CB Fry

also, don't be gay.

Seems like Budweiser didn't know, as official beer supplier they seem surprised. But yeah, I for one am shocked that this didn't get throughly analysed during the completely open and objective host selection process.

They've banned all the beer at the last minute. Brilliant.

About four hours before the cut-and-paste king turned up.

Er, Bournemouth.

What we've got ahead of us > a couple of narrow defeats to clubs we should beat "well you can see what the manager is trying to do, if we play like we did in the first half we'll be fine. You can't judge the season just on that game" > some noble defeats to big clubs "we really gave them a game. "If we play like we did before their second goal went in we'll be fine" > we will win a game or two - relegated clubs can win six or seven every year, so we will win some. "what a result. Now we've turned the corner. This is the kind of result you can judge the season on. Definitely. We are going to be fine now, we won." > and some proper batterings I just don't see there are three clubs worse than us. Wolves will not go down. Brentford are not having that Steve-Coppell-Reading/Burley-Ipswich-etc second season syndrome. Even Fulham have put lots of points on: halfway there in less than half a season. Everton, nope, never. Rookie manager and rookie team. Thinking we are going to buy a game changing striker in January seems fanciful now. We blew that. The most critical thing is the players that aren't rookies aren't good enough to keep us up (Che, both Armstrongs, Moi). The tragedy is we have probably the best defence for years but a rookie keeper who never keeps clean sheets and an attack who never put us in games will make their contribution redundant. Its Bournemouth, Forest, Leeds and us. We need Fulham to at least make it interesting. This is the season we go down.

They don't get the whole lot all in one go. It's not a lottery win. In most cases what they get is their salary continued to be paid as now until their contract expires, probably less stuff like win bonuses etc. If they get a new job that stops and they get paid by their new employer instead. The compensation is for loss of work, once they start working they can't be paid by two separate clubs. They'll be break clauses as well - so they don't necessarily keep getting paid for (say) a three final years of a four year deal if they get binned for not hitting performance levels. So we will be paying Hasenhuttl for a while, until he gets the Austria national team job (are they in the world cup? I'd say I can't remember but what I mean is I don't know and I couldn't give a flying)

I don't think anyone is disagreeing with that. My point above was that Bournemouth are shit and will be in the relegation mix. And they are above us. Bournemouth going down doesn't stop us also going down.

We signed Rickie Lambert and a mere three seasons later he played his first game in the Premier League.

That is significantly worse. We are four points and five places behind Bournemouth, a newly promoted team who will definitely be in the relegation mix at the end of the season. And we're already tracking behind them despite the millions spent, and we are supposed to be an established side with new investment and new hope. If anyone had said in August "come the world cup break we'll be second bottom" you'd have called them a ill feeling pessimist, no doubt.

I didn't realise not winning the cup this season gave us perpetual immunity from any relegation ever again. Great news 👍👍👍

In some ways better than it could have been - if those rumours of us being prepared to drop thirty odd mil on Delap, we would have basically bet the entire farm on unproven kids.

Absolutely 100%.

That run of games is a great argument for getting rid of Ralph a month ago.

Hopefully the Liverpool game has given Jones plenty to think about. I am sure Jones will treat this as an opportunity to get a decent strength team out and try some things.

Winning team.

I also don't get why we have "more of an opportunity to improve" than Leicester or Everton or Villa or whoever. This is not looking at the context or the bigger picture it's just you being an optimist. Those clubs don't even need to improve that much to finish safe of relegation anyway. We need to win maybe 6 more games to stay up, most teams that get to 9 wins these days stay up. It's not impossible but its difficult to really see 3 clubs significantly worse than us. We could do with Brentford and Fulham having particularly bad second halves of the season. The gamble is that our new rookie manager is perfect for our rookie squad and it's a perfect plan by SR. An upset today would help, for sure.

28 points total or 28 more points? I mean, you're wrong either way but good to know what I'm aiming at.

Not sure anyone has already uploaded this but he's a right trickster here. Plus Cohen as well who I assume is the same guy in our staff now. I was actually trying find if the Luton fans sing a variation of the Bananarama song to him, they should have, its very chant-able. But I can't find it.

Bournemouth are going down Bielsa or no Bielsa. They haven't got the players. A bit like us.

Quite. And every Premier League club is run by rich people who don't want to "jeopardise their investment". No one wants to make bad decisions on purpose.

Who's moaning? I am pleased your daughter is incredibly lucky by birth and circumstance. Having £10k puts you in a different position to make "decisions" than not having £10k. Any 18 year old growing up in the current climate knows they probably can't just blow it all on useless junk. Unless they are a child of the landed gentry which clearly she isn't.

The point people don't want to acknowledge the role luck plays. Pretty sure it wasn't you that introduced the child trust fund legislation 20 odd years ago. Lucky you, lucky her.

Yes resentment doesn't help.... ....except for the people you want to resent. Crystal clear 👍

They are making choices, they've got no fucking choice but to. That generation growing up post 2008 crash have it far tougher than previous generations like you and me who had things easier and were incredibly lucky generation. The main issue is the lucky generations don't consider themselves lucky and congratulate themselves for their smart choices they made when the wind was in their favour for them during the most critical times.