Lighthouse

I'm not going to argue the keepers because I know I'm in a minority but Stephens is perfectly adequate in the Championship, especially if he's not first choice. Any player we sign in that league is going to make mistakes, that's why they're in the Championship.

Sekou Mara looked superb in a handful of apps. for the U21s.

He was at some point but I can't believe we'd have offered him the same terms to be our second or third choice keeper when he signed a new deal last summer. If he is on some stupid salary then chances are we wont have any suitors anyway.

If we're only including players I realistically think might stay, personally I'd keep: Keepers: Bazunu, McC Defenders: Bree, THB, Edwards, Stephens, Wood, Welly Midfielders: Downes, Charles, Smallbone, Edozie, Dibling, Robinson Forwards: Stewart, Archer, BBD, Archer That's a solid enough base of a Championship squad, although clearly needing reinforcements in midfield and at FB.

You're on several threads every day posting about it and it's becoming tiresome. Plenty of people don't rate him and have voiced their opinion, you're the only one taking it to a multiple times a day obsession. Give it a rest.

Whatever he has brought to the dressing room this season I can live without. Watching us this season, I can't for the life of me figure out what it is he has brought to the party.

I'll say third, behind Sheff Utd and Leicester (in that order).

You've made your point a hundred times over, you need to give it a rest with this. Obsessively posting about Bazunu (deliberately spelling his name wrong is just childish) every couple of hours on multiple threads is just strange behaviour.

He's literally not a CB, he's just filled in out of necessity in a dead rubber, end of season match. Why on Earth would you want to go into next season with more square pegs in round holes? Clearly there has been something going on with him off the pitch to not be included in the matchday squad under three different managers, for a sustained period of time. Personally, I hope we offload him in summer as we've got four LBs in a massively bloated squad.

But it wasn't half and half though, it was 16 wins and 6 draws. Also, why does your perception of it change based on other teams games we had no say in? If we win our first ten games of next season, do you not know if that's good or not, without first checking that Leicester and Sheff Utd didn't win nine games?

So it’s going to be Still then

Not since the breakup of the Soviet Union.

I cannot for the life of me remember a Beattie header crossing the line in that final. You’re not talking about the one with Ashley Cole on the far post?

Christ, you’ve got to feel sorry for the poor lad there, getting sent back to Man United instead of prison.

Nothing’s guaranteed but the last two years somebody has finished third on 90 points and not been promoted. You can be a flippin’ good team and still not go up, so I’ll take any help we can get.

I think most fans of next years promotion hopefuls will be annoyed that the Blades are still in it, they’ve proven themselves to be comfortably better than Sunderland throughout all but the last 45 minutes of this season.

Well… that’s f**king annoying.

Nope, you’ve made that up. He was talked about a lot as he was widely tipped as the favourite and we apparently made an approach in winter.

Sekou Mara has never looked good in any League at any point in his career. He’s made over 100 senior appearances and is barely into double figures for goals.

https://www.uefa.com/nationalassociations/uefarankings/country/?year=2025 Seems fairly reasonable, I can’t say that I’d disagree. I don’t know anything really about Still’s teams but I can’t see why he wouldn’t be able to cope with Championship football. It’s not like they release a flock of emus onto the pitch if it’s 0-0 at 75 minutes, or anything else he hasn’t seen before.

Based on doing absolutely bugger all for five different managers, even with a season in the Championship when Smallbone looked competent? Give it up, he’s the most obviously useless of the lot.

United are comfortably the better team, finishing 14 points ahead of Sunderland and still with parachute money.

Young Turner kept the game alive in the final session there, Sussex were walking away with it until he came into the attack. The wicket looked very green to my eye, it was pretty breezy out there too.

That’s in between rabies and calling the mother in law a fat whore in my preferred order of ways to depart this life.

Hypo - Be honest, if this was the method slated on the assisted dying bill, you’d be supporting it.