Rayvin

Ah. Ok well yeah, I totally agree with that. I daresay we'd have won it, actually.

Fair enough - I certainly don't want to play down what we achieved then, but over the three years when we were actually there or thereabouts, I don't think we could have been considered consistent challengers. It was 3rd, 4th and 5th wasn't it? The 3rd would cover it. Not sure about the 4th and 5th. Could we settle on established top 4??

Maybe that's fair, although I don't think we were as close to title chasing under Robson as we were under Keegan. Robson's era felt more about qualifying for Europe, not sure we ever really stood a chance at the title. It'll be interesting to see where we get to with Rafa to be honest. If the money in the PL is balancing things out across the teams, Rafa himself could make a big difference. That said, we need to go up first.

Just read up on it a bit. What the fuck are they thinking trying to pull that off. And why?

How severe a points deduction would they get though? Surely not more than 3-5 points?

I reckon they'll beat Hull. They have to beat someone at some point and Hull at home are the best chance they'll get all season. If they don't win that, they may not win full stop.

Seconded.

Fair enough.

Thread of the year, right here.

That's gonna stick for a while, isn't it...

I think we'd all take that.

Sounds like Corbyn gave May a hard time today over the EU. She's now backtracking on hard Brexit. She has no clue at all what she's doing, mind...

If we'd not had that string of midtable finishes between Keegan and Robson I think we could have claimed to have been established top 6. As it stands, I'd say we were established top half on the balance of things. EDIT - those 11 seasons come to a 6.6 average finish.

I reckon 2-0 to us. Don't think we'll concede.

To hell with the children we're corrupting!

Due to run at least another couple of games yet IMO. Still think Hull will be their first chance to pick up 3 points.

The 3 match ban is presumably the most significant statistic to date concerning his Spurs career then.

It is actually kind of funny that we started doing this just before we went down to the Championship where we were much more likely to win every game

Do you reckon the penny's dropped for them yet? More seriously, has he got any goals or assists to his name yet this season?

Is it not just that you're missing the time slots? I wish we'd put money on this, the complaints would be even more vitriolic

Dunno mind, I think Rafa taking the job has probably raised our stock with other managers. At least once we've been promoted it will have. I don't think we'll be looking anywhere near to the Pulises and Allardyces of the world. I reckon you could reasonably expect we could pull in a Koeman. Just depends on whether or not we go up in the end. Curious to think how the current team would handle the PL challenge mind.

To a degree that's true, but it'll be interesting to see how far that keeps up. What the big clubs have arguably done this year is bring in superior managers to the rest of the division - I reckon that's making the difference presently.