No way Southgate will play Rice on his own.
Secondly you didn’t mention Rashford in your list of attacking players in reserve. Despite his lack of form, he’ll be on the plane.
Nice idea though!!
Don’t think we can catch Oxford, they’ve got 2 home games this week and only need to win one
But Barnsley are away to Portsmouth on Tuesday and us on Saturday. Lose both of them and we take it to the final day
They’re at home to Northampton on the last day and would need to win to make sure
IF we win on Saturday and Oxford and Lincoln do no better than a draw (very possible looking at their fixtures)
IF Oxford and Lincoln draw against each other
We go into the Barnsley game within touching distance of 6th place.
If we do somehow make it into the top 6 (it is doable looking at the other’s fixtures) it will be the worst Pool team to ever make it. And I’ve seen every playoffs we’ve been in (except the boycott one which I watched on TV)
Those numbers are staggering. I guess if someone is prepared to cover those losses then that’s up to them.
It does show just how difficult it will be for us to compete should we ever get back in the Championship. I certainly wouldn’t want us to get involved in that nonsense, or expect SS to...
As an aside, whilst at uni we did a study on wage bill in relation to final league position. If you place all 92 clubs in order of their wage bill, almost every club finishes within 3 positions of their wage position. But at any one time there will be a dozen or so clubs punching above or below...
I’ve always thought, based on revenue and how much SS is prepared to subsidise the club, if we get pretty much every decision spot on we’re mid table championship with maybe an eye on the play offs now and again.
If we get too many managerial and recruitment decisions wrong we’re championship...
I didn’t realise Oxford had such a tough run of fixtures, including Lincoln. We’re not quite out of this yet. Presuming we win these next two games (against 2nd bottom and bottom) the table could look interesting by kick off for the Barnsley game.
Not that we deserve anything out of this season btw
I wouldn’t want him tbh. Has done really well for us, and seems like a top pro.
But his lack of pace made us predictable, and at his age with another injury in the tank I think our money would be better spent elsewhere.
Thanks Jordan, good luck 👍
SS we’ve been told you read this board, and have been accused of taking too much notice of it at times.
Well read this post, then offer AK the job of CEO.