Rev

Please stop. It's quite obvious these are not your own thoughts, and the constant copy and pasting is frankly doing my head in.

I think we've reached the point now, when a manager starts clutching at straws, desperately trying something new to stave off the seemingly inevitable parting of the ways. I'd imagine tomorrow's training session will see Sonny Badley up front, Josh Vickers banging it long up to him, and James Collins so far offside he's mostly retrieving the ball for goal kicks. Warne will return to the managers office in despair, coffee in one hand, Winter 2023/23 holiday brochure in the other. He'll thump his head on the desk in sheer frustration, and begin typing out his resignation letter. "FFS, even this desk is against me" he'll moan, as his fingers struggle to hit the right keys as the table wobbles precariously back and forth. Investigating further, he realises the force of the head butt has dislodged a dusty old folder being used to even out the wonky desk legs. He picks up the folder, expecting its probably just some old accounting ledger we didn't want the EFL to see, and wipes the dust from the cover. 'The Steve McClaren playbook'. He opens it gingerly, like Indiana Jones opened the Ark, and gazes in rapt wonder at its contents. He realises, for the first time in his life, that the ball serves its purpose better on the floor, passing can be better than running, and effort is no substitute for ability. He slides the holiday brochure back under the table leg, and sets to work typing up his new vision of football management, ready to impart this knowledge of his staff and players, and before we know it, the Rams are flying up the table. All I needed was time, he'll declare to the local media upon automatic promotion in April 2024. Prologue. It's October 2024, and the Rams are struggling to establish themselves back in the Championship. The fans are unhappy, the owner's coming under pressure to make a change, so Paul dips once again into his managerial bible. It's done him so well, so far, but try as he might he can't find any answers. He knows there's a section called Plan B, but he's never had to delve that deeply, all his prayers had been answered in the first section, so he was saving Plan B for the Prem. Needs must though, so he turns the page eagerly. Plan B. It's blank, obviously, apart from a picture of a giant mug, and a Newcastle telephone no.

Wash your dirty mouth out.

Looked like he lashed out, kung-fu style, after being knocked off balance. However, he was on ice, so maybe it wasn't as deliberate as it looked.

According to The Athletic, on revenues of £20m last season, we still posted a small loss. Hard to criticise a man who still pumps money in. We need to be in the Championship when the new deal starts, otherwise he'll have to keep pumping money in.

Unless you scrap the offside rule, how on earth do you set up a side to suit James Collins?

The problem is the massive disconnect between how Paul Warne sees football, and how a large portion of the fanbase, and I suspect the squad he's inherited, see it. He sees it as a cardinal sin that we can't compete physically for second balls, while the Warne Out camp think if the first ball is more accurate, you don't need to compete for second balls, the initial pass does the damage.

Not his fault The Wall let him down today.

We need to share, not shaft. One pun per post please.

Kin ell. Normally when God starts talking to people on Earth, its to tell them to lead his people to a new land, kill all the other people who don't believe in him, or to promise his lad will sort stuff out once he's finished his apprenticeship. God really has lost his focus, to be commenting on our managerial situation.

Why a separate thread?

As stated previously, I'm not a long term student on the situation, so I found this German state broadcaster film on the origins of conflict illuminating, and depressing in equal measure.

100 days without footy and now the PL returns to empty stadia. I'm currently unable to watch Sky due to a thunderstorm directly overhead, we've made the gods angry!!!