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I don't get the argument for a director of football as such. We just need decent scouts to identify decent players, someone commercially minded to get the deals done, and a manager capable of getting a tune out of the players.

Why bloat a squad of players who aren't good enough for this level with more players who aren't good enough for this level? Why add to the wage bill? Accept our fate and rebuild is the way to go imo.

Saving the money for the summer is not apathy. Accepting the reality that here's no point throwing more money at this season is perfectly sensible.

Yep. Southgate already had an OBE. If getting to the Euro's final merited an award, then he could have been awarded a CBE.

We tried the 5g on 3 and found it very patchy. On a good day it was excellent, far better than our fibre on sky, put atrocious at other times so we've stuck with fibre. My daughter has it though and uses a router from marketplace (genuine 3) and a £15 unlimited data smarty SIM and thinks it's amazing. I'd say try it and bin it in the cooling off period if it's no good for you.

Something tells me that there's a bit of history.

I'm not sure Archer will stick around but he'll do well if he does. BBD, based on what he's done for us, definitely isn't an upgrade on Adams. Charles was here last season, so him Downes, and Aribo leave us where were last season. Defence will be a downgrade on what we had last season. That said, I like Bree and think he'll do well for us, and Manning is better than people make out. With a weaker defence, I still think we'll be worse off next season than we were last.

For starters because we'll probably sell Bednarek and THB, and lose KWP, all of whom we had last season. Wood, Edwards and Taylor are a downgrade on those 3. Next seasons squad will be worse than last seasons.

I'm firmly in the camp that an average championship level manager would have got us promoted last season, and that someone decent would have got us top 2. Next season's squad won't be as good as last seasons imo, and RM wouldn't have been good enough to get that team promoted.

I'll ask again - Do you honestly think that our player fitness is not an issue? If you don't think there's an issue, presumably you can point to some stats to support your point.

Sod stats. Sod Ralph's teams. Watch us. Do you honestly think that player fitness is not an issue? Regardless, allowing players time off when they should be preparing and/or running through what went wrong and working on changes shows an appalling lack of professionalism.

Martin was hampered by Martin. As were the players.

He should have scored the 1st and 3rd imo. Their goal was preventable. Ramsdale dithered. Dibling not slipping him in was really poor judgement. Very encouraging on the whole though - not leaking like a sieve, getting forward and and creating chances is progress. Forget Derby's record low points, we may well get 20 points and beat Pompey's 19 points from 2010.

Yep. Wallace & Gromit was brilliant, although Gavin & Stacey was decent enough. The TV highlight for me. It's one of my favourite films of all time, and the only film where a man stops another man from having a shit, only to get to get the shit kicked out of him.

I suspect he'll keep himself on our payroll for a while longer yet.

Seeds

If you've ever played the game you'd know that players would rather have someone in the changing room and on the pitch with them who wants to be there. As a fan, I feel the same.

He isn't. Talk of playing a player who hasn't trained is pointless. He's no closer to the team than Stewart.

Division

2 different issues. Delap, for me, did not look like the answer based on last seasons performances. Archer looked a better option for me. Regardless, RM wouldn't have got a tune out of Delap anyway.

Blimey, that's awful. Sadly nutters will do nutty things, so warnings must be heeded by authorities.

Yep. He couldn't and didn't give the players any self belief. I heard recently how Lallana spoke up in the dressing room earlier in the season and told the players that there was as much talent in there as Brighton had, and that they had to believe in themselve and give a bit more. The tactics asked of them set them up to fail though, but the performances today and against Liverpool, will help massively in that respect. As Duck says, the fact that the under 21 manager has done more in a week than RM did all season says it all.

Seems that there were plenty of warnings about him. Very sad case. Lots of people critically injured too with life changing injuries.

Some information as to the fella's motive. Magdeburg prosecutor, Horst Nopens, said on Saturday that one possible factor could be what he called the suspect’s frustration with Germany’s handling of Saudi refugees. The suspected attacker had made online death threats against German citizens and had a history of quarrelling with state authorities, leading German media to question whether the government could have done more to prevent the attack. News magazine Der Spiegel, quoting security sources, said the Saudi secret service had warned Germany’s spy agency BND a year ago about a tweet in which Taleb threatened Germany would pay a “price” for its treatment of Saudi refugees. And in August he wrote on social media: “Is there a path to justice in Germany without blowing up a German embassy or randomly slaughtering German citizens?… If anyone knows it, please let me know.”

Yep. Assuming we can keep hold of THB, they'd make a decent CB pairing in the championship.