Lighthouse

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.

I already made up my mind when I saw Mr and Mrs Smith. I’ve been trying to get Angelina on board but she’s not replying to my tweets.

Not a Scooby Doo how much involvement he had in that. Downes and Manning were both very reasonable signings at the time. Fraser was a free, albeit a useless one.

Yeah, teenagers at a music festival are basically the same as a guy who was lawfully convicted of abducting, torturing, raping and murdering multiple women. Another new low reached in this thread.

A manager didn't sign him, the club did.

From 131-4 to 133-8.

Back to back wickets, so long to another handful of BP.

Given that said manager subbed him off after an hour of our fourth game of the season and he hasn’t started a game since, you would have to assume not.

What I find odd about it is that nobody, no matter how well we recruit, will be saying we’re definitely getting promoted top two by default next season. Predictions will range from promotion all the way down to successive relegations, and everything in between, as they did two years ago. The whole ‘promoted in spite of…’ logic is only applied retrospectively.

Well, we're about to get a second chance to see just how easy it is to get promoted in spite of a manager, so I guess we'll find out.