Alex

Love a bit of Jeremy Coney on TMS.

What I don't get is he (claims, at least) to be a football fan, attends a fair few games and seems genuinely pleased when we win against Man Utd (for example) or something like that. It's like when you have some brilliantly scientist who's also devoutly religious. I.e. he seems able to compartmentalise those conflicts as those the way he runs the club doesn't get in the way of his experience as a 'supporter'. Or he's just a cunt.

The mackems, I mean Aussies, reveling is this.

He was just gathering material for his next book.

Can anyone else see the parallels here?

Remember that Dolly Potter or whoever he was? Said him and his mates tried waterboarding one weekend Mako reminds me of him a bit.

He got stung by that chancer Allardyce with all the snake oil salesmen on the payroll back then but he's gone too ridiculous extremes in response to that. It's fucking mental how he's jeopardised our PL status again by being such a skinflint. When you look at prize money for league positions and potential sell-on fees lost for players (not just in the development squad) then he's probably lost a lot of money and made the team significantly worse too. No one expects us to outspend Chelsea or Man City but there's no real reason why a long term plan to emulate what Southampton have been doing couldn't have been in place for ages now. How long's he been here? 7 years or something and 5 back in the top flight. Instead Graham Carr has been instructed to find cheap, available talent with a potential sell-on fee and that's it, i.e. there's zero structure behind that model. The board are a joke, Lee Charnley ffs. The coaching team is a joke and even the scouting is (I think Carr does a good job but he's 70-odd and he basically is the European scouting network). Relegation is precisely what the owner deserves for being so remiss in terms of looking after his investment.

Better than Enrique © CT

I don't go to the matches any more and I think anyone who does is a cunt but I would like them to risk prosecution and a lifetime ban by invading the pitch

Good mates with Ant, apparently.

I got a bad feeling on this one.

Think it's another obvious flaw in Ashley's grand plan. The promising youngsters we've acquired (like Abeid and Birigrimana) aren't going to develop just by chance. If you don't invest in the coaching, it's a complete waste of time. Similar applies to the first team.

It's a bit like saying we're lucky because if we hadn't had that run or 6 games, or whatever it was, we'd be down already though.

Practice what you preach, marra.

He's not interesting enough to be a cunt.

Saving him for next week.

Quite possibly because no one was listening

Mint

Can't believe that's happened.

Not very appropriate.

Hope there's a burger van to feed the 6,000.

The pre-election polls only take into account people expressing a preference I believe. Whereas the exit polls ask people who've just voted. The fairly obvious conclusion is that floating voters / undecided tended to vote Tory this time.