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"Geordie boys taking the piss" ringing out, no doubt they're talking about Carver and Stone hoying Gouffran on and him scoring. Hull are utterly fucking shite it looks like we will be safe if this is the sort of dross we're up against.

Well he was canny unsure Elmohaddy handballed it so they should probably at least have a goal

You'd think Hull had been pretty impressive today if you listened to him.

Sammy! Fucking hell

Waddle goes "does he hand ball it? he's disguised it well if he has" after seeing the first replay, had it completely above his head it wasn't even a question.

Pleased we've been watching Gouffran instead of him all season

Be interesting to see Martinez's reaction if one of his players is on the receiving end of one of McManaman's challenges.

I think the under 21 thing is an actual rule tbh, so I guess Alli would be fine, Darlow is older tho and I'm not sure if the other lad will be under 21 by next season.

Apparently we're closest to signing Dele Alli on a similar sort of buy then loan back deal as we did with the two lads from Forest, don't know much about him but I think he's rated pretty highly. http://m.bbc.com/sport/football/31021000

I wouldn't put it past them if we finish around mid table. I think if we have an arse twitching end to the season they'll get that rush like they did the other year when they bought Sissoko etc.

The fact we can't be sure says it all about them. No doubt they've called off the search and will be left behind by the time summer comes around as clubs weighing up making a change will sound out the blokes on the supposed list.

Don't know if he'll manage the same role in the film version mind. Doubt he's big enough to carry much water.

Plays the role of 'Clogger'

McClaren is canny but they can fuck off if they've sat twiddling their thumbs waiting for him, needs to be better if we're going to make a stupid risk like this. Mind I don't expect any better.

That's fucking tragic, calling him JC as well ffs! I love when they say stuff like "he knows the club inside and out" I'm sure there's a staff member that has been at the club for 30 year but it doesn't make them fucking qualified to manage the side. Sickening write up by another club mouth piece tbh. I've no idea why they keep dragging Sir Bobby's name up constantly either as if being near him made Carver know what he's doing, if that was the case can we hire Terry McDermott as well. "The big grumble from some fans will be that we haven’t brought somebody in." Aye just a slight grumble isn't it? so they've spent another transfer window fucking about with the idea that they would at least get a manager, instead we've not improved the squad or got a new manager. Moncur wants to be ashamed of that bilge.

What has he said now? Charnley now strutting round jabbering about how no one was good enough and they're going to postpone the search until summer Postpone! As Isegrim said this only makes sense if they have someone lined up. They best have someone fucking good as well because if we have to suffer through another nightmare 16 game run ending in hopefully squeaking survival to get some gimp like Bruce in they want their bollocks chopped. Of course the other possibility is we get relegated and Ashley sacks Charnley for fucking up and again proves we're just fucking winging it on a yearly basis.

Anita's a canny 1500m runner by the looks of it mind, not sure of what else he does.

The biggest problem looking at the fixtures is I don't see any way we can go on a decent run where we can build any confidence, we don't even get the confidence bump from a new manager coming in. May is the only month where we play a few poor teams in a row but by then it may be too late or those teams will be scrapping for their lives and we've shown little fight in the past tbh. I have no confidence whatsoever that Carver can get us to crawl over the line, we just have to hope that an 8 point gap is enough of a buffer over 16 games but it's not a lot. If we reach March without a win we're totally fucked.

You're right tbh, must admit I'm hoping it doesn't win on account of how shit it was but it no doubt will win some awards.

Aye, this is a fucking nightmare appointment. One we all thought was likely to happen until the summer but it's utterly shit nonetheless. They've yet again took a gamble that we'll survive but I think this one is the riskiest they've attempted as Carver is shocking, his choices took us from a winning position to a draw with one of the worst sides in the league. We also have a horrific run of fixtures coming up, playing all of the top sides plus the mackems, which will no doubt result in fuck all points from this tosser. I know we all feel we know their intentions (avoid relegation and nowt else) but seeing shite like this where they're basically gambling on scraping by for nigh on half a fucking season yet again is gutting.

Fully agree it was absolute fucking bilge.

Bradford have knocked Chelsea out as well.

Boro have played really well and beaten Man City in the cup, guess they didn't get the memo that you can't be messing about with cups as there's no point in them.

Does it keep you up to date on what Darren Fletcher is doing?

Very interesting stuff especially this gem: "Schuster will replace interim coach John Carver (50) and may even bring a wizard." Thanks Google translate