Sheaf Saint

Of course they are not. They are professional players, most of whom don't support the club and therefore don't have the emotional investment that fans do. They will be looking to salvage some pride from a poor season, playing for a place in a world cup squad, or trying to impress potential suitors who might want to sign them in the summer. The very idea that they will roll over and let a team who have only scored twice in their last 8 games give them a tonking, just because a few bitter fans on an internet forum hate Mark Hughes, is utterly risible.

Yep. I remember it. Derby were already relegated IIRC. Watching back those highlights, our offside trap really wasn't working that day was it. Was Nichol still manager then?

There's a Boro fan who sits a few desks from me and she doesn't remember this!

Anybody who hasn't discovered this yet, you really need to get on it immediately. It's by far the best sci-fi series produced in many years. 5 episodes in to an already excellent 3rd season, they have just raised the bar massively with the latest one.

Of all of the departures we have seen over the last few years, I will not be too sad to see him go TBH. If he does stay, I hope Hughes or whoever we get to replace him doesn't give him the captaincy next season. He really isn't captain material.

He also has Brighton staying up on 25 points

Are you actually Mr Logic from Viz?

Jerry

I think his 'heads gone' comment was about the players, not the OP.

Someone made a point in another thread that I think is key. Mark Hughes may not be the absolute best managerial option we could attract, but he is here, he has (almost certainly) kept us up, he has the players playing for him, and the last thing we need right now is a third consecutive summer of p!ssing around trying to get a manager in place and ballsing up our player recruitment. Offering him a longer term contract is a complete no-brainer IMO.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44064957 Carvahlal to leave Swansea at the end of the season. The idea that a team with a dead-man-walking manager is suddenly going to come up with a 5-0 performance is laughable. Wouldn't surprise me if it goes the other way and Stoke give them a tonking.

With an England keeper hoping for a place in the WC squad, against a team who have only scored 2 in their last 8 and who even we managed to keep a clean sheet against 2 days ago? Not a chance.

Very much this. The last thing we need now is yet another summer of managerial uncertainty.

Not many were to be fair. The vast majority of us could see what a liability he was. But McCarthy has taken his chance brilliantly. The save from Ayew tonight to keep it at 0-0 was outstanding.

Edit: Someone beat me to it!

At least one but preferably two new CBs with proven quality rather than younguns with potential. A striker who knows where the net is and isn't going to spend the majority of the season in the treatment room. A pacy winger, or two. A new first choice RB. How much will that lot set us back? £300m ish? How much do you reckon we'll get for Forster to offset it?

So glad I cashed out when I did. But just stuck another tenner on it at 100/1 in case the nightmare scenario plays out on sunday.

Aaargh. This horrible feeling reminds me of when we beat Plymouth in the penultimate game of the L1 season in 2011 - Can't quite bring myself to celebrate yet.

Swans had plenty of possession and have pegged us back a bit but they haven't really created a clear chance yet. The two chances we created for Austin show we have more quality in that respect. Our defence always worries me though. There was one moment where three players managed to fall over each other and let one of theirs waltz past them to the edge of the box. Then another time Cedric came to jump for a bouncing ball and completely misjudged it, leaving us overloaded down our right. Squeaky bum stuff.

So reminiscent of Marcus Bent in 2005. All we had to do was run down the clock. However, the point is absolutely crucial. It's in our hands now. Beat Swansea and we stay up, barring a highly improbable GD swing on the final day. Simple as that.

There's a few things to take into account with this result. Apathy being one of them. Voter turnout was only 25%. Low turnout always seems to favour the Tories thanks to their core support of mostly retired people who will always vote for them no matter how terrible they get. It was Labour's best result, and Tories' worst, since 1971. So it's not quite the 'disaster' that some are making it out to be. Local elections don't really offer a true reflection of the national picture though, as there are always local issues that have to be considered which don't necessarily reflect on the national parties. For example, here in Sheffield Labour got clobbered thanks to the incumbent council's utterly disgraceful handling of the removal of the city's street trees under a PFI contract with Amey. They lost a fair few seats due to that, but a lot of the comments I have seen about it indicate that it wouldn't stop people voting for them nationally. With the collapse in the UKIP vote, you would expect the Conservatives to have benefitted from that much more than they did. So it's still a pretty crap result for them overall.

I'm at work and cant put the sound on. Who was that who scored our first goal?

Fair enough. I must have missed that news. Doesn't change the fact that Osborne got his prediction wrong though.

So a man with a 2:2 in history and whose only pre-government job experience was towel-folding in a hotel got his economic prediction wrong. He also told us we would have the deficit cleared by 2015. How's that coming along? Not everyone who voted remain did so because they are so f*cking stupid as to believe what a Tory MP tells them you know.

Absolute b0llocks. It was the single biggest factor that swung the result in Leave's favour. Did you not watch the news in the aftermath of the referendum? All the vox pops showing people up to be thick as pigsh!t because they thought that voting for Brexit would stop immigration from Islamic countries?