CB Fry

I think we just go for it - sell 16 and buy 16. Proper revolution. A bit like that episode of Emmerdale when they crashed a plane into the village and killed everyone.

The chocolate fountain of bullish it.

Agree, I was waiting for it to click - maybe if Gabbi didn't get crocked it would have. But he did and it didnt. We can do better.

If you were trying to make out you'd felt we'd reached a level that, while high, you fully expected us to beat the following season then my recommendation would be to use a different phrase than "high water mark". Poor choice. And if you you seriously expected us to be higher this season than last then fu cking god help you.

Try and be more clear in your posts then - you said the high water mark was the team Koeman inherited (so 2014) and since then it has been a slide into boringness. If you don't mean it, don't say it. Also, if you agree that last season was a high water mark, don't be surprised when we go down a bit.

The high water mark was when we finished 8th (spent a lot of time in 9th) not when we finished 7th and then 6th? Last season was a slide into boringness? Really? The utter desperation of some people to engineer a false narrative continues to astound me. Our ambition hasn't actually changed - it was the same under Poch as Koeman as now. It hasn't changed and it won't change (pending new owner, still I would be doubtful). The idea that under Poch we had a one way ticket to guaranteed progress forever was, and is, total garbage. A club our size is going to finish 9th or 10th or 14th from time to time. We don't want to, but we will. Leicester finished fourteenth two seasons ago. Puel may have turned out to be a dud appointment but guess what, a club our size might make a dud appointment now and then too. The ambition remains - be the best of the rest and try and capitalise when the top 6 have a bad time. Try and qualify for Europe. This is not a guarantee we will achieve this, without fail forever. We won't. Get over it.

Yes. None of those numbers is £51m.

Just reading that thread and all a bit weird how everyone is all chummy and polite. It's like Shelbyville in forum form. Good info though if rather disconcerting.

He's not played under most managers in his career so far, then.

All part of the routine. The Martial link doesn't mention £51m anywhere anyway. Just an ever flowing chocolate fountain of bullsh it.

This is true. Don't think we will stretch to the likes of Emery though.

Seems highly unlikely we will recruit either. We had the opportunity (and the European football) to attract a higher profile manager last season and we blew it.

I think we should and will do a Watford at the end of the season and replace him. The structure of the club is strong enough to withstand a managerial change and I don't think Puel is going to leave much of a hole for us to fill.

But you won the League 2 title. I'd say that was a good season.

Jay Rodriguez is coming on and that means goals goals go..oh forget it we've lost.

We are never ever ever going to score.

Yoshida injured? Is this the moment??? PLEASE GOD IS THIS IT???

Well, we are a laughing stock.

Shane Long is coming on and that means goals goals goals.

Of course he's made them up. It's what he does.

Behave.

You'll get Boufal though.

So far so good. Please don't take Gabbi off after 60 minutes, Claude.

Jack Stephens there.

We can do this.