We are a much better side than we were a year ago (even for those who pine for Djed/Garner/Keinan/Brice) playing against much tougher opposition.
The worry about relegation is not just that some of the best players leave (or don't extend loans) but that we can get dragged down to playing at our former level. This is where Fulham and Burnley have done well…by establishing a playing style that guarantees promotion and sets up for success the following season.
What playing style?
The only fully functioning thing we have is SSC. He's been chucked a bottom of the championship squad, supplemented by three transfer windows of randomness, and found a way to make it work.
Be under no doubt about the only really important thing that makes us a functioning football club right now.
It’s a style of sorts. Soaking up enormous pressure and playing on the counter was how we won the Big Cup in 1980.
I'm sure our preferred style would be more Liverpool-a-like, but that's not an option while we are so shit on the ball., and struggle to get out.
We aren't a style. We are just relatively potent on the break.
If we were championshiped, we'd see a lot more of the style that we wanted to be, because we will have players ( relative to the level) that will allow that to happen. Until then it's a cutting our cloth exercise, as we improve the squad.
More cutting our cloth for me. SSC is absolutely pivotal in that happening.
Alan Hardy tweet (don’t worry, it doesn’t include his cock):
I guess he’s had the last laugh now.
I am really not sure what point he is trying to make here. That rather than achieve the plan several other clubs also had, he took his club in the opposite direction and got them relegated. I wouldn’t be crowing about that in public
I can see his argument, but it's wank. I suspect too much thinking with the little head.
a trip to Cov or Kenilworth Road next season awaits.., the Premiershipleague marketing team really will have their work cut out for them next season
Darren Wassall, who always seemed to have done a decent enough job as head of Derby's academy before it got gutted in Mel's administration, has departed: twitter.com/dcfcofficial/status/1661295218988314626
This seems a bit over the top: www.theguardian.com/football/2023/jul/26/wrexham-angered-by-mullin-injury-inflicted-by-manchester-uniteds-bishop
Also a seen first bits of bad press around Wrexham - appears they are reserving tickets for overseas "fans" at the expense of locals which has gone down badly.
If it wasn’t for some overseas folks, how many of those locals would give a shit about getting in?
And the number I've seen is something like 150 tickets. Given the interest from foreigners is providing the funding for them to rebuild and re-open the Kop end, and thus add at least a couple of thousand extra seats per game, I'm not sure those complaining have really thought this through properly.
File this under non-news. Football clubs have always made an effort to accommodate visiting fans from afar, on an occasional ad-hoc basis....and supporters clubs from wider afield , on a more regular basis. It's a part of building a customer base.
In Wrexham’s case, their wealth is almost entirely attributable to their owners’ ability to generate broader interest, including Netflix and US interest. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you. I’m with Russ*, they shouldn’t be allowed in the English league.
** why aren’t they the Maple Leaves?
£5 says he has an opinion on this.
No, because the NHL is Canadian. It was founded in Ottawa, and the Cup was presented by Lord Stanley. MLB has a stronger argument but I don't care much about baseball.
They are the Maple Leafs because they are named after a Canadian Army regiment which had that spelling.
