Midfield_General

You are right. I thought it was one at Saints, two at Rangers and one so far at Leicester, but he only won one league game at Rangers. Out of seven. In the Scottish league. With the club that's won the league 55 times.

Good replacement for Stewart to keep the medical staff busy

Brilliant. I couldn’t stand the sight of him when he was here but now I’m developing quite the soft spot for the mad prick

No I get that. My point is that we were 1-0 up away to an ugly, limited side who just wanted to get the ball off us however they could so they could pump it towards the lumbering farmhands they had in our box and try and cause havoc. If ever there is a situation where you need to just try and keep the ball, not give it away, slow things down and strangle the game, that’s it. Whatever our game plan was, it hadn’t really worked but we still found ourselves a goal up with a few minutes to go. Sometimes you just take your medicine and get a result however you can. If we’d kept the ball better all over the pitch we might have done that. Instead we just kept giving them another go at hoofing it into our area. We had a load of lucky escapes but they were going to get one eventually. If we’d kept the ball better as a team, by passing sideways or otherwise, those chances would have been reduced.

Fair points but also worth noting that since he’s been at Leicester he has brought in 14 new players there too - 10 perms and 4 loans. They haven’t got a pot to piss in so they aren’t big money signings but he knew going in what their financial situation was so he can’t blame that. He’s doing what he always does - coaching into them the only system he knows, regardless of whether it works, is right for the game in front of him or suits the players at his disposal. Then trying to shrug off responsibility when it goes horribly, horribly wrong yet again. Personally I hope he keeps getting jobs and keeps doing it, because it’s fucking hilarious.

What people seem to be missing with that JWP pass chart is that every single arrow but one on it was green, because 99% of his passes actually went to one of our players. Unlike, say, Welington who must have given the ball away five times in the first ten minutes or Edozie who just ran into trouble again and again and again. We couldn’t keep the ball for shit yesterday and if everyone had been able to look after and move the ball as effectively as JWP did that would have been one less problem. And why are people calling Peretz into question? If it hadn’t been for him we’d have lost about 4-1. The game management was appalling yesterday. We got dragged into playing exactly the way they wanted it which was the only way they could compete. We played straight into their hands tactically and that’s concerning.

He didn’t have any competition last year either

I mean, he’s won a grand total of three league games across three clubs since May 2024. He’s a serial defeat specialist so he’s pretty used to talking about it by now.

Ran away down the tunnel at full time too and let his team of youngsters take all the shit from the fans

The further down the leagues he slips, the worse the quality of players he has to work with, and the less likely his ‘system’ is to work. And it didn’t work to start with.

Got taken there by Russ, went straight into the team as no. 1, was shit, got dropped, got put back in for today due to an injury and shipped four at home to fucking Oxford Marvellous stuff

Every version of FFP/ PSR/ SCR just makes it worse. The latest iteration is the most blatant yet in terms of being designed to ensure the traditional big clubs can horde all the money and players and basically never be threatened again. The way it's been designed is so transparent, it's a farce and just destroys any notion of encouraging fair competition. The entire rest of the league is basically just being set up to be a feeder system for six clubs, forever.

Tessa Wyatt, who later played Jez’s mum in Peep Show

Sounds from that like we can expect a hoofball bombardment and a right kicking. So we’ll need to hope we get a strong ref who clamps down early on and doesn’t just let them kick the shit out of us (Leo especially) like Watford were allowed to. Should also mean plenty of dead ball opportunities so if we’ve got JWP and Manning both on the pitch to either smash them in or swing them in for Larin and Schlotterbeck to attack then we can punish them for it. Sounds like they’ll try and drag us into a scrap though.

Aaron Ramsdale falls one more place down the pecking order

He was their fifth choice apparently and one of the reasons their fans are in open revolt against their owners. Their window was an absolute car crash, they screwed it up so badly that they finished with only 18 senior players in their squad and only one recognised centre forward. They’re seriously talking about having to get 40 year old free agent Vardy in until January, or playing Alcaraz as no. 9 because other than Barry they don’t have any other options. Absolute carnage.

A tragic figure who deliberately courts hatred and ridicule because he knows it’s the only way he can get attention and that otherwise he’s completely and utterly irrelevant. I can’t even see how his claims can be true, which just makes it even sadder. A referee not blowing their whistle for 20-25 minutes in a top flight professional match? It’s not even a credible lie. He’s a fantasist, bullshitting to try and impress the cool kids. Just another cringeworthy act from a truly pathetic little man.

Attention seeking behaviour from Mike Dean? I simply don’t believe it

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing Swansea City to give Ross Stewart a three year deal

Start your strongest side, go hard from kick off, try to get out of sight by 60 minutes and then once you're ahead sub off those who most need to be protected e.g. Larin, Leo. Starting with a weaker side and then if it's not working bringing the bigger guns off the bench later in the game when there's less time to affect it is so much more high risk. Also, it's a shame that the day after the transfer window closes, when we should be licking our lips at all our new options, we're instead talking about who we need to rest because we don't have enough depth in key areas, but there we are, that's life as a Championship club who needs to balance the books with the parachute money running down. Once our key targets fell through in the last 24-36h I suspect the approach became to keep a bit of wedge in reserve, get through to January and then make one or two surgical additions based on the proven needs exposed by the first half of the season (like we did last year when we brought in Larin and Peretz in Jan), rather than just panic buying whatever was left before 11pm last night and leaving ourselves with no funds for the rest of the season. Which, while not ideal, does make sense.

We can’t sign anyone now. The English window’s closed. Outgoings only.

Which TARGET STRIKER did they try to get?

Literally literally?

Classy player, enjoyed watching him, scored some important goals and too good to spend another season in the Championship. Has earned another shot at a higher level, just a shame it wasn’t with us. Wish him well, good luck to him.