shurlock

While he said some positive things, I found it disappointing that he repeatedly sought refuge in averages and previous league finishes. There’s enough to suggest that recent disappointments are not just a blip from but a break in the trend. As such, looking back, as Ralph did, isn’t particularly informative about where we’re going.

Yeh but do they buy endocrine-disrupting weedkillers?

If you're incapable of admitting to mistakes after this season, you're either a psychopath or really s**t at PR.

Not like Rose has done much more.

You hounded this fella to reopen his twitter which you had assumed was real and was being used as a front on here. He promptly does so yet you're still spamming this thread with your schtick. Who's ultimately the troll pal?

Very hard to enter the mind of a jihadist. Perhaps watch a TED talk on it or something, Verbs.

It's debatable whether Pochettino had much more of a record than Pellegrino. If it's the case, it's marginal to the point of being a nonfactor.

Don't think there was a decision to compromise on quality in return for getting players who'd commit longer term. We've just recruited poorly. I genuinely believe club felt that Redmond could be a huge difference maker in the league - just that his potential had been unrealised. Likewise Carrillo was seen as an immediate solution to Austin's injury and our league position. No by shifting ambitions, Krueger meant not forcing players to say against their will.

Not how I understood it all.

We've continued to buy and sell. Just because we kept VVD for another six months doesn't change our basic modus operandi. Problem is we've largely bought crap and were reluctant to invest when that became apparent.

You can tell Blackmore sympathises with Krueger but is f**ked off with Les -and of course would rather be interviewing him.

He admits mistakes were made in a generic, boilerplate way - when forced to be specific, he gives the VVD example in the same way everything was about VVD when the s**t was hitting in the fan in January and it was blindingly obvious Pellegrino was the problem. Let's hope the club are a little more forensic and honest in their postmortem. Pinning things on VVD is the easiest trick in the book. Blaming the odd rotten apple shuts down the search for structural causes, especially when that rotten apple is now out of the club. To conflate VVD with overambition is a particularly tough pill to swallow when others might claim that it's our very lack of ambition -not overambition- that accounts for key holes in the squad (e.g. our CBs) and our failure to address them.

In other words, we kept VVD against his will.

This is nearly as bad as the crap ralph just spouted. To reduce all our failures over the past two seasons to keeping an unhappy VVD -as Ralph comes dangerously close to doing- is utterly blinkered, never mind that strategy worked in the case of Morgan, Wanyama and Mane.

"A semi championship-won feeling"

wtf is ralph waffling on about?

Been a bit quiet lately JJ. Where have those daily updates on the currency markets gone? #drinkinmoderation

niceandfriendly's been a bit quiet of late.

They're known as the mongboard mitchells - not be messed about with. I assume you know the soap Eastenders from your time in the UK? Set in an area a bit like Kayole in Nairobi or Easterhouse in Glasgow pal.

Ignore the oddballs on here. You keep doing your thing pal.

What are you on, charlie?

Would add Doucoure and N'didi to that list.

You sure about Maguire? The forum experts told us Stephens was streets ahead of him.

No more protectionist than the US and China, all things considered.

Well the evidence does show Brexit was primarily about immigration. The difference pal is that EU citizens may have concerns about immigration (which are legitimate) but they aren't willing to pull up the drawbridge and sh*t the bed for it. That is, at least, if you believe the yougov poll...