If we can’t win at Deepdale this season we may as well forfeit our away game vs them at the start of every season for the rest of time and make use of an extra weeks break. They are honking.
History would suggest it’s highly likely. Ipswich the only non-parachute club to get autos in last 4 season. Both have quality XIs for this level and still seem to be adding.
Agreed. It shows what you can do when you have a good manager who knows how to get the best out the players. Bielsa also got Leeds up with a very average side who mainly got found out when he left/they moved elsewhere.
This sounds very similar to a lot of the posts on here when we first got promoted. I remember playing teams like Stoke and Bristol City, looking at how much they’d spent on players and thinking how are we supposed to compete. And that’s not even taking into account the parachute clubs who still...
Seems like they’ve decided to enforce the ‘proper amount of injury time’ thing from the start of last season again. Can’t wait for April when they’ve abandoned it and we’re drawing a crucial game with only 3 mins added on.
I have a theory that Eccles and Torp are so hard to tell apart that they often get blamed for things the other one did and it in turn makes their ratings a bit of a mess.