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You remember incorrectly. Ralph’s first gave was a poor defeat away at Cardiff who eventually went down. Pochs first game was a 0-0 home draw with Everton a few days after we’d drawn away at Chelsea under Adkins so hardly an improvement with either from “literally their first game”. I know how you love to compare squads so Pochs team that day contained Luke Shaw, Schniderlin, Lamert, Steve Davis, Rodriguez. Clyne and Jack Cork, who would all walk into this team.

I don’t see where Archer would go, another move to a promoted side maybe? I think he’ll still be here Midfield even if we are the same personnel wise Charles had never kicked a ball in mens football when he joined us, he’ll have had a year on loan playing every week this season, he’ll surely offer more than he did. Manning, Taylor, Bree, Suga gives us decent full back options, Wood doing okay since he’s come in anyway it’s a pretty futile discussion as we’ve mo idea who will be here and who won’t.

I’m not so sure. A lot can happen between now and then. Pretty clear THB and KWP will go from last seasons squad but can’t see anyone else being wanted. Which mean with Archer, Armstrong, BBD and Stewart (lol) that’s better attacking options than Armstrong and Adams. midfield if Charles comes back he’s by all accounts having a great season so that’s midfield stronger defence possibly weaker depending on who comes in but even with KWP and THB we still conceded a bucket load of goals, a manager with an idea how to defend might compensate for a potential downgrade. Even then though with Wood, Edwards, Manning, Bree, Taylor, Suga, dare I say it even the Cornish beckenbaur that’s a decent core of good championship defenders, plus whoever come in im going to say it’ll be par, maybe better.

One of the lads 🤣🤣

No one ever said it was easy to bounce back up, it isn’t. However Martin had one of the three best squads and biggest budget in the division so promotion isn’t the work of a genius like some on here seem to think.

I see he’s trying make it all About him on the main board as well now

Id say an average championship manager could have got that squad promoted. Martin’s records proves that assessment to be correct

Villa qualify for the champions league but have to sell to comply, Chelsea don’t but can still spend £200m this year £400m the year before and £550m the year before that. Make it make sense

Sums you up to a tee

The benefits are incredible aren’t they, as we look up at the rest of the league from The basement. The loan of Lis was an incredible success for us for example

So you agree they’re doing well out of the arrangement 👍

Our Turkish cousins seem to be be doing rather well out of this relationship don’t they. Having their best season for ages with a load of players on loan from us. Who’d have thought the multi club model was to domainate the minor leagues by owning a premier league club

We don’t buy success we breed it

Incorrect. Both were signed in the summer 2018 transfer window when Hughes was manager. Ralph was appointed in December 2018

Yep, modern players are athletes. Back in the era some are harking back too most players weren’t. They’d be on the piss most weekends and on their days off, eat like shit and many would could back to preseason a stone or two over weight. Now it’s a requirement to be fit all year round. I know of a current championship player who has run a sub 3 hour marathon, can bench 120kg and deadlift 200kg and would also be a competitive sprinter in 100 metres, not Olympic level but a decent national level. to have that level of all round fitness takes years to develop. Some shite written on here by people who probably can’t even run 5k or never touched a barbell is highly amusing. Even at non league level fitness standards are really high, my son is coached on a Wednesday by two lads in their early 20s playing northern premier league level so one below conference north. Brilliant, lovely young lads, neither of them drink, they do their club training and matches plus their own individual strength and conditioning stuff 3 times a week. even during their summer holidays they were going out for runs on the beach every morning with their mates one who plays for Burnley the other for Barrow. they say if they didn’t do it and let their standards drop they wouldn’t play even at the level they’re at. Simple as that.

Fitness and quality gets you even further. It’s possible to have both

Zips, apart from that one time in your life when you nip your cock with it

Some dopey people did because they thought we’d benefit from it somehow. However it was pretty obvious it was just a way to stop smaller clubs threatening the big ones

In a world of percentage football the man who coaches long ball is king. percentage football = the 80s version of data driven. Like i cyclical

When you say looking at as much information as possible and forming a conclusion of your own do you mean nodding along in agreement at opinion pieces in the Guardian which you relentlessly post on here as fact?

we're also in the best period of our history so double bubble for SR

we jest but football is cyclical. I wouldn't be at all surprised if sooner rather than later some genius hipster manager comes up with the idea of getting the ball forward quickly in as few passes as possible playing 4 across midfield with two pacey wingers getting in behind the inverted full backs, whipping crosses into the box to the big man then everyone follows suit. The data even tells us that the fewer touches to get to the opposition penalty area is better the more time the ball is played into the opposition penalty area the more chance you've got of scoring so your XG goes up etc

If Ivan get to the 36th game and we're on less than 12th points i'll agree with you that your boy had a shit team performing at their absolute maximum.

Yep Telfer was a bit of a poor mans James Milner, super fit, super hard working, not the sort of player the average fan likes but one of those players every team needs. Those runs were hell, Strachan used to call them character running i think a lot of players used to end up puking.