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More than 6!! Fisher and Marcondes missed chances / had shots blocked towards the end. Slimane shot narrowly wide, Sargents pen... that's just in the 2nd half where we scored 2 as it is. Were we more lethal Hull would have been begging for the final whistle before the end of the first 45.

Clubs just won't sack players for the time being. Football transfers are farcical anyway. Fifa have long needed to sort out transfer rules. They are long overdue a shake up. FFP or whatever it's called now doesn't really work. The FA's homegrown rule never worked to do as intended, in fact, made it worse (thanks Greg ****). Transfers between clubs owned by the same 'group'/people are dodgy AF too. And yet we're meant to trust FIFA etc. It's honestly laughable. I feel sorry for Big Sam, he got exposed but it's a drop in the ocean of corruption and rubbish, dodgy practice in football. It's what happens when there is far too much money in something. It's like tapping up rules. You can't tell me players aren't getting tapped up?

Just don't tell anyone the secret corridor we met that bloke in who gave us the info ok? P.S. Was it Cooolknee or Carra Rudd?

Yup, though not the first to suggest a short term deal... 😉

How to respond to journalists of shoite rags like the Daily Heil. Not all journo's are gutter hacks and harassers.

I think we burned through our energy pretty hard. Sargent was playing 60-70mins as not fully fit. Barnes was brought back in and seemingly not fully fit either. It felt like we were driving the pedal hard into the metal where other teams could ease of the gas a bit if that makes sense? The team looked jaded and tired Vs Leeds, in both legs, but especially the 2nd.

Doubt it tbh but who knows. I don't think Lineker is going anywhere. A few searches just brings up the Telegraph. I'm calling BS on it.

And yet some folks on here are arguing 'dad's army' were better than what we have now...

I believe there already was a succession plan with Jenas... if Lineker goes... Shearer? Roy Keane?

Yawn. If he gets sacked for speaking the truth, after the last time where the BBC admitted their rules went too far so they revised their rules. He's a decent chap that was due to step down from MotD with Jenas lined up to replace him until he started harassing women in the studio. I suppose for balances sake they should get Joey Barton to do it. He's not quite Tommy ten names Robinson, but that way leaning.

Don't agree. More potential this year. It's not so much about instant success but building towards success.

Summer transfer window was pretty decent considering the behaviour of players like Idah and Rowe. You can't legislate for injuries and some of it appears to be ability to play Hoffs style. Fasi, for example, not given a chance wide. Onel injured along with Barnes means Crnac wide and Sargent up front is what we're looking at. Roberts not deamed quite ready too. I suspect it could be more about experience too. Onel and Barnes represent our two most experienced players in the attacking department both in number of games and the level at which they've played. Youth is grand, you still need some wise heads. McLean and Duffy are it on the pitch at the moment.

They might have been... they are all free agents, a number of them in their 30's. They are likely to stay unattached if they are looking for a final payday. Balotelli to Div 3 in Spain underlines that. Hold out for £45kpw and end up on £0pw, or compromise?

Balotelli anyone? 😁

Ahh yes, the professionals/experts are wrong argument crops up again. The team surviving is in 17th place. How many points did they need to stay up? Not how many points did they get. If you want to question the model that has been used for as long as I can remember, simply saying it isn't correct is not a position. How many points the team in 18th that didn't stay up, needed to stay up isn't ever the question as their points total sets the bar for 17th. Ergo, you do it that way and a loop occurs.