Lighthouse

He got one 0-0 in a game when Fulham missed a bunch of chances and Ramsdale made a couple of decent saves. He hasn’t demonstrated anything and there’s no reason to think he’d be an improvement on Juric.

Fair play, that’s a cracking effort.

Nobody wants to be relegated with ‘worst PL team ever’ on their CV, so it’s a bit odd to suggest he’s not really bothered about our fate. He’ll want to succeed and prove himself as best he can, same as any other manager we might have appointed. He’s only 49 too, so this is hardly one last, easy payday before he retires.

Yes they could. With no additions to this squad we’d be solid playoff contenders at the very least. Our players are better than 90% of those in the Championship and would win far more than they’d lose at that level. Stick half the teams in the Championship in the PL and they’d struggle to get to five points, let alone nine.

We managed to shake our losing mentality fairly quickly when we beat Swansea 3-0 a couple of months ago. The Burnley game showed that we will have to improve to be among the top teams in the Championship but you’re only ever as ‘confident’ as your last result. Start the season with a 4-0 win and this campaign will quickly be forgotten.

Forced out in the sense that Everton offered him something like the fifth highest wage packet in Europe.

He falls under the umbrella of ‘scumbag porn’. He’s no different to Katie Price or any of the d*ckheads on Love Island, Big Brother or TOWIE. They offer absolutely nothing of any benefit, talent or interest to society but people love to watch them and gossip about what absolute trash they are. I guess it releases endorphins or something, feeling like you’re much better than other people.

No place for this in football. I’d hate to think that intolerance could creep into our major tournaments, in Russia, Qatar, USA and Saudi Arabia.

That was good for a couple of months and it tends to be followed fairly swiftly by the IPL, which I think starts this weekend. If you pick a couple of teams to get behind, it’s usually a decent watch.

F1 is back and Hampshire’s cricket season kicks off in a couple of weeks.

First part - hopefully getting a good head start on our recruitment for the summer, identifying the players and managers we need to get us promoted again and hopefully make a better job of staying up. Second part - because there’s no point whatsoever in sacking him and his replacement would be a man who’s only ever managed at a National League level.

He’s achieved absolutely nothing other than undermining Ukraine’s defence of their own existence by throwing his toys out the pram and withdrawing military support

The great man has managed to negotiate Putin into promising he’ll only bomb schools and hospitals for the next month. What a shrewd dealer he really is.

Why should they?

I have sympathy for them because they’ve been thrown into a situation in which they’re hopelessly out of their depth and it can’t be good for your self-esteem to be getting embarrassed like this every week. Most of them are trying their best. They’re just crap.

I was starting to think we’d run out of ways this season could possibly get worse, but I think throwing kids to the slaughter and watching them ship double figures every game would probably do it.

Leicester’s last 7 home games 0-3 Wolves 0-2 City 0-2 Palace 0-2 Fulham 0-2 Arsenal 0-4 Brentford 0-3 United I mean… at least we’ve seen a couple of goals since Christmas.

Quite happy Newcastle won, personally. Don’t particularly like them or the PIF but at the end of the day they’re just another part of another soulless sports conglomerate. I’d rather them win the least fashionable of the big four trophies and make Liverpool’s season a bit less special. Plus everyone can now STFU about 70 years etc. In tonight’s game, Vardy on his way to another defeat, which is always nice.

At least my sh*te is consistent, so I must be getting plenty of fibre. Five games ago, everyone was saying I was ‘beyond help’ if I couldn’t see how Juric was a ‘night and day improvement on Martin’.

1-4, 0-5, 0-7, 1-8… take your pick. People got everything they wanted in games like Brentford. Tall Paul up front, a big physical presence leading the line, Les and Sully finally being given a chance in their favoured positions, Lallana coming on late with all his experience to help see out the game. What happened, we lost 0-5 to a team who had something like 2.0 points away all season. Sure Juric is trying weird stuff and it’s not getting us anywhere but he did the obvious conventional stuff when he first came in and it was no less of a disaster. Stockport County’s manager from the National League isn’t going to be an improvement.

The Bazunu thread would be three pages longer tonight if he’d conceded them, let’s put it that way.

I don’t disagree but that’s nothing to do with bringing on Stephens for Aribo in the 92nd minute and lumping him up to, which was the point I was responding to. By that point both strikers on the bench had already been brought on, so it’s not like there was a better option.

I don’t know what clauses he has in his contract and neither do you. Maybe we get to chop him for less/free in the summer if we go down but if we sack him now we have to pay off the rest of his contract, who knows. We had the whole farce of not appointing Martin until a month into the summer window because of the whole PL/Championship compensation clauses in his contract, I don’t know what we’ve agreed with Juric. One thing’s for sure, we aren’t going to save money sacking yet another manager with 9 games to go. It’s not going to make any difference on the pitch and I can’t see Rusk/Lallana being anything other than a downgrade. So in short, there’s no point.

He brought on a 6’1" player to stick up front in the 92nd minute when we were already losing, is that really that bad? What was the really obvious alternative I’m missing here? Not make a sub and just carry on with the team losing 2-1, would that really have been better?

I don’t know what the compensation clauses are in Juric’s contract and neither does anyone else on this board. Of course there’s something to lose, we could lose every game 7-0. It’s amazing how often people say, "sack the manager it literally can’t get any worse," and then the manager gets sacked and it’s literally worse. There’s little point in changing anything until summer, just let the season peter out and see what August brings.