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  1. Just as well that Selles and Jones were able to get so much more out of the team he kept mid-table.
  2. Wish him all the best, glad to see him back in football. I think we drained the fuck out of him in the Gao years, he got us somewhat stable in the PL. Typically once we had some money to spend under him, we got it all wrong. I still think we'd have made much more of a fight if we'd kept him though, we totally wasted that world cup period and the January transfer window. That's what killed our season.
  3. Such a ''quickly looked at the table without context'' view on things. We're not miles behind, don't make that up. We have two games in hand, 6 points to play for. That will place us on 79 points, which would mean we're exactly 3 points behind Leeds - not miles behind. I know games in hand are games in hand, not points on the board etc etc, but the reality is that it's somewhat kind of still in our hands. We've got the games against the teams we're chasing, such a big opportunity to not only gain points for ourselves but put a massive dent into them as well. I see the fact we have all 3 to play as a massive positive rather than a 'bad run in'. I'm not paying much attention to the points gap as of now as it's not a true reflection of how the situation stands, if it was equal games and we were this far behind then fair-do's - but it's not, we have games in hand and we have to play all 3 above us. Puts our destiny somewhat in our hands in my opinion. Yes, we'll likely need to win most of our remaining games - but who is to say we won't? Who predicted we'd not lose for 26 games after we'd been done by Middlesborough? Not many I'd have thought. Have faith in the team, they've done a lot of good things this year and we have some real quality. I think it's totally unfair to say we are miles behind and it's 'not good enough' - say that at the end of the season if that's the case, but not now.
  4. Why are you always so down on your own club? I don't get it. If this doesn't bring you any enjoyment whatsoever then just find something else to do.
  5. What an effort - they just never stopped going! I thought Wolves had done it, but they were a mess at the end of that game. Amazing.
  6. 2-2 now, fair play to them - they won't lay down! They should be way out of sight though.
  7. Was pretty much inventible once Cov missed their chances, that there is the difference between a PL side and a lower league side.
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    Not sure what else we need to know. The last update was that he's out for the season, so there's nothing more to really update on tbh.
  9. Pretty pessimistic view. But even if we are in this league next season, we wont be in it with Leeds and Leicester. We'd welcome the absolute fodder of Sheffield United, Luton and Burnley - so almost immediately the standard of the league will be much lower. We'd obviously replace who we loose, we'll still have a decent $$$ behind us in comparison with other sides - no reason why we cannot remain seriously competitive in my eyes.
  10. The 3 promoted sides this year are just too weak, I reckon we'd have stayed up if they were in the league last year. Leeds and Leicester too. Burnley have had the interesting approach of doing just what we did - buying a load of highly rated young players from Europe, notably spending £15m on a young keeper from Man City - and they're having the same problems as we did, lack of experience and too soon for some of the young players they bought. Sheffield United went about it all wrong - they sold their best players to start with, and it was curtains at that point. They wouldn't even be in the promotion picture in the Championship with the squad they have this year. Terrible management. Luton haven't really evolved, still playing the plucky card with the same limited players who got them through the leagues. Quality wise they are no where near, but it's their spirit and togetherness which has made them somewhat more competitive than the others. They'll ultimately still go down though. So..if we do fail to go up, Burnley are the only side I think could get their shit together and have a decent year next season. The other two will just be also-rans at best, there won't be 2 or 3 runaways next season.
  11. Yep - this is exactly it. I understand fans saying let's stay here, as it's a fun season, but it won't always be fun if we get stuck down here. We had to endure that miserable season under Wotte/Port. Much better to be at the top table taking in the cash than it is to be lingering around in the lower leagues, without the cash.
  12. Apart from Brooks, Edozie, Fraser, Armstrong?
  13. Imagine if we hadn't had a relegation clause in his deal, he'd have been on around 85-90k in the Champ acting as a training cone for the other 2 GK's.
  14. My feeling from the summer is that there was a selling value for all our players, no one was off limits. KWP, Bednarek, Armstrongs, Adams, Tella, Sulemana etc - as long as a team matched our valuation of them. They matched the valuation for Tella and that was that. I suspect if a club offered us what we wanted for the other guys they'd have gone as well. (Think we were after £40m for KWP). I still believe Tella would have got his head down and done well for us if we didn't get the fee we wanted, but we did and the rest is history.
  15. gaslighting? I don't see where I've done anything like that. There are things to debate and question, and I have done just that - but what I'm taking issue with are the people who are extreme in their views, as soon as we concede a goal, or go behind ''MARTIN OUT'' - it's insufferable. That's not just on here, but even in the stands the amount of people who are throwing abuse at him whenever something goes wrong. I just don't understand it. It's like they're waiting for it to go wrong so they can jump up and down in a rage. Of course we could be doing better, we could be sat on 108 points after winning 36 from 36 - but that's never a realistic thing. Win our game in hand and we are on 76 points. 3 points behind Leeds (still to play), 2 points behind Ipswich (still to play). That's not doing badly in my eyes, I think we're having a cracking season and I'm really enjoying it. I just don't like the entitledness of some fans and how they believe we should be 'walking the league', I'm not sure why those expectations ever existed given the competitiveness this year. It's not just us, Leicester fans wanted their manager out after they lost to Millwall. The black and white facts are that we are on 2pts per game, currently sit on 73 points after 36 games which is top 2 in pretty much every season since time began at this stage. We are ahead of points and GD from our last promotion from this league, so I think we're doing fine and I don't understand the fury that comes from people whenever something goes a little wrong. There was never a situation where we were going to walk the league, but let's not forget we did go 26 without losing and that's a pretty unbelievable effort.
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