benjii

Agree with some of this, although I'm not sure why you would assume Welly isn't suspended. However, Armstrong is still our biggest goal threat so I would probably pick him as the right forward. I'd also probably pick Fellows ahead of Azaz. Fellows looks comfortable receiving the ball in deep positions and on the half-turn, and has already been doing a shift at wing back, so I don't see why he can't start in midfield. Obviously Aribo would be a good option there, or even upfront, but feck knows.... Also, Smallbone! So, my team would be: Big Mac Mads Wood Quarshie Manning ----Downes--Jander----- Armstrong-Fellows-Scienza Downs Subs: Baz, Stephens, Edwards, Sesay, Matsuki, Azaz, Fraser, nipper forward, Robinson

What's Ben Thatcher up to?

He's not Serbian, he's Maltese.

Rasmus Wankerson is director of a company in the Sports Republic group that is co-owned by a Malian guy who runs academies there. I noticed this the other day and posted it another thread.

You what?

Ad nauseam phallus, incoming.

Obviously Still isn't responsible for every error. And for every manager in history who has done a bad job you can find a reel of players making mistakes. This really isn't the point. For me, the question is, putting aside misses: - after a quarter of a season, do we look good? No. - how many matches have we dominated and been clearly the better side? Maybe 2? - how many matches have we looked comfortable and won comfortably? Zero. - are we playing entertaining football and using the expensive attacked talent we have? Not really. - is there obvious progression in line with a plan, such as you can accept a few bumps in the road as you can see the end in sight? No, not really. - is it reasonable to expect a manager with our squad to be doing far, FAR, better? Yes, definitely.

Lego Head plus whichever geniuses thought Archer and Brereton Diaz were the forwards we needed.

Update: just seen an all time classic shirt pull.

I'm watching El Classico. The skill level is fantastic, although some of the defending is ropey. Rashford and Bellingham are both having superb matches.

Other interesting thing to be aware of: Sports Republic seem to have set up a company which is co-owned by a Malian man involved in football academies in Mali. So maybe one day we will get that big brick shithouse striker or midfielder. After Goztepe, of course.

It's hard to work it out due to the number of holding companies involved and various different categories of shares. I started looking once but couldn't be arsed after about 15 minutes. But anyway, as you go up the chain, you eventually find that the only individual with over 75% control of Sports Republic Holding Limited is Dragan Solak. Ankersen and Kraft have some shares but it's a small amount, and Kat still has 20% of the football club, so the level of control over the business with the football league share that Kraft and Ankersen have is very small. Solak is apparently Maltese and lives in Switzerland.

I would agree with this if Still actually showed signs of competence or progress, but he doesn't. He looks like someone who is unsure of what he's doing and can't communicate a clear plan to the players. And the idea that we have a persistent core of bad players that need dealing with is undermined by leaving new, expensive, signings on the bench, and leaving our own youngsters out, because he's too one dimensional and clueless to form any sort of tactical plan other than hoping for an overlap and getting it in the mixer.

Would be a fantastic appointment but I very much doubt he is interested.

And he's got five kids, so who are you calling a prick?

People saying we should have signed Ollie McBurnie, a pure embarrassment of a football player.

He'll be the only one apart from Ginger Juric to be managing one of the best squads in the division.

If we muddle through this season with Still and then some other caretaker / lame ass manager, I'd certainly take him next summer. A manager who has shown that, if he does take us up, he can also cut it in the PL, if given an unspectecular but hard-working squad. If he's still doing the 4222 then that should suit Fellows and Scienza pretty well.

355 is pretty sexy.

I love him. Proper player and a bit of a stud.

Lol. He's fucking clueless and that's been obvious since the second or third match. Sports Republic are utter cunts though.

These cunts need to fuck off. 4 league wins in 50. Worst ever. Absolute cunts.

Fuck off you fat cunt.

Worst ever 50 matches.

Straight red for Welly. WTF?