totteringham versus MIGHTY CLARETS

[Poulton-le-Claret]

Thank god this season is ending

[Greekclaret]

Bentancur literally head butted Muric in the chest as we were lining up for that free kick. Despise this league. If you’re a small team everything is overlooked. We weren’t good enough but we’ve had A LOT of decision go against us all season.

[THEWELLERNUT70]

And that's that, thank f*CK this absolute sh!tshow is over. A clusterf*CK from top to bottom, from before a ball was kicked until our prolonged demise

There's a number at the top of this sh!t sandwich who need to take a long hard look at themselves because the most part of this season hasn't been remotely acceptable and more worryingly quite a few seem woefully inadequate!!

[warksclaret]

Been said a million times but the table never lies-its been like a delayed death of a relative for some time now.WE have been an embarrassment to the PL and to a very loyal fan base. Big challenges ahead and I hope the Board do a full appraisal of the season-our recruitment, our style of play, team selection, effectiveness of the coaches (if we can call them that)

[spt_claret]

Script seemed written for Benson to save us.
I think anyone optimistic we'll walk promotion would do well to have a detailed read of Chester Perry's posts in the finances/takeover thread. A lot of players will be going. It's going to be a battle next season.

[zippybid]

We have a squad to build upon at least.

100% yes.

[Foshiznik]

I’m just happy we didn’t go out on a whimper. The season was a disaster until about 10 games ago when we actually turned up so holds us in good stead for next season.

I’m looking forward to next season already.

[AGENT_CLARET]

At last- enjoy the summer lads.

Not once have we looked prepared for the premier league this season and I have zero confidence anything would change in the summer.

Going to take a huge effort for me to even think about going next Sunday.

Stay at home then

[Foshiznik]

At least we didn’t have a season like Sheffield United.

That’s what it looked like being after 25 games of the season

[Goody1975]

The type of performance we've seen a lot since Arsenal away.

Much more competitive but not able to make the correct decisions in the final third.

We'll never know if playing Muric and Cullen earlier was the deciding factor but with a few exceptions we've given most of the teams a game since November, a slight lack of quality and making schoolboy errors on a consistent basis has been our undoing.

We will be the team people will fear next season.

[CrosspoolClarets]

Four sides nowhere near good enough and one will stay up who don’t deserve to, who also cheated, but we know cheats prosper in this league. The three who go down though, do deserve to.

Galling we would be 2 pts off now if that win vs Forest had stood, that led to the PGMOL letter of apology. Still don’t think they are better than us.

Would love to give our departing players a send off next Sunday, but I can’t face the Forest gloating and will be keeping my seat empty.

[Belgianclaret]

I’m just happy we didn’t go out on a whimper. The season was a disaster until about 10 games ago when we actually turned up so holds us in good stead for next season.

I’m looking forward to next season already.

Yeah, shame those first 20 from 25 games were so bad

[THEWELLERNUT70]

At least we didn’t have a season like Sheffield United.

That’s what it looked like being after 25 games of the season

28

*Cough cough

[GetIntoEm]

Muric's distribution gets worse and worse every game, whatever he's changed he needs to change it back if he's going to be our number 1 next season

[LincsWoldsClaret]

We are a yo-yo club - 4th relegation in 9 seasons
We’ll be back

[Goody1975]

Script seemed written for Benson to save us.
I think anyone optimistic we'll walk promotion would do well to have a detailed read of Chester Perry's posts in the finances/takeover thread. A lot of players will be going. It's going to be a battle next season.

Yes but we have a lot of players you'll have forgotten we have, there are plenty of players in the storage cupboard to sell.

Will we lose players the fans want to stay? Yes but there will be ways to cut the wage bill and raise money through sales without destroying the first XI

[Goody1975]

Muric's distribution gets worse and worse every game, whatever he's changed he needs to change it back if he's going to be our number 1 next season

Some was horrific, some was excellent.

The distribution that was excellent were things Trafford is unable to do.

[JohnDearyMe]

And that's that, thank f*CK this absolute sh!tshow is over. A clusterf*CK from top to bottom, from before a ball was kicked until our prolonged demise

There's a number at the top of this sh!t sandwich who need to take a long hard look at themselves because the most part of this season hasn't been remotely acceptable and more worryingly quite a few seem woefully inadequate!!

Diabolical season. Amazed it has taken us this long to get relegated.

[GetIntoEm]

Some was horrific, some was excellent.

The distribution that was excellent were things Trafford is unable to do.

I expect Trafford will go to the euros then be sold. Just a feeling

[Hapag Lloyd]

We are shite

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You’ve become quit prolific on this board since stayingdownforever disappeared.

[HB Claret]

Glad it’s finally confirmed and to be honest I’ll be glad to see the back of tits like Maddison and Son constantly over reacting and always chirping at the referee. Ultimately we were too young, too naive and physically too weak - VAR hasn’t helped us either but nearly all the fouls our players make get carded whereas the cynical stuff on us gets largely ignored. The sooner the European Super League comes in the better - it’s what the big clubs want and it might make the top league more even. Bring on the Bar Stewards !

[fidelcastro]

Diabolical season. Amazed it has taken us this long to get relegated.

The only reason it has are the points deductions.

[Murger]

The season was done for as soon as the transfer window was closed. A terrible transfer policy followed up with VKs bizarre team selection and tactics.

[California Colner]

Just not good enough for the Premier League

[fidelcastro]

The season was done for as soon as the transfer window was closed. A terrible transfer policy followed up with VKs bizarre team selection and tactics.

