Mattyblue

About three months apart, I’ll always remember the Arsenal game as I went on a protest pre match and got an earful for a load around m as I took my seat - ‘just get behind ‘em’ FFS’ Needless to say most of said fans have long disappeared…

To be fair that’s more in depth knowledge than most journos cobble together in the national press.

Yep, you can’t keep going to the well on relegation and bouncing back. Look at Norwich and Watford, perennial yo-yo clubs - Watford have now lost their parachutes and every chance Norwich will have by the end of the month too and then you are back with the herd. Keep turning over your squads, get stuck with demotivated high earners, some poor signings and before you know it, it’s gone as per Hudds, Stoke and many others.

Your first example, fair enough, that’s what happens when you get out of the habit. The second one - shame on them.

17 points in 16 games, that is a relegation points tally extrapolated. So forget ‘x wins’, ‘x defeats’, ‘x clean sheets’, ‘couldn’t win at home’. It’s all about points however you get them, home wins, away wins, nicking 1-0s or whatever, who cares and that point tally generally isn’t enough to stay up, never mind leading to having a decent season. However, his job was to keep us up - he did, in tough circumstances as always when you come in mid season to a struggling team and you want to play in a vastly different way. Some silly hyperbole about how he’s been ‘superb’, as is the he’s ’almost Kean now’ nonsense. So yes, he does get a fresh start from me, but it is no coincidence that all his wins came away, that’s just how he set up the team - with no Sammie going forward and back on 0 points , he will have to fundamentally change his approach to home games, and perhaps he will as the means to end that was his role this season is put to bed (and thank feck it is).

Leeds games are seldom bore fests.

Those three wins in that manner being the three to do it does seem random and implausible… if the wins had been, say, home games against Millwall, Plymouth and 10 man Cov, perfectly plausible.

Most boycotting began a decade plus ago and the vast majority of those fans are now long gone. If ST numbers fall further this summer, the non renewing fan won’t be seeing it as a boycott, they’ll have just had enough of a shambolic football club charging them top dollar for a poor product… and that’s fair enough - their cash, their time, their blood pressure.

Has Longers forgot his password?

Remember when Pick hoped someone would break his legs?

Shite season, no question - but what a way to end. Presumably they had the prices set up and ready to go for both outcomes - so get the ST on sale, tonight and tap into the buzz… they won’t, presumably we’ll see them at some point in June.

It’s on the shirt sleeve, it sponsors the academy teams and it’s all over the ground already, so it would make any difference to me… and surely it’s a way of those ‘that never refuse a cheque’ to put more into the club.

So why isn’t Venky’s the title sponsor then? Like Etihad at City or bet365 at Stoke?

So like roverandout said you were happy for him to leave, mid season, with the team doing perfectly fine… worked out well since, hasn’t it.

Bloody hell Paul if we get a post as downbeat as that from you then we really are heading for the abyss. 😔

He did, ‘Well, I’ve heard he wanted a job in the Middle East’ he kept banging on about.

One home win since mid December, only one on a Saturday between October and the end - must be one of our worst ever home campaigns… looking forward for when they eventually decide to put STs on sale; ‘forget about our neighbours doing them for £200-£300, roll up roll up for more of the same for £400-£500+!’

That Scott must be some player at £25million, because people are telling me on here that AW wasn’t a steal for Palace at £18million.

‘Only won x’, ‘only lost x’, ‘6 games conceding x’’. Only one stat matters, points - and he hasn’t got them, not even averaged a point a game.

“I don't think we will be celebrating if we stay up. At the start of the season, we wanted to be in and around the play-offs. "If we go and win, brilliant. But we won't be celebrating because we know, as a group of players, we are miles better than what we have shown this season. "We have to stay in the league. When we came in for pre-season, we wanted to be fighting at the other end, trying to get in the Premier League. Best have a word with your gaffer, Hayden.

“Venky’s, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability”

Always makes me laugh when people try and say the Rovers job isn’t an attractive one - it’s bloody fantastic for your journeyman manager. No pressure at all to get results, no chance of the sack for as long as you have a contract, so you can just get your feet under the table in a nice environment like Brockhall.

But I bet he’s on a decent wedge as he ended up with a decent reputation, his stock seemed fairly high… largely because Rooney made a complete horlicks with Birmingham after him.

There’s loads of managers out there, it’s not ‘99s role to find one, that’s the job of the club hierarchy to unearth - who saw JDT coming? Chaddy didn’t.

Loads of games at the start, fair enough, but he’s had plenty of time on the training ground and largely one game a week since mid-March. But yes, it’s a tough gig , no question, but I’m afraid context doesn’t matter a jot when you get relegated. Personally I’d be very uneasy if we do manage to scramble to safety to have this fella in situ in August sitting on 0 points. But he will be here for as long as he fancies - so not a lot we can do but hope he does vastly improve with a summer behind him.