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It's a shame Kalvin Phillips can't play for all of our relegation rivals: Kalvin Phillips sinks to new lows and costs side priceless win Ipswich boss left fuming as Kalvin Phillips sinks to new lows and costs side priceless win

Our best buy of the summer, by far. He did more than anyone to win us those 3 points today.

I really like the new stadium layout. It's given us a proper home end at last and hidden the away fans away in a corner, where the acoustics are worst.

I don't know how low the standards of the Icelandic league are nowadays but, you're right, he might end up somewhere like that.

We certainly collected some dross this summer, several of them players who play in the same position: wide left. It's patently obvious that our recruitment team don't know what they're doing. A cursory glance at Cornet's games over the last couple of years should have told them he wouldn't be good enough. But, they seem to think that the incredible manager and coaches we have here will miraculously revive the careers of washed up players like Cornet, who other Premier League clubs, with their inferior managers and coaches, couldn't. Maybe our incredible manager convinced them that he could. Let's face it, he must have been heavily involved in the decision to bring them here.

I assume you mean a Championship future.

When he dies by the sword? The Romans used to find that sort of thing quite entertaining.

That Ipswich point is certainly not to be sneered at. It's the only one we've got from our opening 9 games, which means we can all breathe a huge sigh of relief as we're on course for 4 points at the end of the season rather than none.

We want 9

I thought I'd instil some optimism into the thread. This is our 2nd best chance of a league victory all season, after Ipswich at home. Of course, if we don't win this one, there's always the cup.

That's the spirit. There's always next year.......

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Probably not. They haven't won any of their 9 games this season and are odds on favourites to be relegated. Poor as we are this season, they are a lot worse, so let's hope we get them in the FA Cup. Championship Relegation Betting Odds | Football | Oddschecker

He also has an assist. Can he repeat the hat-trick he scored in our 7-0 thrashing of Pompey in the FA Youth Cup? Stoke are 6-1 up now. It could easily have been 10. I guess we won't be playing Pompey next year, even if we go back down to the Championship.

You're probably right. He's happy where he is. The same applies to that other one club manager, Frank Schmidt. Both worth asking though, just in case.

No proven Premier League manager is going to want our inevitable relegation as another black mark on his CV. The only way we'll get anyone who's any good is to recruit a manager from another league: someone who sees this as his one shot at the big time (with a bigger salary than he's ever earned before). I'd go for Kjetil Knutsen or Frank Schmidt. Making The Case For Kjetil Knutsen To Be Celtic’s Next Manager (thecelticstar.com)

He's big and he's got long hair But nobody knows why he's standing there

We'd have lost 1-3 instead of 0-3. That would have had us dancing in the streets.

No, I was joking.

So, basically, we've been lucky to have such easy fixtures so far. Also in our favour has been the fact that promoted teams tend to perform much better at the start of the season than they do later on. Promoted teams that perform better( points per game) in their opening 10 fixtures than they do in their remaining ones are much more likely to stay up (71%). The first 10 fixtures are, therefore, crucial in determining the final outcome of our season. "Over the past 20 seasons there has been a reasonably clear threshold that promoted teams have to reach to be confident of survival - 11 points from the first 10 matches. " The stats show that anything less than 8 points from the opening 10 fixtures makes relegation for a newly promoted team almost inevitable. So, as Russell Martin is a stats man, he must know that if he can get us through the opening 10 fixtures with less than 8 points, there will be no point in us sacking him and bringing in a new manager

I'd like to see Tyler Dibling played in a more central position up front with Amo-Ameyaw on the wing, as I think they'd score goals against the Bournemouth defence (and I can't be proved wrong because it's not going to happen).

Oops. I knew I should have stuck with Mighty. Thanks, I'll correct that. Anyway, it's not as if anyone's going to sing it. I've noticed that songs about Saints players posted at night always look silly the following morning. I've managed to do it in record time.

A song for Tyler Dibling: Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn) by Bob Dylan: Come all without Come all within You'll not see nothing like Tyler Dibling

He was saving himself for this Ipswich game.