midds

Finally handed one in on the 30th Jan. Fucking hell. If he'd have handed one in 4 weeks ago then he might already be at City.

Pleased it's gone through. Also slightly encouraged that they've opened their eyes and are trying to do something about it. Nolan alone isn't the answer and we still need another 2 perhaps but it's a start.

I've backed him for a long time but this takes the piss. Sooner he fucks off the better.

He's better than Butt and he might get a few from midfield. If the fee/wages are fairly small then it's a decent enough signing.

Good point. After losing what should have been the easiest win of the season tonight, what can we hope for now. Exactly. Every other team that has played City has beaten them. We lost against them. We don't deserve to be allowed to even play the fucking sport, let alone win a game or two.

We should just write to the FA and ask them to relegate us. No point even trying to stay up - we're definitely going down so why even bother turning up. There's just no point. Let's just admit we're the worst team in the league and ask to finish 20th. They'd be doing us a favour tbh.

We desperately need a win from somewhere. Don't give a shit how we do it but we need to beat this lot on Sunday. Set-piece, dodgy penalty, own goal, deflected free-kick, something like that to give us something to build on. Get in front and the crowd should see us home. Got to keep battling every week if we want to stay up.

Fucking wasters. They've probably done it on purpose. And they earn loads of money.

The fucking drama of it.

and Hull. and Sunderland. and Blackburn. Blackburn will grit themselves away from it imo. Hull will probably alright aswell i reckon - blatantly a confidence team. When they get a win from somewhere they'll probably stay fairly solid. Mackems, maybe - but they've got Kenwyne Jones. So do you think that Portsmouth, Blackburn, Sunderland, Boro and Hull will ALL finish above us? Do i think we'll get relegated, you mean? It's too early to tell yet - but like i said in that other post - if we lose to the Mackems i think yeah, we probably will. I said it's between us, Pompey and Boro for 18th. Blackburn, Mackems and Hull - yeah - i think they'll finish above us most likely. Putting our woeful away record aside, three of our remaining home games are against the top four (hence the 'if we lose to Sunderland' comment). Gonna be tight as fuck, like. No, I asked you if you could see all of those teams finishing above us. Because if we finish above just one of them, we stay up in my opinion. I still reckon we've got enough about us to finish above at least one of that lot plus WBA and Stoke. If you disagree then fair enough. Finish below Portsmouth, Blackburn, Sunderland, Boro and Hull = Relegation imo. To which i say, i'll tell you after the Mackem game. That's exactly what I've just said. Right. You asked me - do you think we'll finish below that lot? I said - you mean, 'do you think we'll get relegated?' To which you said - 'no, actually i said, etc etc...' Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Never mind. I'm simple orite. "Because if we finish above just one of them, we stay up in my opinion." was the key sentence like. Never mind.

Midds, this one is for you.

and Hull. and Sunderland. and Blackburn. Blackburn will grit themselves away from it imo. Hull will probably alright aswell i reckon - blatantly a confidence team. When they get a win from somewhere they'll probably stay fairly solid. Mackems, maybe - but they've got Kenwyne Jones. So do you think that Portsmouth, Blackburn, Sunderland, Boro and Hull will ALL finish above us? Do i think we'll get relegated, you mean? It's too early to tell yet - but like i said in that other post - if we lose to the Mackems i think yeah, we probably will. I said it's between us, Pompey and Boro for 18th. Blackburn, Mackems and Hull - yeah - i think they'll finish above us most likely. Putting our woeful away record aside, three of our remaining home games are against the top four (hence the 'if we lose to Sunderland' comment). Gonna be tight as fuck, like. No, I asked you if you could see all of those teams finishing above us. Because if we finish above just one of them, we stay up in my opinion. I still reckon we've got enough about us to finish above at least one of that lot plus WBA and Stoke. If you disagree then fair enough. Finish below Portsmouth, Blackburn, Sunderland, Boro and Hull = Relegation imo. To which i say, i'll tell you after the Mackem game. That's exactly what I've just said.

It's not as if Kinnear was a class manager with a decent record and we're just turning on him because of recent poor form. FFS. He was never good enough. Appointing hiim was a mistake from the start. Let's just get around to rectifying that before we're dead and buried. It was either him or Hughton. Take your pick. No-one else wanted the job. Getting on my nerves how everyone states this with utter certainty. If you were an unemployed manager who'd just left a Championsihp club, would you not jump at the chance to manage anywhere in the Premiership? No matter how s***? Well there are a few of those out there right now. And every last one is leagues better than Joe f***ing Kinnear. Do you blame the players at all or is it totally, 100% on Kinnear? The players are also s*** but they'd be significantly less s*** if they weren't being coached by a complete idiot. Is it impossible in your mind to both improve the squad AND get a new manager? Does it have to be either/or? Not at all. But I can't see a long line of top players and managers forming an orderly queue to join us, can you? In my opinion the players need to take a large share of the responsibility of the blame for where we find ourselves. If you disagree then fair enough. I don't absolve the players from blame in the slightest. I don't see why you keep trying to misrepresent me in that manner. We need to make a couple signings AND sack Joe Kinnear if we want to stay up. There are replacements out there. Name them. Search the thread, I've done so at least five times and I really can't be arsed anymore. I think you mentioned unemployed Championship managers. What do you think the reaction would be if we gave Glenn Roeder or Paul Jewell a hefty 4 year contract?

