S-Clarke

We could go completely rouge and play him as an inverted full back, linking up with Stephens as front sweeper. I can't wait.

I have some bad news for you. Bree is on his way back on Monday, he's being integrated back into the squad.

He'll slide out of the door in the next few months and end up back in Germany, guaranteed. I doubt we'll hear from him again. Seems quite a wimpy type himself. He made some good picks, but generally his job is to build a squad that is balanced and fits the objective. Our squad is an absolute bloated unbalanced mess, so that's on him. 'The art of squad building becomes clear once the window is closed' - Yeah, it's become clear that you've fucked it.

Just to share this actual quote, just so it's not seen as rumour -

Don't be too confident...Oxford beat us...

He's had plenty of time to, and sadly the time is now up. He's run out of rope. He's intertwined with all of this just as much as Rasmus and co as far as I'm concerned. He put himself as our Chairman 10 months ago as he wanted to oversee things closer, and be closer to the decisions - that was his last attempt to rescue the situation. It's failed. He needs to do what he said he would do and put us up for sale, that's all I want from him now.

I don't hold that against him to be honest, at least he doesn't shy away. Where's Armstrong, where's Downes, where's Stephens? Why are they not facing the music and hearing the difficult supporter chats? It's so bad. Leo will be off in the next few months, for sure. SR will make a bit of a profit on him, probably to a top half Champ team/relegated prem team.

That's the manager SR wanted, and why we keep pivoting to these sorts. We are owned by data driven analytical morons, and of course the 'head' of the team is going to be the centre piece of their approach. Tonda was a data analyst only 4 or so years ago. I don't have a problem with Sports Science or Data Analysts, they have a part to play in modern football, but to build the entire club around that approach is just bonkers - you need footballing knowledge and experience to balance it out, in fact the footballing knowledge has the control - and leans on modern methods to refine bits and pieces. If you don't have that you're just one big corporate excel spreadsheet with loads of pretty graphs. That's not football.

He's actually said this - “I think the game changes when you have Ross on the pitch, because it gives us a different way of going forward. “I think we tried this (to be more direct) a couple of times, but we should have found him more often because towards the end of the game there are moments when we need to make sure the ball ends in the box.” So is that why you substituted our best wide player, who gets the ball into the box, when Ross was brought on? Honest to god.

And probably crucially, kept our best crosser of the ball on the pitch with him.

That is a robotic soundbite from a script. He is totally robotic. It's a chapter of the 'How to be a football manager' book he's reading. If I was him, I'd return it to amazon.

He contributed to where we are today, forget promotion - what he put together as our PL effort has damaged this club so much. However, SR are the primary reason for our nosedive trajectory because their decisions are always wrong.

It was a great through ball tbf.

But how is any of that going to happen without SR going? They're done. They're finished. There is no way back for them here, the damage they've done is irreversible at this stage and the trust is gone. They have proven time and time and time and time again - they cannot make the right decisions. They are incapable. If I had any power I'd ensure they'd never be able to make a decision again, but sadly they will probably do so in the coming months. They need to go. It doesn't get better when they are still hanging around. Dragan needs to honour his words and fall on his sword within the next few months.

Oh for sure, I was just picking out Downes and Manning in particular because of their amazing efforts today. But you're right, I'd keep maybe 5 or 6 players and bin the rest. There's a horrible group here.

At this stage, who really cares anymore. The players clearly don't give a shit.

We had a much better team then though. Bednarek, Stu Armstrong, Che Adams, David Brooks, Kyle Walker Peters, Sulemana, Charly, and a Downes who cared because his boyfriend was with us. I said it in the summer and was put down so many times - but our squad this season cannot hold a torch to the lot from 23-24, and it wasn't full of world-beaters - but they're still leagues above what we have today. The damage Martin did to us in the PL was extraordinary and that won't ever be forgotten.

I've never rated Wellington myself, I think he's been another shite pickup by our esteemed scouts. I remember the fans at Sao Paulo pulling him apart before he left them. We love picking up everyone else's crap.

Goztepe are clearly the top club in their pyramid. We've been used to support Goztepe. Rasmus even came out and said they're the main club of the group when they assumed ownership. That wasn't a joke.

At this stage, I'd keep Jander, Leo, Fellows...I'm struggling?...Charles, Quarshie maybe ummm....Azaz and Robinson? I'm stretching a bit there though. But that's as far as I'd go. New GK, entirely new defence, new full backs, new midfield, new strikers. And new owners. All of that needs to happen, nothing will change otherwise. The rest can fuck off as far as I'm concerned. (I'm not including loan players, just our current perms)

Prick.

Ben Garner anyone? Or maybe a Lallana, Ben Reeves and Andrew Surman trio. The golden era is just around the corner.

Can't wait for him to leave so we can replace him with Ben Garner.

At this point it's not about managers, 4 at the back, 5 at the back, 3 at the back. It all boils down to the fact that they have absolutely no fucking idea of how to run a professional sports outfit. They have no idea. They won't learn, they double down on mistakes and refuse to take responsibility. They are hideous. Back in the summer, or slightly before, Dragan came out and said if he didn't feel as if he was helping the club he'd sell. Do it. You're not helping us, you're killing us. Put us up for sale and fuck off. Take your stupid little sports republic experiment and play down the local park.