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To be fair I'd dispute the BIB. He'sdone the right thing by leaving the running of the club to Semmens & Co. Christ (or Confucious) knows what shit we'd be in now if he put no money in AND decided he wanted to be hands on and treated us as a plaything.

As a dickhead right whinger myself I have to agree with you, totally unnecessary to bring politics into a football discussion. But back on topic, there's a lot of assumptions that if he sees out his contract he'll be off next year anyway. Maybe the club are gambling that being a year older no bigger club will want him anyway* and/or we'll have been taken over by then and be able to offer him a better contract then than we can currently commit to right now. *Although Aguero at 32 (thought he was older) going to Barcelona possibly pisses on that theory

Great info thanks for taking time to post it. Stats like that always amaze me. I know selective memory plays tricks on us but back in the day it seemed the likes of Chris Nicol and Dave Watson would head away dozens of crosses every game, whilst Jimmy Case and Terry Hurlock would have made 25 tackles (some of them fair) before half time every game. Nowadays 3 per 90 minutes is good!

And not only that, every one above him except for Kane (no fee but worth fuck knows now) Vardy and Bamford cost more than him as well, some considerably more. Even this season ( poor compared to last) represented great value for money.

Interesting to see who we have modelling it in the photos this year. I'll go for JWP home, KWP away and TBA keeper.

Jees😳 And the 20/21 award for most obvious attempt at trolling goes to....

He was sub in that game, he wasn't on the pitch until 2nd half. 🤔

Thought that one was inexcusable. He had so many options available and 2 or 3 occasions when he could make the pass and he appeared to simply not be able to make a decision , and just ran into trouble. I get a feeling Klopp's insistence that he was in his plans for next season was based on the fear they weren't going to qualify for the UCL and wouldn't be able to afford to replace him. Now they have I reckon they'll be happy to get shot of him, but from what I've seen so far one of the 3 promoted sides seems more his level. Wouldn't be happy keeping him.

To be fair you've got to give him some credit he *is* watching the ball 🤣 I recall another incident in the Leeds away game, approx 25 mins gone if anyone has a recording, and still 0-0 and we had a turnover attack. He was approx where the WHU 5 is in pic above with the whole pitch forward left of him empty and a diagonal ball from our right wing went over his head. He made a token jog to "chase" it (effectively just gave it up as a throw in) only to finally break out into a too late 5 yard fast jog as a Leeds midfielder sprinted back from half way line and got the ball before it reached the touch line. That and todays offside summed up his season. Lazy easy option every time.

Covid 4th wave abandons the season and we live to fight another year.

I'd like to say that was a deliberate "error" to see if you'd spot it.....but it wasn't.

BIB Not a dig at you personally but anyone who keeps regurgitating statements like that. It's been proved in the accounts over and over again that the current owner hasn't taken a penny out of the club, and KL previously IIRC only ever took a reasonable interst charge for money she loaned. There are owners at other clubs who have unashamedly been taking money out of their clubs, and those club's fans are understandably protesting, but thankfully we don't have that type of owner here. (Although it could be argued we make bugger all money for them to be able to take it anyway)

Maybe not the result but I think tomorrow could be the most important performance. We could still finish anywhere from 17th to 12th depending on results but for me tomorrows performance could say a lot about next season. Who is really up for proving to the boss they want to be part of it next season and who is going to treat is as a counting the days to the beach (good luck with that this year lads) dead rubber.

......Eagle, Royal Oak, Kingsland Tavern , Wig&Pen/Running Horse. I'm sure we're only missing about a dozen or so between us of long lost matchday pubs.

I like that a lot. And the shadow chevrons instead of in your face contrasting ones on the sleeve are a great touch. Gives me high hopes for our kit(s)- but I just don't like stripes.

BIB Think you're right there. Just shows how fragile a players career can be. A year ago probably a dead cert for his first major international tournament and Covid puts paid to that. A year on, and even with rose tinted SaintsSpecs on you'd be picking plenty ahead of him on current form/fitness. Similar to JayRod who looked nailed on for a World Cup place until one dodgy landing and his career was, whilst not excatly ended, but fair to say he was never the same player again.

I'm still waiting for someone to pull a muscle on his way up again and need substituting before kick off. I wonder how quickly it's continuation would get "reviewed" then.

Adams confirmed in Scotland squad for the Euros. Like to think he'll gain extra experience but they're unlikely to get more than 3 games before they're on their way home again.

Maybe he saw Redmond getting picked week after week and assumed that was what's epected of him.

Has Mike Dean (or any other ref) managed to explain his decision to give Liverpool a free kick (which started the move from which they scored) when he got in their way against WBA the other day?

I wonder if Pep still rates him as highly as he did at the time of the end of game cuddle-chat. City's for £40m or we'll take that young development prospect Foden in exchange.😂

Any likelihood of us wearing the new kit in any of the games left this season? See Chelsea have already announced they are doing that. Can't see UA would give a toss if we did and no change in sponsorship issues.

I though similar ( well, not suggesting he first heard about it there) when I read same article this morning. That new line up doesn't really have a place for him apart from odd games where the opposition may warrant us attacking via the left wing instead of the right. Could see him spending a lot of time on the bench with that formation. May explain the part of his goodbye statement.

The flaw in that plan is we improve him sufficiently to be a replacement for Ings in a years time, he'll be off to a bigger club as well a year later. And so it goes on. Untill we can prove to players that we have the ambition we had under Cortese (I know he was flashing someone else's cash but the ambition was there) to at least have a realistic try at trying to win things/qualify for Europe regularly then it's never going to end

They may bring in the same points total but they are not the same thing at all. Taking it to simplified extremes :- A)Winning your first 19 games losing the next 19 games, B)winning all your homes whilst losing all aways, and C) losing your first 19 then winning the last 19 would all give a highly respectable 57 points. I'd consider B = a half decent season, succesful but clearly something was going wrong away from home, with a bit of tweaking the away results could be improved on next season whilst maintaining home form C= Half a decent season as the disastrous first half can be written off as whatever was going wrong has been put right (and I always maintain a team that finishes a season strongly carries that on into the next season *) A= Neither. Can't consider the first half as decent if all that went well druring that period has been lost/forgotten/changed/nullified by opposition without any suitable tactical response. And unfortunately * the opposite also applies.