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We are playing very well, passing it confidently, bossing possession. Here's what happens next. We'll concede a shit fucking goal, a really crap one, go to pieces, and lose.

There's actually no spending big enough to save us. We need a keeper, a left back, a right back (now Hutton's fucked), a midfielder and a really good striker. No chance.

The worrying thing about this is that it is happening tomorrow, January the fucking 12th, rather than about a month ago when it should have happened. We are doomed. We truly are being run by the thickest cunts ever to 'grace' the national game, just staggering.

They'd need to find another £25m for the increase in the BUPA subs.

My, aren't Stoke fans ugly?

I thought he had - did a double check, but thought "nah, he can't have"

Nice for the fans to get the chance to wave their heroes off

He is very talented, but to be honest, in the position we are in at the moment, we either play Gil or Grealish, we can't afford to play both of them. Grealish has been really piss poor this season. I know they all have, but people forget he's still an unproven kid. That "OMG! WILL HE PLAY FOR US OR IRELAND!11!!!" thing kind of obscured the fact that he's a kid with a handful of top flight starts under his belt. Even so, don't think I'd loan him out. Just saying, though, he's far from our best player.

That's exactly like us with Lerner for the last five years. So long as we could cling on in the top flight, that was enough for him. 17th is a success for him. Other than the fact that Ashley is also, as a person, a massive, massive cunt (which I don't think Lerner is), their reasons for being involved in the game are the same. All that CGAF / slopey shoulders / just don't get relegated attitude drips down from the top and permeates both clubs like a leaking fucking toilet. And that is precisely why the rest of the league, let alone fans of teams in other leagues, want the likes of us and you (and Sunderland, for that matter) to get relegated, because as much as it is always funny to see big names suffer, both clubs have contributed absolutely fucking ZERO to the league for years. Check this out, for example. This is our CEO speaking, yesterday, a day in which we've completed our 19th game without a win. How can you even begin to deal with people with this attitude?

Imagine being able to win matches. Fuck the bed.

Ah, the good times of the Sherwood era.

We scored against you. touché

Yes. Ah, the good times of the Lambert era.....

The only criteria for a team to get beaten by us is that they need to be completely unable to score against us. If they fit that bill, we have a chance of winning. Recently we've specialised in looking the best team for most of the game, only to give it away with one or two absolute gifted soft goals, so basically, we need opponents so inept, they won't take those offerings.

if the owner isn't interested and their transfer policy just looks for bargains it doesn't really matter who their manager is. very similar to our club We're improved under Garde, and I understand how he has played for draws in a few recent matches, but I do think he was negative today. People are basically lashing out at anyone. You think your season is bad, look at our current points tally. It's like the last days of Vietnam down here.

It doesn't matter who we appointed this time, we were a juggernaut heading for relegation by the time Garde came - W1 D1 L9 - that's an awful record, a lot of momentum to stop.

Us, you and Sunderland for the drop I'm afraid. And whilst there is an element of "well, at least we're not the only 'big' club to go down this season" / misery loves company about it, it really only makes it harder to get promoted next season. We are so awful, I can barely find sufficiently scathing words to describe it. There is a cancer that runs through our club from the very top down. I honestly can't expand on it, because it makes me so fucking angry. Sadly, you have a similar problem. Us, you, the mackems, three clubs with self-interested, detached, CGAF chairmen, leaving things to be run by absolute fucking morons who fuck everything up. There's a reason the league table looks like it does.

What was weird. We are woefully, woefully short of confidence, so fucking fragile. A point is huge for us. going a goal down, awful conditions, tricky fixture, nervous as fuck, this is what we need - get something from a match we're not fancied to get anything from and stabilise things. That was two awful sides out there, though.

Game over.

Weather looks awful. I'd have snapped your arm off for an abandonment before this match.

This is awful. What time does the dancing start?

Alan Hutton gamely but pointlessly galloping forward always reminds me of the rider-less horses enthusiastically galloping around Aintree in the National.

I was just thinking exactly that, He must be fucking paranoid about them.

Newsflash It doesn't matter if you play Perez and Mitrovic or not, you could play Jimmy Nail and Alan Robson from Night Owls instead of them and you'd still win. Stop panicking, FFS.

We are awful, and that's a bad line up. You'll win at a canter. Our only chance of turning things round is if we buy big, and well, at the start of January.