already have been down from the moment he got here, but I do not trust him to rebuild this team. He offers nothing. We just keep getting pasted each week, with no glimmers of hope.

It's probably Charles Aranguiz. A cleaner was finally allowed in Rudkin's office and while plugging the vacuum in noticed the fax machine was unplugged. Plugged it back in, and our final offer was sent at last.

I was going to say they've just sold someone for £9m...but then remembered we've sold Cannon for £10m+... I'm baffled we're not doing anything in the market. I know it's a tough window, but still...

Monchi is their Director of Football now, right? Or Head of Recruitment? Regardless, he knows what he's doing when he has the right tools. If only, if only...what I'd give for us to have a talented DoF and a clear strategy...

Good luck to him. Hopefully he gets plenty of game time and shows them something.

Appreciate you're the "Realist", but Oxlade-Chamberlain isn't starting for Besiktas, or making much of an impact. He's played about half their games, and mostly been on the bench for them—either coming on around the 70th minute mark, or coming off before the 60th minute when he has occasionally started. He's contributed one goal so far this season for them. No assists. I always liked him as a player, but unfortunately I think injuries have taken their toll. He's not someone who could help us aside from being "another body". We need improvements on, or at bare minimum competition for our existing wingers.

Really good post match interview with the BBC. He's grounded, realistic, but proud of the players. That's got to instil some confidence and resilience in the squad. He's right: It's going to go down to the wire. I just hope Top backs him, Rudkin pulls his finger out, and the players keep working hard for him. 🤞🏼