Dr Gloom

annoyingly, cameron could come out of this smelling of roses. let's say a lib-lab coalition is formed: the british public will watch another unelected pm (probably david milliband) form an alliance with the lib dems ( the party with the third biggest share of the votes) introduce the most savage austerity measures for the best part of a century. there are those who'd be happy to see brown/clegg take responsibility for cuts that are either so big the public sector unions do a winter of discontent or so small the markets are unmanageable. meanwhile a second election will no doubt follow within a year or 18 months and cameron can sit on the sidelines saying i told you so. pr reform will hopefully ensure the tories never see the light of day again.

this. lots of the above are worth looking at - plenty of top flight nous and experience that we lack. none will come here though if all that fat mike offers is 5 grand a week and a £10 sports direct voucher as a win bonus.

yep. He couldn't even let us be slightly optimistic for a few months until the panic set in towards the end of August. to be fair to you leazes, i've never agreed with you about fat fred being a top chairman but you weren't wrong about this fuckwit. honestly, how this guy made billions, i have no idea. this is basic pr 101 other fans can go on about us moaning all they want. any set of supporters would be moaning if they had an arsehole like ashley running their club. beyond embarrassing.

without investment we're going to struggle. there a serious question marks over the entire first 11. i would sayat the least we would need to chalk up a new right back a couepl of new strikers and a couple of new midfielders - one that can pull strings and create one that can drop anchor. if ashley is good to his latest press release and there is no capital for new players, we are looking at a long hard season and will do well to stay up.

just when we thought there was light at the end of the tunnel they pull us back in

Nah, only if a buyers comes along willing to give him 137M + pay off debt. The cost of the club is well over 200m and no one wil pay that nowadays. it would have to be a mug buyer like. but you can tell from this statment that ashley has zero desire to move the club forwards. doesn't give a monkeys does he. someone needs to make him an offer he can't refuse Like the last one? Great © i mean a mug in the sense that someone that is prepared to pay way over the odds, or is happy to write off the debt. but hopefully someone - unlike ashley - whose motivation for running a football club would be to move it forward rather than bleed it dry.

Nah, only if a buyers comes along willing to give him 137M + pay off debt. The cost of the club is well over 200m and no one wil pay that nowadays. it would have to be a mug buyer like. but you can tell from this statment that ashley has zero desire to move the club forwards. doesn't give a monkeys does he. someone needs to make him an offer he can't refuse

the club is blatantly still up for sale if a buyer comes along

despite all the inevitable red top hype, we will not win the world cup.............FACT in fact, we will do well to get past the quarter finals. don't belive the hype. england are not one of the best teams in the world. we certainly won't be third favourites with bookmakers outside of the uk.

mad though isn't it. he almost had a chance to wipe the slate clean and start again - the feel good feeling was coming back to the club agai. but then he releases a statement like this. all he had to do was keep his trap shut and invest a little bit of cash ahead of the new season. what moron is advising him?

warriors....come out to play.....iay

at first i thought a con-lib pact would never work - their manifestos are just too different. but cameron reminds me a lot of blair, who famously compromised a lot to get into power. i wonder if cameron will truly modernise the tories in order to form a coalition government with clegg. he's not going to give them the electoral reform that brown is offering but he may radically alter the tory position, alienating the right wing loonies and losing a few voters to the bnp and ukip but ultimately making them more electable long term. and although brown is dangling the pr referendum carrot in front of cameron, i imagine any lib-lab colation will be done on the prime minister's terms. i can't see him standing down gracefully or compromising as much as cameron might, despite labour having more in common with the lib-dems than the tories do. the future of mainstream british politics is looking like it could be a centre right party and two centre left parties.

gettind rid is a good move. i'd liek to see him replaced with someone that can cover right mid mind. it was mentioned in another thread yesterday but re-signing ambrose wouldn't be a bad shout. or getting another pacey young lad in to give roteledge some competition

the lib dems are getting my vote. the main reasons being that they're not plowing a fortune into renewing trident when there's a massive hole in the public finances and that they didn't back the war in iraq. it's a shame their bounce in the polls after the first televised leaders debate faded but ulitmately i think their policy on immigration will lose too many middle england votes for them to be a genuine threat. but they're looking like being the kingmakers in a hung parliament and if that can result in electoral reform then my vote won't have been a wasted one.

both good championship players but subs at best in the premier league. it's probably time we just cut or losses with shola but i doubt we will. he can't be that far off a testimonial can he?

aren't they on their 8th manager in two seasons or something daft? most people on this board (myself included) have questioned whether hughton is the man to lead us in the premiership. but giving him the time to see if he can carry the spirit and results into the new season seems a no brainer now. consistency in the backroom staff - or a lack of it in qpr's case - can have a massive impact.

mostly crap. if you're not the featured game you get just the goals and little else. the beeb do it better than itv mind. one thing about motd is they guarantee even the games at the end a decent highlights package, unlike when itv had the highlights and three quarters of the show was dedicated to "the big four"

so it should have gone in the other thread

woosh. Read the opening post. I think Blackpool for definite, and an honourable mention to Scunthorpe for staying up on gates of 4 and 5,000. it was 4-0 away from home early on in the season at a point when most of us apart from accadacca though we were going to struggle. maybe not the best performance but one of the most memorable.

ipswich sway sticks in the mind. i think it was at that point when i thought yeah, we've a genuine chance of going up here when early doors it was all doom and gloom

remember, he's innocent until peruvian guilty

bump You're a terrible fisherman. I'm good at making correct statements though. that's debatable

IF its a true story then this is the line that matters. This suggest a substantial operator rather than a JFK / Oleary personality. There is no way Ashley is going to get rid of LLambias because of Ewerks comments and also because he trusts him to run things for him. The have however, rightly, identified a huge gap at the club and if they find a good operator I welcome this move. I also think Hughton would welcome it. Ashley and Llambias have been doing the role so far so Im sure Hughton would welcome a proper football man to fight his battles upstairs. Well yeah, but name somewhere in this country where that has actually worked? The latest one is Billy Davies at Forest....he's a fuckin dick,granted, but he has to report to David Pleat. He wanted to bring players in in March to make a final push for the top 2 places but just eneded up in a slanging match with Pleat and other board members. Whatever my own personal feelings towards him are, he's got proven ability as a football manager.Why won't Pleat back him up, being a fellow "football man" as you put it? The bottom line is we are back in the big league, big fees, big (er) stars, bigger agents, bigger wages etc. Ashley will not want Hughton to take all that on and knows himself and Llambias cant. Hughton also comes across as the type who would rather be out there coaching than negogiating with Agents. As Alex mentioned other clubs have good CEO's that handle this. He wont sack Llambias so the next best option is too appoint a new CEO but call him a director of football. Im really excited about the summer months. i think you might have a point to be fair. i'm not a fan of the dof model usually as there will always be the inevitable clashes over who decides on transfers - keegan being a case in point. but hughton is a far more junior figure than keegan, lhe has ess of an ego and isn't as big a personality. it might be that he's happy for a technical head to come in and help identify and sign players so he just has to concentrate on coaching them. it's a big if mind. potentially could go tits up again. hughton might not be game. appointing the right man is also key. we don't need another dennis wise type coming in and signing dodgy players off the back of youtube or to keep south american agents onside

most of the best tv from the past few years has come out of hbo if you ask me: sopranos the wire entourage curb your enthusiasm flight of the conchords my other personal favourites include peep show, inbetweeners and mad men