Having shipped a 2 goal lead fucking Direby look like they've won again at the death.
Are we acknowledging that Eustace isn't useless?
Well, unlike Slot machine he won at Plymouth...
At least Cardiff won away so Derby are still bottom 3.This sounds like a fairly open invitation.
I want Brentford to win but I dislike both of these teams equally.
Bournemouth will be 8 points behind if they win. If they finish above us, we've fucked it completely.
Yes but I also don't want them to have European football, because they're a shitty little tinpot club and I am a petty and vindictive man when it comes to other teams.
Dele Alli just made his first professional appearance in 2 years, coming on as a sub for Como. 9 minutes later he was sent off.
Como looks to be an interesting experiment.
16th has twice as many points as 18th.
I realise there's a turkeys voting for Christmas element, but at some point they'll have to make it easier for promoted teams to compete. Whether that's changing psr in their favour or something else.
Give the promoted teams a much bigger prize pool for getting up?
A big problem is that a promoted club needs to make a 3-5 year commitment on signing a player, but they don’t have any line of sight of the funds to pay for it. FFP makes it even worse because even if they have access to the cash, they have limits on their losses if things don’t quite work out. Parachute payments help, but they distort the Championship picture too much and should be scrapped.
The obvious solutions are shorter contracts or aggressive relegation wage drops.. but they make it harder to recruit and harder to build.
As much as you can look at what some clubs have done (us, various non-descript B clubs) that’s just survivor bias. Fuck knows what to do. I would like to find a way to disincentivise the uberclubs from hoovering up so much young talent and using loans and trades to profit from them at the expense of the championship and lower-prem clubs those guys actually play for. Access to this talent, and the money to be made from developing it, would help a bit.
They have limited the number of loans but that doesn’t seem to have had the effect of reducing the big clubs from mass recruiting children.
'Goal involvement' is a thing, apparently.
Has this been invented so we've still all got something City / Haaland related to tug ourselves raw over?
