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But but but! He played 8 games for us in 1996!! And Brighton is on the South Coast! (or something)

It's not "my" magical 36 points. It's not a figure plucked out of the air. It's evidence based. It is more-or-less the points total that the team finishing 17th in the EPL usually needs to avoid the drop.

Baffling? To stay up we're going to (more than likely) need a minimum 36 points. That's a further 21 points. That's SEVEN wins. Over the course of a season, 7 wins in 16 games is comfortably top-8 form. We only managed 9 league wins in the whole of last season - and only 4 in this. The upturn in form required to attain the minimum 21 points we require just isn't going to happen.

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I'd like to think we have properly considered Stephen Warnock

Are you practising your American accent? Yee haw!

It was Gaston Ramirez - Lawrenson said it was "never going to happen" Shame GR was shit

Yep. I've spent a fair bit of time in Buenos Aires and follow River Plate as a second team. Even got two RP replica shirts.

Braga didn't buy Fran Navarro either

Why?

For me it's more that we still require 60% of the likely points required to stay up (based on a total of 36). 60% of the points in 40% of the season - after the run we've been on and the form we're in - just seems highly unlikely whichever manager we bring in.

Both fairly average at spin

Another crisps chat would sort that easily

We’re a laughing stock. A sad and broken club whimpering and limping itself towards the Championship

In order to stay up it feels as though we need to appoint a big enough name in order to command immediate respect from the squad but also someone who knows how to handle a relegation scrap. Those two things don’t often go hand in hand. Big name managers generally manage clubs at the right end of the table.

Knocking at least one point off because Janny B returned

Typo or clever play-on-words that I’m missing?!

Back in the day it was all about Kevin Francis. Seem to recall he was about 17 foot 3

Yep, @ally_ukhas been calling for him for ages too

And thankfully still within sniffing distance of safety. Maybe all is not lost after all

He’s definitely reliable, old Desmond Footie

Ideal transfer for them

More likely we'll get either Richard Hjumnund or Alison Hjumnund....

I'm starting to genuinely wonder whether Sport Republic realise that relegation is a thing

Hope so. I camembert all this endless waiting for a new signing for much longer