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True. But you could also achieve this goal - avoiding relegation - by getting 60 points and finishing 12th. Or 70 points, and just missing out on the play-offs. Or even by getting promotion (this is a bloody great way of avoiding relegation). We didn’t have to be almost exactly as shite as last season to avoid relegation. More than one way to skin a cat, as the lad at West 'am'll tell you....

They could try the medium of dance and movement, then, instead? Or sculpture? To say what needs to be said without saying it, or not saying it.

So many of your posts are: "I understand football. Other people do not." Don't know if you have noticed this?

Non. Je ne forget rien

You would still have gone to Halifax midweek in 82/3, and I don’t think she would've stood for/comprendez-vous'd that. And she's more chien than chat so no chance ....

Look again. Keep looking

I think Nige has "failed" to inspire or cajole any more than the very bare minimum out of what is not a strong squad. In a very difficult situation, in a more difficult challenge than that faced by LJ here, he has struggled to "manage," but he has avoided the ultimate "failure" of relegation but not by much, and quite possibly due to the points reductions elsewhere. Next season looks like another grim struggle but who knows.

If we're accepting that by Christmas, we'll be L1 again by the Christmas after next

It doesn't look good, no, but we are 17 points above Posh, and they're going down, and we're staying up. So, over the course of a season rather than 90 minutes, Nige has delivered! as far as us and Posh are concerned.

I'm off to bed, mate

Wait till he wakes up

You don't agree with Pearson saying it was "bonkers" ?

On the One Show the other week on the telly, a Doc was talking about sleep, a big Oxford sleep census, and it turnts out the poorest sleepers are up north, the best down south. And they sleep best of all, apparently, in Guernsey. So, I think Steve is asleep.

The "existing strategy" was creaking, wasn’t it?

Jon said we should be doing better.

Sir Alf saw himself as a cut above all that hullabaloo and a cut above the players and 'umble, track suited coaching staff. Alf was (trying to be) a Gentleman, he was in to climbing the social ladder. To have cavorting about would've undone that. He never 'ad all them "helocution" lessons to go and blow it by jumping about like the serfs/players with the country watching just because we won a cup.

Thresh metal. Tune!

No, not a 'Thresher' ? - and we used to have a Thresher at AG, you know

@Davefevs said they are, so I think yer answer is: wood

Ok. What time is it again?

We were so much younger then .... or was it older?

No, no, you were right, he was abrasive, wasn’t he?

He's had months up that High Di Hi Performance Centre with this shite squad!

We don’t know about potential future owners and cannot be expected to, but we all know SL by now and are reasonably qualified to pass (some) judgement on this club with him as owner.

Well, better or worser. Or both. But quite possibly more interesting, and less stultifying/dull.