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Simms is shite in almost every way and will have to improve significantly even to be an at all valuable member of the squad.

15? Isn’t it about 20

Is 4-2 a pumping?

Won’t be activating those clauses if he plays like this will he though. But even for the £3.5m initial he’s been very poor. I suppose we’ve paid for his potential.

Why isn’t Wright starting?

I’d have McCallum back

To add to this, you say 200k is a fair wage but when the premier league brings in £5bn a year you would think referees should see a vaguely significant portion of that money. After all, on any given weekend there’s only 80 officials (+ VAR) officiating games. I’ve probably watched too many...

We’re not getting Massengo, he’ll have offers from the Prem, Ligue 1 etc.

Agreed at grassroots. But I think you want to increase it across the board, so it becomes an attractive career option. Even L1/2 standard refs should be getting 50/60k+ IMO. It’s a thankless task to be berated for 90 mins by 5, 10, 20,000+ people.

Is quality officiating not vital to the premier league product, and therefore those revenues?

Pay them more. Some random googling tells me that “top premier league referees” can earn “up to £70,000”. That’s ridiculous when players are earning £10m+ a year.

Usually a no brainier though isn’t it, in this case big spending top half Villa vs relegation fodder Sheff U

Surely if you want to do this you select a home game and arrange to meet in tavern/dhillons I’ll be wearing a pink polo and holding a single rose with a copy of brokeback mountain in my other hand. Catch me if you can boys!

Currently top of the SPL 10 games in to the 2027/28 season with Dunfermline

Obviously the sauce of those rumours wasn’t very reliable

He will always have that Wembley goal

I hadn’t thought of this, might have to buy FM 18 for the “Robins challenge”.

I’m basing it on their ability now- e.g. Bigi now plays in the Tanzanian prem. Overall or Cov career would produce different results yes.

I thought Binks looked good vs Wimbledon, assured on the ball and wasn’t at fault for either goal.

Brentford did it because there’s 0 point operating an academy in London if you’re not Arsenal, Chelsea or Spurs. Not sure if we experience similar from the likes of Villa, Wolves & Leicester. I think our academy has been pretty successful over the last ~ 10 years.