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He is utterly pointless as a coach

I thought the same. I heard it and I was like “fat lot of good that did us when other teams were 96% depleted”.

Boasting about how we have 96% of the squad available for selection isn’t a great look when we’ve got 7 points and 1 win in 9 games. Especially as we’ve dropped so many points to sides with half their first team sidelined. He bores me to death

So all season we were told it was injury related. One solo source recently said he’d be fine all season - two sides here, 1) it’s complete bollocks and he has been injured, and 2) it’s true. If it’s complete bollocks then it says it all about the one source that suggested it. If it’s two, then why would the club hide this? Is he frozen out because he didn’t want to be here? Is he frozen out because there are appearance fees/clauses if he was played more? Have the head coaches been told not to play him? Does he want out? Is he a trouble maker? Has he got an attitude problem? If it’s the last couple of example, why would you want a rotten apple near the squad? Also if you’re looking to move someone on would you want to advertise that rotten apple, makes him less appealing to prospective clubs if you want to get him off the wage bill. His Saints career is done, he’s clearly not in the plans so the best thing to do is for both parties to move on now, but it’s worth bearing in mind some of the questions above.

Don’t necessarily disagree about the quality of the journalism but just on Edozie, they have absolutely asked about it previously. You could argue more could be done but I think it’s quite clear the club and Edozie both don’t want it out there especially whilst trying to sell him. I suspect finding out is probably quite easy but reporting it against either sides will is probably the challenge. I also don’t think the answer is going to be much more juicy than ‘he doesn’t want to play because he nearly left last summer and neither the club or him want him injured’

I think the bits that some always seem to forget is that players in their latter years if they have family are unlikely to relocate on the long term. For example, Lascelles of Newcastle, as decent as he would be is not going to move six hours south away from his family at this point in his career.

Maybe for FedEx because he does not deliver on Saturdays or Sundays.

Uncomfortable

If Boro or Wrexham or anyone for that matter offer us £15m for Armstrong we’d be mad to turn it down. With that caveat we get someone of quality in by Monday. Yes, a big caveat.

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Ipswich really have a forward thinking board. Their first thought is not about developing to make money but to actually try and be successful, this is turn increases the clubs revenue stream.

I think Trump words and actions over the past few weeks may have changed that to an extent.

Lascelles would be great. Striker i dont know really, ideally what we want is a 6 foot 4, tall, mobile striker but doesn't everyone, lol.

AA just doesn't look to get in the six yard box enough. He hangs back waiting for the cut back, which works sometimes of course, but if you only have one striker, he has to be getting into the box more.

He has to work hard to get into a first eleven doing so well. 🙂

I assume you are including me in that group. I don’t really have a problem with him going so long as we are vigilant about what the Chinese do. When I was younger I was very much a left winger. I was right footed but could use my left foot and was good at crossing the ball, scored a couple of goals direct from a corner. Right footed, playing on the left wing, ahead of my time. Typing this whilst sat in a Chinese car 😃

I've watched most of his games for us and I genuinely don't know if he is any good or not. He does some good stuff and then some bad stuff all in the space of a few minutes. I see him hold the ball up well one second and then fail to hold it up when we need him to the next. I see him finish well and then see him snatch at a shot. I see him chase hard, but then see him standing around doing nothing. Everyone talks abut hm needing a partner up front. Did he have one at Preston and Boro when scoring championship goals? Strange signing in the first place and strange that we didn't sell to Leeds (unless they were offering bobbins of course).

If you could choose who are you wanting as the next party in government in a few years?

People always say that no one would sign for us at this point but personally I think that's bollocks. Yes we will lose out on some players but in the summer the likes of Derby, Watford and Milwall made some decent signings and no one would be saying they were or are miles more attractive than us. We should have the resources to bring in one or two players who will improve us as a team.

"Right Pep," says Rasmus, adjusting the pile of unsold books on his desk. "Here's the system and tactics we need from you. Once you've learned those, I'll take you down to the crèche to meet your backroom team."

They're a more attractive option than us, assuming we were interested.

Isac Lidberg.

Will be delighted with a point.

I'm with you on his movement, Stewart is way better at creating a threat from crosses and even Archer who scored a good goal just by getting ahead of the defender against Brum I think. @coalman said a lot of the stuff I wish I could've explained as well about xG - the thing that gets me, is for example with that 1st chance on Sunday - what xG doesn't and can't look at is how much better the chance would have been if he'd taken it earlier as lots have said. Or how about if someone takes a really low % shot from a bizarre angle but it deflects in off a defender? That's gonna look to the stats like he's a brilliant finisher as he beat the xG by so much but anyone who sees it knows it's bollocks. I bet the clubs who are making the data work for them like B'muff aren't using x -effing- G as their main guide.

Maybe we did, but we didn't make a player trading profit the summer before. The player trading roughly evens itself out over the course of several years, but outside of that, the club has been losing money each year (for the last three or four years) due to the expenditure exceeding income. It will be interesting to see the 2025 accounts in a few months time.