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Lighthouse

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  1. I don’t think anyone has ever claimed that any season will be ‘easy’ but a couple of cherry picked FA Cup ties have no bearing at all on next season.
  2. A team which is not Saints, Ipswich or Leicester, such as Wolves, could hypothetically stay up on 25 points this season. In other words our dreadful team from two years ago might actually turn out to be better than all three of the promoted clubs in this years PL. HTH.
  3. What an utterly depressing time for freedom and democracy this is. If you told me five years ago that not only would Russia invade Europe but that the US president would effectively be on Putin’s side and throw the victims under the bus, I’d never have believed you. How Americans can vote that pathetic man-baby into the White House I can’t fathom.
  4. I didn't mean we would need 25 points to stay up, I mean that will be somewhere around the cutoff this year as the team in 18th may well have fewer.
  5. I said on another thread; I honestly think our points total of 25 from two years ago might be enough to stay up this year. It'll be tight but Leicester or Ipswich need 9 points from 11 games and at the moment they both look incapable of that kind of form.
  6. Remember how sh*te we were two years ago? I’m fairly sure that points total would keep a team up this year.
  7. You quite obviously wouldn’t though, would you. It would bean absolute farce with massive financial and contractual penalties incurred.
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    Gene Hackman

    Police say they’re not treating it as suspicious, so I assume that rules out him pulling a Hitler. Enemy of the State was a great film. RIP.
  9. I was going to get a ticket for this, but then I decided that doing sexual favours for sailors down Pompey dockyard for £20 was a far more dignified way to spend my Saturday.
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    Ivan Juric

    Lots of managers make planned changes on 60 minutes, when Leicester won the league you could set your watch by them bringing on Okazaki for Ulloa (or vice versa, I forget which), that doesn’t mean anything. 2 days off a week and just passing around in triangles in training is complete conjecture, I’ve nothing to say to that. You can choose to believe that Martin let his mates have half the week of and that training was just a jolly for the lads if you like, but going by what we’ve seen on the pitch you would also have to accept that Juric has come in and changed nothing. As it is I don’t think that’s the case at all, I don’t think our players are unfit and it’s not something I need to blame on either manager this season. Our players are quite simply outclassed, low moral and chasing around far superior players. I think some people underestimate the psychology of everything going to sh*t and being in a situation which you know is hopeless.
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    Ivan Juric

    Pre-season training is just training without the competitive games in between. It’s nothing magical that can’t be replicated mid-season, it’s just training with some friendlies against Grasshopper and Sociedad mixed in. If anything the intensity of playing competitive matches should help players get in shape.
  12. Nigel had a fantastic 2.5 years here but that time has passed and I wouldn’t go back. Put it this way, if he hadn’t managed us 12 years ago and his CV dropped on your desk this morning, would you hire him based on what he’s done since?
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    Ivan Juric

    I don’t think we’ve really looked unfit as such under either manager this season. The problem has been that we’ve been so obviously outclassed by better players that we end up chasing shadows. We don’t play well, we go behind, heads drop and it gives the appearances of lethargy and that players are unfit and/or not trying.
  14. The Man United game was, for the most part, not that bad. Having a massive injury crisis and an absolute idiot sent off after 80 seconds was always setting us up for a hiding but the ref turned it from a 5/6-0 into a 9-0. You also have to laugh at Bednarek getting the worst ever score in the history of FPL.
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    Ivan Juric

    Ah fair point, the article I found must have been a year or two old.
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    Ivan Juric

    29 conceded in 10 games, which extrapolated over a 38 game season would be 110. The current worst in Premier League history is Swindon with 91.
  17. I think it’s one of Musk’s kids.
  18. The top three worst defences in PL history are Swindon - 93/94 - 91 goals* Derby - 07/08 - 89 Fulham - 13/14 - 85 Our defence under Juric, extrapolated over a 38 game season, would concede 114. *They actually conceded 100 goals but that was in a 42 game season. Adjusted to 38 games in line with everyone else they would concede 91
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    Ivan Juric

    A more accurate WWI analogy would be General Juric marching his troops across no man’s land dressed as Egyptian pharaohs, because the enemy sentries will be on the look out for people in army uniforms.
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    Ivan Juric

    I think some of you misunderstand, Ivan Juric transcends football. Think of this experience as a sort of ironic kitsch, you don’t have to ‘get it’ as such, just appreciate it for what it is.
  21. The way England bat, probably.
  22. Goals scored by Beattie, Pahars and Marsden, what I wouldn’t give to have them in the team. I don’t mean 20 years ago in their prime, I mean I’d literally have them in the f**king team tonight.
  23. We’re going to need someone who makes Bonnie Blue look like Ann Widdecombe.
  24. To win this we’re going to need a nun so slutty that even Richard Dawkins thinks she needs Jesus.
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