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To make matters worse they've has two attempts to rectify it, and failed with both.

Wasn't he supposed to bring them with him, or did he bring the wrong ones ?

That’s a good and interesting point. I think Burnley have exploited that route to their advantage quite well. Forest also in the year they were promoted. So much so that they had a depleted squad after everyone went back to their own clubs ( but they then replaced them all multiple times over).

Probably, but Qwerty has already called this into question: But what do fans know ? He might rate highly on the Rasmusometer

Amazing what spending twelve months in Stoke can do for your desire to be somewhere else.

I thought Palace had been quite active in the transfer market in his time there. Didn’t he have the opportunity to really rebuild the squad on arrival (bit like Koeman in 2014)?

“Plum” does seem to be an in vogue word on here recently. Are “plums” known for talking a ‘load of old pony’, or am I confusing you with someone else ?

…. Unless he is the new manager of course … Could Rasmus opt for an untried ex-player ?

‘Rumour’ from a questionable source it seems. But would seem premature to consider a coaching role for anyone without first knowing the manager. Although with our management judging on this season, we are likely to do things ‘arse about face’ . But don’t believe it.

Plus whatever the severance was for Puel, Pelligrino, and Hughes …

Agree it will be good to get rid of some of the plastics and day trippers, Trouble with the chants is that very few of the players really stand out to sing about. LI and Championship before we had the likes of Fonte, Lambert etc.

I remember reading something similar about Poch and his backroom team. In hindsight, we should have offered Erwin Koeman the job when his brother decided to walk.

Leicester like taking some of our 'star' players. Would fit in well with Vestergaard. Although the fixation with recruiting from us may have changed with Rodgers going.

Not totally convinced, but HarvSFC gives a decent write up, and makes a good case. Big question though, why would he come to us from Ipswich ? Probably similar size club, they're on a bit of an upward trajectory with some momentum behind them (as we were after L1). They've also probably got a more stable ownership, and no Rasmus to get on his tits with spreadsheets.

Duplicate post.

Interesting question. Just looked it up, we had 36 points.(Unlucky to go down, as we we the first side to go down with three relegation places) Pretty remarkable as it was still 2points for a win, although 42 games. (1973/4 , 11 wins, 14 draws). Probably 42 pts over a 38 game season. (I've done the stats for you Rasmus, it confirms what we already know, the team you've assembled is shit).

Fair point. I expect the summer more likely, and then not too soon.As much as anything because most managers/coaches will wait for the Premiership jobs to be taken before accepting us.

Shit team shirts. Admittedly we don’t have a monopoly on these, but three commendable efforts this season.

There might be a benefit of seeing the squad close up and trying to influence those you want to stay and those you don’t. The CV issue has been trotted out a few times, but at this stage it’s irrelevant to some point. It’s not an A level grade, or a Pass/Fail on an exam. Think it would be known that the coach/manager comes in for 4 games and the damage was previously done. Might be interpreted slightly differently if coming in during February with a quarter of a season to go.

Some entrepreneur should sell red and white foam hands making a ‘wanker’ gesture for the game. Would make a fortune.

It was a pretty poor response last season, also v Liverpool. Not sure they’ll have the gall to hold one this year. If they do then Rasmus should lead it so we can offer our “appreciation “ for his inspirational leadership

Couple of random thoughts: Will they announce Bazunu as Pompey Player of The Year 2022/23 pitchside before the Liverpool game? Aribo going round the pitch after the LIverpool game applauding the fans will probably be the quickest most of us have seen him move all season.

Malfunction obviously. Glad Camelot don’t use a set of balls called Ruben, it would probably only drop five.

Question I raised before, which of the directors were attending ? Semmens probably (lost family time, bless him), but what about Rasmus W. and the other Danish bloke ?

Annoying to see Shar and Botman line up against us. Shar was on our radar in 2017 but Les couldn’t complete the deal. Probably not his fault, but presumably letting Fonte go in expectation of it happening was. Botman - cost Lille less than we payed for Salisu, and they flogged him for £35m after two seasons playing for them. Our scouts clearly scoured Europe for the right one there.