It's not as if Kinnear was a class manager with a decent record and we're just turning on him because of recent poor form. FFS. He was never good enough. Appointing hiim was a mistake from the start. Let's just get around to rectifying that before we're dead and buried. It was either him or Hughton. Take your pick. No-one else wanted the job. Getting on my nerves how everyone states this with utter certainty. If you were an unemployed manager who'd just left a Championsihp club, would you not jump at the chance to manage anywhere in the Premiership? No matter how s***? Well there are a few of those out there right now. And every last one is leagues better than Joe f***ing Kinnear. Do you blame the players at all or is it totally, 100% on Kinnear? The players are also s*** but they'd be significantly less s*** if they weren't being coached by a complete idiot. Is it impossible in your mind to both improve the squad AND get a new manager? Does it have to be either/or? Not at all. But I can't see a long line of top players and managers forming an orderly queue to join us, can you? In my opinion the players need to take a large share of the responsibility of the blame for where we find ourselves. If you disagree then fair enough. I don't absolve the players from blame in the slightest. I don't see why you keep trying to misrepresent me in that manner. We need to make a couple signings AND sack Joe Kinnear if we want to stay up. There are replacements out there. Name them.

and Hull. and Sunderland. and Blackburn. Blackburn will grit themselves away from it imo. Hull will probably alright aswell i reckon - blatantly a confidence team. When they get a win from somewhere they'll probably stay fairly solid. Mackems, maybe - but they've got Kenwyne Jones. So do you think that Portsmouth, Blackburn, Sunderland, Boro and Hull will ALL finish above us? Do i think we'll get relegated, you mean? It's too early to tell yet - but like i said in that other post - if we lose to the Mackems i think yeah, we probably will. I said it's between us, Pompey and Boro for 18th. Blackburn, Mackems and Hull - yeah - i think they'll finish above us most likely. Putting our woeful away record aside, three of our remaining home games are against the top four (hence the 'if we lose to Sunderland' comment). Gonna be tight as fuck, like. No, I asked you if you could see all of those teams finishing above us. Because if we finish above just one of them, we stay up in my opinion. I still reckon we've got enough about us to finish above at least one of that lot plus WBA and Stoke. If you disagree then fair enough.

It's not as if Kinnear was a class manager with a decent record and we're just turning on him because of recent poor form. FFS. He was never good enough. Appointing hiim was a mistake from the start. Let's just get around to rectifying that before we're dead and buried. It was either him or Hughton. Take your pick. No-one else wanted the job. Getting on my nerves how everyone states this with utter certainty. If you were an unemployed manager who'd just left a Championsihp club, would you not jump at the chance to manage anywhere in the Premiership? No matter how s***? Well there are a few of those out there right now. And every last one is leagues better than Joe f***ing Kinnear. Do you blame the players at all or is it totally, 100% on Kinnear? The players are also shit but they'd be significantly less shit if they weren't being coached by a complete idiot. Is it impossible in your mind to both improve the squad AND get a new manager? Does it have to be either/or? Not at all. But I can't see a long line of top players and managers forming an orderly queue to join us, can you? In my opinion the players need to take a large share of the responsibility of the blame for where we find ourselves. If you disagree then fair enough.

It's not as if Kinnear was a class manager with a decent record and we're just turning on him because of recent poor form. FFS. He was never good enough. Appointing hiim was a mistake from the start. Let's just get around to rectifying that before we're dead and buried. It was either him or Hughton. Take your pick. No-one else wanted the job. Getting on my nerves how everyone states this with utter certainty. If you were an unemployed manager who'd just left a Championsihp club, would you not jump at the chance to manage anywhere in the Premiership? No matter how shit? Well there are a few of those out there right now. And every last one is leagues better than Joe Fucking Kinnear. Do you blame the players at all or is it totally, 100% on Kinnear?

Wrong context. You dont sack a competent manager who is simply having a bad run But You do sack a manager who is out of his depth Dave's already fielded this one 2 mins ago.

Are you having a laugh, man? Do you think Joe Kinnear is good enough? You can blame it on the lack of depth aswell... but then - the reason why people aren't coming here because they won't commit themselves to this cretin of a manager. Yep - that's exactly what I said. Fuck me.

It's not as if Kinnear was a class manager with a decent record and we're just turning on him because of recent poor form. FFS. He was never good enough. Appointing hiim was a mistake from the start. Let's just get around to rectifying that before we're dead and buried. It was either him or Hughton. Take your pick. No-one else wanted the job.

and Hull. and Sunderland. and Blackburn. Blackburn will grit themselves away from it imo. Hull will probably alright aswell i reckon - blatantly a confidence team. When they get a win from somewhere they'll probably stay fairly solid. Mackems, maybe - but they've got Kenwyne Jones. So do you think that Portsmouth, Blackburn, Sunderland, Boro and Hull will ALL finish above us?

You can't just sack your manager every time you go on a shitty run of games ffs. Why not just sack our manager every Friday afternoon and win the following game?

and Hull. and Sunderland. and Blackburn.

Got to admire the optimism. Are you still certain we'll stay up, Midds? Certain? No. Pretty sure? Yes. Other teams are on shit runs too. I thought we'd lose this one tonight.

Let's just get in 1-0 down and regroup. If we're still one down with 10 mins to go then we can have a go.