Never been a fan of Dack as an individual, if it wasn't for his goals I'd be happy to see the back of him. Not sure where he's even going to fit into the team once fit, he only seems to do well when the teams built around him and he's given a free role behind a centre forward in a more 4411 formation

I think That was the last one that I bought also, but then only played it for one evening before losing interest. Yeh I know most things can be delegated, its more the stuff like media interviews , team and staff meetings, pre/post match team meetings, [layer data analysis etc.. that i find tedious, but those things can really effect things like player moral and job security, etc... so if you delegate them and the delegated person does a poor job then it effects how the game's going i think might give the new one a go just to take over Newcastle haha Sadly i've loads of spare time in the evenings to be unproductive with!🙈 especially now the nights are drawing right in and winters on our doorstep It's just whether I can fit it in between binge watching box sets

absolutely

it was more his ramblings in response to my post that I was referring to 🙂 Although... Mike E was clearly just indulging in a bit of wishful thinking! his comments didn't really warrant chuddys patronising response.

was a real cm/fm addict in my teens & 20s up to my early 30s! but then a few years ago really struggled to get into it at all, I think mainly because they've just on way overboard in some areas of the game making it even more time consuming and even tedious than it needs to be. But I do miss it and am tempted to give fm22 a go

Biting my Tongue. Biting my tongue😣.

fed up of these kinds of comments from Mowbray as well -'But Mowbray is clear that Pickering is the club's first choice left-back and believes that though there are aspects he still needs to improve upon, there is certainly resale value to the Premier League if the player develops as the Blackburn boss envisages.' Just shows that promotion is not a target for him what-so-ever and he seems to just see his job at the club is just to tart up promising players and sell them on for a profit asap to clubs that are actually trying to get promoted or already in the prem. Which in my opinion is just a soulless way to run a football club and completely lacking any ambition. #Mowbray Out #Waggot Out #Hughes In ( just my personal preference)

I'm so out of touch with football other than rovers I dont even recognise half those names! but I trust your judgement Mike E 😄 so would welcome any with open arms. p.s. I think Eddie Howes Newcastle stint will turn into a circus(not by his doin though!) So wouldn't be surprised to see him available again at the end of the season

" 1st season - the form under him was excellent and we were very unfortunate to go down in the end. 2nd season - promoted on first time of asking **with a squad full of championship level players and a higher transfer kitty than others in that league. 3rd season - comfortably avoided relegation zone and started the rebuild of the squad in the Championship **Meh 4th season - top half finish **and🤷‍♂️ 5th season - this was the only major disappointment for me. We had a squad that was capable of promotion but we let it slip. Although I think a ridiculous number of injuries were the main contributor to our loss of form, TM didn’t make things better with a lot of baffling decisions" **It was a complete shit show and he should have been fired well before the season ended. We had 3/4 of the very best attacking players and goalscorers in the league, all he had to do was keep our defensive side and game management reasonably organised and we would have walked into the play offs with ease.

No. Enough is well and truly enough and more fool you if you really think this season is going to be any bettter than last come next May with him at the helm. Plus after yet another arrogant little tirade at the fans the other day I can't stand the cretin now at a personal level.

"the Brentford model" ffs as if these things really happen completely by design.

i know they've all been offered new contracts!! as for "improved" contacts that's pretty vague and likely means still pretty crap compared to what they could get elsewhere. not interested in theorising whobwe could sign, because until Mowbrays gone it makes no difference.

Warnock and Mccarthy are past it now it seems, but their career record as a managers up until the last couple of years speaks for itself when it comes to championship clubs and reaching play offs, promotions with various clubs of different statures

a lot of back tracking and bum covering goin on. 😆 You don't ned to explain yourselves to me!

see people moan because they don't think we could atract a decent manager.... yet crapholes like boro don't seem to struggle finding reasonable looking replacements. although no matter what club you are or how much money you offer them to spend on players etc... it's always hitNmiss, just look at the constant merry go round of managers at the big city prem clubs,but its a risk you HAVE to take when necessary. even the likes of pep are only ever one bad run of results away from being under serious pressure of getting sacked.

unless there's premiere league clubs after them then I'm pretty sure our best players would be more than happy to stick around for at least another season if we offered them good contracts and put a manager in charge that they really get off on.

absolutely, especially in tge social media age ffs!! if theyve half a brain they'd know that any info they give will be spread online (and usually turn into a game of Chinese whispers along the way...) but on the other hand and he actually has a brain and knows the above Fulwell... then most likely he's just spreading these rumours as an underhand tactic for whatever reason.... and the person/people chatting with him and lapping up his comments are just being used.)

If its now as good as set in stone that none of these players are going to be accepting their new contract offers and the club aren't going to budge further on the improving the offers... then really imo there's no point at all playing them from now onwards(never mind from the end of tge year) as the players hearts won't truly be in it especially when their backs are against the wall and also they'll be in sel preservation mode trying to avoid getting injured(pulling out of tackles, ect...) Personally id like to see Brereton and Rothwell sign new deals and they're both worth making them the highest paid at the club if that's what it takes. Lenihan, nyambe I couldn't really care less about although replacing them with(replacing all of them even!) with like for like quality would be ridiculously expensive so surely cheaper just to just give them much improved contracts, which would then also raise there transfer values should they still want to leave down the line.

I guess maybe this is just the kind of slimy unprofessional thing that those 'exec types' that use the prawn sandwich rooms on a regular basis do, they're a different breed from the average working class punter.

Mowbray out Waggot out both a pair of useless shits and they've always appeared to be a pairing (from the north esst mafia!) so both must go together. Sorry I dont have any 'itk'🙄 knowledge to back that up with, just simply going of how the club as been run and results over the last few years mainly🤷‍♂️

the thing is, I and i think many people would have chose that side pretty much from the start of the season!! its Mowbray thats only just decided to go thay way,give it a couple of games though and then compare the starting line ups again and you can bet he will have reverted back to his usual square peg, round hole aproach...

we've some brilliant young players, similar to the talented young squad Souness took over way back when.... Only this squad doesnt have the nessary senior experianced players in the squad to hold it all together(ala flitcroft, short, hughes...) match after match or a manager with the determination, grit and know how of Souness

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he just blags it from one game to the next. that's what he does and I'm sorry to keep going on..... but it wont be long until things come unstuck again and we're rooted back in mid table. Mowbray out Waggot out

have we tried carrier pigeon yet? nothing else seems to get there attention. Genuine question... are there any other club owners that have as little communication of any kind with the fans as the Venkys?? aside from the message at the start of the season (which was likely just written and sent out by 1 of their lackeys) I cant even remember the last time they directly addressed the fans