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Even if you take Hillsborough out of the equation there are still sufficient grounds capable of hosting FA Cup semifinals. Initial thoughts on options: Emirates and Spurs in London (plus West Ham perhaps), Old Trafford, Etihad, Everton as of next season, Stadium of Light (but might question the location), and Millenium Stadium.

But as shown this season you’d have the good sense to get rid. Your mistake was the replacement.

1. No 2.Ridiculous, but who knows on Planet Rasmus (if he’s still involved) 3. Get our own appointment right, and no need to give a shit where RM ends up.

I’ve no idea what the agreement was or how the mechanics of this work, but as he’s our player contracted to SFC don’t we continue to pay him, and Sheff Weds either pay us their contribution on agreed wages, or just pay him that element? If the latter then Saints still pay the balance.

Is it just due to the beard or something else ?

Remember that match. Even after that though no one saw relegation around the corner, most thought we were mid table. Think we signed Osgood about a month after the Wrexham match as well.

Was their Player of the Season.

How many tickets do we get for Luton ? Horrible place from my visit in the 80’s so was hoping for them and Derby to go down. Hull was a decent away day last time. I’m hoping they stay up, although have my doubts they’ll achieve it. Coming up, shame about Wrexham, and all the bollocks that surround them. Am hoping for Wycombe, but it appears they’ve blown it. Charlton (nice work Nathan), or Orient are the possible of course. Perhaps we can secure a third promotion to the top flight at Brisbane Road (or whatever they call it now).

Wagner and this prick mentioned in the last couple of days. Can only hope that this is pure media speculation. I’d have hoped Spors was considering this since he arrived. Surely to Christ the search didn’t begin after the Spurs defeat, without a shortlist already in place.

His name has featured on previous occasions and I thought he’d be a good option in the past. Doubt he’d be persuaded to join in the Championship and will have better offers.

Matter of opinions and perceptions, but I'd be surprised if an EPL team took a risk on him. If Leeds get rid of Farke, again I'd expect them to go for a name, or at least an experienced manager with a track record behind him.

I fully believe that the last minute goal at West Ham was a turning point in our season, and with Rusk at the helm, ably assisted by Nivea we wil now start our climb up the table. Foam hands at the ready, can't wait for tomorrow.

A good read, thanks for posting it, glad you enjoyed the day. My late father was an 'Old Salt' (as he described himself) and never lost the fascination. There are many things more important than watching 22 prima donnas kicking a ball around.

If we get our own appointment right we've no need to worry where Martin ends up. Now what part of that represents a challenge and possible flaw in my thinking ?

he's unbeaten in one, and has a 100% record in that time. Interpretation on statistics can be misleading. Someone tell Rasmus.

Critical issue with us in our decline over last few years. It certainly buggered Ralph’s time with us 2022, and have some sympathy for Martin with this background ( although still blame him on tactics, and selections).

No idea if any of this is the case, but by saying our CEO fucked it up, do you mean by not paying the amounts asked, specifically O’Reilly ? No idea on Delap but wasn’t that reported as due to wages ? Clearly Delap wasn’t happy with our offer.

Where might he seriously expect to end up ? Leicester might be a better option if offered to him, or a back room or lower ranking team in the Man City group.

Very impressive switching between two languages fluently. But there does seem a bit of a comic Harry Enfield caricature in there going from what sounds fluent French to a Danny Dyer/Michael Caine “ three fucking points on Sunday …” (Just remembered Julio Geordio was the character years ago).

Reassuring that they’re on the same sort of Clusterfuck spectrum as us.

Yes, but he doesn’t seem like a manager who’d fit the Spors job description.

Didn’t Ralph say he wanted to retire at the end of his last contract with us ? Which might be the end of this (or last) season. From that I’m not sure he’d have the appetite for another two years with us.

Agree with most of what you say. But he isn’t quite the success for our Recruitment team you and they may now claim. My recollection is that he was third choice RB or RWB that year after Maehle and then some bloke Zeefuik (or similar) with bids reported but rejected. Maehle would have been a good signing in my view, but Zeefuick seems to have disappeared without trace. This isn’t to detract from KWP who’s been a good signing for us, but does seem remarkable that a successful signing wasn’t the one our esteemed recruitment team had targeted.

I liked Ralph, and bear no grudge against him for how things turned out, but don’t really see him coming back or being our saviour this time round. A concern might be whether Wolfsburg see Rohl as a replacement.

Exactly. I’ve previously made the comparison with how our form nosedived after it was strongly rumoured that Ralph would be going. And if you want another example of how such things affect a club,team, and morale think back to Strachan to Leeds rumours. Perhaps pure coincidence but our form didn’t really recover. And this is without the financial shenanigans of players not being paid on time.