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Les deserves credit for that, but then so do lots of other people: Markus / Nicola / Paul Mitchell / Pards / Adkins. If there's one thing the past teaches us, is we need good leadership from the top & they need to appoint the right people below them.

Some good stuff here. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0653hj8

Trousers posted this during the game mid-week:

Don't trust the defence at all. Bournemouth are going to have to have a 'mare.

442 curse?!

Stoke 1-0 Burnley

I've heard that a lot - but he's done an incredible job at Spurs. Has made Levy's life an absolute doddle.

@SportingIntel: PREMIER LEAGUE health warning: Sunderland become the 22nd club to have played PL football and THEN been relegated at least twice to 3rd tier or lower afterwards. Lesson: if you get relegated from PL, chance of going 3rd tier or lower now >50%.

Lallana & Morgan both good examples of being managed well, but then also being surrounded by big personalities & experience.

That's a big game today.

I hope so. I think it would actually do his career the world of good. (Biased opinion from me of course) Please tell me we've done some groundwork in how we're going to approach it next season!

Mitrovic would be great but the morons just spent £20m on a new striker. Mitrovic is the perfect example of looking at good players who can't get into their Prem 1st XI's.

"F*CK!"

Sounds like any potential move to WHU isn't going to happen...

It's who I think will go. Not who I want to go.

Perfect. Play him at centre-back.

My post was talking in championship-tense. I sincerely admire everyone who's still thinking about Premier league football next season.

I've been saying around 16 players will go, so I'm going for: 1. FORSTER 2. CEDRIC 3. HOEDT 4. BERTRAND 5. LEMINA 6. HØJBJERG 7. ROMEU 8. PIED 9. CLASIE 10. BOUFAL 11. REDMOND 12. TADIC 13. WARD-PROWSE 14. S.DAVIS 15. GABBIADINI 16. AUSTIN Whether we trust the recruitment team and/or ownership regarding 1st team & club re-structuring is another matter altogether.

It's going to be chaos. (Les will probably have us linked with Maddison & Sessegnon though)

I always thought Daniel Bentley looked a good prospect.

Good points, well made.

I can't decide if McCarthy is really good, or just competent.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/6074040/southampton-sheffield-wednesday-kieren-westwood/

Bertrand's sale would probably act as an additional parachute payment. (or a big chunk of Gao's loan, if you want to take a cynical view).

Byrne @ Right-back looked good against us. Dack/Reid/Powell have looked good whenever I've watched them.