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It's a sad day when we are disputing if Rotherham or us are one of the worst teams in the league.

2 shots on target away at the 3rd best team in the league in 35 minutes is certainly better than 2 shots on target during the whole 90 minutes against both Preston and Brum. ?

If we do go bust, maybe this forum can turn into a Rotherham one, but where we all keep wanting them to lose. Could even start going to their games, but in the oppo end. Not because we have any particular hatred of them, just because it's become a habit.

If we do go bust, maybe this forum can turn into a Rotherham one, but where we all keep wanting them to lose. Could even start going to their games, but in the oppo end. Not because we have any particular hatred of them, just because it's become a habit.

Cheers Brentford,top lads????
I do strangely feel slightly sorry for Rotherham though,they are extremely determined and seem to have a plan and tactics.
The sort of stuff we really lack.

Beauty, the forum isn't getting eaten yet. 

If we do go bust, maybe this forum can turn into a Rotherham one, but where we all keep wanting them to lose. Could even start going to their games, but in the oppo end. Not because we have any particular hatred of them, just because it's become a habit.

Christ,I can't believe im going to be watching another Rotherham match tonight.
 

Gave up after the first season. Not sure I could wade though another 2 seasons to get to the upturn to be honest.
On a separate note, just watched Messiah which I found quite intriguing. Was hoping midway they'd limit it to a single explosive series, but alas Netflix thought otherwise.
Wish more series like True Detective season 1 were made - less fluff and a story told end to end without the need to artificially extend it. At least they had the decency to write entirely new stories for seasons 2 and 3, even if they were garbage by comparison.
Edit: Nearly forgot - The Falcon and The Winter Soldier - load of bolarks. Didn't last through to the second episode ?‍♂️

It's a rare thing for so few teams in the Championship having nothing to play for with 2 games left
Wycombe can mathematically stay up, but it's really just the 3 of us at the bottom trying to survive.
This also means that the league position of the opposition that the 3 of us play is fairly irrelevant. No one knows if a playoff team will rest the entire squad, or if a bottom half team are all playing for a new contract. Only us vs Shef Weds has both teams with something to play for.
Whilst we are rightly doom-laden, Paddy Power have Weds 1/16 to go down and Rotherham 1/3. We are 6/4 to go down. The bookies are fairly confident we are staying up.

I'll be honest, I've treated this entire last year and a bit as a gap year, without the travelling.
I've been on full pay, but only worked 4 hour afternoon shifts for a whole year, even received my normal bonuses, thanks to Richi and his flexible furlough.
However the bosses are making ever starker mutterings about returning full time, so I thought it best to pull my finger out and actually achieve something productive with my time off.
Just in the last week, I've replaced some fencing, and have manufactured a garden bar, from scratch I might add, not just screwed together a pre made one.
I'm pretty pleased with it, and it gives me somewhere to hang the guitar I never got to grips with during lockdown!

 

Think the bookies had us as favourites to beat Brum too....

100 up.

Mel has invested well over £100 million in the club since he assumed overall control, the basic business of the  club, is in my opinion not in a mess, we have a great ground , great academy and the commercial side of the businesses is very well run which as a previous tenant of an executive box at the ground I have very good first hand knowledge of.
What is an issue is the unrealistic expectations and  demands of a supporter base that expects the rams to win every game and if that does not happen to get their pitchforks out to drive the owner/manager/players out of the club/town. I believe the squandering of Mel's cash was a direct result of that pressure and the decisions of some previous senior executives.
I would repeat what I have said before be careful what you wish for, because because both the fake sheik and the Alonso guy look far worse custodians of the club than Mel Morris, If I was Mel and getting this level of abuse I would liquidate and take whatever cash I could and spend the rest of my days with my feet up.    

Just AFC Derby will do.

I previously thought he was merely a bit of a crook with money behind him. Now I think he is probably a crook with no money behind him.

Stan’s just posted this...Doesn’t sound too promising.

To play devils advocate - if we stay up and the takeover goes through. He leaves us with: 
Some of the best facilities in Europe. 
One of the best academies in the country. 
a very very low wage bill and basically a clean slate for the new manager (there’ll be no need to shift deadwood considering how many are out of contract this year and I can only think of Davies, Lawrence and Waggy on good wages). 
 
The huge negative is that we no longer own the ground but I really can’t see him ever charging us more than a nominal cost to lease it due to being a fan. You might also say that we’re probably back to 2012/2013 in terms of playing squad. 
 
I think he should be criticised but I’m just Clinging onto the hope we don’t go down and the sale goes through and Alonso isn’t a charlatan. 

Agree fully. The problem is that we haven't been promoted and each season trying to compete at the top end of the Championship drains cash and creates P&S issues. That's why we are where we are, not because Mel been enriching himself.
It could have all been so different. We've had so many chances at promotion where we've fallen just short. The difference between success and failure at this level is very fine. A goal here or a save there and it could have all been so different. Obviously Mel has made some mistakes, and I've posted about many of them, but his decisions have been tested and ours haven't. 
I don't think any of us should feel any hostility to Mel. He's given it his all.

Football club ownership is an ego trip. Always has been, always will be. The American owners before Mel were ridiculed for not spending money, but got lucky in having Nigel Clough as manager. He was prepared to work with what he had, and did a bloody good job of it until they were persuaded to give Mac the job. Mac took the squad of players he inherited to another level, but was never going to work to Nigel's budget.
The buck ultimately stops at Mel, and obviously I won't be sending a cheque. I will however continue to pay my part as a (now long distance) fan. Mel is "to blame", but I thank him for everything he's done because he's done it trying to get us promoted. He's failed, miserably, but he's lost a lot more money than the club has.

This x 1000. I think lots of people gave up around series 3 when it got a bit daft. Those that did missed some brilliant tv. Series 4 onwards was basically a different tv show. Think it was the best ending of a long running show too.

Just approaching the last couple of series of 'Homeland'. It started off well, but fell away badly after the first couple of series and we were debating whether or not to knock it on the head. However, we stuck with it and haven't regretted it. Some episodes are amongst the best television drama I have ever seen.