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Give it to Poch 'til end of season, along with a gazillion hundred pounds.

I don't want to go overboard and lose my head, but I'm fairly unhappy with things and stuff.

Lyanco player/manager. He's gonna headbutt relegation in the fucking facial area.

Ultimately, there's too much money in football. City, Chelsea and the like can throw ridiculous amounts of cash at practically anyone they want if they have a position needing filling. Academy players are then effectively left as scraps for lesser teams to pick up, many of which you never really hear of again. Can't be good for morale. Not sure if a wage cap of sorts would help level the playing field, but can't really see that happening.

tHe SoUtHaMpToN wAy

New big screens?

I feel blue ☹

A short contract makes sense. If we go down, everybody knows that the damage was already done, so his reputation won't take a battering. If he somehow keeps us up, he'll look the dog's danglies, and will surely attract many a job offer. It also allows us to reevaluate once we know what league we'll be in next season.

Is Rasmus on the floor behind the desk? Is Jesse bowing to him?

I'm quietly confident that we'll get something out of this. Don't tell anyone though. I'll deny it.

There's clearly an ego there that doesn't want to learn lessons from Stoke. This, as you mention, will do him no favours when looking for his next challenge. His media performances alone will have seen to that.

RASMUS HAS REFERENCE POINTS!

Chelsea's form gives me a little bit of hope. Plus they've got Dortmund tomorrow, so might be tired and sleepy on Saturday.

As angry as we've all been recently, and as much as we jest, he his human, and he certainly wouldn't have wanted this to end the way it has. Granted we needed the change, but hopefully he'll find somewhere to restart his career.

Nice one, Vagab0nd - interesting insight.

He'll get a reputation for doing that, and one day, maybe in an older age group, he'll get crunched by a no nonsense centre half. I reckon it's highly likely that those same parents might kick off. Many bellends in football.

Would love to see how some of the mouth in the Prem would deal with Collina.

Nothing against Marsch - he seems to have a positive outlook and is likeable. We'd all like nothing more than for him to be a huge success. Looking at it one dimensionally, it's difficult to get excited given his most recent PL stint, though understandably we're not really a great catch at the moment. If this ends up being a similar appointment to NJ and is a quick failure, then surely Dragan would start thinking twice about further investment with Rasmus making these decisions?

Anyone know of a reason/reasons why football hasn't followed rugby in terms of getting the refs mic'd up? Player's would be heard more, so they'd surely have to watch what they said. Would instantly result in player's giving, or at least showing the ref more respect.

https://youtu.be/9FqG2XlHI58

They're also not red, unless they laugh a lot, and like cheese triangles.

They'd probably agree.

There's no guarantee Bruce will get us, come on.

I think football is the real winner here.