CB Fry

Just because Allardyce hasn't done much in three weeks/three games at Leeds doesn't mean he can't do it or he never has done it because obviously he has. Ditto the others.

But you know it's him already so it doesn't matter. The club are most likely doing to right thing by Selles, let him manage the team on Sunday and next week do the announcement. Quite frankly I thought it would be mad to start doing new manager announcements and videos etc etc this week and personally delighted they haven't done it. The time to look to the future etc is from Monday.

Really useful - thanks for the write up. Interesting how positive you are about Piroe. One of the statistical experts on this very forum has written off Piroe because he assures us that there are 91 other players in the Championship that are more clinical finishers than him. True story. But it's a game of opinions (his is wrong).

Stop asking for lists of managers. You're still making out that the only person on planet earth that is suitable for us is Russell Martin who conveniently enough just so happens to be the guy we've chosen. Ridiculous.

Yes fine but there's no point asking for people to list other alternatives just to knock them all down. Eg: you could make a case for or against the Ipswich guy or the Plymouth guy or Viera or Lampard or Carrick or Chris Wilder or whoever you like. But if we'd have recruited any of those the narrative immediately shifts to that guy is the only guy we could have got and no one can name any other alternatives. The minute we recruit, that person by default becomes the only person we could have realistically got. If we'd have recruited the Ipswich guy there's no way you'd be pining for Russell Martin, you'd be saying that guy is the best we could have got. We had it with Puel and Pellegrino and Hughes and Jones and so on. No one else would come, no one else is realistic apart from the guy we just so happened to have employed. Last point, I still cannot believe people are still mentioning Potter. He was never coming, pie in the sky. Cooper we were relying on another club being insane, lucky for them they got over it. WBA guy yeah fine alongside other Championship guys like Martin.

You had definitely identified Russell Martin as our absolute undeniable number one choice a few weeks back, then? The single only guy we should appoint because there is absolutely no one else?

....or that Scot from Plymouth or that Dutchman who played in the World Cup in the 1970s or that former Liverpool assistant from Spain or the former Manchester United striker or the guy from Luton. Or Steve Wigley. Or Stuart Gray.

Buddhists are all fucking twats. Happy now?

Well, it will be, and people have been taking the piss out of his Veganism as well already. If Nathan Jones won a few matches then people would have mocked him less.

All agent talk and made up by journalists apparently

The moment has passed. Everton have got a straightforward home tie, an absolute gift. They will win that at which point the other ties are irrelevant. At least one of Leeds or Leicester will win but it won't matter.

When Les Reed walked into the managers office at Charlton, some short sighted people said he would fail because he wasn't a former top player with big league experience.

Gardening leave or something. He can refuse to work for Swansea but wouldn't be able to start for us. Equally Swansea couldn't then replace him either. Anyway, none of that is going to happen. He;s got a defined release clause, it's not even the end of the season. Martin is not going to be the manager on Sunday so it doesn't matter that much right now.

This is just drivel and I have absolutely no idea what you are on about. Quite aware of Swansea's poor defensive record but this is not the topic here. The topic is you making out that there are 92 players in the Championship, about 3 or 4 players per club, better at scoring goals than the fourth top scorer in the whole division. Again this has nothing to do with you going on about the fourth top scorer in the the division being the 93rd most clinical players. According to you there are 92 players more clinical than a man who scored 19 goals this season, even though only 3 more players actually scored more actual goals than he did. Why didn't these 92 killer clinical strikers score more goals then? Nice try at changing the subject though. Nope, haven't said that or anything like it. Again, nice try at changing the subject. Lay off the stats and try applying a bit of real world logic and perspective next time. Keep trying.

Interesting you added this at the end, I think maybe you shouldn't have bothered. Burnley won the league powered by lots of things including loads of parachute money. But they didn't have one striker scoring more goals than Piroe. How clinical. Swansea scored far more goals (68) in the season than clinical Luton (57). Luton's mega clinical striker scored one entire goal more (20) than useless old non-clinical Piroe (19). Not one of Sunderland or Millwall's "clinical" strikers scored more goals than non-clinical Piroe. Swansea as a team (68) scored far more than clinical Millwall (57), more than clinical Luton (57) and exactly the same amount as clinical Sunderland. Sunderlands 68 goals obviously much more clinical goals so worth much much more than Swansea's 68 goals which were all just flukes or something. Keep going with the stats, you're absolutely smashing it. Funny that 😂😂😂

13 goals from open play. Yeah, sounds shit.

A player who has scored 41 goals in 88 Championship games and 19 in 43 this season is "93rd" on some goalscoring stat list? What are you on about? Who are these other 92 players that have done better at scoring goals this season? That's like 3 or 4 players per club who are all better at scoring goals than Piroe....you really sure about that? The list I can see has him, err, fourth on the list of the only fucking stat that matters.

Nah he wasn't. Selles only here since last summer, SR buyout was January '22. SR recruited him as they binned off Kelvin and the other divs on the coaching staff.

On footie insider on twitter which is the single most "throw shit at the wall" guesswork site you can get. Leicester will not be recruiting Graham Potter.

Jesus wept. @trousers please give this guy a Muttley medal 🏅

Honestly I think I preferred the Nathan Jones "first week in training" clips

Whatever is announced, Russell Martin will absolutely not be managing the team on Sunday.

Fulham bounced straight back, as did Norwich (I think twice), as did Newcastle but lots take longer. We can very easily be like Stoke or WBA, or indeed like Forest who spent 20+ years down. Next season there will be Leicester and Leeds and us wanting to go straight back. Can almost guarantee that not all of the three will do it.

The objection to Jones was the whole being shit and losing all the games and also him being mental thing. I'm sure this felt like a jolly clever little dig at the fans when you wrote it. What we are looking for is success, for winning a few matches. It's the club, not the fans, prioritising metrics and systems and spreadsheets, as they did with the recruitment of Jones and then Selles.