CB Fry

Just to recap. Internet forum dinlow who was too gutless to place an actual vote in a in/out referendum is now having a pop at people for not treating a multi-faceted general election as a proxy referendum re-run. That's just my opinion.

Here's the Prime Minister of Great Britain getting involved in something that has nothing to do with us and no impact because it's about Canada. Weird she's so bothered about it because, you know, ha ha there's no Made in UK labels or somefink or whatever. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/27/theresa-may-threatens-us-withtrade-war-bombardier-row/amp/

WE'RE GOING TO WIN THE WORLD CUP FUC KING EASY

It's nice, for a change, to sit through a crushingly dull nil-nil draw.

Monk is full of sh it.

Despite being languishing in 16th and at a woeful point a game you have indeed remained passionate and ambitious. Fair play.

We're only one more defeat away from this forum going maximum retard = Les Reed is trying to get us relegated on purpose to spite the fans. Just a sweepstake on who comes up with it first. Get your money on Nordic.

An absolute masterclass.

We sacked our last manager for finishing eighth - therefore we can only conclude that finishing eighth is not good enough for those running the club. To finish better than eighth I'd say winning away at Stoke would not be an unreasonable expectation, as would picking up a fair few more points from a very simple opening run of fixtures. We need significant improvement very quickly.

Puel was clearly a very competent manager, could stick a team out that was solid and competitive, and steered us to eighth and to a cup final despite missing a key striker and our best player across the two halves of the season, plus huge fixture congestion before Christmas. The season ended badly, and it did feel a slightly harsh but understandable decision to sack him. But the issue is the replacement of him with a flavour-of-the-month unproven replacement. Clearly Les had the "he's found another hidden gem" headlines already written in his head but it is not looking like he is anywhere near the standard required. He's certainly not the step up we were led to believe we were getting after sacking a manager for finishing eighth. Thankfully I think we have enough quality in the squad to stay up especially when clearly there are worse teams than us about, but it's going to be a long season and feel we will be rolling the dice, Watford style, all over again in the summer.

Fingers crossed for this afternoon.

I don't think this is quite true just yet.

You do realise you've posted this nonsense on a thread called Led Reed OUT?

How he has become the only undroppable outfield player in the squad beggars belief.

#fiveyearplan

The decision to not replace Rodriguez looking like a catastrophic error right now.

What, you think they are trying to get more money to make it easier to sign players from West Bromich Albion and Burnley? You think that's the motivation? Seriously? How about they want more money because all big businesses want more money. They want more money because there's a watertight case that they deserve it. And they want more money because it should, in theory, make them more competitive at elite European level. But no, it won't make much difference to their relationship with the bottom ten clubs in the Premier League. As I've said previously, they are replaceable and irrelevant.

Whelk's point is we are already there now, any changes won't really make much difference. They've got richer this summer and we still held on to VVD. Its very difficult for nondescript Premier League clubs to put on the woe-is-us poverty routine when any bog standard Prem club has more spending power than the likes of PSV and Ajax and Napoli and Celtic and Porto and so on.

We'll, be fair, from your perspective 6 wins in 13 matches is a really solid foundation for the lads to build on so you've got to be really optimistic for yet another successful season for your boys.

Last season, in winning the league, Chelsea lost to Arsenal, Liverpool, Man U and Crystal Palace. Spurs, in finishing second lost to Chelsea, Man U, Liverpool and then one loss to West Ham. So a top 2 with one defeat each against non "big clubs". It's a bit of a myth really that the PL is some mega open league where anyone can beat anyone. Not really. The main appeal, as they know, is the fact that we have 6 really big clubs who make the top end of the league competitive, they're the ones playing and beating each other. The bottom ten clubs are completely replaceable and, in a global sense, irrelevant. No one watches Formula 1 to see Force India, and in the PL, that's what "the rest" is.

Murdoch newspaper in puff piece for Sky shock revelation. Sky never wanted European football really, honest they didn't. UK viewing figures for two competitions that aren't the Premier League doesn't really have anything to do with international TV deals for the Premier League does it?

Have to say it looks like a disappointing result from what I was led to believe was the perfect football club.

They do need someone to play, but they are utterly replaceable. Say Forest, Leeds, Villa, Norwich, Derby, Ipswich, Wolves, Hull, Sunderland, Fulham. Whip out the bottom half and replace with those clubs and absolutely no impact whatsoever on international audience or revenue (if anything would improve things based on better heritage of Leeds Villa and Forest). Like it or not, the smaller clubs parasite off the bigger ones and get a pretty decent deal now from the international contracts. We'll see how long it lasts.

In principle they're right because the international viewers aren't tuning in to watch (and the international TV companies aren't paying to have the rights to) Burnley and West Brom and us.

Hey Disco Stu, have you heard of the hot new bands on the scene? They're called Babylon Zoo. Looking forward to watching a new episode of Friends on Channel 4 tonight with a delicious bottle of Hooch. It's new.