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Another one assuming there is something underlying medically - as soon as he got struck down with the flu his form dropped off a cliff and he’s never recovered. Added to which he now has more competition for a place and I think he’s one I’d look to move on in the summer.

I’m fairly confident it won’t come to anything and oil will be back at $90 a barrel tomorrow (and someone will have made a load of cash).

I just hope we get promoted ‘on the pitch’ though I fear we’ll beat Sheff Wed and then Boro will draw to Portsmouth to send us up.

Yes. The two are separate points. If we both won all our games then we can’t technically win the league v Pompey, but I think Norwich will take at least a point off them hence why I think we’ll do it v Pompey.

Portsmouth at home looks most likely. If we both win all of our games to that point then, whilst mathematically it wouldn’t be done, we’d be in a position where Ipswich had to win all of their remaining games and we lose our two. I fancy Ipswich to drop points at Norwich and Southampton at least.

It’s the same issue but changing the points of reference. I’ve said countless times how they should use the lines and if they touch it follows an ‘umpires call’ like in cricket where it stays with the on-field decision.

None from Spurs though lol

Sorry, just because you said “needs a season” - he’s already had ‘a’ season. Agree with the sentiment though, he needs to be somewhere he’s starting for the next 4-5 seasons, even if that is across different clubs.

Yeah we have more hope looking at the players who can’t get a start for the midtable teams than those from Chelsea, etc. Someone like Rodrigo Muniz.

Yeah we were, what, 5th favourites for the league? So technically a 4-place improvement but comfortably the toughest places to incrementally improve. The step between 6th-21st really isn’t all that.

He had that last season, it’s what got him the move to Chelsea. And I think the assumption was he was going to be first choice.

Great profile for a team playing a direct style. Bet he’s on a tonne of cash though.

Or we have to find the hidden gems. A name I threw out last year was Mamadou Sangare who at the time was playing in Austria. Obviously material doubt over how that translates to a different league. Turns out in that case it was really fucking well, and Lens, who paid c£6m for him now have...

I’m a perfectionist. Leave me alone.

This is interesting, because intuitively I agree. But FotMob has recently started doing stats of ‘Goals Conceded whilst on Pitch’ and ‘XG Conceded whilst on Pitch’. Latibeaudiere Kitching Thomas Woolfenden Whilst we don’t concede as many with Lati on the pitch, the XG is in a similar...

Who’s said he’s 10 times better than Hamer? Because that’s not true. Separatly, as Sheaf has been brought into the conversation, I think ‘peak Sheaf’ probably is better than Onyeka. For my money, that summer when Hamer left ruined Sheaf as we started asking him to do more. Always brilliant at...

A lot of it is his sheer physicality. He’s not ‘quick’ but he has such large strides he eats up the ground. Can shield the ball phenomenally - probably better at drawing fouls than winning tackles.

Nah. Not having “an OK Championship DM”. He’s very good. Accept that this may not translate to PL ready as I have my doubts but just because some are overhyping don’t fall too far the other way.

Lovely jubbly.

The real hope is Millwall and Hull coming up. Hopefully then only need to find one remaining PL team to be better than.