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Need to not sit back for the second 45 or we will have a hole ripped in the second half. Armstrong has been very good...KWP been very impressive...McCarthy made some superb saves.

My word...if we don’t win this game, that goal will be celebrated for some while. KWP has been superb too it’s worth noting.

This could end up very messy. 1-4...head, 2-2 heart. I just hope that Che gets a flukey goal...he needs to get that monkey off his back and so do the club, otherwise we’ll not be getting our money back when we need to sell.

We’re playing a home game, so it matters not which players make the squad...we will lose this one and possibly quite heavily. Having said that, I would like to see Smallbone and Adams given a start.

Couldn’t pick a poor performance from any player to be fair. Think that’s our best line up. Bednarek unlucky...that type of position has happened to better CB’s, but I wonder whether McCarthy was talking to him. Ings and JWP had great stand out games. JWP looked twice the player Valery is and needs to be our no.1 RB. Smallbone is starting to look the real deal too. Why the hell can we not do that at home?

Just think where we’d be if we did the same at home as we do away. The difference is quite frankly bizarre.

Great link up play from Smallbone and Ings lethal in front of goal. Get the F in!

One swallow doesn't make a summer, although you say this guy is in drought territory!

Has Obefemi touched the ball yet FFS? He offers nothing. Seriously, I've seen nothing to suggest he's a Prem player.

Commentators already talking us down and Arse up. I do hope we take em apart.🤫

IF we’re really on it, I reckon we’ve a chance of taking points, but it will need everything to be right on the day. Wouldn’t change anything other than Long in for Obefemi if available.

Oh my word we look very, very poor. Need to get the ball under control and start playing ike we know we can. Redmond just squandered a great chance by being too damn slow in his judgement...as usual.

Much nicer interface and reading! Good job here Steve.

Still think we’ll scrape a draw... 1-1

I know nothing. Nor does the Star. Nor does any other rag. I’ve missed football and I’ll miss the wasted money spent on the ST I’ll likely not use again this season. But it all pales into insignificance when placed against the issues some are facing with CV-19, hence my somewhat cryptic post.

No, do you?

As if the current situation isn’t depressing enough, we have a rubbish owner trying sell our club off on the cheap at a time when even the least shrewd business person is unlikely to want to risk £200m on a failing enterprise that’s not generating income. In the words of an old blues song, If we didn’t have bad luck, we’d have no luck at all!

I would be surprised to see even one new player come in this summer. No money to invest, too many sub-standard players not getting a game, club in debt....it’s a recipe for relegation unless Ralph works miracles...again.

Completely agree with you GM. It could be argued that it was as much the attention to detail that got Cortese the success he/we craved as it was the money. As we know only too well, it’s easy to spend unwisely and end up in a bad place.

Are you really as pathetically boring as this in real life or do you reserve this level of tedium just for this forum? Just asking.

Not if the club is no longer in the PL which is the apparent eventual destination unless the current mess is sorted out.

This in spades.^^^

There are better players in the Championship in terms of assists and end product. And that’s saying something.

Gotta be seriously deluded to think anyone is going to fork out £250m for the club at the moment. Be lucky to find someone to pay £100m in today’s economical climate. We’re stuck with Chairman Goa for the foreseeable I think.

Unfortunately the club finds itself on borrowed time to sort out the horrendous mid-management of the previous 4 seasons. No one can say it’s under investment, because we’ve spent on players, but they’ve been significantly poor purchases and/or badly managed. Likewise, managerial appointments have been utterly dismal...only Ralph has shown signs of knowing how to get the stadium excited, but he’s been handed a sub-Prem squad. Then there’s the issue with allowing a large contingent of away supporters take over the stand that houses our most vocal of supporters...I mean you couldn’t make that one up! But the simple fact is the club must be financially on its arse to allow this to happen. Lastly, the Premiership might as well be renamed the Sky league. I am sick to the back teeth with not being able to plan my life without missing games due to re-scheduled games. I’ve missed three home games this season now or £200 roughly...and it’s getting to the point where I can not justify losing this much money. Even if I managed to go to all home games, there is little enjoyment when there’s little hope of winning a game. I may as well pay for a streaming service and watch from the comfort of home. Don't get me wrong, I love the atmosphere of a live game played by my home team, but for the reasons above this is fast being eroded to a point where I am seriously thinking of not renewing and I had to wait 30 years to get the seat I now occupy. Oh for the days of our rise from league one to the Prem...what a team we were then with Lambert leading the line. *sigh*