Midfield_General

I don't think you need to worry too much about that. The relegation places are done.

Was an unused sub against Wolves, apparently. Can't remember the last time was actually on the pitch though. Remember all those games he was going to be so valuable in, to come on for the last 20 minutes and use his experience to help us close them out?

Wolves go ahead at Ipswich with five minutes to go. The fat lady is warming her vocal chords…

Imagine having any other job where someone puts north of £25,000 in your bank account every seven days, but you don’t have to actually contribute anything, and it’s just in return for being ‘a good lad to have around the place.’ Football is insane.

Which one wins the award for the most utterly pointless signing of the season? Or are there any more deserving nominations? The only rule is that it has to be someone who was brought in this season, who the geniuses who run the club scouted and identified as someone who they specifically thought would be a good signing to help us in the Premier League (so Stewart doesn't count as he was here already).

...and Armstrong, Fraser, Smallbone, Stephens, Bednarek, Aribo...

If we're losing, I wonder if Juric will literally run away at half time like Martin did in the home game?

Stephens was OK by his own low standards but was still directly at fault for the equaliser. Not just him - as THB had two chances to do a proper clearing header and messed them both up, and Ramsdale should have saved the shot - but he totally lost his man for the goal.

Last night wasn't about lack of effort, it was about lack of composure and basic ability, and making tactical decisions that made us worse. When you have a poor coach managing poor players, that's what happens unfortunately. Also, was it me or did Sugawara come on playing left wing, ahead of Welington? I thought that was what it looked like but the resolution on my stream wasn't great and it was hard to tell.

They didn’t rob us, we handed it to them. Shit substitutions that handed them the midfield. Shit headers from THB. Stephens lost his man. Ramsdale should have stopped it. All self-inflicted, as per usual. Palace were poor, but knew they just needed to keep playing and plodding on, doing the basics because they knew we’d shoot ourselves in the foot eventually. And we did.

Well we nearly put a spanner in the Sunday night relegation plan there, but since normal service was resumed in the 91st minute it’s still on.

What I don't get is that he did do that, and it was largely successful, but he bizarrely never went back to it. He changed to four at the back and an extra man in midfield at Liverpool, and away from home at one of the best teams in the world we did really well, took the lead and generally looked like much more of a competent football team than we have all season. We actually acquitted ourselves really well in that game despite losing it. But despite that, he completely changed it again the next week, and we haven't gone back to it. And lo and behold, we instantly went to absolute dogshit again. Why on earth would you do that? Surely the thickest person on the planet would think 'that was a lot better, we should keep doing that and maybe we can build on it.' It just doesn't make any sense at all. His decisions defy logic or common sense and that's why as far as I'm concerned he can go with the rest of them and let's just start completely afresh next year. New players, new coach, new sporting director, new league, let's have it.

Ooooh a whimper! What I wouldn't give to get relegated with a whimper!

It would be more Saints-like to go on a blistering run of victories once it's completely irrelevant Was it Forest who got relegated with three to play and then won all of the last three? I always remember when we played Derby last day of the season years ago, when we were comfortably safe and they'd already been relegated, and they pumped us 6-1

Sammy Saint holding Can't be any stupider than putting Joe Aribo at fucking centre half

It stands for "(R)asmus really fucked us up" Or "(R)ussell" - take your pick

So as I calculate it, we can be relegated by this Sunday evening. If we lose against Palace tonight, Wolves beat Ipswich on Saturday, and then we lose against Spurs on Sunday, then we'll be on 9 points and Wolves will be on 32 points, meaning we'll be 23 points behind them with only 7 games/ 21 points left to play for. I think that would set another exciting new PL record, as no-one's been relegated before with seven left to play? Derby went down earlier by date in 2007/8 (they went down on the 29th March), but only had six matches left at that point. Huddersfield also went down earlier by date in 2018/19 (30th March), but they also had six left. Roy Castle would be proud of this side.

On the last day of the season, having been relegated in April, we'll stuff an on-the-beach Arsenal 3-0 out of nowhere with a pressure-off, free-flowing, virtuoso display in front of a rocking St Mary's. SR will say that 'all the hard work behind the scenes is paying off' and that 'we've finally turned a corner', and will reward Juric with a new 4-year contract. Then we'll have a terrible start to the Championship and they'll have to sack him in October.

Yep. Fell out with Howe at Bournemouth, then burned all his bridges and refused to play in order to push through a 5 year deal at Newcastle under Steve Bruce. Then, less than a year after he signed, Newcastle canned Bruce and replaced him with Howe. Howe gave Fraser a year, then not only dropped him but permanently fucked him off into the under-21s, never to be seen for them again.

Very much doubt he’ll be here next season. Feels like he’s thrown his toys out, which he’s got a lot of form for doing - he refused to play for Bournemouth, and then fell out with Howe at Newcastle as well. Now Russ has gone I think he’s having another sulk, the precious little darling. Just one of many bang average players who needs to go from a horribly bloated squad stuffed with mediocrity that needs gutting and clearing out from top to bottom.

Sheffield Wednesday are having a cashflow crisis, have failed to pay their players on time, and now face a transfer embargo and a possible points deduction. https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/sheffield-wednesday-wages-transfer-embargo-10070263 If ever we wanted to approach Rohl and get him lined up to replace Juric for next season, now would be the time to do it.

What's the Italian for 'handball'?

Meghoma starting for Preston against Villa in the cup. Interested to see if he has developed and how he gets on against good quality oppo.

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Cool We should hire an open-top bus for Rasmus to proudly drive down Shirley High Street while from the top Phil Parsons scatters ticker tape made of shredded copies of our FY25 financial statements