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Scoreline depends on how quickly JWP gets Saha sent off. If early enough, we should be fine. Wouldn't mind seeing Tella again with Stu. Adams with Broja up top. Ralph will have to play balanced full backs, which is a plus.

1. Baird. Versatile, consistent and unsung. Key stats for player of the season. 2. JWP. Capable of digging us out with set pieces, and key passes. 3. KWP. Attacking flair that's galvanised the rest of the team. 4. Romeu. We generally fall apart when he's not there/ not 100% 5. Forster. Recaptured early form,saving us from dodgy defending.

Booth

Job has been done, but it's a point against a team who weren't that far away. Although I imagine they're now aware of the performance levels they'll need to bring to the play off. No taking the foot off there.

I am also a big fan of Kylie.

The other contenders ... Kelvin Davis 38 Alexander Östlund 17 (3) Pelé 34 (3) Marcelo Sarmiento * 0 Marek Saganowski * 11 (2) Claus Lundekvam 33 Darren Powell 8 Rudi Skácel 32 (5) Bradley Wright-Phillips 15 (24) Grzegorz Rasiak 32 (7) Jermaine Wright 41 (1) Mario Lička 7 (8) Ricardo Fuller 1 Iñigo Idiakez 12 (2) Kenwyne Jones 25 (9) Martin Cranie 0 (1) Djamel Belmadi 9 (5) Nathan Dyer 10 (8) Chris Makin 19 (3) David Prutton 1 (2) Chris Baird 44 Gareth Bale 38 Jhon Viáfara 29 (7) Danny Guthrie * 8 (2) Michael Poke 0 Kevin Miller 0 Leon Best 6 (3) Bartosz Białkowski 8 Andrew Surman 26 (11) David McGoldrick 1 (8 Adam Lallana 1

I agree. No point signing a long term deal, just to spend most of it frustrated or on various loan deals. If he backs himself and wants to play, then off he goes. Perhaps a clause in his development plan/ contract, could have have a release/ sale clause based on incoming pathway blockers.

I don't feel snubbed by Forster's departure. My feeling is that he was awarded a lucrative deal not long after we'd sold key players, and we're looking to secure the long term future of remaining ones. As much to maximise a sale price as anything. Forster was a key player at that time. Since then he's had injuries, loss in form and confidence. My take is that, looking at the wage bill, the club tried as hard as possible to get him off the books, including being dropped for long periods and then sent out on loan. Not the nicest of situations. He's not publically criticised us, or thrown toys around. That said, he's on that big contract. He's stuck it out, as he's entitled to do. We presumably offered significantly less for his new contract, and he feels he can do better elsewhere. I don't think snub applies. I don't think McCarthy is altogether terrible either. They were much of a muchness, when Forster was struggling with form. Forster, to my mind, is just a lot better when he's anywhere near form. His level of performance since his most recent return to the team, is the minimum of what we should be recruiting for. Since the last guy, Caballero aside, was Gunn, it's easier said than done to get.

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Band

The prints at the scene of the crime were wearing goaly gloves? 🙂

That's Camden, Pointe-à-Pitre.

More chance of signing Pope Francis.

I'd not trust my orbital death ray to anyone else.

Hello from where ever we all are! Great to have you here. Here, being in the dreams of MLG where we're all supporters in a Football Manager stadium, under his control 🙂 It's still just living there that's the problem, isn't it? I'm still allowed to visit Glasgow?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI0YKuIaVzw Joe Jackson - Be My Number Two

Land

Horrible for him. Out of nothing. Wishing him the strongest of recoveries.

We could sign 10 super stars, around Bednarek, and get to mid table status that way. Well, 9 because JWP. 🙂

I remember a Neil Moss interview, where he wanted to make the keepers spot on the bench his own. 🙂

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Ankersen I think is CEO of sports Republic as a group. Should be plenty of overlap with DOF, which was jointly at Brentford.

While I'm sure it wasn't written without plenty of sources, he did spend his lockdown putting a book together. Unless my memory cell is faulty. I was thinking of it more as game tactics. It might well spread to a number of areas in the club. And there it would align with the key goals of the club: spend little, sell big, hope that the academy can produce some players, if not nab them as they're leaving other academies, look to nab the next Sancho. 🙂 I agree there's no reason why he couldn't step up. The issues he had previously would hopefully temper his relationship to the incoming manager. Normally, I'd be all over a resilient club structure. But when I read the post I was picturing Ralph arguing with the new guy, because he dumped the playbook early, when it clearly wasn't working, avoiding a crushing defeat and nicking a win. 🙂