Lighthouse

I was at a motorway services not too long ago and they had an ‘inclusive restroom’ which included the transgender ⚧️ , wheelchair and baby change symbols and was also written underneath in braille. I had to chuckle at the idea of its creator, who thinks they’re being tolerant and inclusive, but is actually just saying that trans, disabled, blind and babies who’ve shat themselves all get grouped together under ‘miscellaneous people’ in a special toilet.

Our tail wagged to an extent but Surrey’s second innings has basically killed it off. They’re effectively 170-1 now, time to start doing a rain dance.

All of those players were regulars when we got promoted last year, it’s a decent Championship side and like I said, that’s before we make any signings, which we obviously will if we lose the majority of players who aren’t listed above. Given that we’ve only got about four players currently who are an improvement to that team, I’m even more bemused as to why Juric, Martin and Rusk get any kind of criticism. Apparently they’ve been trying to play PL football with a bottom half Championship squad, plus four okay PL players. I’m amazed we’ve scored any points at all.

I watched a compilation video of his goals in Belgium a while ago and it struck me just how similar all of his goals were. Pretty much all of his goals were first time shots or headers on the edge of the six yard box with very poor marking. He basically never scored when he had to take a couple of touches or dribble with the ball and set himself up. A proper Bambi on ice striker.

Based on a third of a season at West Brom, where things aren’t quite going his way? He’s the same age as Niemi, he’s still got years of being a decent Championship player left in him.

It’s almost exactly the same team that got promoted but without THB and with BBD in for Adams up front. I’ve no idea why people are pretending we don’t have good Championship players and are ignoring the fact that all the teams we play next year will be worse than all the teams we’ve played this season.

Bree - Bednarek - Stephens - Manning Charles - Downes - Smallbone Armstrong - BBD - Edozie Is a perfectly ‘decent’ Championship team, even after all the expected departures and without signing anyone (I’m not going into GKs again on another thread) We’d still have McC, Archer, Edwards, Aribo and a couple of others on the bench.

You don’t get an hour into a game against a team as good as Villa without conceding unless you’re putting a decent effort in. The players are trying, they’re just hopelessly outclassed and devoid of confidence.

People using the rotary swimsuit driers in changing rooms who won’t stop until their trunks have turned into dust. A bloke in my gym this morning was going at it for a solid minute.

Given his proven track record in the Championship, it’d be a very strange stance not to at least want him in the squad next year, even if you do think we’re going to find a better striker from somewhere. What was it, 25 goal involvements last season? Unless you’re telling me we’re going to get four other attacking players, all guaranteed to get at least 30, I’d want him around.

Good f**king gravy.

Can’t be arsed having this argument. I can only assume this kind of dramatic hyperbole is cathartic to some people because there’s no way you think the same thing about Leicester and Ipswich.

Next season will be a fresh start with a new manager, new signings and - most importantly - new, much worse opponents. There’s no reason not to think we’ll be solidly in playoff contention at the very least. We had all this hysteria about dropping straight through to League 1 two years ago, nothing of the sort happened.

You do know the Championship is a lot worse than the PL? No reason at all to think we can’t be fighting for promotion next season.

I’d love it if his exemptions became increasingly more specific as the week goes on. “Fake tan… blonde hair dye… errrr…. Golf clothing and equipment …. and errr… online pornography featuring Thai ladyboys.”

It’s as if some people want to lose 12-0, on top of finishing on 10 points.

Well, a large number of people were insistent that Juric be sacked, so there we go. Six more of them to enjoy.

The fact that such a consistently crap footballer has been a stalwart in our team for about 8 years is about the most fitting avatar to this period in our history that I can think of.

We’ve gone to sh*t in the cricket too.

TBH the majority of comments I’ve seen on social media are more aimed at PSR rules and pointing out that the three promoted clubs are going straight back down in back to back seasons. Ipswich and Leicester had brighter starts and got a handful of extra points on the board but since around Christmas, we’ve all been equally awful. If we’d been promoted with literally any manager then replaced him in summer, everyone would be saying, “serves them right, ridiculous decision,” looking at our current form. I’ve no idea why you want us to look that stupid.

That’s a ludicrous thing for any club to do with any manager. We’d have been the laughing stock of English football, the players would probably have taken it very poorly and this season would have gone no better than it has in real life.

Looks like the Blades have blown it. Losing to Plymouth puts them five points behind Leeds/Burnley with a far worse GD. Four games left.

TBF he can probably hit them better/harder than any of the players Ramsdale usually trains against.

Might have something to do with being 3-0 down after 14 minutes against Spurs, playing four at the back, because our defenders are so sh*t at this level. It seems like all three managers are, perhaps rightly, setting us up primarily to not get spanked.

34-5 collapse in the middle order. Oh well, fun while it lasted.