David Kelly

I totally get what you're saying but I do think that no matter how well the interview went, it would just end up giving more amunition to those wanting to use it to have a go at us through Howe. It then just throws up more questions that he's in no place to answer. But in all of this Stavely and co should be ensuring that Howe isn't struggling with this. As long as he doesn't feel that he's being hung out to dry then I do think this is the quickest way for it to pass.

I think the best way to handle it is exactly what Howe has done. If he just keeps answering as he has it will certainly go away, at least until the next reason for it to flare up. Hopfully SA won't have any more days of 81 beheadings any time soon. The only thing Howe really could say against the Saudi's is that he disagrees with capital punishment in general. But to try and stop the questions being put to him, especially after he's said that he understands it's up to journalists to ask, wouldn't look great imo.

You've forgotten that we were missing our best player too. Oh and Wilson.

As if any mackem holiday's in Rome man. They really are a bizzare bunch.

Massive shock that. Great player obviously and I've always liked him as a commentator too. RIP.

Shane Warne has died apparently.

Aye they definitely said that in the Caulkin interview.

Surprised Talkshite havn't snapped him up. He's perfect for their bollocks.

I can't muster up much hatred for Kinear. He was basically a senile old piss head plucked from a care home to run a premier league team. He probably wasn't being trusted to dress himself before he turned up here. I almost just feel sorry for him. Souness, Allardyce and Bruce are far and away the biggest cunts we've ever had here.

Most pundit's are ex footballers. Most footballers are thick as shit. It doesn't take much to join the dots.

Wiki only shows league goals on that part of a players page I think. He scored against Palermo in what I think may have been Krul's debut. I think he also scored in some of the Intertoto games if we're counting them as competetive.

Didn't Luque score in Europe?

Have we? I'm pretty sure I've been to every home game and while we've had good spells I don't think we've been better than a good number of them. But my point was more that I haven't seen anyone other than Norwich look worse than what we have on a number of occasions.

Believing we can and thinking we will are two different things though. As things stand, I don't think we will or believe we can. Of course that could change with further signings. There's only Norwich who have looked a worse side than us up here this season. That is a very real problem.

What makes you think we'll stay up? I can understand anyone having hope we'll stay up but I don't see how anyone can retain confidence. We have 18 games left and will need to will about 8 of those unless the three teams around us have a level of shitness that's even worse than ours has been so far this season. That must be unlikely so we're going to have to do it ourselves. And given we've played Cambridge, Norwich, Burnley (twice) and Watford at home this season while only picking up a single win, confidence is not something I can muster. Yes we have more money than anyone else but rightly or wrongly they don't seem to want to risk getting their pants pulled down in this window, or the players we have identified as being ones to move us forward aren't interested in us for the time being. Quite simply we are running out of games and finding the kind of form that survival would take is certainly less than probable.

If only the England Test team could be fixed so easily! Utter shite series. Very glad it's over.

Used to be Williocks role last season. This season he seems to have forgotten how to play football unfortunately.

I bet he's regretting coming already having to play with that shower of shite. He looked different class to the rest of them in terms of ability and temprement. Another 5 players of his standard and we may yet be ok.

Jimmy made that last over look easy as fuck. Its a shame our batsmen have made every other over look almost impossible. Might be difficult to find a team for the next match. Butler deffinately out, Stokes, Bairstow and Wood look like big doubts and Robinson and Woakes were already injured. Billings and Overton could well be playing.

Have Southampton OK'd this?

Apparently Digne is definitely not happening according to that Fabrizio Romano (who I admittedly have no clue who he is). We desperately need a striker by the time we play Watford. Its probably our most important game of the season and I'd be shitting myself going into it with just Gayle.

Let's face it, Dean shouldn't have been allowed to referee last night because he's fucking awful since Poll retired he's been the one referee who wants the game to be about him more than any other. Where he's from is beside the point.

We seem to have given up trying to build a test side these days. Nothing about English cricket is about preparing for test series or preparing players to come through and succeed in the longest format. When Anderson and Broad hang it up we will only have two or three real test quality players left in the the team and one of them is usually a massive fitness doubt.

The way Willock and Hayden have been playing recently he's probably worth a shot now.

That's better for us. We always do shite against teams that are struggling.