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Eating reasonably well but had a chest infection which won’t shift in the cold/very damp weather and damaged my intercostal muscle during a coughing fit. Coughing hurting every time 😢

Yet more 🌮 but this time people were murdered as a result.

This for me. We keep rebuilding around a core of players we know can't step up to the next level. Years of poor recruitment mean we don't have the senior players to build a team around. Just whatever is left after we've sold our best. Armstrong is ok in the Championship. He will bring goals but it's rare he can take a game by the scruff of the neck like Charlton. And that requires the other team to back off and give him space. We know he's no good as a lone striker yet our revolving door of managers seem need to relearn for themselves. Our formation leaves him isolated and doesn't get the best out of him. He won't get on the end of many crosses and is at his best with through balls to feet or pouncing on 2nd balls. He'll run his socks off but we don't press as a team and haven't for some time. We could say this about so much of our squad - we aren't playing to their strengths. He's taken 33 penalties and missed 8 and he's had more shots than anyone in the league. It's not just that he's not clinical for me. Many times he shoots from impossible angles when there are better options. He is supposedly a senior player but as captain he's been anonymous. My fear is we'll do what we did with Jack and renew him because he's all we've got left because we are so fucking terrible at finding strikers. Our inability to recruit in that position means we've gone from Ings to Che to Armstrong to Archer(?). This is the culture we have - sticking with what we know because that's the best we can do even though what we know has been proven not to be good enough for what we want. With a growing stable of not good enough players either on the bench or on loan offering no real competition to each other for places in an environment we aren't playing to their strengths. The argument that we can't do better or he's good enough is just a sign of our managed decline. If we're to get back to the Premier League we've got to have more ambition to that. Armstrong is a hard working pro who has been a good servant to the club but if we have aspirations to be better we can't sleepwalk into thinking the status quo will get us where we want to go.

Home win banker.

People that don't check a case in.

I've made the family avoid takeaways for the last 3 or 4 months as I "fell out" with the deliveroo/just eat drivers on more than one occasion, utter penises. Anyway, stopped in for a McDonald's (I know) with the family for the first time in that time period, absolutely destroyed my stomach. Vile. I love cooking, I do the cooking for the whole family all week, plan a weekly menu and so on. McDonald's, nope, no thank you.

This is abysmal, what a shower that party is.

Yeah... you're right. lets sell him and free up funds to make room for the next Brereton Diaz, Cam Archer, Ross Stewart, or Damion Downs. Or maybe we can spend a summer flirting with the next Gakpo only to sign the next Mara...

I heard Matt Oakley.

An emotional return for Albert Gronbaek

Best not to eat any shit then. Just avoid McDonald's.

Not sure where you're getting this from unless you're itk.

You know why I would be happy selling AA? Yes he has scored goals at this level but he's proved he can't do it at the next level. Yes, it could be a mistake losing someone who has, for a season and a half at this level, been our top scorer but I'd rather build for the future and get a team together that can compete in the Prem. Otherwise, besides treading water, there's no point being in this League. We want to get back to the Prem, but more importantly, we want to be able to compete when we get there. The likes of AA aren't part of that. As crap as SR's decisions are, we do know they have the ability to spot a deal with the likes of Scienza and Jander. More of those kinds of decisions (I'm not holding my breath) and we may just be able to build a team that can both get promoted and try and stay there.

Anyone watched What not to eat? Will put you off any shit for life

Hell

I know what SR would choose...

She’s been on the jabs hasn’t she

Turn him down or not let a decent manager manage the club how he wants - just as bad as each other IMO.

Prolific at what? Prolific ia an adjective not a noun.

Yes, I think the sensible thing with Armstrong is to sell in the summer if he wants to go. Selling now only makes sense if we are very confident of signing someone who can do at least as good a job in this window and I don't think that's the case. We can't sign another Downs type in his place or we will sail very close to relegation. In theory it should be a little easier to find an adequate replacement who can do a good job in this league in the summer.

Multi-club model masterclass

Hard to know so far as was away last week and forgot to take the tablets with me. Started back today though. Going to be difficult to know if I am getting any sharper at work though 😀

Wonder if Sports Republic and their merry go round of sacking and appointing managers ever look back at our history and realise from 1955 to 1991 that in 36 years we only had 3 managers.....Ted Bates, Laurie Mcmenemy, and Chris Nichol. Of course times change but maybe food for thought. 🤔🙄

Loads of bits of tree on the roads. Have contented myself with Notts Co v Swindon as a substitute, not a bad game at all. County dominated but Swindon scored a worldie in the first half. 1-1. Holloway getting involved with the home crowd - some things never change. EDIT 2-1 County, sub scores straight away from Jatta assist. They deserve that.