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Reply | Has he been sacked yet??
at 09:06 21 Oct 2024
I think it highly unlikely that it would cost £10mill to sack him. £5 m I would think is nearer the mark. I don’t believe he is on more than £2.5m pa, £3m tops. And they could easily argue that he has not fulfilled his side of the management agreement etc. OK there may be a compensation package in the terms but£10 m would imply he’s on £3.5m+ which is unlikely. But even if you are right, then a new manager would not cost £10m, that’s ludicrous, Pep and Klopp might but no one else.
And in any case forgetting about probable player sales it would cost £70 m + in lost revenue if we were to get relegated so you need to do the math: punt say £10m to gain £70m. Sounds like a good bet to me. |
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Reply | How about Lallana as interim Player Manager
at 17:54 1 Oct 2024
I think it’s much more to do with how much faith Solak still has in Rasmus Ankersen’s black box. Because I reckon Moyes would just blow it up, in other words there has to be a board room bust up for there to be any change in managerial philosophy. |
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Reply | Bournemouth Game Matchday Thread
at 20:38 30 Sep 2024
I half expect all the “give him a chance “ tosspots talking about how we can take lots of positives from the game.
I have one positive and that’s a positive affirmation of my long held view that RUSSELL MARTIN MUST MUST MUST BE FIRED |
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Thread | Martin fighting for his job…
at 16:25 4 Sep 2024
…according to Football Insider. End of September apparently.
Anyone know if they are in any way generally well-informed
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Reply | Nottingham Forest Game Matchday Thread
at 15:55 24 Aug 2024
Forest are much better than I for one thought. We are not playing badly exactly. But they are just closing us down a lot and getting forward fast and pressing hard. But equally I think they do look a bit vulnerable if we can get behind them. But as we all know if is a very big word. |
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Reply | Corners
at 08:15 19 Aug 2024
PS. Well we are top of something! Corners in the PL this season? 12 |
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Reply | Corners
at 08:14 19 Aug 2024
Very good point.
It’s been going up in the PL…
Corner goals last five seasons
Season Goals from corners Goals from corners (%)
2018/19 146 13.6%
2019/20 134 13.0%
2020/21 132 12.9%
2021/22 146 13.6%
2022/23 151 13.9% |
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Reply | Mc Carthy
at 15:53 17 Aug 2024
McCarthy IS TOTALLY UTTERLY COMPLETELY USE-EFFING-LESS
If that total f*ck up doesn’t convince the management that he is not good enough then we are doomed. |
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Reply | What have learned from the Euros so far?
at 22:08 24 Jun 2024
Am I the only person who thinks that Scotland were utter rubbish for all their games- and I’m a Scot !
And as for our wonderful strike? Well the entire team only had three shots on target in three games. And LBH, Che showed himself to be exactly what most of us have thought for a while, ie he’s no better than an average championship player at best.
Now Broja on the other hand in tonight’s Spain Albania clash was real class!
We must try and get him back if we can… |
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Reply | Transfer Rumour Thread
at 09:00 10 Jun 2024
PatfromPoole I entirely agree with you except the bit about older players.
The fact is that because we have a decent solvent -viz Everton! - owner, we seem to be linked with every Tom Dick or Harry whose contract is coming to an end or is available on a free.
I really don’t think our transfer boys are so nutty as to be thinking about getting a Dads Army full of past-their-best- but-experienced (what ever that is worth) players just because they are around.
So given that the Rasmus Ankersen black box seems to have worked to a degree - I admit I am saying that through clenched teeth - so every Ryan Fraser is worth a Sulemana, I reckon by and large younger players with potential who will fit into the system are where will be looking. And forget all the Fontes, Ings, Lallanas, even JWPs (sadly). Too old. [Post edited 10 Jun 9:02]
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Reply | The case for sticking with Russell Martin
at 20:38 30 Apr 2024
Nice article but boll*cks I’m afraid (IMHO)
It’s not a question of what RM has achieved with the squad but what he HASNT!I
My definition of a good manager is one who can take B and C players and turn them into an A team.
RM unquestionably has not done that. In fact I would argue that he has taken a number of A/B players - eg Brooks, Charles, Fraser, Rothwell - and turned them into B/C players because of his addiction to a dead end system.
He’s cr*p and the sooner the owners realise this the better.
And I’m afraid that, if you really think that “it maybe wise to give a manager a bit more time than just one season after finishing 4th”, I can promise you that mid-table mediocrity is all you will end up with.
Maybe that is what you are happy with. I for one am not. I want to support a club with AMBITION, something which i think does not chime with us finishing (a pretty lukewarm) 4th. |
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Thread | The only saving grace from yesterday’s dire performance…
at 07:52 28 Apr 2024
…was that the head of SR, Dragan Solak, was there to witness it.
And if he has only the minutest amount of knowledge of English football, surely he must have seen how utterly terrible we were, with all our pointless tippy-effing tappy?
Of could it just possibly be that the players were doing it on purpose so that they could show him what a cr*p team they’ve been turned into by you-know-who…? [Post edited 28 Apr 7:53]
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Reply | FA Cup Replays scrapped - Winter break gone
at 09:00 20 Apr 2024
Whilst I agree in principle with the comments against this idea, I think we should also bear in mind that the likes of us and other clubs going for promotion, reducing the potential number of games they have to play must be a good idea mustn’t it? |
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Reply | Adam Armstrong.
at 09:19 11 Mar 2024
I do find some of these comments puzzling! Adam is our best striker this season, period. Yes he misses some sitters, but so do some of the best. I seem to recall a certain mr Haraland have a blank run if a few games too; according to a March post in Goal.com he had”six goalless games in eight matches”
For goodness sake get real people! |
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Reply | Will we be promoted?
at 12:39 18 Feb 2024
Funnily enough I have never heard of a poor bookie... |
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Thread | Fair play award for the Saints? Er I don’t think so…
at 22:40 12 Feb 2024
We are currently 3rd equal (on 73) with Ipswich for yellow cards so far this season, headed only by Stoke (74) and PNE (75). The best is - and I cannot quite believe this - Leeds!!! On 43.
Staying fit for the remainder of the season is imperative; but having a few players on the sidelines for other reasons won’t help.
And individually :Jan B 8, Ryan M 8, Shea Charles 5 + 1 Red, Flynn D 7, Will S 7 , have the most. |
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Thread | AFCON final tonight 8pm on BBC3
at 09:55 11 Feb 2024
According to Opta supercomputer, Nigeria are favourites to win the 2023 AFCON, in 56.2% of the 10,000 pre-match simulations.
Come on Jo…! |
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