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£250,000 wasn't it? AD's biggest spend?

.... but never seemingly with so much, doing so (comparatively) little?

Luton sell their talent?

It's like FA Cup R3 there, every home game.

Like bleedin' porridge

Not everyone dwells in reality, nor even wants to. Not everyone goes to football to stare reality in the face. What was it Wade Elliott said about not being able to bear too much reality?

Manchester City’s Neil Young reckoned "only love can break your heart," but they didn't have the play offs back in those days

@EnclosureSurge? @Huntstile Red?

Half-time is as good a time as any to "manage" a game, though, you might think

And there will likely be some of the "mindset" the new chap wants gone soon as possible

Isn't it more the one-touch stuff, or moving the ball quickly, that opens teams up, rather than the slow possession amongst the back four? If the defenders build up slowly and then the forward players take umpteen touches, or go back and sideways, then most opposition will cope comfortably, most of the time. Even ourselves will cope with slow play from opponents, for the most part. Playing it first time and quickly involves taking risks and risking failure, and testing the patience of the crowd if and when it doesn't come off. The players need to be brave. Manning's job is to foster courage and confidence, and shoulder the flak when it goes wrong. The crowd need to see it working - at home - often enough, to develop "belief" and patience. Seeing is believing. And all this while picking up enough points to keep well clear of the bottom 6 or 7.

Dunno, the people on this thread, maybe? What shall we talk about instead?

And next season, 1 point per game?

Ok, we need to be worried then

We just don't know how the rest of this season will go, or what LM will be like. We don't, and cannot, know. The future under Nige looked steady; the future now, no-one knows. Not even Brian Tinnion.

I don't understand that game neither, then (?)

Probably a good job you didn't arrive here in 2021 then Liam, if you find the "culture and mindset" not up to scratch in 2023

A defeat Saturday ..... ...... puts us ..... some way off the Top Six

He has gambled, that's what he's done.

European manager needed, more like, I would say. Or we cast our net a little further than this little island and the home-grown coaches that wouldn't be getting jobs elsewhere in the non-English speaking football world. It's almost comical the way we continue to recruit for this position in the same way from the same "pool" as we have since before the 20th century got going, despite all the evidence pointing to the fact that English/UK coaches are not the best, not even in England. I am at this moment reminded of Carry On Up The Khyber where the Lansdowns are dining with Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Peter Butterworth and Joan Sims, continuing to select from the English "menu," whilst being shelled from those ghastly foreign chaps, and the ceiling and plaster falling around them as they carry on regardless.

What you could reasonably say about and expect from Nige, is that he would keep us in this division; it might not be pretty, or exciting, and we would throw the odd one way late on, but he could keep this ship afloat. With his successor, nobody can be reasonably sure of anything. We just don’t know. There's insufficient to go on.

.... but likely to finish 14th - 17th

One win v Norwich in the last 13, is it? And that one win was by one goal. Draw tomorrow, I reckon

....and by two goals, please

Lose tomorrow we go again