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Bloody well hope not. He's still shit even if he's played slightly better since we switched to 3-5-2.

So then, why won't they pay the going rate for established Championship players anymore?

Nope. And still waiting in vain for this "We usually seem to pull out a win when we really need it" type victory. (Although I appreciate you've changed your mind and now only think we'll beat Wednesday 🙂 )

You keep making a similar point, that one of the problems is Venky's are so rich they don't need to sell and also won't be starved out etc etc...... Well, seemingly, they aren't so FU rich that they are still either able, or perhaps more pertinently, willing, to pay the going rate for established Championship players anymore! So I think further reductions in revenue will be relevant. To me there's clearly a limit to their annual funding that they are not willing to go beyond and it seems to be getting steadily less and less all the time.

Absolutely. It just makes us look ridiculous. Christ, if the IMPROVED bid was £1.5m, what must the first bid have been like? Im surprised other Clubs bother even picking the phone up when we ring.

It's rather more a hope than an expectation in my case on the basis that it's becoming an increasingly odd look for the 2 stooges if they don't act. Ill carry on banging the drum on a daily basis though because I dont want us to go down without a whimper. Imo if we don't get an absolute minimum return of 4 points from the next two home homes our fate will be sealed and I dont think Ismael will get them. Should have gone long ago, but given he didn't the preparatory work should have been done to allow him to be sacked immediately following yesterday's game (where a boycott was being called) and give someone else a chance of getting a decent return from the next 2 games.

Yet a quick scan of the other site will see numerous examples of where you've liked posts from other contributors being extremely abusive towards people who support the call for a boycott or of the organisers in particular.

Irrespective of that he SHOULD still be gone though (and a long time ago) so Id expect anyone with half a brain cell to be saying that rather than "It doesnt matter because we don't operate like a normal Club." It does matter. Massively.

It was never really about numbers for me today. The longest journey begins with a single step as the saying goes. Don't be discouraged and good luck going forward.

Great post, my sentiments entirely.

I did enjoy seeing VVD, the rest of the Liverpool players and Slot complaining bitterly about a non existent foul for Bournemouth's winner as well. Entitled tossers.

Quite so. If the view is that boycotting/ protests etc will make no difference whatsoever, then it doesn't matter in the slightest whether they happen or not does it? Not sure why it's any skin off anyone's nose.

If you think we won't end up in administration if the V's stay in charge that's fair enough but I fear you'll be sadly disappointed. I think the clock is clearly ticking and there's only a limited amount of value left they can squeeze out of it. So to rephrase it your solution is to do nothing and just hope for the best?

Im struggling to see what point it is you're trying to make. So you think we should say and do nothing until we ACTUALLY end up in administration as opposed to acting beforehand and trying to prevent it happening in the first place?

Sorry to hear about your Parent. Hope all is as well as could be expected For me, its needs to be a co-ordinated and fairly relentless schedule of different types of protest. Don't let up. And you also imo need to try and co-ordinate some fund raising efforts to give you some fighting funds.

Got players back and STILL didnt win.

So in a nutshell you think we shouldn't bother either protesting against the owners or asking for a Head Coach of Kean/Coyle levels of incompetence to be sacked?

Personally I think that's stating the bleeding obvious but it certainly bears repeating.

I asked my mate who attended to take a video of the crowd. He and his son didnt think there was much difference to normal but I have to say it looks exceptionally sparse to me. Despite all this 11,600 bollux, which Im sure no-one is fooled by, the Club will know the REAL numbers and I'd imagine they're absolutely shitting themselves at the prosect of a catastrophic drop in ST revenue next time round. Keep plugging away boys and girls of The Coalition. Rome wasn't built in a day. VID-20260124-WA0011.mp4

Only "pointless" if you're fully on board with what ever the fuck it is that the owners, management and Ismael are trying to achieve.

One win in 14, 4 home wins in 20 since joining the Club. We simply can't win a game under Ismael. Sick of saying it but we'll go down if he isn't potted - and fast. And I dont even think it will be close.

No doubt you'll be screaming for Ohashi to be booked.

7,600 looks about right tbf. The question is how that stacks up against other Saturday "real" attendances.

End of the day you usually get what you pay for and we paid £250k.

A point's not good enough with Oxford winning and given it would leave Portsmouth level on points with two games in hand.