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Well it is easy to criticise, I do it, and they often deserve it. But Cornet came with decent PL credentials, and BBD with enough to recommend him as at least a useful bench option. Archer was presumably the Adams replacement, and although our fans turned against Adams, players with even his modest PL scoring record are hard to find and stupidly expensive. From that list, Fraser could hardly have done worse than Sully, and does at least make some useful contributions. Taylor has been given little chance ( for whatever reason,) despite being our most experienced LB. Tall Paul fits in the same group, I guess. So the recruitment people could argue that some, if not all of the issues are with the management of the players rather than recruitment itself, mediocre though that recruitment has been. (Stewart was a disaster waiting to happen of course...)

Some of them really didn’t look that bothered. Or were so baffled by what we were trying to do that it made them look as though they weren’t bothered. I thought last season was about par given our squad, with a great semi final Playoff performance and a decent effort in the final in which we had a big and perfectly timed slice of luck. In the end he gave us a great day at Wembley. But his system/ tactics/ squad have failed almost every test this season, and this is, I’m afraid, well overdue. That was the worst 45 minute performance I can remember, and was completely inexcusable.

I agree, I also think we will be in a better place than after the last relegation. And I think this was factored into the summer recruitment , ie putting together a squad that will be very competitive in the championship next season. But we will still owe a lot of money on THB and Ramsdale, and if Ferdy goes for £30m the profit would be maybe £20 m. Dibling, who knows what he will go for, but hopefully a huge sum, around your figure. So yes, I think we will have enough money to replace where we need to, and plenty of very good Championship players, but a good chunk of any transfer profit will be eaten up in liabilities still owing on transfers, and loss of PL income.

Chelseas didn't even have to press us very hard before the mistake came , and we looked pretty comfortable on the ball early on , given the very difficult situation. Other PL sides manage to balance keeping the ball with minimising game changing mistakes, and I really don’t think that our players are that much worse than the teams immediately above us.

We”ll presumably not get a great deal more than what we still owe on THB and Ramsdale. Well make some good profit on MF and a big chunk on Dibling, but with the loss of PL income, we’ll do well to add very much to the remains of the squad I should think ?

Perhaps RM and Charlie Taylor can be a bit professional and sort out their differences before Weds night. Anyway, good point that. going to have to set up very carefully on Weds.

We have scored a quarter of all the goals conceded by liverpool in the PL this season ,in fact !

Training ?

Thanks both, very interesting responses. I did a little reading around this, and learned a bit about how these attacks happen. But " attack" seems to be a slightly misleading term, it seems to be more of an ongoing process of probing for vulnerabilities ? As a side issue, one might assume that people brought in to deal with these issues for big outfits will be earning rather good money ?! I know there were issues around NHS sites using XP when it was no longer supported, so there must be very real concerns around government sites I should think.

With the Blue Yonder attack still in progress ,and being somebody who knows next to nothing about the issue, other than it happens a lot, I wonder if people on here have any knowledge or expertise to share ? Some of these attacks seem to take a very long time to fix . Why is that ? if companies such as Blue Yonder are vulnerable , you might reasonably think that government and other key systems really are at significant risk ? Anyway, be interested to hear informed thoughts.

I think it was terrible weather that night too. Or it had been during the day Certainly the smallest crowd for any first team game I can recall. I was stood on the Milton with a large area all to myself. And we played badly. And Lost.

Charlie Taylor anywhere to be seen ?

Thought we were decent in the first half, and lucky in the second, but the goal deserved to win a game. might just help to settle nerves a bit.

Probably did what they could today. Stay in the game, at. 1-0 there is always a chance. But the next two games are the real thing. Time for excuses runs out very soon.

The four defeats in a row followed a pretty unconvincing start , two very late winners and a soft pen equaliser would be one way of looking at it. Things didn't look particularly rosy 8 games in, not least because two of the defeats were heavy ones. I guess there were reasons for optimism then, and there are some now, if we are looking for reasons to be cheerful. And , looking at Forest's excellent result on Saturday our start may actually have been harder than we thought it might be. Who knows ,at this stage ?

The Bournemouth performance against Chelsea , despite defeat, definitely backs up your point. And we are going to have to work out ways of countering their dynamism, which was impressive. Their subs slipped straight into gear too.

From where we were,admittedly 70 yards away it definitely looked initially as if BBD wanted it ? Which really , if he wanted it, he should have done with a very decent track record, and in the absence of AA.

We lost 4 in a row this time last year. this season is going to be really tough, and realistically we could well go down again. But I think we have a depth of squad to at least make a go of it, and if we do go down it is important that we go down in good shape, with a side that will mostly not have to be sold off , either because players want to go, or because of financial necessity. IMO the board have invested with half an eye on the possibility of another relegation,( BBD for example) and they are probably wise to do that. the next half a dozen games may well tell us a lot more about RMs ability to cope at this level. If we are really struggling to put anything like enough points on the board, he will surely go. But just possibly he will come through.

And a double pivot table.

And that is how it should be .6 is the more “ball playing “ of the two centre halves, ideally. if I was a central DM I would want the 4 shirt. Going back to SOGs post, didn’t England play a kind of diamond midfield in 1966 ?

And thats £1.4 Bn without Grealish. Who Southgate thinks would make us less good than his current selections.

You might assume that Che's people will want a deal tied up pretty soon, as he is ( I assume) without an employer from 01/07 ? If he does leave, I guess it is not impossible that we go with Tall Paul, Stewart and AA as our main striker options. Any discussion about Brooks coming back either on loan or permanent ? I would think he'd be a more than useful squad member at worst, and might not be too expensive .And I guess we are stuck with Sulemana due to the large outstanding transfer payments and presumably heavy wage costs ?

Looking at those, it seems a little bit less daunting than I thought it would. Not that it is going to be easy. And we do need a decent number of decent players incoming. But otherwise......

Yes, really, but a return to the earlier yellow and black would be a nod in that direction.