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  1. I would say the bare minimum requirement for this season is promotion, simple as that really. We've not added PL wages in THB/Downes/Fraser/Brooks to just 'finish top half'. We're doing ok though - we're well in it, the requirement hasn't been met yet but we are on course to meet it. At the end of the day 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc - doesn't matter, if it equals promotion then we've done our job. The 3 relegated teams this year have set a very high bar, to Ipswich's credit they've stuck around it. No one else can get near us points wise though.
  2. Never really got the hype around Dan James, seems to be a lot of pace but very little technical refinement to his game. A poor mans Shane Long you could say. A very sad indictment of Man Utd's transfer policy of the last 10 years! The fact he cost Leeds £35m makes me cringe.
  3. Exactly that, more so Chelsea - look at the spend they've had, they're not even in Europe nor will they be this year. How can they cover their losses? You'd think there will be a mega deduction coming their way, but you know there won't be. It's this sort of shit which kind of makes me want a breakaway league - let those fuckers piss off and play with their fat cheque books, let the proper clubs go about it like we always used to.
  4. They'll start the season on minus points, nothing to see here really. All of this points deduction shit is getting on my tits though when you have the likes of Man City under investigation for over 100 more breaches, yet they're still swimming their way to another treble. FA/EPL need to grow a pair of bollocks quickly, putting 'smaller' clubs to the sword is such a pathetic way of proving FFP or whatever they call it. I look forward to Chelsea's million point deduction next year.
  5. Going back as far as match day 30, Reading were 6th, 10 points off the top - WHU were four points clear at the top at that stage WHU were always up there, if anything it was them who collapsed to let Reading in.
  6. Just as well that Selles and Jones were able to get so much more out of the team he kept mid-table.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 2-2 now, fair play to them - they won't lay down! They should be way out of sight though.
  12. 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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    Injury Watch

    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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
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