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I assume the club PR machine are posting all these things and celebrating with a large dose of irony aren't they? Surely?

Sorry but if you cannot see that Stephens is a big part of the problem I cant help you. Even in your detailed defence you say "He's OK in the Championship" Mate, he's no effin difference in the Championship, all the things he does badly in Premier League he does badly in The Championship. Ok he gets away with it a bit more often but thats not the point. We need to rebuild, the last 2 seasons have shipped far too many goals, with or without Stephens in both leagues. Whoever comes in needs to completely overhaul the defence. KWP, THB & probably Bednarek will be gone anyway. Time for Stephens, Bree and Manning (unless you revert him to his original left sided midfielder position) to go as well. Yesterday was the first time this season any of this lot actually threw themselves in front of a shot, played tightly and compactly as if their lives depended on it. One swallow does not make a summer, esp when you celebrate moving onto the magical 12 points!

Aah ok, thanks very much.

Good to see Pep shut him down straight away saying he didn’t agree. Fair play for that.

Excuse my ignorance but why did Hampshire let him go……or didn’t he want to stay?

Thank fuck I decided to give it a miss again today, had I been walking to the ground when that team was announced I’d be half way home by now !

There’s his effort at humour falling flat 🤣

His sarcastic comment about stopping the game really fkin annoyed me. Still we have gone from conceding 3 big chances a game to 1.5 so that’s great news……oh wait, no, how can it be - WE ARE STILL F’KIN LOSING EVERY WEEK !!!! The third bloody idiot in the managers chair this season!

Watford just completed their annual summer sacking of their manager.

That was superb, agree.

I’d sooner have Rosie Ramsey !!

There are some gloriously weird theories of what might happen knocking around on here. FFS get a grip, "bring Hendo home", Gerrard and Lallana Drean team, Rooney, Lampard (who just might get Coventry promoted), Ralph, Ralph & Rohl........the only ones not mentioned are the Redknapps with 'arry as DOF and Jamie as manager !!

Yeah, you had great recruitment and a good couple of seasons at exactly the time you needed to, just as the draw bridge was being pulled up.

To do what you do regularly - Where have I said I have picked him as captain ? I said it was my fear that he could end up as captain, thats all !!

Unfortunately that is my fear.

You say that, and while I agree to a degree it doesn't stop a team fighting for every ball, running their arses off, throwing themselves in front of every shot. Probably not the greatest example given what happened to them yesterday but Luton were just as you described when they came up, they didnt finish bottom, they didnt finish on 11 points, they didnt go out there and just wander around. I can accept not being good enough, every season 3 teams aren't good enough, but I cant accept many of the performances by highly paid "footballers"

Don’t be so pedantic all the time, you get the drift of what people mean.

Short memory old son, if you remember last season it went all to hell when he recovered from injury and RM did everything he could to shoehorn the guy into the team.

Had a bit of an issue dismantling Stoke reserves though didn’t we?

But but but last week some people were singing about Super, Super Jack! A small child held up a poster stating he was a hero, the defenders of Capt Twat insisted he cares about the club so all is well……. Glen was correct on TSP last week when he said the pattern is he’ll have a few decent games then follow up with a stinking performance. Whatever happens I honestly don’t want Stephens here next season…….then again I haven’t wanted him here for the last 6 or 7 !!!

I had honestly forgotten about this guy altogether.

Captain Twat off as well? Shame

They are just playing out the rest of the season in the hope the five at the back keep the goals out and we scrape a 1-0 win or 1-1 draw to get past this 11 point thing. To play five at the back against a team that haven’t scored at home in 9 league matches however is, to be generous, overly cautious.

I think you are stuffed to be honest. I suppose you could try Everton ticket office themsleves?

Tbh I don’t see anything wrong with what you’ve said, recruitment is a very big issue admitted but they’ve put up more money than Gao ever did and let’s face it SR aren’t that lunatic at Sheffield Wednesday to name but one.