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No Brooks? Anyone know why?

Valentine's Day so I booked a table for me and the wife. She was shit, didn't pot a single ball.

Maybe they could take a few screen grabs and put them on their next DVD?

Of course - a 3 point buzzer beater

What’s that then

Winks is rumoured to be on £90k per week, and obviously no-one else would be foolish enough to pay that so he’s not going anywhere. It’s deals like that which will absolutely screw them if they do go down - double screw in fact, as they can’t sell to get the transfer fee for a player who might otherwise raise a few quid, and are also being bled dry by having to pay those massive wages for the duration of the contract, potentially with League One levels of income next season and owners who as you say appear to be pulling back. I’m really intrigued to see who agrees to go there as manager because it is a proper poisoned chalice at the moment.

That is mental. How can a 10 year old boy playing Football Manager know that it's just a basic thing to put relegation clauses in, yet they have a board full of professional businesspeople who are highly paid to focus on nothing but running their operation worth hundreds of millions, and not one of them thought to do it? That sort of thing just boggles my mind

The issue isn't this guy per se. It's that Johannes 'squad planning is an art' Spors has managed to get us into a situation where we basically now have one first team goalkeeper and two third keepers. We don't have a reserve of a reasonable proven Championship standard who can step in if the first choice gets injured, and we don't have any realistic options to create competition for the no. 1 shirt or rotate if the first choice has a dramatic loss of form. So it's now basically Peretz or one of two complete no-marks, and we are one injury away from having George Long, last seen as third choice at Norwich, in goal for the rest of the season, and potentially the play-offs with £140m and a Premier League place at stake. This at a level where an established international in Bazunu has repeatedly been found out as not being good enough. You might think that's a reasonable gamble. I think it's fucking mental, personally.

Rowett looked like a shoo-in, and seemed to be the one a lot of the fans wanted, but has made comments in the last few days that sounded like him distancing himself from it and he's now looking less likely. He's still well in the mix with the bookies, but Hasenhuttl is currently the favourite, and Sean Dyche came in with a bullet at third favourite after getting the, er, bullet from Forest last night, although most of their fans seem to think there's not a cat in hell's chance of him dropping down to that level, at a sinking ship with no money. Rusty still just about hanging in there at 12/1. I still think it could be him after a few more turn them down. When even Norwich didn't approach him, he must have realised his options are increasingly limited and they might be the best he can do, even in their current mess. Edit: Leicester, not Blackburn.

I think he's gone back into hiding after making himself look stupid once again by confidently declaring that Alex Crook was wrong about Armstrong being on his way to Wolves.

Manning is of course Irish not British, and Shea Charles is Northern Irish, so while politically speaking Northern Ireland is part of the UK, ‘Great Britain’ refers to the geographical landmass of the British Isles, which only includes the largest island containing England, Scotland and Wales and therefore excludes Northern Ireland. So it’s actually British, Irish and Northern Irish goals for British, Irish and Northern Irish people. Thread title needs to be changed to reflect please @benjii

Imagine being Dragan and standing by while these jokers play Russian roulette with your hundreds of millions with mental, unnecessary gambles like this He genuinely doesn’t have a clue what he’s doing does he, he’s just a rich useful idiot for other people to run rings around

So just let me understand this. If Peretz gets injured, it’s former Norwich third choice George Long in goal as first choice, with a signing from Warrington on the bench. When we’re one point off the play-offs, with the opportunity to get back into the Premier League and £140m at stake. Is that right?

That’s the thing though - it wasn’t lucky at all. As well as the four we scored, in the second half Stephens also missed a great chance and Azaz had one very well saved. Their mental collapse in that last half hour was absolute and it could easily have been six by the end.

Oh come on now. You know at 3-0 last night they were singing 'We want nine' and 'It's happened again', right? Do you think when the ninth flew in at St Mary's they were sat there politely, stoically wishing us well? No, they were dancing about and pointing and laughing and singing and ripping the piss out of us as they absolutely should be doing. Going to the football is all about taking the piss. Dish it out when you can, and sit and suck it up when you have to. That's basically the point of a football crowd and what makes it fun. It's not the opera. How much crap have we taken from opposing fans over the car crash of the last few years? Finally, we get the chance to dish a bit out. Let's make the most of it for a few days, because it won't last and it doesn't happen very often when you support a club like ours, especially when it's in the state it's in at the minute.

Dear Leicester City, Look, I get that you probably felt bad for us and wanted to make amends after the 9-0, the 5-0, the 4-1 and the 97th minute 3-2 - and that's kind of you, it really is. But as compensation goes, you'd already done plenty. You'd taken Bertrand. You'd taken Vestergaard. You'd considered appointing Russell Martin. We could have just called it quits at Joe Aribo. That would have been more than enough. But letting us win from 3-0 down for the first time ever in 141 years? On your own patch? Letting Ryan Manning have one? Bringing on Jordan Ayew? It's just too much. So I don't want you to think we're not grateful, but that's enough now. It's becoming overwhelming, and, to be honest, a bit creepy. Look, we like you. Just not... like 'that'. So you can stop now. We'll still see you this Saturday, OK? But just as friends. I hope you understand.

Love how the cheers for the goals get progressively louder each time Absolutely incredible, fair play lads, that was immense

Fawa has gone onto Leicester’s official club tv channel. It’s just former players sat in silence unable to speak. It’s amazing, like watching a funeral

lol

3-1 down and chasing the game Let's get Manning on

I'm actually finding that listening to whoever this pissed-sounding Irishman is, is preferable to Tessem screeching gibberish

Are you a fucking shit Championship team who hasn’t won in ages? Dr Eckert will see you now

and it would have been so, so beautiful after all, they were training like beasts

If you're not ready to clap along while watching 11 goals given away as a direct result of trying and failing to play out from the back, then you're an idiot who doesn't understand football. And don't forget 'It's not tactical, it's mentality', delivered with that trademark condescending sneer. Especially after you've started a Premier League game with five centre forwards on the bench and none starting on the pitch (Bournemouth away - lost), or played a radical U-shape formation with literally no-one playing as a central forward and Ben Brereton Diaz as a tricky, flying wide man with chalk on his boots (Forest at home - lost). It's never your tactics though is it Russ, oh dear me no.

Mad challenge Can’t wait to see him rock up at Leicester after they unveil Russ as the new gaffer