He'll still manage Man.City one day though

[kentonclaret]

Yeah, shame those first 20 from 25 games were so bad

No real surprise in that in the first 28 games we played home and away matches against all of the top 4. We would have got nothing from those fixtures playing both goalkeepers.
The highest rated teams we have played since have been against Newcastle and Tottenham and lost them both.

[FCBurnley]

Got what we deserved. Unlucky with injuries and refs but huge self inflicted wounds by Kompany made it impossible to survive. Pace and VK need to take a long hard look in the mirror. They won’t like what they see but they won’t care. Burnley means nothing to them. It’s just a cash cow

[Sproggy]

Of course, the master plan was to make money by not staying in the Prem. So cunning you could stick a tail on it and call it a fox.

[GetIntoEm]

The owners were pretty clear that they didn't need to be in the prem for things to work. The fact that they did it early is probably a bonus more than anything. I'm not worried on the ownership front yet

[123EasyasBFC]

I expect Trafford will go to the euros then be sold. Just a feeling

Hopefully

[Chester Perry]

Script seemed written for Benson to save us.
I think anyone optimistic we'll walk promotion would do well to have a detailed read of Chester Perry's posts in the finances/takeover thread. A lot of players will be going. It's going to be a battle next season.

I have been asked the following on the MMT but will answer on here

Chester Perry, it seems from a few posters on here that we're not going to have much of a squad left when the Championship kicks off?

It is difficult to say - a lot comes down to available cash, which has been chased constantly under Pace's tenure, the challenges on that front are what I have been posting about recently.

that said we do not know:
- if we will finish the season cash positive on the operational front, that has not happened in the last few years, a lot will depend on how well we have performed on the commercial front, I expect matchday revenues to be around £10m, we simply need a huge improvement on the commercial side, certainly a new record in excess of £15m. Also must be remembered that if we finish above Luton that is another £3.1m in merit money from The Premier League, that is important it could be 4 or 5 months of interest payments on the loan.

- the terms of the MGG loan from amount loaned, interest rate or if relegation means an enforced capital reduction capital reduction. It was as the capital reduction caused by relegation last time round that forced the sale of so many players as much as Vincent Kompany wanting to change the whole situation.

- Which players the club/Kompany wants to keep or which players want to leave, or whose contracts allow them to leave. There is the size of the squad to consider, the worry is that we can only part with the players we would rather keep and not part with the ones we want to move on. Are we going to just put a squad together for promotion mainly comprised of key players on loan again or are we going to keep a core squad that are better prepared for another crack at the Premier League. Kompany's history as a manager suggests he creates a fresh team every season, is that as much a preference as a situation of circumstance?

[blatherwickstattoos]

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You’ve become quit prolific on this board since stayingdownforever disappeared.

I’m not him. Whoever he was. As for prolific. Thankyou. I’ve been called that once or twice before

[zippybid]

You’ve become quit prolific on this board since stayingdownforever disappeared.

This messageboard overall comes across as anti-Burnley, anti-Kompany and anti-Alan Pace. Every other thread is against one or all of them on any thread. It might be the odd sly dig, but there's something in half the posts.

[123EasyasBFC]

10 players out on loan who all need sorting, that’s before we look the the players who have with us this season

[blatherwickstattoos]

This messageboard overall comes across as anti-Burnley, anti-Kompany and anti-Alan Pace. Every other thread is against one or all of them on any thread. It might be the odd sly dig, but there's something in half the posts.

It’s not anti Burnley at all. It’s anti watching shite football. Brain laws got 35 points . Dyche had more points when he got sacked. See the bigger picture , this season has been atrocious from the signings to the tactics. I want nothing more than to stay in this league but the fact is we are a million miles away from it. To speak your mind seems to get people having sly digs on here. Like some kind of hub for super fans.

[gandhisflipflop]

It’s not anti Burnley at all. It’s anti watching shite football. Brain laws got 35 points . Dyche had more points when he got sacked. See the bigger picture , this season has been atrocious from the signings to the tactics. I want nothing more than to stay in this league but the fact is we are a million miles away from it. To speak your mind seems to get people having sly digs on here. Like some kind of hub for super fans.

Brian laws didn’t get 35 points though did he?

[blatherwickstattoos]

No Owen Coyle did too. Two names you’d try and like to think VK is better than. Leon cort was our January signing star. Let that sink in

[blatherwickstattoos]

Edit * sure we signed him in January might be wrong

[fidelcastro]

Brian laws didn’t get 35 points though did he?

We went down with 30 that season.

We won 10 of them under Laws.

[gandhisflipflop]

So BL didn’t get the 35 points.

[blatherwickstattoos]

Sorry 30 points. More than what we will get this season. That’s the point I’m trying to make. Anyway I’m absolutely sick of football. Roll on the euros for more disappointment. Better not go on England fans forums and get grief for saying what I see eh.

[Burnleyareback2]

Stay at home then

Thanks- that’s something that I hadn’t thought of.

[Burnleyareback2]

Let the post mortem commence

Commence, I think it was done in November.

[IanMcL]

We went down with 30 that season.

We won 10 of them under Laws.

Laws came late. We had been doing OK. He didn't get many wins at all.

[fidelcastro]

Laws came late. We had been doing OK. He didn't get many wins at all.

Obviously

[Goliath]

Laws came late. We had been doing OK. He didn't get many wins at all.

However bad we've been, It's been preferable to the Laws stuff. Christ that was depressing. Turned us from an exciting but naive team into a mind numbingly dull and also crap team within about a week. I still remember vividly the absolute no shows at home.to Pompey, Wolves and Blackburn.