I think any manager would have struggled with the injuries we’ve had. It’s also not difficult to see where we could easily have got 9 more points and have been comfortably mid table and a whole different story.

2 points from safety and 48 to play for. She’s not even loosened her larynx yet …

Failure rarely has a single cause. If we had managed to recruit a half-decent centre forward in the summer and if Ozoh had not suffered his injury I don’t doubt that we would be comfortably mid-table. That’s not to say I’m a big fan of Warne’s style but there are other factors at play here and it shouldn’t all be pinned, as it seems to be by a section of the fanbase, at his door.

You see it in other walks of life - bad outcomes in health or social care, public disasters such as Hillsborough and others. They are nearly always multi-factorial but people don’t want complexity, they want to find someone to blame and then to crucify them.

I have just watched (bits of) Arsenal v Man City. The most successful and lauded manager of the last 10 or more years looking utterly bereft and helpless. Brutal but it happens. We need to be realistic and remember, we have been in darker times before. Hang in there folks...

comment by 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 HebridesRam (U2909)
posted 3 minutes ago
I have just watched (bits of) Arsenal v Man City. The most successful and lauded manager of the last 10 or more years looking utterly bereft and helpless. Brutal but it happens. We need to be realistic and remember, we have been in darker times before. Hang in there folks...
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Are you suggesting Pep could be available soon?

comment by FinlandRam (U3621)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 HebridesRam (U2909)
posted 3 minutes ago
I have just watched (bits of) Arsenal v Man City. The most successful and lauded manager of the last 10 or more years looking utterly bereft and helpless. Brutal but it happens. We need to be realistic and remember, we have been in darker times before. Hang in there folks...
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Are you suggesting Pep could be available soon?
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Haaland was redundant today. He might as well be playing in our attack.

He headed it into the net so he can claim that if the rest of the team had done their jobs City would have won the game.

comment by 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 HebridesRam (U2909)
posted about an hour ago
I have just watched (bits of) Arsenal v Man City. The most successful and lauded manager of the last 10 or more years looking utterly bereft and helpless. Brutal but it happens. We need to be realistic and remember, we have been in darker times before. Hang in there folks...
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They're top four not second bottom.

HUGE TWENTY FOUR HOURS..... in terms of recruitment with the transfer window slamming shut at midnight. Lots of names mentioned including the DM at Middlesboro, Harvey Knibbs of Reading, a Swedish winger ( no names mentioned as of yet)

The positions mooted are:

LB
DM
AM ( creative)
Winger LW
CF

I'd be very surprised to see four or five inbound transactions by tomorrow evening unless we allow a couple to depart and run the risk of releasing a player and the deal falling through.

If we only manage two transactions, which two positions?

(Are we doing the transfer updates for tomorrow on here or a new post? )

Just came across this

https://x.com/MarkajTopNews/status/1886112877066547712?t=i0DXIcheMe18yFumsz20_g&s=19

comment by Scouse (U9675)
posted 15 minutes ago
comment by 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 HebridesRam (U2909)
posted about an hour ago
I have just watched (bits of) Arsenal v Man City. The most successful and lauded manager of the last 10 or more years looking utterly bereft and helpless. Brutal but it happens. We need to be realistic and remember, we have been in darker times before. Hang in there folks...
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They're top four not second bottom.
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You manage to miss the point with effortless aplomb. It's about managers in adversity. Some hack it, some can't. And not backing our incumbent is pointless for all the reasons above..........

comment by Jorvik the Viking in the Sun! (U1369)
posted 1 minute ago
Just came across this

https://x.com/MarkajTopNews/status/1886112877066547712?t=i0DXIcheMe18yFumsz20_g&s=19
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Dibs:

Dobra the Cobra.

As Vidal said: what owner is going to allow his manager to balloon the best part of five million and then sack him within days?

All those trying to create toxicity need to remember where we were two years ago. Yes it's hard and there's little joy from watching right now but there is only one thing to do if you are a true supporter: forget any dislike you may have for the manager/coaches and get behind the team at all times and @100% and as loudly as possible. Anything less could be a nail in the lid of a gaping coffin.

Thank goodness most on here get this.

Indeed Chicago

Warne's football is awful to witness. I could stomach it when we were winning but now its pure misery.

Thank god for beer.

This might be what they call an outlier, but would much rather be scrapping to stay up than being fighting for the playoffs. Promotion is the last thing we need and now successfully avoided for this season at least.

comment by Scouse (U9675)
posted less than a minute ago
Warne's football is awful to witness. I could stomach it when we were winning but now its pure misery.

Thank god for beer.
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There will always be beer

There has been good football very infrequently over the years. I don’t go with that expectation and never have, that’s not what it’s about. What it IS about isn't all that easy to articulate, but I guess if you have it in your blood it’s just supporting your team.

comment by 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 HebridesRam (U2909)
posted 12 minutes ago
This might be what they call an outlier, but would much rather be scrapping to stay up than being fighting for the playoffs. Promotion is the last thing we need and now successfully avoided for this season at least.
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Yes Heb, I fear PW may well be out of his depth in the Premier League.

It was meant tongue in cheek but yes, not a worry for now..........

Just to conclude, View called for some positivity. There are three alternatives. Option1. We could be fighting for promotion, and I think only the criminally insane would want that. Option 2. We are comfortably stranded in mid-table. Boring and nothing for us to talk about until August. Option 3. This. Fighting as always and who knows.....

There you go View. Best possible situation and what a season ahead. 🐧

comment by lastapostleofvidal (U1491)
posted 24 minutes ago
There has been good football very infrequently over the years. I don’t go with that expectation and never have, that’s not what it’s about. What it IS about isn't all that easy to articulate, but I guess if you have it in your blood it’s just supporting your team.
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I'm not a professional supporter, 666 might call me a glory-hunter, but I think I go in the vain hope that I might just witness another 5-0 or Brighton playoff victory before I shuffle off.
Unfortunately time is running out. 🤔

"A Derby Glory Hunter"..........they were thought to be extinct. But now, rumours of a tiny relict population lurking deep in the fens.......🦤

Yes Heb, the modern equivalent of Hereward the Wake

comment by 🏁 AnglianRam 🏁 (U17428)
posted less than a minute ago
Yes Heb, the modern equivalent of Hereward the Wake
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Hereward the Woke

What do they say about talking to yourself Ang?