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Indeed, LD. Pretty certain that Caceres is here entirely to provide Stephens with some focus. It's Jack's place to hold on to, Caceres really should only be needed if Jack or Yoshida get injured. I know some on here are desperate for our "big name" signing to play but really he's just a hired hand there for emergencies. As long as Stephens keeps progressing, it's his shirt.

Of course we want to be in the Europa League next season. And any season we can.

I must have missed all those telethons that Comic Relief have put on over the years that involve high-octane thrillers, kitchen-sink drama and contemporary dance.

The Comic Relief mission statement is: To drive positive change through the power of entertainment. So giving you a laugh is very much the point.

Searching "Fonte" on twitter is a delight. They effing hate him. 7 games before Jose joined WHU: 10 goals conceded. 7 games he's played: 16 conceded. Hammers legend in the making.

100% agree. He was useless at being corrupt.

Last week of the season would be perfect for us. Hopefully MUFC will be in Europa final and the top 4 places are settled. They'd have nothing to play for. Might be a little like our Stuart Gray season where those two wins against Arse and United nudged us nicely up the table right at the end.

I remember when we were in League One, Mark Lawrenson said we would choke promotion and Huddersfield would overtake us and we'd blow the play offs. Then we were in the Championship and he said we would choke promotion and West Ham would overtake us and we'd blow the play offs. Then when we did get promoted I remember him saying we were definitely relegated and he spent the run-in swooning over the "guts", "determination" and "passion" of Wigan Athletic who we were assured were staying up ahead of us (Final tally 36 points, down). And since then at any given opportunity he talks down, slags off, berates, writes off and generally pours scorn on anything and everything every single person involved with the club ever says or does. In fact I have never seen him say anything positive about the club, ever. Oh hang on. That wasn't Mark Lawrenson. It was somebody else. I wonder who?

Jesus wept.

And you're moaning about people saying "the club can do no wrong". Well, what did they do wrong, exactly, being that letting Ronald Koeman go into the last year of his deal would have been pretty stupid thing to do?

I have two cousins that support Motherwell and my Mum pipe-bombed a greengrocers in Enniskillen. Do I win?

The club have a prerogative to not let managers go into the final year of their contract where they hold all the aces. They'd be utterly retarded to let that happen and they didn't.

Who paid who?

As much as a tiny handful of fans try to make out that it is, that Woolston Ferry song is not a thing and never will be. Mainly because it's a pile of sh it. But also because its about something that even when it existed 40 years ago was irrelevant to half the city. But it gets sung by a handful of self-satisfied sorts with an air of "we remember printed fanzines" smugness. That song is basically the football chant equivalent of smug men with beards loudly speaking in Cornish in a pub in Truro because they are trying to "preserve the language".

This. Come on people. This thread is incomplete without it.

Sometimes you just have to stand and applaud. A masterpiece. 2/10.

...and Osvaldo was in the last set of accounts, covered to death on here.

Except you believe we will catch Everton and finish seventh, don't you? Which considering the huge increase in matches we've had on multiple fronts, suggests a stronger squad than before. Because you do really think that, don't you?

Our club is run by no-ambition asset stripping scum who take all the fans for mugs. When is the protest march through town planned for?

No programme in the history of football has ever published the starting eleven.

WE ARE GETTING A BRAND SPANKING NEW TRADE YACHT MOTHERFU CKERS.

Pretty sure we don't own that land, so the club would have to sink investment into that, then the small matter of the investment in building and maintaining hotels and restaurants on the site - are you thinking we are building and running these developments or are we going to allow hotel companies and restaurants to do it? I'd call the whole thing a total distraction from the core business of the football club, and in reality with the returns barely moving the needle for the funds/energy invested. At best it might be a revenue stream to rely on if we end up in the Championship. And as I said before SMS is in the city centre. There are loads of hotels in walking distance. I know some people wish we were living the dream of being on a ring road trading estate but we're not. I'm struggling to think of a football club anywhere that can point to their hotel/entertainment interests being the driver of their on-pitch success. Certainly none of our current top six, and no global major club I can name. Will owning a hotel drive us up the table past sixth place? Reading and Bolton have hotels bolted on to their grounds, though.

Er, no.

I thought people were just making it up, like Mornington Crescent or something. Lovely play from Hesketh there.

There's drivel and then there's drivel.