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I suspect SR will sort that at the source for you by simply appointing someone who never wins

And he can fucking stay there

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He might not have been quite ready at the time, but it's a bit odd to say he's not a good player when he's currently playing regularly for Spurs who are 5th in the PL. Also been playing for Austria since 2017.

Who was it that Speedie battered? I remember it happened on a trip that Branfoot had organised to build togetherness and team spirit 🤣. Was it Hurlock? If so, then Speedie may have been rubbish but you can’t say he didn’t have some balls (or maybe was just a nutter)

I also thought Hirst was a complete waste of space, but then I looked it up and apparently he scored 9 in 28 premier league games, including 2 against spurs and 2 against Liverpool to give us a win away at Anfield, before injuries got the better of him and he had to retire. Much better than I remember at the time and let’s face it ever since we lost Ings we’d have killed for someone capable of those sorts of numbers.

Harsh on Osvaldo. He was box office and a genuinely good player. Unfortunately just an absolute lunatic. I’d swap him for Kerry Dixon who was meant to be a replacement for Shearer but was washed up when he came to us and only played a handful of games. Paul Moody should be up there as well, as he was basically non-league standard and that idiot Branfoot thought he could compete with Le Tissier for a place in the side.

Please can you put this one in the spreadsheet and create a ticket to review on 31st January

Not if they extend it before that, which you just know they will. We are going to have to deal with the fact that him and Stephens are going to be at the club until they retire. In such a cutthroat industry, I've never seen such inexplicable devotion to two such utterly shit players. It's so fucking weird.

Bazzed it

That wasn't a difficult save for any keeper His anticipation is dogshit, he never moves his feet and he can't get down to his left. He is fucking appalling

Oh for goodness sake. To spend £60m+ and be putting out.... that. It's just absurd. I actually can't be bothered type out everything wrong with that abortion. And despite having a squad the size of Poland we've somehow still managed to have an appalling bench. Let's just say we're a fucking mess of a club and leave it at that. If Brendan Rodgers is genuinely interested in coming to sort out this shit show then fair play to him, and we should be snapping his arm off at the shoulder.

I think Spors actually hired him for Genoa to be fair. So he must rate him and have a relationship with him. I agree that it’s probably a bit soon and a bit too far-fetched, but maybe not entirely out of the question and he’s probably about as good an option as we could realistically hope for. I think he’d be a great hire, personally.

I still think our best option to get the best out of lopsided squad would be 4-3-3. Provides more control in the middle of the pitch and then Scienza and Armstrong or Fellows could go either side of Archer, who I think is crap but would be probably be most effective playing in that formation.

That's a bit of an odd take when Poyet won a promotion, won the manager of the year award at Brighton, managed a team to a League Cup final and kept a terrible Sunderland team in the Premier League. Keeping that Sunderland side up was quite an achievement - they were dead and buried, 7 points adrift at the bottom of the league in the second week of April and he got 13 points from their last five games and kept them up. He's been shit since then, and was obviously an absolute weapon, but he achieved more as a manager in English football than anyone we've had in a long time.

Who’s got squad number 14 at the minute then? The OS doesn’t show it

What, the Champions League?

It would be fucking hilarious if they appointed Eckert now, just for that

Yeah. Going to Fratton with a weak team and a skate in charge. Surely even SR aren’t dumb enough to put themselves through that

How’s the Risk Register looking re O’Neil?

Admit it - you keep a spreadsheet, don’t you

Brilliant signing. I’d love to know how it came about and who was behind it.

3 points or not, that was embarrassing

Sweet jesus