muttywhitedog

Seems the RFU have a drugs issue too:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/48025816

Those who expected anything other than a scrap to survive are living in cloud cuckoo land. You started the season with a squad who had largely yo-yo’d between the Championship and League One. You added a couple of players and all of a sudden you are going to be challenging at the top of the league? Get real!

The objective this season was survival. If that happens with a few games to spare, then great, and if that happens like it did against West Ham or Sheff Utd, then great. Either way, until this cycle of promotion/relegation is broken, then no progress can be made.

Cycle now broken, and you start next season with at least three teams worse than you (ie those who are coming up). Next season’s objective has to be a finish higher up the league than this season, or safety with 5-10 games to spare. If the owners don’t think Cook is the man to do that, now is the time to part company. That said, its not just co-incidence that the first time in three attempts that you stick with a manager in this division for the entire season results in survival.

Keith Gillespie.

I remember seeing him at Springfield Park against Chester and he ran their entire team ragged. As I’d long-since moved away from Wigan and hadn’t seen them in a while, I wondered to myself what on earth this lad was doing pissing around in the lower leagues. As it was pre-internet, I couldn’t google him and it took a couple of days before I read the WEP and found out he was on loan from Man Utd.

You’ll be correct. As its pretty much sold out, there’s nowhere else to watch it for those who haven’t bought a ticket.

I believe tickets may still be available if you want to get over to Leeds and watch it live.

My MP is the latest to quit the Tory party after already falling out with the gammon munching local Tory club who want a hard Brexit. He’s gone up in my estimations now for his principled stance, and if he chose to stand again as an independent would get my vote.

Too many Tories have put party before country, and had the PM been as conciliatory in 2016 as she is being forced to be now, the UK would have had a good deal that would have been acceptable to the vast majority of the 52% and the 48%.

I believe the rules and subsequent punishments only apply to EFL clubs who are still in the EFL when the offence is discovered and dealt with. Wolves are now in the PL and are therefore untouchable.

Possibly because you were playing in a lower league, where the standard of opposition wasn’t as good? There’s a world of difference between Oxford Utd and Sheffield Utd.

I understand your concerns, but with all due respect, IMHO your expectations were too high at the outset. The squad that started this season was largely the same squad that was not good enough two seasons ago, then too good for league one last season. Signing Vaughan, McManaman and Gibson from Sunderland didn’t strengthen your squad, as they all featured regularly for the side who finished bottom of the championship, and didn’t exactly cover themselves with glory. Windass scored goals in the SPL, but to be frank, even Connor Salmon managed that!

So, like it or not, the squad you have is one that has history of struggling in the Championship, and I’m sure the objective set at the start of the season by Sharp would have been to avoid relegation. However I do still believe that unless Rotherham go on a miracle run, you will eek enough points to stay above the drop zone. The end of the season is when the owners should take stock, and if they consider Cook has hit his glass ceiling, then its time for him to go.

Finally, if Sunderland return to the Championship next season, I’d take 4th bottom right now.