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Does sound as if Ashley is keeping his nose out of this though. Almist looks like he wants Charnley to crash and burn alone. Which he's managing.

You know what, the club deserve relegation if they're unwilling to deviate from their fucking stupid head coach idea. Let them burn. That said, we'll never get moyes if he wants 4m...

And yet they have a lower rate of teen pregnancy than we do...weird world.

... What?

@ Renton - If she retires following this then maybe you're right. I just can't see why she would take the fall for this, especially given she was already being paid over half a million a year. How much money would it take to persuade someone to admit to this if you're already paying them that much? I guess the other scenario is that she went to Short/the board, told them and told them her plan for dealing with it. They potentially then agree as long as she takes the fall if it goes south. Seems like this she only resigned because the Guardian got their hands on something. Either way, as you say there's no way of knowing. At least someone has been held responsible though.

Just as another point on this, she is paid about 5 times what Charnley is and yet was incompetent enough to do this despite a background in law. Says it all.

Exactly, the pay off was the only other thing that makes sense but it's hugely risky.

Depends on how he delegates responsibility. Although actually, she's the one running the club, not him.

Aye he'll not necessarily have known about the specifics though. Very likely he'll have actively avoided knowing.

Agreed.

This does feel like an organizational / motivational problem we have though. Its not quality we're lacking. At least not compared to the other relegation candidates. We just need someone who knows how to get them playing.

Agree with this. Doubtful Short knew, he'd leave this to his MD. She's made the decision probably cos she'd be facing the sack of they went down.

Moyes for me although Benitez is a close second. I'd be happy with either but I think Moyes has more experience with clubs in our position whereas Benitez has tended to work with clubs based on where we used to be, status wise. I reckon he's unproven in a relegation fight.

Fucking hell, I'm actually a bit surprised by that. None of them can claim the club did nothing wrong now though.

It better fucking not be Warnock.

that exchange was fantastic.

I agree but would also add in that the other factor is probably that Charnley remains terrified of making this call. On the positive side, Ashley must be able to see how incompetent he is now.

It's mental that they've not bothered looking at viable people.

Charnley is now a bigger immediate problem for this club than Ashley is. He's a fucking schoolboy of an MD, for fuck sake. I've seen more decisive rocks.

He can kiss your memory loss?

Thanks for that, it's helped me get past the rage I'm feeling that Charnley still hasn't summoned up the courage to make a decision.

How is McLaren still in a job ffs... This has now gone on all day and its just wasting everyone's time. I can't believe how much I despise Charnley, he's beyond useless.

Fucking Charnley, he really is terrified of making a decision. He's even more unfit for his job than McClaren is!