Mattyblue

Got to say I think Don Goodman is an excellent pundit, really understands the game and doesn’t just talk in s load of platitudes.

Proper football city, Sheffield. Two clubs in the second and third tiers and they’ve been pulling in well over 50,000 between them each week. Yet they get nowhere near the arse kissing that one club big city outfits like Leeds and Newcastle get.

If we had finished 7th under a load of parachute clubs in the play offs then I’d agree we’d ‘over achieved’, but below Cov, Sunderland and Luton shows it was for the taking. Decent season, but even spinner-in-chief, GB, mentioned that we can’t ‘cry about budgets when you see who was in the play offs’.

The EFL will be rubbing their hands too, there will be hordes of Owls (or is it a parliament?) heading down to Wembley now instead.

Ha I have, the day he went, although others on here…

Just telling you what he said, TM was calling him ‘head of football’ at one point .

He didn’t here either, that was up to Venus (along with real estate).

He must definitely be on his way out then…

Roverandout has just been triggered 😁

Think Scott Wharton was mentally there with him.

Of course you can go through the fixtures and say ‘if this’ ‘if that’, however to throw away two *consecutive* wins in just four days in the run-in with 94th minute goals will always be the killer week…

A bloke thats a leader and offers experience in a squad seriously lacking it, pre match you would often see him talking things through with the other defenders etc. But just like Boro fans said, he would disappear for months in winter, so ultimately not someone you can keep around on his wages.

All relative. Some of us now are the equivalent of the old timers who wouldn’t praise the heroes of the 70s and 80s ‘well they ain’t Duggy’. Dack is no Jansen, never mind Shearer, but if you are a younger fan who has come of age in this shit show of a decade he’d still be a legend for you…

Oh they’ll definitely fill it, Luton is an hour from Wembley and Cov have a big floating fanbase in the city itself and across Warwickshire and other parts of the WM.

Phase 2 ends a week on Friday, so presumably a second hike just in time for payday so the one chance to actually flog a few more will be up in smoke. A commercial operation that has long lost the plot…

No

End of the day of the manager doesn’t fancy him and wants to take the team in a different direction, then fair enough… so let’s just hope we aren’t seeing another statement re his own position in the coming weeks.

I would wager it won’t make one iota of difference to the quality of player we would see getting into the first team here - which is the entire point of being Cat 1. So keep it, remove it, makes no odds.

So we wouldn’t be seeing the likes of Adam Wharton and Phillips without relegation at U21 level? (Despite not having it at U18s?)

‘The disaster that was almost brilliant’

What’s that got to do with my question?

The games aren’t *competitive*, doesn’t mean that individual young lads aren’t committed.

You five years old?

Yet pundits aways come out with the usual cliches that’s its the exact opposite, I.e 6th place and then storming to promotion- Kevin Phillips was at it last night…

It is what it is, it will never be ‘competitive’, it’s glorified training matches. A first teamer getting back to fitness will always go through the motions, the cream of the crop like Phillips and Wharton will still make the first team - you want competition, win one of the cups.