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Definitely don't want him. But then I don't know who the other bidders are. I'd like to think we've got people interested who see the potential in the club, want to throw some money into it and turn us into a top 10 club. I'd much rather this than someone who will do the least possible to gain the biggest profit. That keeps us standing still until it is sold on - years of underperformed. Then again, if all of the bidders are of that mindset then it might as well be Ashley. I'm hoping that they aren't.

Tell me you don't know about football without telling me. Find a City that has 2 clubs that regularly attract 25K each, merge them, and they'll get 50k for each game. Stands to reason. I mean, I can't find a flaw in that plan. As long as we've got a Sheffield club to support, eh?

Best save I've ever seen. There was a still inages of the save (I'd love to see it again) Varadi is already turned away with his arms in the air. Derek Mountfield has got a gutted expression on his face, and Big Nev is mid-air, fully focused on reaching for the ball. When I say it was the best save I've ever seen, I'm lying a bit. We all celebrated the goal then were baffled as to why the ref had disallowed it - so convinced we were that he'd scored. Only Schmeichel gets anywhere near Siuthall for me.

Daniel Farke Will be sacked by Leeds pretty quickly if results don't improve. Might be available in January. Serial promotion winner. As long as we sack him the summer of 2028 after back to back promotions. Was very interested to read that Leeds were considering replacing him this summer despite promotion. And I have to say, looking at his top division record, i see their point.

Big Sam is enjoying himself in the sun, shacked up with Pardew and Pulis last I saw.

I've always found it interesting that a lot of fans put many defeats down to a perceived lack of effort. It seems to be the go-to frame of mind to focus their anger somewhere. I can only remember one instance where a player was clearly not trying, and that was Sibon under Jewell. When asked by Radio Sheffield if he'd seen Sibon "storm down the tunnel", Jewell replied, "I didn't see it. But if he did, it was the only place he stormed all afternoon." I've no issues with the effort of the players yesterday. The game plan? Yes. But not the effort. A lack of confidence/exasperation can drain players. They lose a yard of pace, their body language suffers and it can look all the more stark when compared to an opposition player who is in a totally different place, mentally. But we've all seen what can happen when a goal out of the blue changes a game. Suddenly they have that extra spring in their step and opposition lose confidence. Its natural.

The first goal totally knocked the stuffing out of the fans. When you know that, in all likelihood, it's downhill from here, it's difficult to keep up your own enthusiasm. It's so easy to say that you have to keep the atmosphere going, but atmospheres are built on emotion. But the fans stayed with them, at times they tried to lift the players, but it's a culmination of the poo we've been through and the acceptance of the poo we're still in. I know plenty left early, but that's got to be better than getting on their backs which, other than the ironic cheers for Ugbo departing, the fans refrained from. People left because of the sheer pain of watching your team so helpless against your biggest rivals. It's sickening. We know brighter times lay ahead. Our time will come.

Copy & Paste Player Ratings: Horvath: 5 Palmer: 6 Iorfa: 3 M. Lowe: 4 Fusire: 4 Amass: 8 Valery: 6 Bannan: 7 Ingelsson: 6 J. Lowe: 3 Ugbo: 1 Cooper: 8 Cadamarteri: 6 McNeill: 5 Webb (ref): 5 (how did he miss that challenge of Lowe's in front of the North?)

We all are pal. I'm thinking, had we played the percentages today, we might only have lost 1-0. Nothing better than that. Just keeps the ball away from our goal a bit longer.

We're going round in circles, but my point is that it is easy to get the basics right ie don't play risky balls into limited players in dangerous areas. When you spend what seems to be the entire 90 minutes doing just that, and getting caught on the break again and again and again, you have to simply have to abandon that principle until you get the players who can play the way you want to play. Currently, the majority of our players are extremely limited and they're being asked to play in a way that they're simply not capable of. And a better side today would have got 7. The Blades of last year, for example.

Terrific explanation. Great point well made.

I'm not sure how much football you've watched this season, but the current Premier League leaders are long throw specialists who score the majority of their goals from set pieces. Their fans actually sing "set piece again, ole ole".

The difference being we'd got 11 men behind the ball when that happened. They had us a actually 6 v 3 today at one point today. I agree it's dinosaur stuff, but the ball is still round. A defender still has to deal with a ball played over his head. That'll ever change.

Absolutely. You have to have a plan for why you're doing what you do. Man City do it to draw in the opposition, but you need players with a high level of skill and intelligence to carry it off successfully. I'm convinced some teams play it out from the back "because City do it and it seems to work for them". Even Man U seemed to do it without any idea of why. My biggest bugbear - keepers playing it into midfield on the ground. If neither fullback is free to accept the ball, put your foot through it!!

Selling our soul by being more direct? Not many complained under Big Jack and Wilkinson (and even Megson). We played some nice stuff and had some success under Atkinson and Carlos, but playing football on the ground at all costs is hardly sown into the fabric of the club.