CB Fry

It's a game we need to win if we want to get back in touch with the top six. But it is not a six pointer. We are not in a relegation battle at this stage of the season.

Doubt the team will be exactly the same as I can't see Ross Stewart doing two games in four days. We needed to play this lot when Selles was there.

All 3 away from home. So at least 2 wins to get himself another match actually in the Ibrox dugout.

You have no idea of the influence that Ed Sheeran holds. He's met Beyonce you know.

He's not making it easy for the thick cunts who base their entire worldview on agreeing with whatever Trump said yesterday.

He is massively overestimating how much British people want a Donald Trump tribute act as Prime Minister. The more he does bollocks like this (and stuff about deporting people that have been here for decades) the more middle ground voters he can lose.

Ooh, that's exciting.....I lived in Cheltenham during their golden era under Cotterill.

We've got a multimillion pound team and got dicked by Hull and Stoke.

Honourable noble defeat was probably the best case scenario so mission accomplished.

We got a corner. This is it lads

HAVVVVVVVVVVE ITTTTTT

Spooky.

Very much the Jason Lee of the new millennium

We've got another corner. This is it lads

We've got another corner. This is it lads

We've got a corner. This is it lads

Difficult to imagine we would be any worse off if Aribo and Smallbone had been playing for us instead. Let's say it, probably we'd be better off.

I think your real name should be I'm A Fucking Dopey Thick Cunt

Well, that team is shit, we haven't got a hope

I don't know what to say really. One hour and a quarter to the biggest battle of our professional lives all comes down to today. Either we heal as a team or we are going to crumble. Inch by inch play by play till we're finished. We are in hell right now, gentlemen believe me and we can stay here and get the shit kicked out of us or we can fight our way back into the light. We can climb out of hell. One inch, at a time. Now I can't do it for you. I'm too old. I look around and I see these young faces and I think I mean I made every wrong choice a middle age man could make. I uh.... I pissed away all my money believe it or not. I chased off anyone who has ever loved me. And lately, I can't even stand the face I see in the mirror. You know when you get old in life things get taken from you. That's, that's part of life. But, you only learn that when you start losing stuff. You find out that life is just a game of inches. So is football. Because in either game life or football the margin for error is so small. I mean one half step too late or to early you don't quite make it. One half second too slow or too fast and you don't quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. They are in ever break of the game every minute, every second. On this team, we fight for that inch On this team, we tear ourselves, and everyone around us to pieces for that inch. We CLAW with our finger nails for that inch. Cause we know when we add up all those inches that's going to make the fucking difference between WINNING and LOSING between LIVING and DYING. I'll tell you this in any fight it is the guy who is willing to die who is going to win that inch. And I know if I am going to have any life anymore it is because, I am still willing to fight, and die for that inch because that is what LIVING is. The six inches in front of your face. Now I can't make you do it. You gotta look at the guy next to you. Look into his eyes. Now I think you are going to see a guy who will go that inch with you. You are going to see a guy who will sacrifice himself for this team because he knows when it comes down to it, you are gonna do the same thing for him. That's a team, gentlemen and either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals. That's football guys. That's all it is. Now, whattaya gonna do?

I have only just read this and agree. He's still talking about that idea now, but it doesn't quite sit right because it is surely true all all elite sportspeople. As people sometimes say to test politicians bullshit - "I'm on the side of working people" - just imagine if anyone would ever say the opposite of that. Everyone in this game wants to win. It doesn't make anyone unique. Still has a good squad for this division - far away from the levels of 23/24 for sure, but we should reasonably expect that we can keep pace with giants like Middlesbrough, Stoke, Bristol, Preston, Coventry and West Brom. If he doesn't start putting a winning run together his "wonder kid" reputation will be in tatters. Like Martin he arrived here without ever really achieving anything - plenty of managers will have finished mid table in Ligue 1 before. But Right now Still looks like he might not start achieving with us either. Hopefully this is the meltdown before the Leeds home game of 23/24 and it all clicks after that.

I don't understand what last season got to do with us being able to compete with Bristol City, QPR, Hull, Watford, Swansea and Portsmouth. This season we have spent a fortune on established Championship players, while retaining many that are proven at this level. Players not even in the squad would get in many of our opponents first elevens. I think building a "cohesive team capable of playing good football" is on the manager, which is what this thread is about. He's got the resources to do that at this level.

Your obsession with Phil Parsons is fucking deranged 😂😂😂

This is horrific. Illustrates why we needed a bit of leadership in the dugout, not a hipster child.

"Quick, get it done before anyone thinks we're doing it to line up Russell Martin". They've won more league games than we have. Manning was decent at Bristol, taking them to 6th last year. On top of that Norwich is his home town club. Absolutely brutal if they bin him off after 6 games. Absolutely no chance on earth we will do anything remotely similar. Lose the next three league games on the spin and maybe.