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Probably wages, I doubt he had much of a preference over either us or Ipswich.

Yep, almost certainly renewing my ST and actually looking forward to next season. Championship is a great division and much more fun.

This is the problem. It's all very well wanting a complete overhaul but you've got to get other clubs to want to buy them at prices that don't leave us with a massive loss. I'm not averse to keeping Downes but if he's surplus then who on earth is going to pay anywhere near what we paid? Same with Archer and Armstrong (although you can argue we no longer need to recoup what we paid for Armstrong). I guess there's still a fair few we won't need to get much money for and getting them off the wage bill will be beneficial. KWP is already off but Aribo, Taylor, Stephens, Bednarek, Bree, ABK, Smallbone and Manning could all leave for fairly small amounts and not hit us in the pocket too much. Probably unrealistic to expect an almost complete overhaul but hopefully we get a pretty decent turnover.

If Rusk turns this team around then he'd be playing Ramsdale as a lone striker. That's just silly.

Fairly ambivalent about who the new manager is but I would like them to be more pragmatic than an ideologue. Someone who looks at the best players available to them and finds a way to get the best out of them, someone who looks at the opposition and figures out the best way to beat them rather than being a slave to any particular style. Long ball, short ball, possession, counter attacking - don't give a shit, just win. I actually think the more important component next season will be what the squad looks like. The manager has an impact but ultimately it'll be more about the quality of the players than the manager.

Whoever it is better be good because we've probably got them until the next time we play Spurs.

I presume Trump’s plan is to negotiate or renegotiate trade deals with blocs and countries as there’s no way keeping the tariffs as they are will work. I did listen to Will Hutton talking about the UK assisting Canada in a closer trade deal with the EU and then piggybacking on it for the UK. Trading bloc expands to Australia, New Zealand, India and other commonwealth countries. Not sure I can see that happening but would piss Trump off if it did.

Archer for me given that he cost the most money and is probably the signing that will hurt the club finances the most.

Pensions are an interesting part of all this. I’m not an expert in them but assume most Americans have defined contributions style ones and stock market fluctuations are going to negatively affect them. I’m guessing that would disproportionately impact Trump supporters too given they tend to be older, poorer and in less well paid jobs.

Poor attempt at a strawman but it's not that black and white though (which I'm sure you already know). Even your most rabid free marketeer would recognise that tariffs can be useful and should be used in certain situations. Question is the extent and application of them rather than whether tariffs are inherently "good" or "bad".

Name one person who has brought identity politics into the tariff discussion? Never happened. Dopey or what?

No, I don’t think luck plays a huge part over a 38 game season. There’s loads of reasons why we’re here and we can argue them till the cows come home but if you’re saying a large part is that we’ve been more unlucky than 19 other clubs then you’re clutching at straws.

This kind of inefficiency is exactly why they need DOGE. Musk will sort it all out once he's stopped crying about Tim Walz being mean about him.