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Redmond should have released Gabbi. Too slow.

To be fair, this is the type of game that VVD would thrive in.

Exactly.

Are we talking about the transitional or the final deal?

What is this strange jihadist obsession with heads -lynchings here, beheadings there. Odd bunch.

It’s actually 587 days but why split hairs pal.

Very pleasant from the jihadists https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/dec/15/anna-soubry-receives-messages-calling-for-her-to-be-hanged-as-a-traitor-brexit

Sad!

People still falling for that one-off clickbait city link in the Sunday People. Sad!

Headmaster's pet. Not to be crossed.

How much of that is due to expectations relative to recent history rather than some fundamental shift in the fanbase? Ball replaced the unpopular Branfoot. The situation is completely different with Pellegrino who took over after a period of sustained success. It was Tocqueville who said revolutions happen not because life is s**t but because of people’s experience of things getting better and the expectation for further improvements. That insight is as true today as it was 200+ years ago. Pellegrino is arguably not even delivering on reduced expectations. Also remember that Ball got us playing entertaining football again. Yes entertainment mattered in those days too. What for a Le Tiss-Ekelund partnership today? Pellegrino was brought in on the assumption that he was committed to playing more attractive football - yes parts of the fanbase wet the bed over it; but it is also what the club’s wise men and former pros like Le Tiss demanded.

What confused rubbish. Think you’ve been on the wrong mongboard pal if you think this place is anti-Davis. A few people have called out about recent performances which is justified -and verlaine1979 will always verlaine1979 but Davis has been a legend here for years. JWP is nothing like Benali, other than the superficial fact that they’re local. JWP’s a robot, an aloof, generic young premier league footballer who’s more interested in filming his ‘tekkers’ and what his u-21 peers like Jesse Lingard have to say than developing any affinity with the fans. The Benalis of this world have disappeared from the game. The issue is structural. Doesn’t mean our support base won’t get behind a player who’s committed. Maya has emerged as a fan favourite; Romeu has always been a favourite. It’s especially difficult in our case insofar as the rapid turnover in playing staff has made it difficult to develop much rapport with players relative to our L1 or championship days or our earlier sides. Fans are fickle shocker - love dimwits who romanticise an imaginary past, perhaps because they were never there to begin with. You mention Forster but it was only a few years ago that our ‘old school’ fanbase was slaughtering Kelvin Davis during matches in far harsher tones that Forster has ever experienced. One might argue our old fanbase was much more passionate in both airing support and dissatisfaction than the deadeyed, genteel new age crowd; but then that wouldn’t fit your confused little narrative, would it pal. Social media has simply shone light on a fickleness that has always been present. Fans have always got on players back. Fans slated players who were fully committed like Dowie. Had mongboards existed back in the day, some would have been asking whether MLT is too inconsistent or after the 1998 WC whether he had lost it. Social media thrives on the narcissism of small differences and the need for controversy to sustain itself 24/7. It is the ultimate triumph of form over substance. Some see this and can discount the bluff, pantomime and noise; others seem to struggle and take it much more seriously. Don’t worry little fella the world isn’t coming to an end.

Last time I checked we did better than Wham and Swansea last season -both in the league and the cups, so not sure what your point is. My point is that Puel was dealt a bad hand relative to our other recent managers. Leicester went more and more negative and direct under Shakespeare - call it what you will, though my Leicester mates called hoofball, Puel's style is far more foreign to Leicester than it should have been for us. Fair point about Shakespeare's early success - it might go tits up for Puel, so its a bit premature to crown him just yet. Liverpool, Man U, PSG - nice strawman, no Saints manager, however successful, has walked or likely to walk straight into a top job.

Utter nonsense. Leicester have been playing hoofball for the last season and a half. On paper Puel is a terrible fit for them; though they seem to have bought into what he's trying to do and seem liberated by a manager who wants to play football. By contrast, we were always better suited to his system - we have more technical players and indeed proved that 'fit' on many occasions, especially away from home. A number of factors outside his control -injuries, fixture congestions, limited striking options, player unrest and ownership uncertainty- made his job more difficult. His unrepentant pragmatism may not have made for the greatest or most enjoyable football as pure entertainment. I know I went to Prague etc. But as time has gone, people are realising just how much those circumstances tied his hands, not least as MoPe has been dealt a far kinder hand than Puel ever was.

Hoedt's probably the most obvious, even if he's a relatively peripheral figure.

Was it Charles Kindleberger or Robert Shiller who said that when your next door neighbour or the taxi driver starts talking up an investment, you know you’re in mania territory?

#onetrackmind

Sounds like you want to get feet wet but using your own procrastination and hesitation as reasons not to do anything, concluding that the longer you leave things, the greater the likelihood that you've missed the boat. Yet you're still tempted.

When you're in a hole, Jihadi John, stop digging. And dear god, don't start drinking in the morning, pal. Having now realised in your yokel 'ampshire haze that your little diagram doesn't support the point you want to make, you've now changed tack. But do explain how an article on Germany and Syrian and Libyan refugees escaping war has anything to do with EU freedom of movement or constraints on UK domestic policy? Sounds like you're trying to rekindle Farage's breaking point poster that even kippers disowned as morally indefensible. If that's not enough, you're also making the terror link - an association that provided much of the rationale for Trump's notorious travel ban (never mind much of the terrorism on your little diagram was homegrown).

Thought they could have easily added to their goal after halftime - even their CB was getting forward and making Forster work. Maya’s goal changed things and we were well on top for a spell which coincided with Austin’s chance. But it wasn’t a long spell as their fourth killed off the game.

This poll (the latest available one we have) was certainly more finely balanced than the current Pellegrino poll.

John Misselbrook again showing what a washed up, incoherent mess he is. thickforever not far behind

Agree.

They're knocking it around and taking the p*ss.