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Stu's shadow is often better than the output of some of the others. 🙂

I didn;t know our oooomph had been delivered for us to run out of it. 🙂

Well done Stu, to get us a corner. I don;t know why, with the attacks he can make, why he doesn;t do it every game...oh yeah, because he's nearly on the bench as often as he starts. 🙂

A nearly one for Forest there. McCarthy holds onto it.

Adams needing to take that touch...

Do they test out the little stick thing on him before hand?! It would be a bit awkward in front of the watching billions if, on the day, the little stick thing told the archbishop that Chuck wasn't the chosen one by a god. Mind you, there would definitely be a TV show to find the actual chosen one. And once found, they'd have to ascend to the throne in the traditional way, by slaughtering all their opponents.

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wow. I wish I had one of those TVs that sees into a parallel universe. 🙂

We can perform badly? hopelessly? uselessly? cluelessly? definitely a missing word in there. 🙂

I swa GS first and thought Gordon Strachan. Currently technical director at a club who are already topping the Championship! Well, Dundee in the Scottsh Championship, but still... 🙂

Selles has shown that cliches like tracksuit managers are a thing of the past. He brings versatility while still providing consistency; a potent combination. Whether it's long coat, tracksuit, jacket or suit, Selles manages to deliver defeat. I will be disapointed if our future manager does not utilise an extensive wardrobe on the touchline. 🙂

Such a good thread. Such an appalling team that's being tracked by it. >sigh<

Rasmus: Now, I am the master. Les: Only a master of powerpoint, Rasmus. Rasmus: The power cable into your Black Box is weak old man. Les: Yet still able to run a decent game of Football Manager, which we based our recruitment on. Rasmus: You should not have come back. My xG is much higher than yours. Just let me know when shooting starts... no, the series, the series...! 🙂

The power of a spreadsheet against the mystery of The Black Box!

Les Reed is now 70. Club connections, and following his time with Charlton, will have a point to prove, passing the Rasmus Test. 🙂

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I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek there. 🙂 I'm sure the club will depserately try to offload him, as they've been no doubt trying for quite a while. I imagine his wages will drop significantly with relegation, and with a year left, will be a more attractive purchase for another club. If that club were to be one in the Premier League, and he's first choice, it doesn't say much about our decision making/ team selection this season when he's been fit. He could go and sit on a bench somewhere of course. Other than that, even with the % deduction, he's still going to be well paid, so could easily see out his contract, just as Fraser did.

Something I thought Forster brought right from his arrival.

Whew! We'll still have McCarthy for next season, so that's taken care of. 🙂

As we get quite a few Guardian links here, I was a little surprised to see the details from the Spectator, as I'd already read something from the Guardian on it. One that, of the artist, "Rowson says that Sharp’s Jewishness was not in his mind" and "however unthinkingly." It's a piece looking to find some balance. The article, which surely couldn't have been missed by avid Guardian readers... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/01/richard-sharp-guardian-martin-rowson-cartoon-antisemitism includes... "All of which makes it unfathomable that anyone would be so unfamiliar with this anti-Jewish visual lexicon that they would draw and publish a cartoon that depicted Sharp, or any other Jew in public life, in this way: but here we are. All the component parts were there: the large nose, the lips, the Fagin-like sneer, and, of course, what appears to be money. It’s a racialised depiction of a Jew, and incidentally is another reminder, if Diane Abbott is still wondering, that antisemitism can indeed be a form of racism." For anyone interested in the artist's view of it, it's on the front page of his website https://www.martinrowson.com/

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Although, now you mention them, I'd not say no to either until the end of the season. 🙂

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