Ayatollah Hermione

January? I'd love to know how he successfully laid foundations for the club to survive the Premier League next season in January. What I see is a bunch of average players who will probably look out of depth and ineffective next season. Now thats a totally different question to what you asked now isnt it? What I asked was what is bolded which is pretty much what I was getting at in my second post (as well you know). In January, promotion was still very likely and as a result, we should have been signing players with some upside for the Premiership rather than whatever was available (Leon Best springs to mind). This season is still clearly part of the rebuilding process with regards to the squad and we're still a weaker side than we were when we were relegated; Not that I was expecting bona-fide Premiership players but when you're signing Coventry City rejects and whatever Portsmouth couldn't afford to pay, what makes you think that he's going to spend £15 million in the summer on real quality? I'm expecting some more Portsmouth exiles and whatever we can get from the likes of Villa/Spurs, certainly not the 5-6 first teamers we'd need, on top of assured back-up.

January? I'd love to know how he successfully laid foundations for the club to survive the Premier League next season in January. What I see is a bunch of average players who will probably look out of depth and ineffective next season.

I have no idea where this opinion that Ashley is suddenly going to start throwing around cash and rebuilding us. Have we seen any evidence of him doing that in the past 3 years?

Christ. You must have looked like Slim Pickens at the end of Dr. Strangelove.

There's no way to argue that a 9 point lead was a 12 point lead, surely? 9 points with a game in hand is still a 9 point lead. Unless of course, the 12 point lead was actually in us all along ala Dumbo.

You could listen on Real Radio website (I think). Commentary and analysis is spotty (Bob Moncur is usually alright but the other bloke is shocking) but it's somewhere to listen to it.

General consensus seems to be that Hughton is doing nothing special, and that just about any manager would have yielded the same or similar results with the gulf in the class of players in this league. With that in mind if we're promoted the fear is that once the results don't come so easy the players heads will drop and Hughton won't be able to motivate them, or make the necessary tactical adjustments required. its frightening to think the frenzy that would have been generated had Shearer been in charge and acheived exactly the same results. I admit I would have probably lost all perspective and be considering him some sort of management god, rather than Hughton who is being shrugged off as a innefectual bloke who got lucky. I think it's the manner of performances that has people worried. All too often, Hughton's been tactically suspect and we've really had to grind results out sometimes. If Shearer was here with the same points total and the same performances, I think people would be a bit concerned as well.

Just out of shot was a bar of soap, I imagine.

A system now adopted by Reuters.

So were we tbh.

I never realised prison would be such a dangerous place.

It was Howard Webb - I'd add Bennet, D'Arso and I think it was Barry Knight who let that GBH on Bernard go at Everton that time. Of course, Howard Webb. You just have to look at him and you know for certain he's more interested in himself than the game. Twat. Utter cunt, as is Uriah Rennie, a joke of a person. The only person I'd lterally kill is I could get away with it though is Geoff Winter. CUNT Should have been publically shot for his autobiography tbh.

Venomous eyes peering over the top of steak bakes most likely.

His goals have been vital don't get me wrong, but his general play has been extremely poor. I'd have gone for Enrique, Coloccini or Harper all ahead of him. Why not Carroll, Lovenkrands or Guthrie for that matter? They ALL contributed MORE in the last month. Baffling. Yearly accolade. I'd have given it to Enrique but if they're going on importance to the cause, Nolan's goals have been crucial. Not that I'm saying he's done anything else of note but his goals won us games early on so I can see where they're coming from.

Bastard. I really wanted to pass that twat on the way back up.

You'd think that they would take the time to read forums such at this one to see the opinions of fans and then adjust these statements because of it. Of course, that would require a bit of intelligence and effort so I can see why they stick their head in the sand and deny it's all their fault.

Not sure he's likely to come for 15k a week. I doubt the wage cap will be 15k in the prem. I honestly would be surprised if it was over 30k. At the most. I think people are largely forgetting that this is mostly the team that took us down and looked totally out of their depth last season as well.

The PS3 version runs at a higher resolution and has much better sound quality as well if you're bothered about that kind of thing.

Is this the Corey that Lisa is obsessed with on The Simpsons? "Here are some words that rhyme with Corey: Gory. Story. Allegory. Montessori"

I like Guthrie and everything but if he's going to be starting next season, he's going to need someone of real quality beside him IMO which is about as likely as rocking horse shite. Maybe if Barton can find form/a good run of games but that's looking very unlikely with his track record.

£12 million for Rodwell ffs. It might not have even been this thread but it bears repeating.

Fair play to the lad for basically stating that our extra bit of quality has meant we've got results against total shite. Though I suspect the original prediction wasn't backed in much research.

That looks like City Vaults. Which just about sums the place up.

My nickname btw.