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That might change if we are in the bottom 3 by christmas. If we're in the bottom 3 by Xmas Hughton won't get the chance to spend a penny. So your saying he'll be off if that happens? I'm saying I think Ashley will bin him if we're in the shit. Not saying I agree with it but it's what I think will happen.

That might change if we are in the bottom 3 by christmas. If we're in the bottom 3 by Xmas Hughton won't get the chance to spend a penny.

Bang on. Our first 'banker win' and we throw it away.

4-0 Everton couldn't wish for a better fixture tbh.

Came on with about 73 on the clock I think.

Still a big, fat 'yes' from me. I'd like us to aim higher but I'd take 17th.

Needs to be involved as much as possible and should play in the hole. Fully expect Gutierrez to make way for him as he'll be much easier to drop than Nolan though. We'll see.

That's a direct consequence of playing him up front on his own. We shouldn't be doing that against the poorer sides in the division, especially at home. Exactly. There's a time to be conservative and there's times when we've got to go for it. He (and his fans) have got to put up with the criticisms when it goes tits up and he fucked it up today. Doesn't mean he'll be a shit manager and he's going to fuck it up every week but he got it wrong today and needs to learn from it. Last time he showed such a lack of spine was when he refused to change things at Leicester in January.

Nothing wrong with keeping the same XI to star the game, most of us would have done the same. His substitutions today though.....fuck me. Needs to open his eyes or grow a backbone.

Hardly. Bafra has to come on and I don't mean the 77th minute. Agree totally but it's Hugton's decision to make. Has he got the minerals to drag Nolan or Smith off?

Be interesting to see how long Hughton leaves it before changing it. Losing at home in a match we're expecting to win with new signings waiting on the bench....10 mins? Big decisions for him to make.

Andy according to the Mod log. Probably his stupid fat fingers again.

Come on Hughton, get Ben Arfa on.

Pud's last post was the middle of January. Was it that far back?

In theory your absolutely right but in reality, when you pay 40 quid plus for a shirt you do like, you would expect it to last for more than 5 mins before they release one you don't like. I'd expect the team to use a shirt for more than little over a year to be honest. Fair enough but you can still wear it though. If you bought it because you liked it then I can't see that much of a problem. It's a canny shirt so wear it. If anyone's daft enough to shell out £40+ on a new England shirt every time one's released, purely so they're wearing 'the current one', then I'd say they were a bit of an idiot tbh.

They might have to play a midfielder there. Palacios? Huddlestone? Kaboul & Bassong? Forgot they even had Kaboul.

They might have to play a midfielder there. Palacios? Huddlestone?

Can Van Der Vaart play at CB?

f*** off man, it's getting stupid. I don't expect anything from you moron I never clapped or cheered the scouse cunt off the field. He's a pice of shit tbh.

Curbishley would crash and burn at Villa. Sven would struggle. They're in a bit of a hole atm.

Only scored 9 goals for us in 48 appearances.

This. Really hard to choose one specific moment though.

Because he's an Arsenal fan silly.

It's paid straight into the Sports Direct current account by BACS transfer. Seriously though, does anyone know?

Me neither, but be it in a lump sum or in instalments it’ll be in the club’s accounts by the end of the relevant accounting period won’t it? It would interesting for those who are insisting we will be operating at loss season to have a stab at telling us how much that loss will be and how they arrived at this figure. As I said I've got no idea. I always saw the newly promoted teams having a go by spending a bit of cash after promotion and thought they were spending this new pot of cash given to them by the PL.