Matthew Le God

Hardly controversial! We have a squad packed full of very good Championship players, who are completely out of depth in the Premier League.

Those two are not comparable. The Spurs player wasn't blocking Ramsdale's sightline and didn't make an attempt to play the ball.

Didn't gel this season!

Players don't deliberately want to get injured!

Why label him a 'cunt' or 'stealing a living'? He isn't deliberately getting injured!

Signing a player to replace Armstrong, who will be good enough to have an impact in the Premier League is significantly harder to do as a Championship club. The less risky option is to use players like Armstrong who are stand out players in the Championship and then sell them in the summer of 2026. It is what we should have done last summer, very few of the promotion squad should have stayed. We needed pretty much a complete overhaul of the squad bar Walker-Peters and Dibling. Gelling may have taken a while, but our issue has been player quality and manager tactics.

It might not be 3 centre backs. Might be 433 with Aribo in midfield. Onuachu went off injured vs Palace and missed training in the build up to the game today.

He was 2nd top scorer in the league we will be in next season playing on the right rather than centrally. Why would you not want him for next season? It is the season after a promotion he won't be good enough for, not next season.

Even though you were joking... you were right! On the bench today vs Spurs

Doesn't matter if we know or not. The key is if the man Sport Republic have in charge does!

Leicester linked with Russell Martin... https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/34304772/leicester-russell-martin-ruud-van-nistelrooy-manager-man-city/

Linked with Leicester City and a job with one of Man City's sister clubs... https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/34304772/leicester-russell-martin-ruud-van-nistelrooy-manager-man-city/

Where did he 'literally' run away to?

I agree, I blame your primary school. See, I can do petty insults as well if I go to your level! A level you continue to return to year after year!

Grow up

1) I wasn't talking about this thread, I was talking about the stadium thread that was under discussion. Yet another dismal failure by you to comprehend! 2) It isn't a failure to get that job... when I didn't apply and have zero interest in the role.

Nonsense again from both of you. The thread is about naming conventions. None of those are the current name of the club. The whole point of the thread was the complete opposite of what you are now talking about. It was a suggestion to have more stadiums named in similar fashion to St Mary's, Vale Park and Villa Park and less named after the current team name. So yet again you've completely missed the point!

None of those are the actual team names word for word, so you have both missed the point of the suggestion in the thread. SI also made changes in stadium naming post this thread.

You are still doing the same them! Not responding to each rebuttal. I guess you are not even reading or understanding them, let alone commenting on them. Plus still waiting for a reason why you post confused emojis even for posts that are not even remotely controversial or confusing.

Trying reading them again, no numbering issue. I had edited out points and not renumbered. Strange you don't try to actually address any of the points! I wonder why that is!

Same as Spurs, the original intention was to grant naming rights but they failed. Regardless of that, only 2 clubs in British pro football does not make it the common naming convention for clubs. Significantly more new stadiums are not named after the club than those that are. So my thread topic was not an unreasonable request.

Wow, what a pile of nonsense that is! 1) The 'strong youth academy' was based on the ratings in the database for it. The academy still held a good reputation at the time of FM09, although the player quality had dropped off for a few seasons. The academy rating means the club still would produce good players as newgend in thr future, hence why I used that line in the preview. It was not a comment on the current crop. Plus some of the academy products who were still young, but now in the 1st team like Dyer and Lallana were good talents. 2) The players you say I'm 'dismissing as shit' were poor relative to our youth products before and after that period when the club was a mess and heading to administration. 3) The thread followed a template other people were using in that forum and given to us by SI. Which included a youngsters to watch section. None of the ones I listed were given high ratings in the database. The database is my view of the players. They were ones to watch relative to the other players, none were destined for greatness and my dadabase ratings of them reflect that. You continue to not grasp this and recycle the same flawed nonsense! 4) My point on the job was I'm 20+ years into my career in education. An entry level video scout role isn't going to pay my mortgage. The person who got the role is in his early 20s. 5) My responses are 'defensive' as you call it because you continue to take things out of context, twist things plus avoid rebuttals and questions. Plus... 6) Let's say for sake of argument I was wrong in all this. The thread that has been dredged up is 17 years ago! I had only been a researcher for 1 year at that point. I now have significantly more experience judging ability and potential of players since then including in paid freelance roles for professional British clubs. So critiquing me now based on a 17 year old post is not the gotcha moment you think it is!

🙄 You make this too easy! Yet again, you are taking things out of context. At the time of my post that view was not out of place. The intention was for that name to be a placeholder. Spurs wanted a sponsor name but priced themselves out of that happening. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2018/08/30/tottenham-hotspurstruggle-200m-naming-deal-new-stadium/ Try answering this... how many other English professional stadiums follow that naming convention of using the team name?

Ones to watch... relative to the rest of the academy players at the time! None of them had high CAs or PAs, which is the scouting judgement. I note you still haven't acknowledged Oxlade-Chamberlain not being old enough to be on FM09.