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I also thought he was poor when QPR played us

Do you have next week’s lottery winning numbers?

Still silent on inflation, energy costs, falling income from TV. Babbling on about Bazanu and Romeu is utterly off topic. Your comment “the first four are expenditure”! I am drawing the conclusion these topics are a bit nuanced and complicated to confront…

Thanks for the bellend comment. But I notice that I made five specific bulleted comments. You haven’t felt able to engage with any of them. Not one. So suggest you have another go rather than throw childish remarks. By the way, my family and I attended over 50 games last season. Go on, have a go at the five, or alternatively chuck another mindless word out there.

Don’t wish to single you out but this is fairly typical of a lazy victim type response from a section of our fans. In return I would point out: - inflation and tax changes mean it costs the club, like any business, more than last year - we are already making a loss - the energy consumption needs of a stadium and training facilities mean even more price sensitive - have you heard of financial fair play? Where do you think revenue comes from? - were you not entertained last season? Saying “I can’t afford it” is a totally different position which sadly applies to some fans. But an anti club rant without addressing these facts is just lazy I am afraid

You are far too sensible for this place. The meatheads will be after you!

I think Spors hasn’t got the credit he deserves since joining. He has made two mistakes so far, Still and Downs. Set against that, are Peretz, Azaz, Latin, Scienza, Fellows and Jander all clear success plus of course Tonda (on field!). I haven’t given up yet either on Quarshie and Roeslev but they would be in jury out space. Not only has he set us up well on the field with those signings but we have very sellable assets if needed for the future.

No, but I am under the impression that many seem not to have factored in that the investigation could take weeks or months. What I want to avoid is a situation where we have the players back, and then Tonda is banned for months and needs to be fired. That would be chaotic on eve of season starting. Bigger picture for me is that if we move on quickly we are one of only four clubs with parachute payments and four points deduction is negligible over 46 games. So a quick reset is best, as sad as it is to lose Tonda.

For the same reason that the club punishment was different to Leeds, namely that there wasn’t a rule then, there is now. None of this is what I want to happen, it’s just reality

Gonna say this slowly as it doesn’t seem to be sinking in with the “don’t sack Tonda” brigade……. WHAT………..IF……..HE…….IS……BANNED……FOR……MONTHS…….? Still think this will be taken out of our hands. It won’t just be a touch line ban.

This is a powerful argument but I draw the opposite conclusion, precisely because of the point you make in penultimate paragraph. I fear he will have lost the magic in the eyes of the players (to say the least), and cannot imagine anything other than a long ban coming up from FA. And so it becomes a bit of a non-choice.

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As the dust settles, we need quickly to move into next season thinking. Given I am expecting lengthy ban from FA, Eckert isn’t a credible choice. We will need to start well and quickly erase the four point deduction. So a manager capable of quickly turning things around is a must. Parker, Frank, Dyche or Cooper all fit the bill in my view. We do have assets that we can sell without decimating the squad in my opinion. The following would probably raise £75 million Ramsdale, Bazanu, Sugawara, THB, Charles and Brereton-Diaz. That should be enough if we work well on incomings (which to be fair we have generally since Spors has been involved). I believe Stewart has a one year extension we can trigger, both Bree and Edozie are out of contract and would be worth two year deals without paying a transfer fee. I don’t know if the options on Perez and Larin were conditional on being promoted? So we could enter next season with starting lineup something like: Peretz, Bree, Wood, Stephens, Manning, Downes, Jander, Azaz, Scienza, Matsuki, Stewart. Subs new goalkeeper, Welington, Quarshie, Bragg, Edozie, Fellows, Robinson, Larin, Archer I suspect a few more will go, but equally we will bring in some new blood. We will need to sign another centre back and central midfielder for a start. But that should be more than good enough for top eight, and hopefully better than that, but still bringing in good money.

Parker has managed three seasons in championship with three different clubs, and secured promotion on every single occasion.

Thanks for posting this, what is source?