S-Clarke

Carlos Corberan left for Valencia last year, pretty out of date from AI's point of view! The sensible appointment would be Rohl, but like others I'm surprised by the lack of mention of Cooper anywhere

Maybe not half, but I'd suggest there are a few teams littered around L1 and L2 who would have given it more of a shot than we have. The standard of the PL has been really poor this year, so it's entirely possible that lower league teams would have been able to beat some prem sides, and over a course of a season 3 wins and a couple of draws for any competitive professional outfit should be achievable.

That time has been and gone. I was a big fan of Ralph and always will be, his departure was handled horrifically by the fools in charge of the club, but we shouldn't go back. Both sides have moved on now.

It's certainly the sort of left-field/clever/thinking outside the box appointment that SR like to make. I don't have anything against Ramsey and he may well end up a good manager, but in the here and now we need someone who has managed before and knows how to handle a pressure situation with lots of moving parts. This summer is not the time to be clever.

From what I've gauged form Rusks teams, is that he's trying to minimise the involvement of players who won't be part of the club next season, likely already moves lined up (or loan expiring). We've had to pick Fernandes/Ramsdale and co because we need some quality, but you don't see the likes of ABK, Aribo, Gronebak, Suguwara, Taylor etc because they have no future here.

They've made a right mess of almost everything they've touched, not out of bad intentions, but just because the people they put in charge don't have a clue. Lots of businessmen trying fancy fluffy roles, like you say, trying to be ultra-clever and do things in a unique way with people who understand business - but have no idea about football. There's a lot of a lot riding on the appointment of Spors, they have no rope left and it simply has to work or they need to go and leave our clubs alone before they kill us terminally.

And unsurprisingly that combo resulted in a calamitous avoidable error which resulted in us losing 1-0 on the day, yet still we cracked on.

Imagine being so bad at your job that you still take home 60k per week. It's ok for some.

Absolutley, he screwed us over. It goes back to benji's point, he's spot on about how lesser teams compete at the top level - and trying to keep the ball is not how you compete when you have lesser players. Most fans saw it last season, we certainly all saw it at the start of this season, but stubborn Martin continued to preside over the approach and hung these players out to dry really. None of them are good enough for sure, but then asking them to focus on keeping the ball on top of that is just setting up for humiliation. Only a nut job owner gives him another job.

I do have certain emotions this season that I've not associated with this club before, definitely. Even when we went into admin and were being relegated from the Champ, I still felt some pride and hope and I enjoyed supporting this club. There's nothing enjoyable about it anymore. I pretty much hate the entire first team squad. The club is the laughing stock of the country, they've humiliated the fan base and the city and it will never be lived down. I've never felt so disconnected from the club as I do today. I don't know what the future holds and quite frankly I'm quite apprehensive about what that may be.

He's only being truthful to be honest, there weren't any other positives. He isn't going to do himself favours by making up crap to try and fluff up the mood. Maybe Sulemana being subbed was another positive, but beyond that I've got nothing.

I reckon there will be takers for Downes, and he seems the sort who will jump ship at the whiff of trouble - he tried to do it in January. Manning/Stephens, maybe they will be hard to shift this summer, that's why I think this remould will take a good few windows to accomplish as we may well be waiting for some contracts to expire. Another season of Stephens at CB isn't going to fill the stadium though, that's for sure.

Same, when I saw some of the OS Training pics I was trying to figure out who that was - thought it might have been an academy kid, then I remembered. If Spors had any involvement with that signing, even a loose recommendation, then I'm concerned.

Yeah, they picked up the club with a few cuts and bruises which needed fixing up. But they actually ended up sticking a dagger through our heart and killing us.

Pelle got dogs abuse at the start, probably because he wasn't Lambert. I reckon our current lot would easily lose 8-0 to that team, probably even more, as we're way, way, way worse than the Sunderland team of those years.

I don't think there's anyone in football who can get a tune out of this bunch, so I don't hold any bad feelings for either Rusk or Lallana. The issues go deeper than the manager at this point.

