The Kraken

And you have consistently been wrong about it. I can’t stand VAR but you simply cannot say with any accuracy that it is less precise than one human on the pitch. VAR uses multiple cameras to view and gets multiple replays. Someone who sees it up close gets one chance, and may get a limited angle. Youve got a completely skewed version on many things but this is the most bizarre of all.

Bob60 might be my favourite unhinged alt yet👍

Still getting excruciatingly wound up about the sodding CoT ffs 🤣

Could me more of a Peter Madsen.

Some google translate posts from Rennes’ mboard. Disappointingly they seem alright for a bunch of Frenchmen. 15M was with the 3M bonus and it is possible that his former club did not receive much, given his playing time and his performances. But not exactly a glowing endorsement of him. For those who find his career choice strange, joining the bottom of the Premier League still remains an opportunity to enter the big leagues and the most beautiful football championship in the world. In addition to leaving a club plunged into a deep crisis and managed haphazardly, he is also leaving a championship in economic and soon sporting bankruptcy. So okay, the Championship extends its arms to him. But in the meantime, he's in the Premier League spotlight. Surely a childhood dream for him which is coming true with the increased desire to get back on track. We are really not in a strong position to mock his career choice. How can players say to themselves that if they cannot win in Rennes, they will succeed elsewhere? It's beyond me. What a leap for the last of England! This type of player who doesn't last 6 months, that says a lot about his mentality in the event of a battle. He is on loan with OA, will the English club spend 15M on him to play in the championship? So if it turns out he's looking for playing time for 4 months, before coming back this summer to take stock, see where Stade Rennais is at, who is the coach and does he have any touches following his playing time in the Premier League which will be higher than if he had stayed here. Yeah... relaunching in a team in the doldrums (worse situation than ours) in a championship where they get stepped on every weekend and where their only ambition is to defend well so as not to lose their bags, There's no worse context for an offensive player who wants to fiddle with the ball and produce great team play. At least, it will build his character and physique. Perhaps he will come back with less qualms and more "fighting spirit", like Assignon after his loan to Burnley last season? No wonder. His record is cataclysmic. Another huge flop.

https://www.getfootballnewsfrance.com/2025/premier-league-target-albert-gronbaek-hands-in-rennes-transfer-request/ Hasn’t got going all that well, dropped and fell out with the manager so he put in a transfer request.

It’s at Bethpage this year as well, so will attract the twats from New York, basically the worst of American fans. But they’re everywhere. I still remember Medinah 2012 when on day 3 some cretin shouted ‘Fuck you Seve’ very loud on tv after a European shot (Seve had died in 2011 and the Europeans wore his logo, and the US team were especially deferential to our teams remembrance). Classless prats in the fans though. The Masters may be completely up their own arses but they run a tight ship when it comes to keeping your average loud American far away from being able to ruin things for everyone else simply by opening his massive gob.

Yes we know that Dave. The chat was originally about Fox in championship. Pretty sure literally nobody thinks Fox was good enough to keep his place in the premier league.

I just looked it up, 11 assists for Fox and 10 for Richardson just in the league. A total of 25 in all competitions . Thats like playing with two extra (really good) wingers.

Yeh Derry is getting his apples and oranges mixed up. As for Dan Fox being good or great in the championship. Subjective innit. But he played for the team with the third best defensive record in the league, and he contributed 11 assists from full back which helped put us clear top in goals scored over the season. I don’t think you’ll find anyone who would disagree that his defending was not as good as his attacking. But, in that team and for what we needed, he was absolutely spot on. Very decent memories of him in the championship, but like Hooiveld he was very quickly exposed at Prem level and promptly jettisoned.

Grønbæk only arrived in Rennes last summer after he made the €12 million move from Bødo/Glimt. However, he has struggled to find his footing in the French league having only registered two goals and an assist in 18 appearances for the club. After only six months in France, his situation has quickly unravelled. Grønbæk was one of the players who was reported to have been placed in the “loft” by the club following their exit to ESTAC Troyes in the Coupe de France. And on Friday, Jorge Sampaoli confirmed that the player had handed in a transfer request as he tries to secure his exit from Rennes. Despite his struggles, Premier League and Bundesliga clubs have been keeping an eye on the Danish midfielder.

OK. I mean, the manager alluded to it, but never mind that. So the players need some time to adjust to the extra physical output they're being asked to put in. But that's not fitness. That's.....something else.

Can’t see us scoring, can’t see us conceding less than 3 with such a non existent midfield and 3 right backs.

I always look forward to my annual call with HMRC following my tax return. This year was a complete change in tax code that got reversed when I called them up. Just so utterly random.

Such a deeply insecure man 😪

Too many to mention but big Chris was legendary. St Helens man was the briefest one but so weird. David Evans. Hi, Franny, how are you, we went to school together!! anyway, loose lips….

Bangers. The internet’s best lunatic to date, bar none.

Shades of Crouchie vs Stu Romsey Saint here.

Come out of retirement? You never went away you silly sod. Or were you too pissed to remember all those posts you’ve made since your pathetic “I’m off” speech?

I voted Labour. First time I’ve voted for them since Blair. I think the best that could be said is that they’ve had a poor start and their PR has been shambolic. I’d currently vote for them again if there was an election tomorrow as the alternative is pretty horrifying. As said, the employers NI raise was stupid. Labour did it because they campaigned on “we won’t raise your taxes”. It got them a crushing election win and painted them right into a corner. They may have lost some votes but they should’ve had the honesty to say “the Tories’ cuts are unfounded and unsustainable, we’ll reverse them and put that money into public services”. I also think the way the fuel allowance was taken away was shockingly handled (even though I think fuel allowance should be means tested in some way). Crap start from the reds no doubt. But we’re not even at half time yet, plenty of time to turn it around.

Good to see we can still do Russball when we put our minds to it.

Attendance 12,120.

Oh Bedders.

Absolute rubbish, practically equal on the possession stats. Juric out.

Some of these players won’t be playing in the championship next season. Its not hard to imagine at least 4 or 5 of this starting line up not being with us next term.