Midfield_General

It's hard enough to find a decent goalscorer at the best of times. In January, when literally no-one is going to sell anyone decent, it's basically impossible. That's why you end up with overpriced, panic buy crap like Carillo and Onuachu, or complete non-entities like Orsic or Gronbaek. And that was the level of shit we could attract when we were in the Premier League, not 15th in the Championship and 6 points off the relegation zone to League One. At centre forward, Spors had the chance to make us competitive in the summer. He chose to spend £7m on Damion fucking Downs. So now we're going to be seeing out the season relying on Stewart staying fit*, other teams letting Armstrong have the only type of service he's effective from *, or Archer looking like a footballer*. Spors has utterly fucked it, and now the chickens are coming home to roost. (* Spoiler: they won't)

Might as well just make him manager after Tonda gets the boot after our inevitable humping by the skates. He's got as much experience of managing a senior first team and it's not like he could do a lot worse. He's obviously full of great ideas, and if he's got his badges let's just cut out the middleman and let him show what he can do. La la la la la la la la la la la, Rasmus at the wheel, at the wheel, Rasmus at the wheel

19 games left to play, and 57 points left for everyone to play for. It currently only needs a six point swing to put us in the relegation zone. We have a clueless management team, no coaching pedigree of any kind to speak of, no leaders or fight, players who don’t care or have given up, an utterly defeated fan base and an ownership who are fundamentally unable to make a single good common sense decision that doesn’t just make us worse. We are in absolute freefall. Relegation’s not just a possibility, without major change at this stage I’d actually be more surprised if we managed to find a way to stay up. That’s what SR have reduced us to.

Russell Martin’s role on the board awaits

Aaaah I see - cool 👍

That’s weird - you’ve quoted me there but that’s not my quote, it was from ant I think.

Spot on

Exactly this. Brighton’s success isn’t down to luck at all, Bloom has developed a completely bespoke and highly effective piece of technology which actually works, and which has personally made him billions by using it. His other club is Hearts, who are now top of the Scottish league and could well win it. It’s not coincidence at all, it’s a proper, market-leading tool that actually works and that he has applied properly, putting an appropriate structure, team and support system around it. The problem comes when dickheads like Rasmus, Solak and Spors see that and think ‘oh yeah, easy, we can do that too’, without the ability or specialist tools required to do it, or the humility to understand that they they can’t just make it up and expect to succeed in the same way. Not only are they incompetent, but they are also incredibly arrogant, and that’s we’re so utterly fucked until they go.

Don't be silly, formations and managers don't make any difference, everyone knows that, duh

It’s like a team of diddy men Should dig up Ken Dodd* and see if he can get a tune out of them (*Grandfather of Jason)

Bree is 5 foot 8. If he plays ahead of Jelert then somehow we have managed to make our team of midgets even smaller.

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He was an interesting one. In 2006, he predicted that he’d have Garforth Town top of the premier league within 25 years, so they’d better get going seeing as that’s in five years time and they’re still in the seventh tier. He made himself a bit of a figure of ridicule coming out with stuff like that. At the same time, he also predicted that within 25 years the English league and national team would end up being dominated by players from a skills-based background, which you could argue he wasn’t that far from the truth with, when you see how top level football is generally being played 20 years later. The main problem that we had when he was with us was that he came into a back room team being headed up by Harry Redknapp, the ultimate dinosaur and general all round c*nt. Lowe had just let Jim Smith go, and brought in Woodward and Clifford, and no matter whether their ideas were any good or not, a spiteful, prehistoric wanker like Redknapp was never, ever going to cooperate with them or do anything to try and make it work, so it was doomed to fail from the start.

Charlie Taylor volleys in a spectacular own goal for West Brom

I reckon it was the other way round. Having been given yet another chance to come good, and after another 20-odd games proving yet again that he wasn't up to it, I think at the end of December Baz was told that he'd had his last opportunity and blown it, and that the club would be seeking a new number 1 in January who they would be expecting to come in as first choice e.g. Peretz. So basically, if you want to play any more this season then you're probably best off looking for a loan/ move. Which is what Tonda alluded to in his press conference when he used the phrase 'looking at options that are best for Gavin and the club' or whatever it was, which always means you're out. Baz would have said he wanted to play, so the club and his agent would have made other clubs aware, and Stoke needed a keeper because Johansson was injured, so hey presto, off he goes, that's the end of Stoke's chances of getting promoted, and he'll be back in June. Hopefully at that point we can sell him for good.

They really are determined to get relegated as quickly as possible aren't they

Place your bets on which match Stewart will sustain the injury that puts him out for the rest of the season. My money’s on Stoke away, Jan 31st, just in time for the window closing.

Could you share your source for that please?

Yeah that was absolute madness, both for him personally and for us as a team. I think he's crap but I do feel for him the way he was thrown to the wolves like that, it was very unfair on him.

Bottom 3 of my lifetime: Third worst: Woods Second worst: Andrews Worst, by a distance: Bazunu Lowly commended: Gunn, Gazzaniga, Nixon Woods, Andrews, Gunn etc were absolutely useless, but they at least looked like goalkeepers who just weren't very good. Baz doesn't even look like a keeper, and never has. So much about the way he moves, his positioning, his body shape etc is wrong. And I say that as someone who played in goal my whole life and got to a reasonable level.

How are you doing at this difficult time Whitey, you OK? 😉

Right. So you expected him to notice your query in a thread he didn’t start, that you didn’t tag him in and where you just called him ‘the typing guy’. Cool 👍

Glen posts on here as @L1Minus10 so why not ask him directly?

Glasgow29’s fishing trip is going well then He’s gonna need a bigger boat