Hasta

From the outside that appears bonkers.

BBC - Could Palace's Wharton make England's Euros squad?

I've watched a few Palace games since AW went there and they seem to be a good partnership. Wharton just pins the midfield whilst Hughes can get around the pitch more. I agree on last nights viewing Hughes probably caught the eye more, but what I liked in Wharton is that we saw a lot more of the side of his game that was supposedly lacking a little at Rovers. We know given more of the ball what he can do, but we saw a good level of discipline. I still think of Hughes as being the kid that broke through at Derby years ago. Just checked and he's 29 years only and now played approaching 200 games in the Premier League. He's been a good, solid pro without ever being in any kind of discussion for a spot in the national side.

18:42 on this video. Thats some save.

Especially one that already has over 50 appearances in league football. I’m all for loaning players out to gain first team experience, but he already has it.

Whenever I see Rotherham, Rathbone looks pretty poor. I don’t think he’s Championship standard. However when he plays against us he’s like prime Roy Keane.

Wonder how many Sheff Wednesday and QPR fans who wanted their previous managers gone could have named Rohl and Cifuentes? Not many. Therefore how did those respective clubs manage to find managers who did such an excellent job? It’s almost like those clubs had people whose job it was to specifically know more about football coaches than the fans do.

A bit like Dack, it took him a while to find his feet, but once he did it’s been a superb season and a half. He’s in the prime of his career at 28. Without wishing him away, if he’s going to have a crack at the Premier League it probably has to be next season. And if he does good luck to him.

To be fair Leicester did exactly the same as Norwich, and did it infront of their own fans.

Begone horrid season. But fair play to the 11 on the pitch today and the manager.

But everyone told me that we were safe on 49 points, and no way we would go down with 50 points. It was a billion to one or somethings. If we concede here I think we go down.

Not if we don’t concede.

Norwich team looks fairly strong at Birmingham.

Have we gone 6 at the back?

Bolton sold out within the first hour of going on sale. My mate at work missed out. I presume Barnsley didn’t offer the full end

Excellent article. The Foxestalk article which the 1992 section refers to is also a good read featuring quite a bit of Rovers - https://www.foxestalk.co.uk/topic/132670-the-city-went-absolutely-mental/#comment-7052234

Surely it should at least have been a 2 1/2 year contract which could be reviewed at any point in the event of relegation. That would give the manager security providing they aren't an absolute failure.

Yep. "It's 3-1..... Millwall.... This is it. They've done it. They're in the play offs. Secured". 😃 Sunderland owe us a favour.

It's around 19/1.

Hopefully this is the attitude throughout the day by everyone connected to Leicester City.

He did, and infamously put a ball into orbit when it was easier to score.

Partially yes. And he's gone, just as he had to. If we go down I will also want Eustace out of the club.

Yes. As was getting into a position where he was completely demotivated to do the job and allowing a bad relationship with the players to start to fester. The difference being , unlike many, I can criticse JDT whilst also seperately criticising Eustace. It's not either / or.

Not having it. It sounds like you are basically saying this side would go down from where we were in early Feb no matter who the manager is once Wharton left, but Adam Wharton ‘could have possibly’ kept us up. If we go down on Saturday it’s a major managerial failure by the incumbent. That doesn’t detract from its also a monumental failure by those above on several levels - Wharton, Travis, appointing Eustace, Ennis,Semir and Leo, Send buttons, Indian court cases, etc..

But that's a problem which JDT had all season, even in the early part when we were doing quite well and got enough points which ultimately has made us safe. On top of that, he had Dolan injured all of December and January. Gallagher out from mid-September to January. I don't deny that this squad would struggle from day 1 next season. But when he came in he already had a points cushion over the bottom 3 to protect, which has been evaporated.