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Not in the same way as years gone by. Parachute payment teams have a structural advantage as their premiership spending is subsidised for 1-2 seasons post-relegation. In reality, we've spent £55m over the past 3 summers so it's not really a stretch to bump that up to £100m to stay up in the...

You say that, but what policies would do this in your view? You can measure how Labour’s anti-business policies have backfired on ‘working people’… private sector redundancies and unemployment is increasing. Likewise, tax rises and inflation directly impact the money in people’s pockets and...

Southgate had experience in the international setup and without opening a can of worms, his record at tournament was far better than his predecessors.

People don’t really think Farage is ‘the answer’, this is a line you keep parroting without really interrogating. Zach Polanski’s Greens are experiencing a bump in the polls for the exact same reason as Farage and Reform. They are both filling a vacuum vacated by the Tories and Labour...

How does he improve this group? A much inferior goal scoring record than Haji, BTA and Simms. He has some good physical attributes but clearly needs to work on the end product and if we're looking up to the Prem, if anything we should be looking at a 4th striker to displace Haji, BTA or Simms...

I’d say he was good under Robins, like a few other players, was a casualty of MR not knowing what his best team was and chopping and changing constantly.

He also underperformed his xG and xA numbers, he scored comfortably be a 15 goals and assists winger in this division. Thats what the numbers told us last season (6.39 xG and 5.28 xA) and EMC is currently over performing his xG (4.12) and slightly underperforming the xA marginally (2.19).

I can see us opting for a CM because the Sheaf sale wasn’t planned. Dan Neil just seem to fit a profile we’d actually be looking at. Right now, I think it’s probably better to consider Eccles an AM and without any wingers, Rudoni and Eccles may end playing more and more. As per Jimmy’s source...

Nah, he had his peak and because he did nothing in the Prem, I’d avoid. Good player, but he isn’t a younger player who could develop in 2-3 seasons. Lower down the table he’d be a stud in the right environment.

Based on what exactly? Rushworth has saved chances equating to 6.5 goals this season, which is much higher than Vittek and Johansson. 6.5 in xG is comfortably 8-11 goals btw. https://fbref.com/en/comps/10/keepersadv/Championship-Stats

Same with California, internal migration showed that Texas and Florida were the main recipients of people moving from predominantly blue states. California in particular has seen a lot of brain drain to places like Austin.

Once upon a time California was a solid red state…

I’ll defend Wright because on his day he’s a top striker in this division but believe it was a mistake putting him back in for Simms right away. Whilst what you say is absolutely true, on an individual level, his finishing has been subpar in this stretch of games.

In an earlier post @Sky Blue Pete called Farage ‘economically illiterate’. True, there are questions about his credibility on the economy but if you then think Polanski is credible… some souls cannot be saved. If anyone seen Polanski on ‘The Rest is Politics’, he struggles with basic questions...

Lol, are they serious? We are talking about the same teams who averaged 0.8 and 1.2 ppg away from home? Ipswich have played 2 more home games than us and still have 1 point less at home. They’ve not won in their last 3 away games against average opponents. 6 points this Xmas period please...

It’s not over confidence, it’s a reflection of our home form where we’ve only dropped 4 points all season and Swansea aren’t particularly good, let alone when they’re away. Lati and Wolfenden managed the Southampton attack well so even if it’s a worst case scenario, they should be trusted to...

With the algorithms, you constantly get fed what interact with. My feeds have been bombarded with Green/Your Party stuff lately because I’d watched interviews with Polanski and Sultana. The latter talking exactly as people would at uni… Not related to what you witnessed last night but I’ve...

This game has got to be a gimme for 3 points. We’ll win 2-0 for this one. Hoping Wright/Simms and Rudoni is back on the score sheet!

Which may raise eyebrows but we’re spent around £55m in transfers since 23/24 from £46m in sales. King has said that he wants to not only get promoted, but to stay there too so there’s good enough reason to expect funds will be made available.

It hasn’t helped that Haji has missed about 2.5 xG in chances since his last goal. I’m sure it was about 7-7.5 xG when he was on 8 goals and now he’s on 9.68 xG. Even yesterday, our best chance wouldn’t have come up on the stat sheet because Haji was on 1v1 and his heavy touch meant he didn’t...