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Wonder if the nods will clap his goals like last time

I’d expect Spors to have a bit more imagination than Danny Ings. He is done. Not only will he be demanding ridiculous wages, but he has registered 4 league goals in the last 3 years. Even if he were to do well in the Championship, he would be as effective as a lead balloon were we to bounce back up next season. He would not even be in the conversation had he not played for us previously.

Looking back over the season and this line-up makes me want to cry. Somewhat incredible that even the standouts of this season Fernandes and Ramsdale were end-of-window signings and this is what we started off with. Need to look nothing like this in August.

One of these things is not like the others...

Finished on 89 points. Snap him up Saints.

But can he reverse a binary tree?

Ballard has had a rough time of it. In 2023-24 he went to Reading and had a decent start before getting a season-ending injury. He then went to Blackpool at the start of this season and injured his shoulder, eventually being recalled and sent to Cambridge in January. It may be true that he’s unable to make the step up to senior football for us, but send him out on loan to League One again in 2025-26 for a full season and we’ll have a much clearer picture as long as no more injuries occur.

Hull look set to do the same with Selles

Agreed. Especially for those that have been here over a longer period, they will have suffered multiple record defeats, multiple relegations, and spent years with a club ambition of merely wanting to exist in the PL. Unfortunately for some players this will be the best gig they will ever get. It will be very difficult to shift them. I almost don’t want us to go up next season to give us a longer period of bleeding away contracts and reshaping the team.

They are so arrogant and delusional you almost forget they’ve only won the league twice in 30 years. Pep is back with his wife now, so the scousers will have to settle for second in 25-26 anyway.

To be fair, software engineers and Saints players have a lot in common. They both earn a lot of money for doing fuck all.

Their horrific autumn run feels like a lifetime ago now. I think they'll finish second in the league. Unfortunately we have no chance. 0-3. As an aside, the squad relegated in 2022-23 would normally fight for their lives in a 'shop window' game like this. Remember when we knocked them out of the cup two years ago? No chance of any such result with this season's rabble.

We should be looking to the future, not the past.

Smallbone, Stephens, McCarthy and Fraser are all entering their final years soon. If any of them receive extensions Spors can be immediately written off as a fraud

Manchester United truly are utterly dire. It’s a shame the promoted sides are just that bad because they would be fighting relegation any other year. Meanwhile, the PL seemingly can’t wait to get rid of us as my “favourite team” in the Fantasy app has changed itself to Newcastle.

To be honest, I think Russell Martin coaching has conditioned these players to be worse than they actually are. Like you said, off-the-ball is so important in the PL and so is athleticism. I’m not one to blame a single person for everything for years but you have to admit those elements were hardly important under him and players’ abilities in these areas had withered noticeably by the time Juric came in. If we spent last year playing a style centered around pressing I think we would have fared better this season with the exact same squad. Not too much better. But better.

One thing I’ve learned supporting this club, no matter how bad you think we can be, we can always be worse.

Yes, Ipswich’s dressing room.

Along with Bednarek he is the poster child of our diabolical defense. Sell. Loan out. Make him train with the U21s for his last year if that’s what it takes.

Rooney is available

Nuke Staplewood during first team training and rebuild with the insurance payout. This team is gutless, spineless and pathetic. That’s it. There will be no more points. We will go down in history forever deservingly as the worst Premier League side of all time.

We were very brave.

If shitting the bed is being relegated, how we are playing now is smearing it on the walls.

2-1 written all over this. Too little too late I’m afraid.

When the second went in I went apoplectic and almost crashed into a unsuspecting biddy on the M27.