Devil's advocaat

Mibbe 20 years ago, with £200M behind him. We need to get away from hiring hasbeens.

Nope, they'd make him a joke figure, which really wouldn't be hard.

Aye, I think so. The financial naughty step.

Spot on. The only time we succeeded anywhere near within our means in my lifetime was around big McLeish's time, in terms of player budget.

Jose is about as far on the complete opposite end of the spectrum of what we require, as you could go. We need a system, ie sporting director, coaches etc, that work towards development every bit as much as it does working towards success. Which definitely isn't Maureen.

Can we have a 'none of the above' option please?.

I don't read any of our press, but it's not like we've not been burnt before. I am however an optimist in life, and concur with your summation.

The truth is, that we don't actually know that for sure. So it was entirely understandable that people were concerned that a Leeds fall in form could have adversely affected our takeover. I mean, it's the kinda thing that would happen to us.

Syphilis is more appealing than Dyche.

Naw. Jist naw.

Agreed, BF has been a downgrade.

Aye, for the first half of his contract.

Good cause, board knew nothing about it going by that last image. Move on.

Sam Snead and Windsor Davies would be better, and they're both deid

I did that exact same dance this morning, expecting to check the scores and see Leeds had dropped further points. But no, they're top of the league. Clickbait wankers.

The individuals contribution has to make a difference though, surely? Say Cerny crosses and Dessers goes back post instead of going across the defender, but the defender clears before it gets to him, or Raskin slides a pass through but Dessers knows he's gone too early, checks his run and it runs through to the keeper etc. None of those will be an expected goal, but had a striker made a better decision, both would have?.

We can't be blaming Dessers for our ills this season, that would be silly in the extreme. He only gets it as a striker is the focal point of a team (as is the keeper, and he's getting it anaw), and him missing chances is what we remember in the immediate aftermath of games. We don't recall the ball being given away in midfield, defenders playing opposition onside, poor team selections etc.... I've criticised Tav in the past, but only when I feel it's been merited. Alongside the buy and sell type players we desire, we need Tavs, bought for a pittance, loyal and a great servant to the club.

Ange has more chance of the gig than Wee Barry.

Agree wholeheartedly with RS. If we continue to be surrounded by cannon fodder with no means of improving themselves, we'll always be dragged down.

I once met a lovely lady called Steffi from Bielefeld in a bar in Dusseldorf. I was, however, young and stupid in those days and decided to carry on the evening drinking with my pals instead of staying in said bar, and seeing where the night would take me. What a fool I was. 😞

I do love an optimist, a man after my own heart sir!.

It would seem so. I'll be honest, I don't pay much attention to football outside of Govan, so I'm in no position to offer up much (I watch enough to not want Dyche or Mourinho mind you). I'm also of the opinion that folk who will accept BF, as 'who else is there?' are about as myopic as myself, but the difference is that I know I'm ignorant. 🙂

'Woke' seems to be basically used to describe anything that the hard of thinking don't really like.

I disagree. Home record grim, and he's been praised for changing things in recent games, but that's only cos he got his tactics so wrong in the first place.

Once again, read my post, I never quoted you.