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Not good enough, he needs to be top 99.9 percentile.

No I didn’t, if you look back far enough on this thread, @Grendel and I argued like cat and dog on it. I was very much a Remainer. You recall incorrectly (happens to us all), I’ve never called you or anyone racist on this forum.

Tbh, your attitude demonstrates exactly why Labour will get decimated at the next election. If there was a housing crisis when net migration was 50k per year, how do you expect to keep up when net migration has consistently been 5-6 times that? The 300k house building target is premised on...

This is true to an extent. Building houses is not as simple as ‘just build’. This government is demonstrating that it takes more than good intentions and wishful thinking. Even with Rayner’s plans to build new towns, the sewage infrastructure is holding that back. Public finances are already...

Villa do not even need a 60k seater stadium and all due respect to Birmingham, they have a pretty average fan base for home crowds. Like us, only recently sell out St Andrews with a reduced away support capacity. This project has got ‘boom and bust’ written all over it.

He’s a legend in my book. Absolutely smashed it for me on a FM22 (or FM21) York save. For that reason alone, I’m in.

It’s not artificial demand if there’s a general shortage of housing. The housing deficit was at 1.5m or so and has grown since. Angela Rayner was tied in knots when a Sky journalist pointed out that even if Labour met the 1.5m house building target, if there is 2.5m million arrivals as the...

Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom of ridicule… 😂

PNE aren’t that bad a side, we lost more than they did this season. Their issue was their they drew far too many games. The ‘he plays in a crap team’ goes so far because PNE have finished in and around us in most of the seasons Riis has been there. The outliers being this season and 22/23. His...

Strange take, you must be on a wind up. We don’t make the playoffs if Haji doesn’t score that last minute winner v Oxford or a hattrick v Sunderland. So targeting those two games is odd, if you focused on his missed chances, that’s something we can work with as that actually makes sense, all due...

Remember when scoring a hat trick was a good thing for a striker? This new obsession with ‘games scored in’ is odd. Most top end strikers in most leagues will generally struggle much better than a goal every 3 games. Gyokeres “only” scored in 17 games or so in 22/23. Out of 50 games, some could...

Appointing Mowbray would be a blunder. Carrick was going to get the sack if they didn’t make the playoffs because they’ve had a lot of investment and have been going backwards from his fantastic start.

Haji sees himself as a striker and so does Lampard. EMC’s numbers suggest he’s more than capable of hitting a ‘double-double’ in goals and assists over an injury free campaign. In all likelihood, Haji does not play striker next season for us, is if we sell him imo.

I’m certainly not fuming about it, he’s got something about him in the numbers. Definitely better than BTA and Bassette right now. Free signing too which we have to utilise this off season.

Disagree, every time Lampard has had the chance, he’s played Sakamoto, Wright and EMC. That’s what Lampard thinks is his best team right now.

They’ll at least get a place on the bench then because neither are better than Haji.

I’m using Simms as a benchmark if he’s that bad a player, these players would have a track record of scoring more goals and they don’t. It misses the actual point is that if these players can barely muster numbers better than Simms at their best… they aren’t going to be a better player Haji...

It’s a shame you get the reference, it was mocking Eni Aluko’s infamous ‘you do the maths’ quote. However, your maths is wrong because it was 5 goals in 3 games; Sunderland, Plymouth and Burnley. So you’re penalising a striker for scoring a hattrick against Sunderland which was arguably our...

One of them will go imo and my money is on BTA leaving. I don’t quite understand why we’re deifying strikers like Tyrese Campbell and Riis (two to be fair) after one good season when, put into context, they scored less than Simms in 23/24. They’re certainly not better players than Haji.

Possibly, or we’re injecting cash into the squad. £15m + whatever we recoup in some outgoings should give Lampard significant sums to upgrade the team to get over the final hurdle. We’re closer than we think.