I feel better than a lot of other seasons. We go into the summer with something to build on rather than having to rebuild the squad. We've gone into previous windows just needing bodies through the door as a minimum. Now there's an expectation that we need to add quality not just quantity, the bar is already higher under the current regime than the last

Missed the play offs on goal difference, no one would have predicted that 11 months ago but its a disappointing end to the season given how many points clear we were at one point. A goal scorer and we were comfortably in the play offs this season. The squad isn't a million miles away, add some quality this summer and we'll be there next season. Is that they closest we've come to the play offs since we came down from prem?

Obviously I don't know how but assessments should be designed with AI in mind. Children of today will be spend their professional careers working alongside AI. Rather than creating tools to detect and prevent it's use, design assessments that embraces it. I don't remember as I was just a kid at the time but what impact did the explosion of the Internet have? Suddenly kids had easy access to a wealth of knowledge on the world wide web where they could simply search for answers. It surely posed a similar headache but we soon embraced into the education sector.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CryrbKzA2z-/?igshid=ZWIzMWE5ZmU3Zg== Not sure if the link works or not but someone's put the audio of Big Sam over an impression of David Brent 😂😂

I agree with you here. At Derby he did no better and no worse than the previous season so I wouldn't class that as a failure. His first season at Chelsea was widely regarded as good by most given the circumstances he was in. The start of the second season wasn't great but a fair few thought he was hard done by being canned so soon. Everton and his second spell at Chelsea have absolutely destroyed is reputation. If he has any further aspirations to manage he should get his head down and work as a coach under experienced managers for a few years rather than take the short cuts he has so far.

Absolutely mind blowing. I can't even imagine where we'll be in 10 years time but for god sake stop decoding my thoughts!

Win win for Big Sam. If they go down he had 4 games, one against city and the other against newcastle what more could he have done? If he keeps them up then he restores a little bit of shine he lost at WBA

Magic thank you! New handles was more of a minefield than I thought in terms of measurements

Clean shirt desk jockey reporting in again. Hoping @Tyrone Shoelaces is still online 😂 Had a broken front door handle, ordered a new one after measuring over and over again but its some how not fitting right. As you can see from the picture below it's bent out in the middle. Old and new handles have identical dimensions, all the holes line up perfectly. I used the old screws and spindle rather than the new ones which were a touch longer so confused what isn't working. Am I right in thinking the spindle is pushing it out I'm the middle? If so is it as simple as cutting it down a few mm? Functionally it feels sturdy and is working fine (for now) but looks naff, inside and out.

Accountant here - I've used it, it doesn't do my job for me (yet) but certainly short cuts it for me. 1. I'm the guy people ask to go research accounting standards and give technical advice. I usually ask ChatGPT the same question I get asked. It doesn't give a perfect answer but it gives me enough of a starting point. At the very least it tells me which part of a 70 standard to look at. 2. It'll write an excel formula or a macro for me in seconds. Again it's not always perfect but will give me something to alter rather than writing from scratch AI is going to be huge very soon. I saw a good quote on LinkedIn, AI won't takeover your job, people who aren't afraid to use AI will take over your job.

I've been thinking the same. Disallow Coventrys goal, Hedges buries his one on one with the keeper and we get that last minute penalty against Burnley, thats 5 points right there and we're comfortably in the playoffs and that's. Now add a 20 goal striker and some of those small losses where we've dominated the game but not taken our chances turn into victories and we're pushing automatic and JDT is a hero.

There will be a good number of people on here who even in August were tipping us for a relegation scrap who are also calling for JDTs head because we've had a poor season. We can all be disappointed with how the season has ended and dropping out the top 6 etc but a little perspective - none of us anticipated a play off fight and with no goal scorer in the team we've done well to even be in with a shout. I know project is a dirty word and we don't generally like to give people time but it was never going to be instant given the state of the squad at the end of last season and how late it was before we got new manager and DoF in. TM previously banged on about the project and then had to rebuild the squad every summer. For the first time in a while we head into summer and I'm thinking that a handful of quality additions means we can really push on whereas previously I was thinking we need to replace half the squad to just stand still. Overall I think JDT has done a good job - granted there have been frustrations e.g. when he's not been braver at 1 up and ended up concealing an equaliser and I think that if we have a good window he can get us into the play offs next season.

Get rid of Ayala unless you could convince him to take a huge pay cut. Getting half a season out of Ayala on cheapo wages - could do a lot worse. Dack I would keep unless we've got a 20+ season striker who we need the wages for. I don't want to free up Dacks wages to fund a disappointing loan fee

Could have been me that said it. Can't remember who we were playing but their GK was dicking about in 90+ minutes and a yellow is of no benefit to us. Pushing and shoving at a set piece usually results in the ref having a word and some times booking but never giving a foul either way

Even with players 2 yards away from him he seems to have all the time in the world to play a pass and a good one at that. I've not had excitement about a player for a long time but I'm looking forward to building a team around him next year.

Excellent bit of perspective. When we were sat with no DoF and no manager days before pre season started and a threadbare squad, we were fearing a bad bad season. It'll be an absolute sickener if we don't get top 6 but we've exceeded all expectations this season. To me the squad feels like it has some direction and it feels like we're a good window away from really pushing on.

If Wharton starts there's really no point doing these polls

Rice Bellingham and Wharton as a midfield trio for England in a few years time. Mouth watering.

Is Hyam not shouting for that??

JRC and Carter giving it to Barnes a bit 😂

Barnes is a horrible prick

If its fines and point deductions for fielding a weakend squad we're absolutely fucked for all the times we started Hirst and Vale. I'm with K-Hod - you have a 25 man squad you should be free to use them as you please. If they started the whole u18 squad then I could understand but they didn't

Why Hedges was going for goal and not heading to the corner flag is beyond me

Time wasting should be a free kick to the opposing team. What good is a yellow to darlow in injury time?