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Our team in 2018 was not worthy of a finalist spot. We had Young, Alli and Lingard as starting players. Croatia’s midfield was leagues better than ours. Rakitic and Modric were playing at the height of their careers. That’s where the game was won and lost and no reasonable person would say...

Did Southgate not inherit a bleak situation? Iceland and Costa Rica knocked us out of our last two major tournaments in 2014 and 2016. Why are you or anyone bothered by the Scotland result? It was a boring 0-0, but having beaten Croatia, a draw against Scotland guaranteed qualification. That...

He clearly does know how to win because he has the highest win % of any England manager with the exception of Sir Alf Ramsey. There’s a reason for our caution. Our defence really isn’t that good. Maguire and Stones as centre backs? Both good defenders, but not in the same plane as Campbell...

Not at all. Ultimately, he’s judged on major tournaments and we’ll see what happens this year. We didn’t ‘fuck up’ the final. We played the in-form team, best then in the first half and momentum switched and lost on penalties. Hardly a ‘fuck up’. That might be the case, and these last four...

Not sure how you can justify sacking a manager getting you to a final of a major tournament. You’re assuming Poch would even want the job. I highly doubt he would. There’s a reason we ended up with Southgate in the first place! Frankly, his major tournament record speaks for itself. ‘Better’...

Yeah because Poch has just done a marvellous job coaching PSG. Talking shite is calling for the sacking of a manager with about 3-4 games before the World Cup starts.

There’s no reasoning with you. I’m sure there’s a host of better managers who could take us further in major tournaments. Only took 22 years for someone to take us to a major tournament semi-finals… 55 to get To a finals. Too many fans have silly meltdowns every bad result we have. All that...

You’re talking absolute nonsense. Our team in 2018 was probably worse than Croatia and Italy were the form team in that tournament.

Can’t believe what I sat through tonight. Yes, no one cares about the Nations League but the performance was really embarrassing. Ultimately, there’s not too much to look into these fixtures. All that matter is that the team is primed for the World Cup, and Southgate has delivered at major...

You make it sound like signing 8-10 players in one window can be done cheaply. If it was that simple, I’m sure Robins would sign them. We’re still losing 4 million a year so not really sure what people want us to spend. If we at least broke even, maybe we could be a bit riskier.

Not a bad shout, but Shankland also turned out to not be all that at all…

Yes, but equally, none of us here (afaik) are scouts and know anything about football to the degree our recruitment team does. Some of the shouts made on this thread proves that. Probably my shout of Helik included!

Yes, and to get our team to that level, we need a good 2-3 seasons. Players like Gyo, COH and Hamer will at some point need to be sold and replaced. We spent years in L1/2, the team wasn’t going to ever be in a place to compete that high up the table after one season in the Championship. I’d...

We never really had a chance of Top 6. Mathematically, yes, of course we did. But our overall squad was very clearly not good enough to see it out. There’s no rush to get to the top 6, so long we make incremental progress, I’m happy.

Signing someone like Palmer would be worth the wages of 3-4 (at least) Drysdale and Pask. Besides, I think only Pask made a single appearance last season. The focus this off-season has got to be bringing in 3-4 starting quality players. Operating on a small squad has been effective for us so...

Your abbreviations probably didn’t intend to be that funny…

Perhaps I’m being rather dense, but how does the partnership diversify our income? To me, it sounded like we’d get first dibs on any promising talent coming out of the course… the commercial details were not obvious to me.

Clearly there’s a reason for that. It’s tournament football and the games are are more cagey affairs. Either way, regardless of whether anyone likes Southgate or not, he’s not going to get sacked before this World Cup. That wouldn’t improve our chances. I’m disappointed at our recent results...

I am pretty hopeful about signing Palmer, his stats aren’t as bad as have been made out. Robins and Adi have done enough to earn the trust of the fan base. The reality is, we’re not going to sign Championship players who have excellent stats. People like Swift will be going straight to the...

Has the Government lost a (meaningful) Commons vote yet? The Government will ‘fight’ on, putting out one fire after another in a state of inertia until the next election… Even then, we’re heading for another hung parliament in 2023/24 at this rate. Labour needs more Scottish seats (at least...