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Hmmmm. Can't move them on loan.... Can't keep them here... Elsewhere, costs have to be cut.... Welcome to Sweeney Todd's Concourse Pie Emporium! 🙂

Right. Just stop it. 🙂 You might agree with that one. But that in no way compensated for your eyes rolling in their sockets for the next 1000, as the board sinks into pedant purgatory. 🙂

@kitch my post was so firmly in the lands of fantasy, a smiley face surely wasn't needed. 🙂

He did come across well. That was a difficult time. It looked as though he was going to stray over the line a few times, but used the close relationships he had with others in the process, to show the all round frustration. It's exactly the scenario he shouldn't have here, with the money man on the board and a lot to do very quickly. There are links in that video to why he left, and I don't think he'd be best placed to have another window where all the business was done, or falls through, at the end. But Selles and others come across well. In the end it's the results. Needing to do so much might mean it's a little tougher to build the same closeness. And we need to have that core in place as early as possible to give him every chance in pre season. A lot of that money we utterly wasted would be very handy now to get a few early deals over the line.

Gutted he's gone. We'll look back at our narrow defeats in the top league, and wonder what little tweaks would have taken us to success. If only it were his team, and he wasn't saddled with the debris of previous managers. I'm glad they've announced it now as it gives the fans the chance to show their appreciation as a chapter comes to an end. I hope he gets another post soon, so that he can either develop that tactic with a squad it suits. Or that he gets a chance from scratch to implement other plans, free from the relegation pressure and issues at a club in our league.

Half price manager! Go SR! Time will tell if half price was still too much 🙂 Can only hope he turns out to be among our best ever, like I hope for all appointments.

No inquiry says PM , as all concerned try to to break speeding limits peddling away from it. 🙂 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65694017 From what I heard on the radio, she's come out with obvious fib she should have said at the start. Trying to avoid mentioning wh she'd spoken to entirely just dug her deeper and deeper into it.

Brawlers

Not even in jest. Just reading that exchange. Not changed a bit.

Looking at the video and just picturing him at our press conference explaining why the process failed to get us a striker. Or telling us what a good chance we have of hitting the playoffs, only for it to become out of reach. Brrrr. Let's hope that we've learned about recruitment, and he never has to explain why we're not going up.

I was wondering if you were okay SOG, having not posted on this while it was breaking. Glad things are as they should be. Clearly, when she said "same values as us" the us referred to duplicitous, self serving, egotistical swivel eyed politicians, who have to have the truth dragged out of them. So, looking at it in those terms, she's right in not being able to recognise normal folk wanting a better future for their families, and with skills to offer us. I was going to say that there would presumably be a fast track for crooked politicians looking to move here, to fit people she would recognise. But despite banging on about it year after year, they have shown zero control over anyone getting in.

Yard

I was thinking that, as a free agent, he'd get better offers from somewher than what we should be paying him in the Championship. Perhaps he will be more willing because of club connections, but he could just as easily leave this basket case for somewhere abroad.

That post was enough to unsettle me 🙂

If Jesse Marsch was seen going in for talks now, would you prefer him or Martin?

Of course, a gazmilltrillion isn't what it used to be. It takes more than that to keep up these days. Just ask those guys over there, cooking the Man City books to avoid profitability and sustainability rules by at least that much. 🙂

Yeah, and not knocking your opinion on it at all. Just letting my inner voice get typed. 🙂

The club will have made their decision before season's end, tell Selles goodbye, and then announce his replacement. Possibly on full time on the last day, but no reason why it can't be before, if say it leaked. It's not likely to unsettle the team into a defeat, when they are so capable of doing that anyway.

Plucky underdog team reaches glory on a shoestring, giving something for their most special of fans to cheer, because it means more to them than other clubs. What's not to love...oh wait, I had it on for 10mins and turned off when Murphy came on. 🙂

Rain

If rumours of dressing room standards are true, Theo could do nothing to impose the standards we should have had as basics, let alone those he would have experienced elsewhere. He was a high earner, that we were trying to move on. It would have to be a heck of a lot less for us to be picking him up for the Championship. There may even be some residual desire to get shot of him now, since they couldn't before. Despite looking like one of our brighter players recently, it's an incredibly low bar. It would be tough to say his time with us has been a success for any party. No idea if he's interested in coaching badges, but we could do without coaching passengers when doing our staff clear out. Sure he's a lovely bloke, and still has skill, but it would have to be a cracking deal for us in terms of wages, to sign him again.

Easy to think, the way he seamlessly carried on our dreadful form, that he'd been here for a lot longer. 🙂

Webber: I don't mind being a human shield. So brave Webber: I've been to the city centre three times, twice to feed homeless people. So selfless Webber on racist abuse: I'm in a privileged position So woke On the club's finish: Up until the last but one game we were right in the race for the top six. So delusional. They were so tepid and off the pace, that you're think Webber was just off being at our club for a run in. In an interview where, as a club employee he's a bit too honest in a part of it and says he's not keen on visiting the centre of. He says they don't have to sell, while highlighting the players he wants to sell: He slates the tactics that got them relegated last time, although made no attempt to have a word while it was going on. This guy's so off in his own world, he might as well change his name to Rasmus. 🙂

Depends if he meets the new manager's tactics. AA is going to need lots of creative support, and therapy to replace shattered confidence.🙂 He's a willing enough runner, but he'd be expected to finish if it's one up front. He'd have to be able to deliver if playing deeper. Finishing and creativity haven't really stood out for him. He could still have a role, if it's Big Paul who goes as not a fit, or if we get a good offer for Adams. We're going to need some depth.

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