Baba Yaga

It wouldn't surprise me that the many American owners buying PL clubs were thinking about the opportunity of making the Prem closer to the US model down the road. I think all the US sports teams are profitable as they have no relegation, salary caps, little regard for local fans moving home games and sometimes moving to a new city etc. I think baseball has around 160 games a season and basketball around 100 including the playoffs and I don't think in any US sport it's a system where the clubs play all the opponents the same number of times. Not saying this is all possible in English football but I am sure some of it can be pushed into the game, and it will make the owners investment portfolio look even better. Will be interesting to see if and when a tipping point comes where fans lose interest, I still think the new EFL TV deal is a big gamble but we will see.

I'll take back all the comments I made about his finishing if he does.

Penalty that Cov just got looked pretty similar to rub salt into the wounds.

The fave from the ones I have been to is Hillsborough but reading his story about it brings back some bitter memories.

Had a really fun day in the away end watching them clinch promotion to league 1 at the mem with the fans and players celebrating on the pitch, who would have guessed less than 2 years later and now they are dropping out the football league entirely and the gas actually upgraded the stand.

Was hoping Plymouth stay up and on Monday thinking they didn't show much goal threat and that it would be a close run thing, massive 3pts for them. Nothing against Birmingham but for sacking Eustace when he had them in 6th I wouldn't mind seeing them go out of the rest of the teams down there.

I seen then a few times last season and they picked up 7 pts in 3 games which was good going since they had a pretty terrible season overall. To be fair you should enjoy the food even if the football isn't great, but good to see them change fortunes a bit since SC has arrived and would like to see a local side stay in the football league.

Fair enough this is what they have clearly stated so can't dispute it if people take it at face value, but personally I don't take those comments too seriously because I have seen similar too many times before with new kit releases, for me it's just horseshit marketing talk that they do everytime they release kits and they often have no substance behind them.

For me it's a little annoying that they changed the away kit to a new colour that has nothing to do with England (although nobody else seems to care much so guess I am in the minority), but in light of doing that I can see why the cross was changed to make it more consistent so have no problem there. What is much worse is the Germany away kit, for a home tournament they have changed their colours to pink/purple and if I was German I would probably be just as offended.

Considering that people have commented that the away kit looks blue in some light and purple in others was it supposed to be related to that? Whether it is or not the price is too much.

I am especially looking out for the fixtures against the bottom half teams before the end of the season, so far I don't think Manning has beaten any and it's been like half a goal per game or something very close to that.

I would say that for a game to be considered a proper derby you need to have a crossover of fans who live in the same area, work together etc. As England and Wales are pretty separate I don't think it was ever really the case here, if you lived/worked in Cardiff then it would probably have a derby feel but that's going to be a minority of fans. Severnside derby is a label I don't really go along with although can see why the club or someone like sky like to use it to hype it up, the game is still a good rivalry compared to what we have in the rest of the division and hoping there is another good atmosphere on Sat like the game last season.

Barry Corr - Current caretaker head coach at Cambridge.

I suppose the transfers are going to be the decision of a committee with Tins having a big input no matter who the head coach is, hopefully they don't end up finger pointing when things go wrong and we end up with several crap players on 3 year deals. I don't especially trust that things are going to get better to be honest, not a great outlook but I am satisfied with Manning enough to give him a fair opportunity if we finished around 15th. Can understand those who would say why bother wasting a year or more on Manning when he isn't obviously looking like taking us up the table but for me you should look to give a manager a cycle of a few years where possible, hate it when clubs change manager every year and don't think it works well in the long term usually.

Having seen some good and bad from Manning I think he deserves to start next season and see what happens from there. For me it's never a good time to have this poll after a couple of losses. Interesting there is the same poll on here after the wba boxing day game last season where 56% wanted Pearson to be sacked.