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His drive and determination is incredible. I just don't see any tangible benefits of getting to mars - we know there's no proper life there, and that it can't sustain proper life. If there's anything meaningful out there, it's way beyond mars.

What possessed you to post that? Old and very unpleasant news, and targeting a familiar target for you. Alas, horrendous stuff like that happens the world over, and isn't unique to our country.

An achievement, yes, but for no purpose other than a literal ego trip.

Thank you, I missed that 👍

Let's start with this: should a manager who took us to the euro final get something in the new years honours? Forget what it is, just should there be an honour?

Larios was never going to be the answer, even if he'd stayed fit. The lack of updates about his fitness is weird though. I'm not sure what's going on there.

Yes, but this is the real world with real contracts and real money. Getting rid/getting in, is not like buying on eBay.

We need to, but it's not as easy as it sounds. Would the club take losses and would players take a drop in wages?

I don't get the argument for a director of football as such. We just need decent scouts to identify decent players, someone commercially minded to get the deals done, and a manager capable of getting a tune out of the players.

Why bloat a squad of players who aren't good enough for this level with more players who aren't good enough for this level? Why add to the wage bill? Accept our fate and rebuild is the way to go imo.

Saving the money for the summer is not apathy. Accepting the reality that here's no point throwing more money at this season is perfectly sensible.

Yep. Southgate already had an OBE. If getting to the Euro's final merited an award, then he could have been awarded a CBE.

We tried the 5g on 3 and found it very patchy. On a good day it was excellent, far better than our fibre on sky, put atrocious at other times so we've stuck with fibre. My daughter has it though and uses a router from marketplace (genuine 3) and a £15 unlimited data smarty SIM and thinks it's amazing. I'd say try it and bin it in the cooling off period if it's no good for you.

Something tells me that there's a bit of history.

I'm not sure Archer will stick around but he'll do well if he does. BBD, based on what he's done for us, definitely isn't an upgrade on Adams. Charles was here last season, so him Downes, and Aribo leave us where were last season. Defence will be a downgrade on what we had last season. That said, I like Bree and think he'll do well for us, and Manning is better than people make out. With a weaker defence, I still think we'll be worse off next season than we were last.

For starters because we'll probably sell Bednarek and THB, and lose KWP, all of whom we had last season. Wood, Edwards and Taylor are a downgrade on those 3. Next seasons squad will be worse than last seasons.

I'm firmly in the camp that an average championship level manager would have got us promoted last season, and that someone decent would have got us top 2. Next season's squad won't be as good as last seasons imo, and RM wouldn't have been good enough to get that team promoted.

I'll ask again - Do you honestly think that our player fitness is not an issue? If you don't think there's an issue, presumably you can point to some stats to support your point.

Sod stats. Sod Ralph's teams. Watch us. Do you honestly think that player fitness is not an issue? Regardless, allowing players time off when they should be preparing and/or running through what went wrong and working on changes shows an appalling lack of professionalism.

Martin was hampered by Martin. As were the players.

He should have scored the 1st and 3rd imo. Their goal was preventable. Ramsdale dithered. Dibling not slipping him in was really poor judgement. Very encouraging on the whole though - not leaking like a sieve, getting forward and and creating chances is progress. Forget Derby's record low points, we may well get 20 points and beat Pompey's 19 points from 2010.

Yep. Wallace & Gromit was brilliant, although Gavin & Stacey was decent enough. The TV highlight for me. It's one of my favourite films of all time, and the only film where a man stops another man from having a shit, only to get to get the shit kicked out of him.

I suspect he'll keep himself on our payroll for a while longer yet.

Seeds

If you've ever played the game you'd know that players would rather have someone in the changing room and on the pitch with them who wants to be there. As a fan, I feel the same.