Daft Kerplunk

Selles was always facing a near-impossible task to keep us up, but he is far too defensively minded and our football is too risk-averse. And this comment after the match might be useful not to lose players but to say we have enough goals in this team is mad. "We knew it was a gigantic task when we took it on. We are performing and we are going to keep fighting for every point. We have enough goals in the side and we are going to go for it."

With a front line as penetrating as Sammy the snake

Don’t need evidence for anything religion-related, just belief.

There is logic here but Martin Semmens has had the ear of Katrina (still has a stake) for years. He managed to work his way through Gareth Rogers, Ralph Kruger to get to the top job. He was the person who found and led the sale of Kat’s first sale to Gao, then was a key person in the most recent takeover. He needs to go now, and SR may make this decision but Semmens has been the key player behind the scenes, and more recently, in front, for a good number of years. I know people at the club who would back this up, as making it up would be weird.

Has anyone seen what can only be assumed to be Martin Semmens’ salary? In the echo today 🤔

Opened this hoping you’d found a new goal scoring centre forward

Wow. 13 years. Felt like it was the beginning of something special. Followed by some magic times. Then totally fucked up by people who joined the bandwagon thinking they were the bees knees when there were actually bollocks.

Quick Tim Greenwell, better close block 2+3

Indeed, but we are behind them so it’s tougher for us. I agree that there are plenty of teams in the mix for relegation this year, but have a tough close to the season and have no indication of getting out of the mire. This year would stand alongside the great escapes, something we all had hoped were a thing of the past until not that long ago.

I like the optimism but out of the last 10 matches, you have us winning half of them. Form-wise over the season, that’s pretty much where Man Utd are and above Newcastle Utd. We’ve won 6 of 28. We have improved of late but we need European qualification form to get to 38 points. Can it be done? Maybe, but the odds aren’t in our favour.

From a footballing perspective, it is likely to be dull. From an impact on either team’s season, it will be anything but. It’s not entirely win or don’t survive but it would leave us with tougher games on paper to need to win. A draw would be good but to get out of this mess, a win is vital.

Unfortunately the good team we have on paper is 20th out of 20 teams at the moment. A good team on toilet paper.

The board has spent most money on stadium improvements in the hospitality areas, which is their comfort zone, and those ‘customers’ won’t be paying as much as the club asks for in the lower leagues. They’ll probably leave.

Anyone good enough for the Premier League will leave. Thankfully, that’s not many. Unfortunately, that’s not many either 🤣

The dream of playing P****y twice a season is closer than ever. Our club, our rivalry, our future

Nice HoJo reference 👏🏼

We’ve been to the abyss, and we want to go back again

It’s easy to forget how shit we were when we used to beat relegation. This is a good point, and it’s a point we didn’t expect. Still find it difficult to score, and that is not going to be useful in the remaining games. But successive clean sheets is a big plus.

Infectious bad ideas called cognogens readily spread in our stressed pandemic environment. One such cognogen, the Great Barrington Declaration , is causing harm. The declaration takes its name from Great Barrington, a Massachusetts resort town. This declaration, signed by 12,000 people, is sponsored by the American Institute for Economic Research, a libertarian think-tank. The declaration begins with the false premise that governments intend to lock down society, and cherry-picks facts (for example, that COVID-19 infections are mild in healthy people). A critical mind would look at who has funded this declaration, work out that libertarians are for minimal involvement of any form of government in people’s lives, and reach a conclusion that this doesn’t represent the whole picture. The funding by libertarians reduces the validity of the work, however valid some of it might be. It’s like those scientists who, for years, said smoking wasn’t bad for you. Because the research were funded by big tobacco companies. Also, a critical mind would read that this isn’t about whether covid is real or not but that the lockdowns are harmful against people who aren’t impacted that greatly. Again, a libertarian approach that suggests that the elderly and frail should just tough it out and take whatever comes their way, especially if it means the libertarians can then do what they want. Anyway, I just go as the football is on.

It may be worth you also checking your sources, their credibility etc. I would suggest that if 10s of 1,000s of scientists had been against the approach, it probably would’ve been different. Anyway, MLT. Lovely bloke in person. Legend of football. Not as well informed as he likes to think he is.

He is in Canada 🇨🇦

With no rose tinted glasses when doing the predictor, my bottom 3 stays as is. Can see us getting a few wins and some surprise results but not quite enough.

Looking at the fixtures, we’ve got 3 games against current relegation rivals, the rest against teams in the top half or comfortably mid table, plus every team going for the top 4 or European places including 3 going for the title. It’s not going to be easy, and could be a great escape up there with the best.

Obviously, our summer targets and departures will depend on the league we are in. And then what the ambition of the club is. Staying up and selling some players seems to be the extent of it at the moment. That’s success for the abject leadership we currently have.

Bad performance by a team with low confidence, good and vital 3 points. Phew.