Dman

He threw his match shirt into the crowd post game, was likley given one which he threw on for the trophy lift. But I do agree - I think its done and dusted he moves on.

improved greatly when he was put in his natural position in a more advanced role. Deserevs a shot next season - not sure if he's good enough though.

Time for us both to part ways. PLayed a limited, but huge part this season for us (imo as many others have said, without him we'd not have been in the final, let alone win it), but he's not good enough to be our no1 next season. Thanks for the contribution and move on whilst both are on a high.

Im convinced the plan is that Lallana will be our next manager, providing Martin is sucessful enough to last a year or 2.

Why on earth would you (or anyone) do that.

I haven't changed my mind. Win or Lose sunday and I'd pull the trigger if I was given the opportunity. I don't see Martin as the man to take us forward, whatever division we're in.

I don't dissagree, by the way. He wouldn't be my choice, I'd rather someone a bit more pragmatic than a 'system manager'. The point I was making, is that if we are embedded to Martin's style (which given that JW has now gone I'm not sure we will be), hes avalible and would be a nice fit. Personally, I'd be throwing the kitchen sink at Cooper.

Wouldn't be arsed if Martin went on Monday morning, plently of decent options out there and I woul dhave no trust in him keeping us up (or taking us up without flynn Downes for that matter). If we fail to go up and want to continue with the tippy tappy, spreadsheet, achieved nothing mantra, Rosenior is avalible - the best side I've seen at St Mary's this season, not sure how they didn't make the play-offs.

I don't understand how its all decided... We played Watford (yellow and black - no clash) at home twice this season, who decided to play in thier away kit (white and maroon), which was more of a clash than their home kit would have been. Almost certainly will be black though - would be amazing if hummel brought out a limited edition yellow / blue, like we got the all white for the EFL cup final.. can't see that happening when there are alternatives which aren't a clash though

Unless you're looking for a ban, I wouldn't recommend. Your choice though

You're not wrong - Masisvley overpriced once again.

Play-off finals are usually really cagey and often won by the odd goal - given the way both teams play and defend, this one could easily be a 4-3 either way. I've fancied Leeds for promotion all season so If we manage to beat Leeds 3 times this season, we deserve promotion.

Leeds wont turn up, not play a striker and try and camp in their half and offer so much more in our final 3rd than WBA - very different approach needed Sunday. Martin has got it right twice this season, lets hope he has Farke's number once more.

This is not a post to brag, but not sure what the fuss was about - I managed to log on at 12:30 with a bit of a wait and grab 3 tickets on old support numbers that haven't been used for about 5 seasons. I had secured mine saturday mind, so a little less stressful, but seemed a pretty easy enough process... I don't know anyone who missed out.

Eassily the most sensible bit of buisness that anyone in this leauge could have done this summer - from the very lmited I've seen, he's a fantastic shot stopper. We were never going to be interested though. He's a proper keeper, but not a footballer. he doesn't suit the way in which we want to play - which, you'd have to argue is fair enough - at least we have some form of strategy.

Well the U21 manager has just left the club. If Adam has the apetite to go into coaching, having spent a couple of years under a manager who plays in a similar way to us and been involved in the coaching set up there, it might be a good stepping stone for him. Wether to become our First team manager in a couple of years (would be a fairly smooth transition from Martin to him, you'd imagine from a playing style) or to a first team role elsewhere. However, this is Adam Lallana, I exepct his ego wouldn't let him learn his craft at u21 level.

If you don't like that, you wait until WBA nick a goal from us fucking around with it in the 6 yard box.

Good evening to you, Fra. i don’t suppose you know @suewhistle, she used to live in Italy, so I’m told.

I very much doubt the type of 'person' who has the apitite to do this, isn't interested in having a pint, let alone a decent one. I'd imagine they'll linger around searching for signal to upload thier noddy videos to instagram.

what. the. fuck. is this 😂 What is the 1885?

For those interested, CoT had their pre-season AGM last week. VERY interesting to put it mildly. Lots going on behind the scenes - make of that what you will. News on entry to the CoT group chat will come up sortly, I would imagine.

Not at all confident about this one - we don't tend do well underpressure and it'll be a cadgy atmposhere in SMS, espcially if we don't get off to a good start. We're going to have to come out flying imo, a bit like WBA did, get the fans on side early doors. I hope and pray the club don't do all that lightshow bollox.. when was the last time we won a game after a lightshow? feels like never. I think it'll end up a cadgey 2-0, but I can't put my finger on to whom yet.

SAA is a weird one - I thought he looked brilliant pre-season and was expecting him to play a much bigger part than he has this season. He made a couple (1 maybe 2) appearances off the bench at the start of the season and I thought he looked lively. Positive and tricky. He was finally given a start against QPR and tbh, it showed he's not ready to be a regular.. However, I dont think we've seen him again since. As you say, there have defo been opportunities across the season to get him and dibling more minutes. I suspect they will next season if / when we don't get promoted.

He can't play with his back to goal, put in no effort to wn the ball back, struts around like he doesn't care & hardly scores. He's a luxury player, without the luxury bit. Waste of space, the sooner he fucks off the better. The longer the season has gone on, the more I can't believe we let Alacarz go - Would have much rather we had him up there than Mara.

If you were in his shoes, would you not do the same though? An offer on the table which will in all liklihood set him up for life. He might not ever play for Chelsea, but neither did Tino (and many others) and its not proved too badly for him. Becuse he might not go on to play for Chelsea, that doesn't mean his progress will be stunted. At worst, he'll probably end up having a decent career in the EFL like loads of other chelsea academy lads do - just with a bank balance to make himself comfortable.