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The problem with that theory is Waggott is already on record saying it won't make us any money and we may actually need to borrow more from the owners for it.

Whilst I don't think he is the best candidate, I'd swap the two of them right now without a second thought.

I feel like that entire performance was banter.

I'll call it now, if we keep Mowbray through all of next season, we are going to get relegated. The last two times I predicted we would get relegated were the last two times we got relegated.

Someone on FB posted half the players were laughing at the end of the game. I turned it off as soon as the whistle went, so can anybody confirm or deny this? Outrageous if true - unless they've been told TM will get the sack for a loss of course.

If there are any excuses today, ANY excuses at all, I'm going to cross the border into calling him a cunt. Most managers I can think of who we have had would have been holding their hands up and calling this run completely unacceptable several games ago. Instead we have had a litany of excuses and zero accountability from him. Starting to think a diarrhoea shit has more integrity.

He doesn't need to stoop, he's already sat down. Maybe next game he will actually lie down and bring a pillow?

Literally all of them in the wrong role. He is going to reach Kean levels of resentment if he doesn't fuck off. Even he wasn't playing every player out if position as if he was trying to unlock some sort of xbox achievement.

Although it feels like they don't give the merest toss, from the constant radio silence, it's not very likely to be true. Even billionaires aren't going to ignore one of their businesses that owes them nearly 200 million and counting, with about 20 million of losses adding on every year. The fat one is probably still watching the games too I imagine. He is supposedly fairly into football. The other two probably just periodically check the results. Besides that, even if none of them are paying any mind beyond occasional reviews, their man Pasha will be.

Anyone else think Gareth Ainsworth looks a bit like Loki today?

If we are going to lose, which it very much looks like we are, I think I'd rather Wycombe bag another goal or two. Maybe, just maybe (I know, hope against hope) the penny will drop in Pune if we get tonked off a poor team likely to get relegated.

Oh I have the game on. I'm just only actually watching about half of it.

Aye we over-rotate for sure. But I was more getting at, the fact we do rotate so much should reduce the frequency of injuries we are getting. But even with the excessive rotation, somebody seems to get injured every game. Aside from whatever is happening in training, I also blame the way Mowbray doesn't wait for players to properly recover and thrusts them in too early, even when we have reasonable alternatives. The main reason for rotation should be to manage fitness, but Tony will run someone into the ground, his rotation primarily happens due to thinking he has to tailor the whole team to the opposition we face. So it ends up not really helping prevent injuries.

That moment then, where whoever that was on the edge of the box had the perfect opportunity to shoot, with a decent chance of scoring, but instead they did some ridiculous pirouette to backheel it to nobody, sums us up more than any other moment I've seen all season.

Was actually me that said that 😉 I honestly don't know what the fuck we do to pick up this many injuries, but it has to be due to the training. We rotate constantly, even in a season as congested as this it shouldn't be so bad. Obviously it doesn't help that our transfer strategy, such as it is, doesn't take any account of injury records (Ayala, Holtby).

I actually didn't even see any of those. Except for Brereton's offside shot. That shows how much I can be arsed to watch right now. My personal highlight of the match so far is a comment I saw on Facebook before we had registered a shot, which probably took us until the half hour mark. 'Like an anti-vaxxer rally. Not a shot in sight.'

But I think we can class it as Arse and Laborious.

I've got very sad news. Once that's over, there's a whole other 45 plus injury time to play. I know, feels like we have already been bored for 90.

Not sure about that. There is a theme of the entire squad being injury prone, I think the graduates merely continue that theme.

Oh look, JRC went off injured yet again. If only we hadn't needed to risk him because we have a better right back in better shape.

We sure are, heavily. 61% possession, good eh? Meanwhile in less important markers of how well a game is going, we have had 0 shots and Wycombe have had 5.

Absolutely. How else will we get another 5 loans to fill the gaps left by poor recruitment strategy when we had a budget? Got to be able to repeat that cycle again, obviously.

Worrying if we are going to rely on all four of those when none have really shown it sufficiently at this level yet. And it would still leave us with a significant shortfall of playing staff, especially experienced ones.

Christ. Firstly, if there is any 'call' to be made on Armstrong for the next game, that call needs to be that he sits it out. We have nothing really to play for anymore and he is our only remaining 1) source of plenty of goals and 2) asset we could sell for a lot. If he picks up a serious injury now, we are goosed. But worse than that...it's going to be a summer of loan signings?! Again?! How is that even going to work? We already have a bunch of players on loan who will likely bugger off. 4 isn't it? And the max you can have is 5. On top of that a huge chunk of the team are going to be out of contract as things stand. Bringing in the max loanees and losing the current ones only gives us a surplus of 1 to compensate for all the out of contract players. Yes, some of them might sign new deals, but there are quite a few most of wouldn't want to sign. And it's a lot of negotiating to go, on that many deals, with us moving at a seemingly glacial pace. Those comments, with our head of recruitment also gone, make this summer and next season look like an enormous impending disaster. It makes me want to find if I can get odds yet on us going down next season. If they have even the merest sense of planning, you'd think they'd have identified all of this. The only ways to make it work would be to either get almost everyone expiring onto new deals, or to meet the shortfall with youth players coming through. If we are depending even slightly on the latter, they need to start getting more pitch time NOW.

How do we get to 13 million? I can think of Hanley for 5 million, Raya for 3. The lad who went to Leicester for 1. Then a bunch that sold in the 500k or less region - O'Connell, the youth keeper we sold (to Liverpool? Everton?), Mahoney...think there might be one or two more I'm forgetting. Are we counting Olsson, is that why? Seen him mentioned a few times here. I guess technically he counts, but he was a few months off being 18 when we signed him halfway through the season. I think we paid a fee, and he made his debut the next season, so tbh it seems a bit generous. We hardly 'made' him. I think people should keep in mind that in the past when we brought through all the players mentioned, we could offer them a direct route to Premiership football. This not only makes it harder to attract youngsters, but it means we can't develop them with Premiership games when we give them a chance. This also reduces the profile of said players, meaning that when they sell, they sell for less than players who have 5-10 Prem games under their belts. It also means the calibre of loan we can get them is at a lower level because of this perception. Some pretty average youngsters get a shot in the Championship, and I'm sure at times this is due to perception. How often do Championship sides borrow youngsters from other Championship academies? That's not just down to academy status. I could be wrong but I don't think Derby send youth players on loan within the Championship and they have a top academy too. Our youngsters of course need to break into our first team to get exposure at this level. Also, I think people are forgetting that a lot of these still have time on their hands, whilst we are looking at the ones from yesteryear when their careers are over or nearly over.