This is going to be a busy summer. This is who can go as far as I'm concerned. I've accepted Ramsdale, THB, KWP, Aribo, Suguwara, Dibling and Fernandes will leave Bednarek - His inability to defend has ruined my Saturdays for almost a decade. Needs to go Stephens - One of the worst CB's we've ever had. Needs to go Manning - Not good enough what so ever. Needs to go Downes - Injury prone and pretty lost. Get what we can for him, he's probably still got some value there. He's lost without his mate, maybe he can buy him for Leicester when he becomes their manager. Sulemana - Just fuck the fuck off. Awful player. Stewart - Pay him off and let the poor bloke retire. Archer - Terrible footballer, need shot. Smallbone - Awful player, weak as piss. No good keeping players of his standard around, drags the rest down. Onouachu - A big lump of shit in all honestly. Get what we can for him. ABK - Waste of a wage, just pay him off at this point. Fraser - We probably got his last somewhat usable year out of him, he's now done and we need shot. Larios - The wind would injure him. He needs to leave and play at a lower to amateur level in Spain, as his body cannot deal with the rigours of professional football. With the expected departures and the above also hopefully going, it'll leave us with McCarthy, Wood, Edwards, Wellington, Charles, Armstrong, BBD, Taylor, Bree. Obviously no where near enough, so we need to be signing lots and lots - and because of the upheaval that will likely take place over a couple of transfer windows, we will not be competitive for quite some time. Step 1 - Sort out the recruitment setup, looks like we've made a start at that. Step 2 - Use the new recruitment setup to appoint the correct manager and coaching staff to take us forward Step 3 - Use the new recruitment setup, the new management and coaches to build a team. Those steps happen over a few years for me, this isn't being fixed in one summer.

In a season where every game has been a poor performance, this one tops the lot in terms of ineptness. The most unlikable bunch of professional footballer players we have ever had the displeasure of having to watch. This is a Leicester team who have been almost as bad as us, are without a good % of their better players, haven't scored at home since November- and they were absolutley light years ahead, we were not even competitive with them. Honestly if this lot are competitive in the Championship next season call be surprised. There is no way this hangover vanishes over the summer, it could take years to shake off what has happened this year. Some people will never recover, we really need to ditch 90% of who have been involved in this year to stand any chance of building a relatable and competitive team in the coming years. If we're lumbered with many hanger-on-ers then we are screwed.

Isn't that the truth. Football is a simple game which has been overcomplicated by idiots.

I'd be more than happy to see the back of Bednarek, an incredibly limited centre back who is exposed so much at this level. He got away with it in a lower league. He hasn't developed at all with us really, he's been part of some shit teams over the years and has been at the forefront of some big, big losses. It's time to clear the decks and he's one of those who I'd take what I can get for and start again with a young CB like Edwards.

El-Crappio.

Winning the league is a good achievement and all, but it needs to be put into perspective in relation to the standard of the league. It's similar to when Leicester won it, which was amazing, but the only reason they won it was because all the top clubs that year were new levels of horrific, we even finished a point off of Champions league football! This season is incredibly similar in terms of how the top sides have underperformed, probably even more so. There has simply not been a title race, one of the worst PL seasons for quality in my lifetime tbh.

The timing feels awful and I'm not entirely sure it's imminent, but stuff like this doesn't come out unless there has been some chatter/bits made known in financial circles - Jordan is certainly in those circles. It makes you wonder if Dragon has bene told exactly how much it's going to cost to fix what Ramus entirely destroyed, so much so that he knows he wouldn't be able to put up the $$$ required, thus putting us up for sale to someone who can. Let's see what happens, but it's awful timing in respect of managerial appointments/transfers. It really does feel more and more like next season is going to be purely about treading water to me.

Just in case you didn't get it -

I didn't remember him too much yesterday, but he wasn't terrible. The bar is very, very, very, very low though. I'd like to say he needs a big pre-season to get fit, but the chances of him staying fit throughout are likely slim to none. People seem to be incorrectly assuming he's a star Championship forward who tore it up for Sunderland though, but that's not really the case. His real impact came in L1 when they came up, he only played 13 (albeit fruitful) games in the Championship for them, so in my eyes he's not what I'd class as a proven Championship striker by any means. The club certainly need to go all out and buy a proper striker in the summer.