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Given how awful our CBs have been this season, if he can't displace any of them then he's got no future here IMO. Decent on the ball but a shocking lack of pace. If this frees up some funds for additions elsewhere then I'm OK with it.

Got me ticket through, but I'll actually be surprised if this goes ahead. Forecast for the next few days in this part of the world is worse than it was last weekend when they postponed their league game. Heavy snow due into Friday with a cold northerly wind.

Stuff of legend. In years to come people will be boasting "I was there when Downs completed a pass!"

To be fair, the fact that he's gone to Hamburg hasn't in any way affected the likelihood of him scoring in our next match.

Except for when Hamburg don't exercise the option to buy in the summer and we have to find some other sucker to take him off our wage bill for next season.

I know it's not good form to quote myself, but I can't stop watching this and wondering how the fuck he managed to let this in. Watch his right hand - if he'd just left it where it was the ball would have hit it. What the actual fuck was he doing? That movement of his right hand was almost Grobelaar-esque 🤨

Worst signing under any owners ever I should think. Even Carillo managed to look vaguely like an actual footballer at times.

How the holy fuck could we actually make a €2m profit on him? That's just nuts!

Did you not watch the game then?...

We have got a replacement. Stewart has returned from injury. That counts, right?

Still did drop them, and that cost him his job. Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't.

Manning certainly doesn't. I doubt it's on the highlights but there was a moment in the Boro game where he was, as usual, out of position and had two oppo players in his qtr of the pitch. One on the ball and another ahead of him in acres of space inside our box. Manning just trotted alongside the man on the ball for a few seconds with no intensity whatsoever, and when it became obvious he was about the release the ball to the player ahead of him, he then decided to put in what couldn't even be described as a half-hearted attempt to block the pass. It's a recurring theme with him. If he's not too busy arguing with a lino to defend a cross into the box, he's just wandering about completely oblivious to what's going on around him, making token efforts to intercept balls that have already gone past him. Players with his limited technical ability need to make up for it with effort and desire. I've never seen either from RM, and I look forward to the day I never have to watch him play for us again.

A player doesn't go from looking decent to looking like he's never kicked a ball in his life just because of poor coaching. But I agree something doesn't add up because his performances for us have been so laughably terrible, and there's no way he could possibly have been that bad when we scouted him.

The fact that Baz keeps finding himself right at the bottom of these tables season after season kinda pisses on your argument that they are just random.

I hear you, but surely we're just back to the old 'cow shit or dog shit' choice, like we are with our keepers. How about we choose to change paths and avoid stepping in the shit altogether? Or is that too much for SR to grasp maybe.