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I had exactly the same concerns. The players had yesterday off and with a game tomorrow under a new coach I'd have expected them to have met up and trained this morning. I guess they know what they're doing 🙂

This is known as hitting the nail on the head.

That's a big plus as far as I'm concerned.

As Trousers said the leading horse is probably Minella Trump.

We live in hope.

if it is Rohl I wonder if we'll recall Shea Charles in January. He must be an improvement on our other defensive midfielders.

Has Ankersen gone yet?

He's been appointed and fired at many clubs, like a lot of managers I guess. No surprise to see Wolves opt for a Portuguese coach.

He had little or no part in Brentford's rise under Thomas Frank because the brains doing all the heavy lifting belonged to Phil Giles. Ankersen is happy to let people believe he played a major role but he is just basking in reflected glory which should surprise nobody given how poorly he has done for our football club. He's part of our problem not the solution.

Listen, if Rusk gets to the end of the season and keeps us up he will have proved beyond all doubt he has something about him and that will not suddenly vanish so he'll fully deserve a longer contract. The reality is this scenario is unlikely to happen but wouldn't it be fantastic if it did.

Oh I'm pretty sure he still has his finger in our particular pie.

Been asking myself this for ages 🙂

Just having some banter, nothing serious 🙂

Any comment Lighthouse? Or can some actually throw the 'hate' word around and you don't comment whereas others like me just offer critic and get accused of hating. It's double standards and you know it. 🙂

Ah, so it's 2 tier Lighthouse then - one rule for some and another rule for others 🙂

Lighthouse will be along shortly. If not I'd like to know why he is happy to accuse me of hating RM despite the fact I've never said it.

Presumably RM wouldn't have been actually told he was gone until the end of the game.

Well, if it was getting results why not.....

I think the way Lallana organises and advises team mates when playing shows a keen understanding of the game plus he's played under some very good managers so he's not someone I'd say is not the managerial type or lacks knowledge. I'm not convinced he'd have wanted the caretaker role even if offered it because it's something of a poison chalice.

The only thing I saw flagged was that he rushed forward before the order to board was given.

It's fairly normal for the main assistants to go when a manager is sacked but haven't seen anything official to confirm or deny so far.

Aren't you one of the mods on here? If so you might consider setting a better example - you could make a start by stopping accusing me of hating Russell Martin based on things swirling around in your own head and I get that you have said, if I didn't use the word hate that's fine . It might be fine for you but I don't like your original inferences. Your first paragraph is of no interest to me because I am not one of those who may or may not have bandied about the word 'hate'. If I use the word hate against someone feel free to pull me up on it - until then I'm happy for you to disagree with me but don't falsely accuse me of hating.

I can only assume he's been told he won't be involved on Wednesday so given clearance to take a few days off - maybe I'm being too charitable but can't think of another explanation.

That comes across as hatred of ABK - I'm sure it's not and certainly wouldn't accuse you of meaning it that way since clearly I don't know you.

Maybe he plays Ruskball as opposed to Russball (sorry, does that comment mean I hate RM?)