The Kraken

Here’s our form since the end of october, an absolutely disgusting run.

Yep. It’s been said many times but it’s so true. In the early years under Ralph we had a true identity, you could tell,what the side were about. Hard work, run for each other, hunt in packs, make life difficult. At the back end of last season we’d lost lots of that, by the start of this season we’d lost about all of it. Ralph out, Jones in, and he had about 6 or 7 weeks to get his ideas into the team and get them playing his way. Apart from some long ball rubbish there was still no identity. It only looked like getting worse, the players looked like they had no idea of how to play. So that was manager 2 gone. Selles made a good start but it was too soon apparent that he, too, had no real idea of how to get this bunch of players to consistently perform. Today summed it up: no drive, no desire, just utterly limp all over the pitch. Ah well. Championship here we come!

I’m amazed so many people have stayed to watch. The only place I’d be right now is the pub.

Well that was a pathetic first half. Fulham haven’t got out of second gear, I’m not sure we’re able to. Pretty abject from our whole first eleven, but I’m not sure if Onuachu being there is doing us any favours. Maybe if he had someone to work off him and do his running for him, but we don’t play like that. Plus he looks constantly knackered. Not much other option but to get Mara on there, but that won’t change much, the whole team needs to get a grip.

Not surprising. It’s had a pile of manure on it for most of the season. The old ones are the old ones….

AMN at left back again. Fuck off Selles. Loads of empty seats around the ground.

I said last week, I feel sorry for Bree. Obviously he was a previous favourite of Jones and once Jones was gone Bree hasn’t had a look in. He never looked a world beater but he did alright. AMN has been shit all season and had an absolute disaster of a game against Forest, just hopeless all game, so if Bree can’t get in ahead of that then he’s never going to under Selles.

If AMN is lining up at left back again i think I’ll scream. He was pathetically bad against forest. That said, with Perraud out, I think the best we can hope for is AMN on the right and KWP left, I don’t think Selles will play Lyanco at RB as I think he’ll fill in at CB for ABK; and I certainly don’t see Selles bringing in Bree, who must be close to forgetting what playing in a football match is like. Aside from that I reckon it’s pretty much the side that started against Forest.

Brighton likely won’t as they’ve spent what the guardian are reporting as £30m on Joao Pedro from watford. To put it in some context, he’s 21 and scored 11 league goals last year, he scored 9 in the championship in 20-21 and 3 in the Prem last season. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/may/05/brighton-sign-joao-pedro-agree-james-milner-deal Cant really tell these days what is a good transfer fee and what isn’t, but I’d guess that £20m for a Tella is pretty alright.

Heard he’s off to Brighton to play.

Romeu begged to go when we were in the Prem, he got a return to Catalonia and he’s currently sat in 7th place in La Liga with Girona in their first season in the top league. They could yet qualify for Europe, and Romeu has been a big part of that. Literally no chance on earth he’d be with us in the Championship.

It’s a valid question, to be fair. SOG listed four posters who, apparently, “never, ever, go after the daft posts and retweets from Delldays/Batman/Alexei?”. In order to suggest that someone ‘never ever’ posts a particular something, you surely have to have read at least most of the posts written by that person, don’t you? Yet just recently SOG posted a screenshot of an ignore list that includes two of the people he originally mentioned and inferred there were more. He’s also said he doesn’t read the posts of the other people mentioned. So, leaving aside the continued infatuation with the Saintsweb’s own Casey Rybeck, it’s a very strange daily thought to be having and it seems to contradict other previous statements. Odd behaviour.

Personally I think having just one person who obsesses about everything to do with Jamie Delldays is one too many. Move on from him, he’s clearly on your mind far far too much.

The rest of the Brexit dividends are incoming, man. Stop being impatient, it’s only been 7 years since we pushed the button and 3 years since it came in. Misguided Weapon and all his pals will be saying told you so soon. Really soon.

We’re gonna win 3-2

Fuck me

Pretty decent at stealing a living off of minimal talent tbf.

AMN asleep, AMc doing his best Bazunu impression.

Pathetic.

AMN is such a negative footballer at the best of times. Tonight,,playing on the left, he looks like he just wants to get the ball and give it to somebody else as quickly as possible.

AMN left back

Not even in the bench, yet again. Actually feel a bit sorry for the guy, he can’t have seen that Jones would the gun so quickly and now he’s left here as the sacked manager’s left-behind pet and can’t get close to game time.

Who else would you play at full back, given Perraud is injured so we need KWP at left back?

Unlikely I’d have thought. Apparently SOG has got Weston and various others on his ignore list, so if that’s true he wouldn’t be able to see their posts in the first place. And if he doesn’t have them on ignore, as soggy himself has said, he doesn’t read their posts anyway. So your best case is that he’s unaware of such a maelstrom existing in the first place.

Yeah I’m sure, conference premier when he signed albeit he’d just got them promoted. As below, it was a conference transfer record. Talkspot article on him below references it too. https://talksport.com/football/707502/leicester-jamie-vardy-non-league-fleetwood-town-premier-league-non-league/