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Hmm I might get rid of him as well but not sure who for. Annoying cos there were 3 viable midfield options at Arsenal last year but none of them are firing consistently this time.

This is where I'd be at with it, I don't see how it makes sense for football or financial reasons. Definitely think there's more to it. Would be gutted if he leaves like, we'd really miss him. We're never allowed to just have nice things

Onuoha is one of the most eloquent pundits around, hope to see him on more stuff.

Aye it's a no from me. Huge character, still a great player, leadership is massive. If there's anything to this then I do wonder if there is stuff going on in his personal life that has brought it on, really can't see us entertaining the idea for football or even financial reasons.

@Rod what are your thoughts?

I'm about 40-50% successful on ballots I'd say, or otherwise always manage tickets in the resale. Think Luton will be the 10th game I've been to this season. Appreciate I seem a lot luckier than most on this. Re resale I do think some might not be persistent enough, as boring as it is to do, but if they are busy then fair enough it's hard to persist to the extent that you often need to. But with the ballot I do wonder if it's truly random. I have a SW postcode on my account, would be some mad shit if only a certain proportion were allocated to NE postcodes Probably not like but just wondering why I might have been a bit luckier than the average, or whether it is truly random.

Weird that the rotation ultra was suggesting we needed to play with more intensity after the first game of our dodgy run (Everton). Presumably these youngsters who nobody thinks are ready would have been capable of coming into the side and meeting his standards. The revisionist nonsense in this thread is insane.

Fair enough, think we can hoy them in the "freak" bracket and not lose too much sleep though.

Agree except I don't think there's any clamouring, from fans or the club. Just stories in the press that hate us and don't want us to do well, probably being fed by his agent. If there ends up being anything in it I'd be shocked and disappointed.

Deeney's a weird one as Italians normally make good managers but can't see it with him.

According to livefpl my team is unique among the top 1m, not sure how common that is Had KDB and Palmer captain so doing quite well this week even with an 8 point hit, still only about 400k like but was 2.6m after GW11.

I wasn't there today but have been to about two thirds of the home games this season. Generally I think the atmosphere is pretty good these days but there's a definite "fairweather" aspect to it. The place is bouncing when things are going well and the players feed off it but when there's a lull then the crowd go missing and need something to lift them. I don't know what the answer is but it seemed to me tonight that the players really could have done with a lift from the crowd those last ten minutes. I know teams like Man City can suck the life out of you but when the team are giving everything and experiencing adversity then the nervous energy from the stands probably doesn't help.

It sums you up Branko, you heard him.

Massively. If we had 2 or 3 front 6 players on the bench we'd have won that game. Every time we went forward first half we were threatening, the team flagged second half as the capacity to change personnel once again wasn't there. We were against the top club side in the world as they're hitting their top form and made them look toothless and vulnerable for long periods. There were way more positives than negatives to take from today.

Well that's deeply fucking concerning.

Can you stop posting this fucking drivel for us all to read and go sleep the booze off pls, thx.

unbelievable

Appears to have an answer.

Yessss fucking telt yer, we're in this game

Commentators wanking themselves silly over Man City passing the ball about, meanwhile every time we've attacked we've looked dangerous.

Oh good, this again.

Disgraceful non-decision.

Absolutely boring as fuck, this lot. Again.

Yeah I agree - the figure should be being increased to be fair to the likes of Villa and us, but just saying that's how it would be justified imo. That it sends the wrong message out to clubs in the old Leeds bracket and makes them more likely to get in trouble. The whole thing was outdated and overly simplistic the moment it was introduced. Like I say it's like they've just looked at what Man City have done and put rules in place to make it impossible that it happens again. The very definition of pulling the ladder up.