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A relief that Alebiosu starts. Hope we haven't rushed him back, mind. Thank god we've finally given up on the doomed Ohashi lone striker experiment. For now, anyway.

Pointless from the owners perspective because they have no ambition, therefore it was a waste of time hiring JDT/Eustace and their staff. Might as well have kept Mowbray as the limit of their ambition is keeping us in the division.

Waggott was a rubbish CEO if you wanted an ambitious club, but he was absolutely perfect for Venky's. Lunacy to get rid of him from their perspective. Same goes for Mowbray tbh. Perfect manager for their level of ambition, absolutely pointless letting him go when he would have quite happily stayed.

If we draw or lose tonight the LT should be all over this, especially with recent events considered.

Reflects really badly on Man Utd's recruitment team, because it would have been obvious their squad didn't suit that formation either - not just that, but the players they've brought in look no more comfortable playing Amorim's way than the players he inherited. The only positive for them is that when a new manager is finally appointed there, he won't have to worry about disrupting the team by changing the system. Almost anything would suit United's players better than this. I still think it's pitiful when a manager boasts about stubbornly sticking to a system regardless of results, as if that's something to be proud of. It just means you have zero flexibility and a limited understanding of the game as a whole.

Can confirm the shirts are incredible quality, very pleased 👍

He was supposed to leave in the summer, move didn't materialise and he's since scored 6 in 7 matches. Ronald is another one to look out for. Been a major player in attack for them this season.

Apparently they're going to wait until November because the amount of compo goes significantly down. One imagines Amorim knows he's a dead man walking at this point.

I think our first eleven, if they played every week, would stay up. With injuries and suspensions, I think we're vulnerable.

Another point for Sheffield Wednesday. Amazing how a team can be utterly annihilated by their owner and yet remain competitive in this division.

Zero squad depth and we're apparently relying on Ohashi and Hedges to bring the magic up top. Better hope Gudjohnsen is an absolute beast. We're going to need him to step up. Cantwell too, but not convinced he has it in him to perform well for 50% of our matches,let alone the majority of them.

Well that was shit. At least the club are focusing on the important things - like picking a fight with the local paper.

Our home form has been worse than our away form so far 🤣 barring a match where we were practically playing water polo by the end.

Probably not a factor in his lack of appearances at his previous side tbh 😅 but yeah, you tend to get what you pay for and we're on our way to losing 4 of our first 6 matches.

Don't think he was a regular in the team we bought him from tbf. Probably because he isn't especially good.

Haven't turned up today. Still in with a chance of getting something as it's only 1-0, but not looking likely at present.

Why are we so reluctant to start Gudjohnsen? Is he yet another signing struggling for fitness? Ohashi will never be a lead striker. Not in the system Ismael wants to play, anyway. (If he scores in the next 1hr 45m I claim credit for reverse curse)

Does seem to suggest there is increasing paranoia and insecurity within certain people at the club. Waggott only sprung into action if there was unrest in the stands (who could forget the infamous impromptu fan group meeting) - he and Mowbray would lay down the occasional guilt trip and everything would settle down. I don't think Waggott gave the LT a second thought, because he knew as long as he had the fans and the owners onside he was set. The local press was just noise. The current regime don't seem to feel that same security.

Seeing them use official club statements like some kind of deranged social media feed to advance their feud with the LT is honestly embarrassing.

Put the shovel down lads. You've dug deep enough already.

Yep, since Waggott left there has been a lot of own goals from the club which I think he would have nixed. He would have been pragmatic enough to shoot this idea down, one imagines. He's been around long enough to know that you keep the local press onside and don't sweat the small stuff. It's a lesson those in charge would do well to learn swiftly. I just don't get what the catalyst is here. It's not like there's some kind of revolt going on in the stands at Ewood. The coalition has been quiet for a while now, although who knows if something is going on in the background there. There's been a few 'Pasha out' banners - have they really got to him so much that he's lashing out?

Even during the Kean days when the LT literally called for Kean to go, they weren't banned. That's the level of pettiness we're dealing with here. The club basically admitting that they want the LT to only report good things about them. Good on the paper for calling it out directly.

What was the social media post that caused this tantrum, out of curiosity?

I would only really accept the EFL's decision if it included a hefty fine to the club for failing to provide a reasonable playing surface. A financial penalty is the only way anyone at the club will take this problem seriously. A full replay with no other action, citing a precedent that technically doesn't exist as relates to our circumstances, is a pathetic, cowardly way out. No wonder the EFL is in the state it's in, if the decision makers are this lacking in any form of critical thinking.

Yes. As I said in my last post, they are as complicit as we are if they don't go any further than just ordering a replay.