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One. Which is one more than us. Along with reaching the lottery of the playoffs 3 times, which is 3 more than us. And spending zero seasons in League One, which is one less than us. They've only finished in the bottom half of the Championship twice, which is four less than us. Even taking out the fact that we have objectively performed worse than them in this period, I'm really not sure what your point is. Are you suggesting it would be best to not support the manager and to not reinvest?

The car in question is on a hill, and if they don't at least fix the handbrake it will slide backwards.

Sadly, they'll then spend money on replacements.

That's not how it works. Famously, the burden of proof is on the one making the claim, not the one disproving it (at least not until the initial claim is proven). This is because it's generally impossible to prove a negative. I refer you to my previous post where I said I could claim we're pursuing Borja Sainz. It's impossible to prove we're not even though I don't have any proof we are (just like Nicko doesn't). By your logic we would just go off what has been said and assume we are after Borja Sainz. I could make any kind of claim, no matter how ridiculous (eg, Waggott has only got one bollock, or Balaji Rao is actually Elon Musk with a Mission Impossible style face mask) and the same logic applies.

Easy question to answer- because he isn't an honourable man.

It's even easier to claim we only have an interest in him. That can never be disproven. I could claim we had an interest in Borja Sainz, see, easy. Prove me wrong.

God knows why. He couldn't lead a lemming off a cliff.

Unpopular and stupid opinion, sorry to be blunt. Buckley was dogshit, and it was predictable he would be dogshit, because he has been dogshit consistently for a very long time now. I do agree about Brittain though. He was impressive.

They took 30 seconds to take that nonsense free kick, we played 15 seconds after it. Makes sense.

Not sure they were applauding it, they said he's been lucky.

That note the Dingle just got passed- 'your sister is watching, says she won't put out if you lose'

And we have taken off our main knockdown guy.

Buckley was a stupid sub. Predictably fucked up every time he has touched the ball.

Brittain being the best crosser at the club, I do wonder why he doesn't take our corners.

What we should do with him is keep him here as backup.

Agreed, it's definitely not Garrett's game, he's about energy and bustling and hustling. I think you can arguably have him there as long as Tronstad is also there to cover the rash moments, but I think it'd be a waste. Like you I think he can be a poor man's Travis and fill the gap for a bit. I'd rather that (and further cover for the season) than send him on loan again and risk the same shit happening when some team decides they don't want to risk a young player in a relegation/promotion fight or would rather promote their own players and use him as cheap backup. He's too good to be sitting on a League One bench, but the right standard to be sat on a Championship bench for me. (Yeh yeh, cue someone, think I know who, coming in to tell me they don't rate him and he's not League One level again, don't waste your time)

Yeh I'd hoped he might kick on this season, but it's reached the point he's a big wage that needs shedding. Seems the type of player though that I won't be surprised if he has an impressive last 6 months if/when given the chance, because his contract is running down. Happy to let him go this Jan if there are takers.

The most convincing argument I've ever seen for banning A.I.!

The bigger issue than this blatant lie is - wtf have they done to our famous shirt in that terrible mockup?!?

So Nyambe was wrong about being able to get a better contract elsewhere, but Brereton, Lenihan and Rothwell were all correct. Certainly sounds like we can't/won't pay the going rate for the most part.

They do, but they're still not accepting a cut price fee. What they also have history of is holding out for their demands. They probably expect something like £2m plus in tribunal, and whether that's realistic or not they're not going to be accepting less than that, and we aren't paying that. Like you said, they want clubs to not lowball them, so, we won't be getting away with any lowballing, aka a cut price fee. They have no reason to take bids below what they believe they'll get at tribunal. Honestly, just forget about this one lads, at least until summer. Even if it was say £1.5 mill, which it won't be, it's too much of our puny budget for an injured player when we want to challenge for the playoffs.

He isn't on a free transfer at the end of the season. Due to his age and offering him a new deal, Peterborough are due compensation. They're expecting it to be quite a lot, since they paid 'a substantial six figure fee' for him and turned down 3 million plus 3 million in add ons this summer allegedly. They believe they'll get 'millions and millions' at the tribunal. https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/sport/football/peterborough-united/a-club-record-busting-contract-offer-wont-keep-kwame-poku-at-peterborough-united-4864216 There is no cut price deal to be had in January.

Worth noting, Leeds have won 8 of their last 11 games, drawing 2 and losing 1. We are two of those games they've dropped points, including the defeat. All season they've dropped 23 points, and 5 of them were against us. We're more than a fifth of their dropped points all season.

Currently fit are Batth, Hyam, McFadz. With Litherland in reserve. That is too light, yes. Once you add in Carter though, it's 4 senior centre backs for 2 positions and it's fine. Only Carter has had any injury of note this season. There have been 3 of the 4 available at all times this season I think? Or close to it. Throw in someone like James Hill and you're putting 2 from Batth, Carter and Hyam onto the bench from February, which is a silly waste of resources for a club with fuck all resources and a dire need to add goals.

Isn't Carter due back in February? Unless we get another CB injury before then, I don't think it's a priority.