The Kraken

Fuck off Manning you absolute shitcunt

Absolute shambles at the back again. If their striker hits that first time he surely scores.

It’s absolutely shite. Our starting position of defence is on the edge of our box, makes it so hard to get and keep possession further up the pitch. It’s back to propaganda football but without much cutting edge up front. And our press is so utterly shit, we’re so easy to play against.

This. We’ve been weak so far, not enough possession in their area, far too easy for them to get the ball and get into ours. This is shit so far.

Scienza is so far above the rest of this lot. Just brilliant first and second touch that sets him up to attack. Shame he’s got a bunch of slugs around him.

It’s you.

Ruben Selles mkII prowling the technical rea for us. He looks about twelve.

Is there ever a day this fella doesn’t make a plum of himself on here?

Out with the old and in with the old. Welcome back Shoehorn. FML.

Unlikely I’d have thought. Medical yesterday supposedly so the earliest he could’ve trained would be today. First team squad may not even be at staple wood, if they are it would only be for a very light session then travel. So prob more value in Romeu being put through the paces where, maybe a bit of one on one to find his fitness levels and a bit of focussed ball work to get his sharpness going. He also may have to return to Spain to get him family and some belongings. Similar story really for Saturday. Tomorrow could be a day off or light recovery session only. Friday a preparation session for the first team Saturday. So he could get in the group but any value is going to come from next week onwards IMO. Romeu seems to me be a leader by example rather than words. So as soon as he gets on the training ground proper, the better.

FIFA have just announced the new FiFA peace prize. I shit you not. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/soccer/2025/11/05/infantino-fifa-peace-prize-award-world-cup-draw/87096377007/ The inaugural award will be made in DC at the World cup draw. Now, I wonder which benevolent peace master will be the recipient of such a lofty and prestigious title.

The same dance but it’s very funny every time. Poor old Ralph, so many potential savings and yet cant be specific about a single one of them. HS2!!!! Quangoes!!! Welfare!!! And not one specific reference of where the savings come from within those.

Fairly predictable. I wonder if he’s got ambitions of doing a Lallana. One or two more years playing, hang up his boots and go into a coaching role.

There are signs there that they want Eckert. - Club have nobody at all lined up to replace Still, in fact saying they want to take their time choosing who to install. - Lallana and Trollope retained so a coaching team is already in place. - Oriol Romeu signed right after we sacked our old manager. Could be wrong, could just be part of the transition process. But a few things are starting to stack up weirdly IMO. That Sheff Wed game is absolutely massive in determining what SR do, I reckon. QPR away, really not expecting much at all though the players could do us a favour by putting themselves in the shop window and busting a gut for once.

I just get the feeling that Eckert is who they really want.

I guess we’ll find out eventually, but I’m wondering a little why Oriol has had two months without a club. Various reasons why it could be, but a bit strange that at only 34 he was seemingly unable to find another side before now.

Definitely a good deal to be had if he’s a free agent. It remains to be seen whether we’ll get many 90 minutes out of him, I somehow doubt it. But with someone like Jander alongside him he could thrive.

I don’t see us getting someone who is in a job already. We’ve done it before but I can see us going for someone out of work, and accepting that the llama and Trollope ore part of the package.

Of course you did.

Yeah that’s how I recall it too. He had said he wanted to retire at a point. Also, he had a terrible, terrible finish to the previous season of results, really appalling results over a large period of time. The club then decided to forcibly appoint Ruben Selles as his number one, we know where that ended up. i will always treasure Ralph, I thought he was great. But his time was done, and then the club completely undermined him leading to an eventual dismissal. A fuck up that kind of defined SR really.

Yeah, not really true though. Ralph was great but he was cooked at the end of his time here. The fact that we appointed complete muppets to replace him don’t alter the fact that he needed to go. in any case, SR have shown repeatedly that they are largely incompetent when it comes to appointing managers. Expecting much of the same next.

Of course it would be welcomed, Flynn and Cpt Jack get their days off and don’t have to run around too much.

Excellently put. Clear as day 👍

You just know that SR want to give it to Eckert. Former SR/Spors history, and they kept on Trollope and Lallana as coaches to bed him in, I can see this dude getting given the gig if we actually pick up points at Loftus and against the utterly turgid Wendys.

Let’s not go overboard. Still was a risk. A lot of fans got behind it and hoped for the best. “Backed it” is doing some heavy lifting. Spors’ recruitment will be mostly judged on league position. He has little credit in the bank.