Lighthouse

Disgraceful this, how has the team ended up in this state?

Forest were anything but a bad or even mediocre team. After an awful first six weeks, they got their act together and scored 79 points in 39 games. From mid September onwards they had league winning form and finished fourth, two points behind Hudderfield. By the time they playoffs cam around, they were the best team in it.

Good grief, has MLG borrowed your log in details, or do you really need to be spoon fed the exact details of every analogy? We matched Leeds pretty much exactly across the whole season (both P49 W28 D10 L11) and beat them in the one game which really mattered. There wasbasically nothing in it, if you think Leeds were better then wonderful, carry on. The point is that Saints (and Leeds and Luton) were all very good Championship teams who've made the playoffs in recent years. However it's far from impossible for a much worse team than us to win them one year and end up on the wrong end of a 10-0 and single figure points tally.

We finished three points behind Leeds but beat them three times, including the all or nothing game that really mattered. Luton finished third when they won they playoffs, so hardly in fluke territory either. I'm talking about the kind of club which was 8th on the last day but snuck into the top six on GD, for example.

We were a decent Championship team and the next best after Leicester and Ipswich. Imagine if someone like Millwall or Bristol City had won this years playoffs, they could easily finish on single figures in the PL and break all sorts of unwanted records.

I'm just glad that when the next team comes up and performs as badly or worse than we do, pundits will once again be talking about 'Derby's record' and not 'Derby and Southampton's record', or even just ours exclusively. TBH I don't think it'll be long before Derby are being talked about again. One year a pretty ordinary Championship team is going to fluke the playoffs and get absolutely walloped in the PL.

How well did he organise a defence against a team which hadn’t scored at home since Christmas?

Good, the rest of football can now shut up and forget about this sh*thouse of a season. Now we're just another crap, sub 20 points, team along with the Swindon, Huddersfield, Sheff Utd, Villa, Wolves and Sunderland efforts of years gone by.

5 now for Abbas, whilst his replacement doesn't even get in the team.

This is a very serious issue. Did you know li-ion batteries burn hot enough to melt the aluminium in a tinfoil hat?!

I wouldn't touch Danny Ings with a ten foot pole.

We’ll probably pay some design consultancy firm £246,000 to spend four months coming up with this.

For those who must. Moderating this thread is like when they shear one of those sheep which had escaped and was living feral for seven years.

I'm just amazed that on the day we had the trade deal, a new Pope, VE day, nuclear war kicking off in Kashmir and a cut in interest rates, they still managed to get this onto the BBC's main news page. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg4180np8do

Maybe Donny being Pope WAS part of the trade deal. Fair play to Starmer if he's managed to smooth that over with the Vatican.

Shut up Weston.

Can't wait to see Brevis in a Hawks shirt, he's just walloped KKR for 30 off one over. Sent every ball for a hot dog.

Off topic chat is now here

No but strikers will be wearing cowboy boots with massive spurs.

Then we’d need a new manager for next season anyway, as most people would have wanted him sacked in March.

I’ve always held true that the less I see of a relationship on social media, the healthier it’s likely to be. Kind of like how it’s never the successful friends posting the inspirational quotes.

Thank you for telling me not to 'delude myself' whilst claiming that League 2 teams would only 'possibly' do better than us. Even bottom half Championship teams would give their right arm to have a combined strike force of Armstrong, Archer, BBD and Onuachu. If we're as bad as everyone says we are, then sell our very small clan of PL quality players in summer, then we'll almost certainly finish rock bottom of the Championship next season... but we're not going to do that.

I would. I will say with near certainty that any League 2 club dropped into the Premier League would achieve single figures in terms of points, probably around half of what we have now.

You would be wrong in thinking that because it clearly isn't true.

THB maybe but I can’t see there being many willing to pay the £25m+ we’d want for him. Even Dibling is only a maybe, the way he’s played recently.