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is the league code ibd4ma for the standard fantasy league? its saying the code is invalid but maybe that's because the season has started?

We'd be lightyears better with two good fullbacks who can provide us with proper width if we're sticking with 3 at the back. After that, replace whoever leaves and maybe one other attacking player as we don't have any other options but Rondon, Almiron and Perez.

So 6 of the 7 clubs with the worst finances in the Championship the year we went up are now in the premiership? Wednesday must be gutted Also how the fuck are Villa not bottom of that.

tune ? Turning Japanese by the vapors surely. Yep. What else would it possibly be? Someone put yellow submarine above I was meant to quote that message as well. That woosh smiley still lying around anywhere...

Shola's a ledge, you can all fuck off

It was a completely bonkers substitution

I get that. What is there to lose though? I'm at the point staying up means Ashley wins and going down might help me the start of getting rid of him People have been saying on here it would be better if we go down pretty much every season since the last year of souness' time here. Might just be me but I can't see what is to be gained by perpetually wishing for relegation. It's shit at the moment, ashley is locked in a destructive power play with Rafa and doesn't seem to have any long term ambitions for the club, but what your essentially asking us for is to do a Sunderland, and even if it forces Ashley out I'm not sure we would be in a better situation.

Pretty much what I thought, although I can't see there being a direct relationship between our transfer funds and the house of fraser. He can't use the club like a cash machine.

what the fuck was that about.

Not sure but I think there are some decent bets out there. On bet365 wolves and soton are 15/2 to go down. Burnley are 4/1. Very long odds in my opinion. I know wolves are spending but they're a newly promoted team and its a competitive league down there. Similar with soton with Hughes as their manager. Also west brom at 5/2 Shrewsbury at 9/1 Accrington Stanley at 25/1 all for promotion are decent shouts. Stanley won the league after a ridiculous run last season and newly promoted clubs often do well in league one, although rarely get promoted it has to be said. I've put around 8 6-pound banker accumulators on juve, bayern, psg, celtic and 2 from 4 of a variety of selections including the above and a few more (huddlesfield down, pompey, Notts county, mkdons up, Chelsea on the all teams points handy cap thingy can't remember what it's called).

Definitely trying to be optimistic but a return of almost a goal/ assist every other game in a team at the bottom of the league isn't dreadful. Should be an improvement on joselu I guess.

much rather have a really difficult start of the season than a really easy one. First few games are always a lottery, if you do what Palace did last season it can fuck your entire year up. Plus rafa's teams always get better through the season and its a world cup year so a lot of the top 6's players will probably be returning pretty knackered.

Ben Arfa cost 4.5mill or something riddiculous. The guy is good but the lack of any genuine flair in that position is hurting us

That would kill Woodman (and potentially us if Dubravka got injured). He needs a full (probably two) seasons out on loan playing week in week out before he'll be anywhere near PL level. He's made 35 senior starts and he's just turned 21. I don't see much problem with him having half a season at the club and half a season out on loan for instance for a couple of more years. Pickford had made 130 by the same age. We're wasting the lads' key development years with shoddy loans. He's not PL standard yet. Miles off physically and technically, and he's not gonna improve unless he starts playing regularly. Another year like the one he's just had needs to be avoided at all costs. His Wiki says it was 93, 29 of those in non-league. Even so, I doubt he was in the first-team squad during a lot of that time either. Woodman would likely be training with the first-team everyday, learning from Rafa, Dubravka, the staff, in a Premier League environment. There's also no reason why he couldn't push Dubravka within a year or two. Dubravka's good but he's not exactly elite. At the same stage, Shay Given had played 24 times by the way. His next season was as first choice Newcastle keeper. He needs to be playing games. It would be crazy not to send him on loan next year.

With the amount chelsea probably want for him, as well as interest from other clubs, i would have been surprised if a deal had been agreed yet. I'd also be very surprised if we didn't try and sign him.

I'm personally not interested in loans next season (unless there is deal in place to buy them, already agreed), this season it was necessary because we clearly didn't have the finances. There is literally no excuse, even though it looks practically certain that Ashley will still be in charge for next season. They've gotten through a PL season, without spending anywhere near the amount they should have, coupled with a low wage bill by PL standards and off a huge profit on transfer dealings the previous year. I don't buy any stories of poverty because we spent one year out of the top flight. We can't get sucked into the loan game like the Mackems did, it will kill your club in the end, while just aiding the development assets of teams you compete against. No problem with the Merino, Dubravka and Atsu type deals, but don't want another Kenedy one for next year. If we did a loan for Barkley would need that buy option inserted. Depends on who is available. Discounting Dubravka and Merino who both had options to buy, we've only had one loan all season. I'd take on more in a similar deal with Kennedy if it would enable us to fill two positions instead of one.

Huddersfield are gone imo. A point today would have helped massively. They'll lose all their last 3 Southampton need one more win. Going to be difficult away to Everton and Swansea I'd like to see Swansea win tonight just to wipe that smug grin off Hughes's face. I've got a bet of Brom 20th, Stoke 19th, Soton 18th for a grand so hoping for the same fucking shite bet to put on as you need teams to do well, but shite at he same time. Fingers crossed for you . Not a good day today for you though . Put it on about 10 games ago and been going swimmingly until now

Huddersfield are gone imo. A point today would have helped massively. They'll lose all their last 3 Southampton need one more win. Going to be difficult away to Everton and Swansea I'd like to see Swansea win tonight just to wipe that smug grin off Hughes's face. I've got a bet of Brom 20th, Stoke 19th, Soton 18th for a grand so hoping for the same fucking shite bet to put on as you need teams to do well, but shite at he same time.

Huddersfield are gone imo. A point today would have helped massively. They'll lose all their last 3 Southampton need one more win. Going to be difficult away to Everton and Swansea

swansea draw and brom are down because of southampton's win

... or just good goals scored against newcastle/england . Some ridiculous suggestions. I do think Bergkamp, Giggs and Gazza are good shouts. They scored other good goals but there is one very prominent one that comes to mind for each, for me anyway. Also Di Matteo (although might just be me as it was the first FA cup final I watched). Rooney scored too many other goals of equal standing to his goal v everton. Vs city at the very least.

Which one? The one against us? The overhead kick? The halfway line one? The same with Bergkamp. The goal against us or the one v Argentina? His first ever. Bergkamp, against us. absolutely ludicrous His goal against Argentina by a country mile

My prediction... D W L L D D L L 6 more points... How's this looking? W W W W tbh even if we'd had those results, looking at the table I'd still be confident of staying up. we'd need one more win.

One more win and may as well change the thread to top 8ometer

Half the players on that list would be a disaster. Stephens and jese? Seriously? Southampton are in the relegation zone for a reason