Dan

Cheltenham are my first. Absurd price.

Context: We fucked up the Sensi deal and left ourselves with no alternative. So to sum up our window... In: Thomas (Returned from loan) Out: Iversen (Stoke, loan), Thomas (Middlesbrough, loan), Smithies (retired), Casadei (recalled) With Ndidi out until April as well. There's a part of me that thinks we fuck this. We've managed to successfully fuck Maresca over so he'll be livid now. I'm not quite at the point of thinking we won't go up, but we're leaving this more to chance than we needed to and it really didn't need anything major. Just get a fucking loanee in for fuck sake if Sensi is too complicated a deal. We flew him over, did the announcement videos, the medical and everything, and tomorrow he's on his way back to Milan. Really have had enough of this clown director of football who can do literally no wrong in the owners eyes. It's pathetic.

It tallies up. Just a really poor player and miles off it for me.

With the greatest of respect he looked about a League Two, possibly even National League player to me. I've no idea how he got a deal here.

Another absolute embarrassment from this ownership and director of football. When are our fans going to wake up to these lot.

I know what you mean. It's not a fixture we tend to win often. It's usually always a draw.

I'm going to regret this. Torino.

@Stan we're so overpriced to win this game but I can't do 'it', it's too risky.

Luton genuinely might do this. They're no joke at home at all. Brighton really aren't all that this season. Don't know if it's as simple as them struggling to juggle Europe but they've been really off it for most of the season. I'm actually quite surprised they're in the top half still. Had a feeling Newcastle were going to get a result at Villa but bottled having them to actually win and just went for a draw. I think they're going to upturn again. I believe there is something in the theory in that they were very fatigued and that having a couple of weeks break has done them the world of good. Two good away wins since coming back.

WEEK 26 - SIX LOSERS FROM FIVE BETS! WEEK 26 STATS Winning bets: 0/5 Winning selections: 2/10 Weekly forum position: -£50.00 (Ranked 21/26) --- OVERALL STATS Winning bets: 44/176 Winning selections: 151/332 Total forum position: -£354.91 This really was an absolute shocker of a week with an astoundingly low number of selections landing, not a single player winning a bet and to really rub salt into the wound, I've discovered another accounting fault which has penalised one player in particular. I'll get that bit out of the way. @RandoEFC is £20 down on last week rather than the £10 the table says, and moves down to 8th, as I've missed off a previous loss unfortunately. To really rub salt in the wound, I can't seem to land anything where I put my money where my mouth is, and yet; The corners pick was one of only two single selections to land this weekend, but the Serie B game that promised goals actually delivered a Serie B game. A double whammy. @CaaC (John) continues his poor form with a sixth straight loss, no magic of the cup this time as neither Villa or Spurs managed even a goal, let alone a win in their ties. Starting to wonder if the ultra long shots are worth a return! @Stan's winning run is over following a double blank. Devante Cole blanking for Barnsley in their loss to Exeter, and Juventus remarkably failing to beat an abject Empoli at home, though two things of note from that game - Arkadiusz Milik was sent off in the first half for Juventus, and Empoli have just appointed the man who is supposedly the survival specialist of Italy and in truth, his record stacks up. In 2016/17 he kept Crotone up from a position of having just 9 points from their opening 19 games, and in 2021/22 he did similarly at Salternitana. He's taken over Empoli in similarly dire straits, so they may well be a team to keep an eye on now - even if this result was probably a bit lucky. Then we come to the slightly more controversial. I've decided due to fairness that I agree with @Lucas in that we won't include things such as acca boost or 2 goal payout, as we had our first instance all season this weekend of a bet that would've lost in a regular form, but won on Bet365's early payout. It was settled however when Senegal blew it against Ivory Coast, a result that also sank myself. It was written, but in truth, Senegal really didn't turn up at all and despite taking a very early lead they just didn't really do anything, they sat in and hoped to never be broken down, a risky strategy that backfired. In the twist of twists, Ivory Coast are now the second favourites to win the whole thing! So yeah, a really rubbish week on the whole, unfortunately.

They're the definition of soft-centred. The ease of our goal within three minutes was laughable.

Cakewalk. We weren't at our best tonight and we could've very conceivably hit 5. Some of Swansea's play was nice but some of it was just absolutely brain-dead.

Yeah I've snapped, Southampton definitely getting autos. They're signing players now who have no business in this division. Maresca wants two midfielders but it's dependant on us being able to shift Praet so I highly doubt it. We're terrible at selling players. It's held us back quite a bit in recent years. Sensi will sign though which is good. I like the fact he's acknowledged the lack of physicality in the side as well even if he isn't going to be able to address it. The Sensi signing did make me wonder if he was a bit too idealistic.

1-0 Senegal already. Could it be?

Max Gradel playing for Ivory Coast while a Leicester fan and a Leeds fan need Senegal. We all know how this ends.

Out of interest, where were those odds from? Because this is the first time this has happened this season. If you had backed a PSG win and BTTS on a Bet365 bet builder, you would have actually still won because when a team goes 2-0 up it's classed as a win.

and Cape Verde have done their bit too. Brace yourselves people. We've got an absolute corker on the way here.

Excuse me I have actually won one I definitely have quite low faith at the minute though. Does feel like very little is going true to expectation. This one really is as simple as I think they're the better teams in their ties and the Senegal price especially is great in the circumstances. Just to clarify it's both to win in 90.

No big description or whatnot from me this week. I'm going for Cape Verde to beat Mauritania and Senegal to beat Ivory Coast. My gut tells me.

Honestly why do we bother? I of course didn't, and instead had the same selection in a treble with Bristol Rovers v Oxford and Lausanne Ouchy v Winterthur - both of those of course sail home.

I think the truth is everyone's so scared because they know deep down we're run by idiots. There are clubs who could've utilised selling him (such as Brighton actually) and strengthened the rest of the team with the money. We will dally about and half-arse it like always. The fact a club as savvy as Brighton think they can get us here is a red flag to me. We're more in the shit financially than I realised. I'm seeing some real turbulence coming with us. As much as I dislike Rodgers' handling of last season, and how I think his abysmal recruitment played a massive part in it, he had a point about these clowns. It appears this month that Maresca's been given false pretences, the same poor communication etc... that Rodgers alluded to. I didn't suddenly think this club was a well-oiled machine again just because we're beating a load of sides we have ten times the budget of.

We can't can we?