Lighthouse

RM seems to have different info from a random bloke on Twitter, seems to think it’s not long term, he’ll miss this weekend and then take it one day at a time. So hard to know who to believe…

No. He didn’t perform well, he was just marginally less crap than all the others. We were in double figures for substandard attacking players we needed to shift, he was one of them.

Which is something we’re going to have to live with in order to remain financially stable and balance the books. We still need a net five attacking players out the door in order to have a reasonable sized squad, without bringing anyone in at all. All the talk of ‘clearing out the deadwood’ which seems to crop up when a team gets relegated is just that; talk. In reality these players will be no easier to shift than the likes of Boufal, Carrillo and Clasie were in the PL.

RIP Parky. I remember Peter Kay telling him about a German salesman singing Candle in the Wind, in an American karaoke bar once. Had me in absolute stitches.

If you’re being objective, you have to look at the level of football she has actually managed and she hasn’t put out nor come up against any team which would survive in the men’s football league. It may be a step down in terms of money and publicity but in terms of the standard of football being played it’s a big step up. Total conjecture. Like them or not, Jones and MoPe in particular have both achieved success at a far higher standard of football than Weigman.

A WSL team almost certainly wouldn’t beat an Isthmian League team, SW wouldn’t have to go and do a decent job there and then in L1/2 before anyone in the Championship would even consider appointing her. All these ‘culture war’ and ‘ gammon’ comments are a bit rich when people can’t seem to just watch and enjoy women’s football, without having a snipe at the men’s game and those who watch it.

36/7 now, we’re going to absolutely bukake our NRR in the table with this.

First half of our innings (well, 25.2 to be exact) - 108/4 Second half - 203/2 Vikings 6/3 in reply.

Perhaps he ran out of bog roll and is busy ripping pages out of the Machine Mart catalogue.

If you scream enough at the defender responsible, the referee will disallow the goal. True story.

It’s probably three or four out before we see someone coming in, looking at the squad we’ve still got.

He’s just having difficulty finding his teammates.

It’s official: Turner for England.

Christ, grow up. It’s one thing to not rate Baz, fine nobody is asking you to worship him, but some people are acting like giant babies. He was top notch in League 1 for Pompey, the Premier League was a step up too far last season, now he’s having a crack somewhere in the middle. We were a point off winning the league last time with Kelvin, who was a hopeless PL keeper. Burnley just won the league with Muric, a young keeper whose only previous experience in England was being hopeless at Forest on loan. RM and JW have clearly backed him so you’re going to have to live with it I’m afraid.

Er… That would have been (I assume) Pele or Viafara, three years before Guly even signed for us.

Why does that responsibility fall on Baz and not Stephens or Bednarek, two experienced pros who actually play in said defence? I’d get it if misplaced back passes and bad coordination were putting us under pressure from needless free kicks and corners but blaming Baz for experienced CBs leaving strikers completely unmarked is one heck of a stretch. A decade ago the likes of Fonte, Lovren, Toby and Virgil were making Forster look top class when he quite obviously isn’t. Good defenders should be capable of organising themselves, with reference to the keeper, not being continually spoon fed the basics on who to mark.

I never said I wouldn't welcome the posibility of some competition, I'd be delighted to see McCarthy out the door and someone more competent brought in. There appears to be a semi-plausible chance of that happening, with the Everton and Palace rumours. I have genuinely no idea where you get this idea from that he gets a free pass. He lost his place to McCarthy for the final six games of last season and the latter promptly conceded 17 goals.

It’s so weird how the manager hasn’t come out in the press saying how sh*t he is, after being responsible for a total of zero goals so far this season.

Excellent bowling performance to defend that but it doesn’t cover up our batting deficiencies. The last two games we’ve been 153/1 and 130/0 and failed to reach 300 and 250 respectively. This squad is definitely a couple of batters light. Brown looking especially poor with 21 in his last 3 games.

There’s no way Chelsea would release a photo like that before he signed and TBH it’s pretty cheap and unprofessional for someone like Romano to use it in a tweet.

It can be a bit breezy from time to time in Riyadh, I imagine it would flutter a few steps away before he could stick his hoof on it. Why, if some sheikh wants to chuck his money at a footballer instead of another gold plated 20 bedroom palace, I don’t particularly see the problem. It’s not harming anyone.

If he dropped €10 on the street, it literally wouldn’t be worth his time picking it up. Insane.

Does this guy actually know stuff or is he just another random Twitter account people have decided must be gospel?

That team was three years in the making though, it wasn’t just thrown together in one summer. The best players - Lambert, Lallana, Fonte, Morgan, Hammond, Fraser, Butters, Kelvin - had all been there since the first L1 season and been promoted with the same manager and a winning mentality. Guly, Harding and Puncheon were all in and around the squad too. We literally took the best team in L1 and added Cork, Jos, Fox and De Ridder, with Lee and Sharp in January. This is entirely different kettle of fish, we have a massive squad of perennial losers, most of which we need to offload from the wage bill.

A bit different when you're one of the greatest players in the history of Italian football, have won everything domestically five times over, as well as the CL and WC. He was 32 then and had nothing else to prove.