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Probably true, he got us 5 from 8 when we would have been lucky to get 2

Name a player at this club that didn't. I find it ludicrous that we're singling out specific players and blaming them for this. I know that Colo's errors have been particularly visible because he plays in the center of defense and Butt was especially out of his depth but none of our players were up for the fight week-in week-out, especially when they needed to be, down the stretch. Sebastian Bassong Touché

Name a player at this club that didn't. I find it ludicrous that we're singling out specific players and blaming them for this. I know that Colo's errors have been particularly visible because he plays in the center of defense and Butt was especially out of his depth but none of our players were up for the fight week-in week-out, especially when they needed to be, down the stretch.

Hull won 1 out of the last 22 games. I've already said it before, but Christ, that stat gets to me every time, they had an absolute shower of shite team and they still beat us. Just had a quick browse through the Premier League tables since 1992 and only once before has a team with 35 points or fewer survived the drop. It was a terrible West Brom team that was bottom at Christmas but survived on the last day with 34 and went down with room to spare a year later. This Hull team is offically the second worst team ever to survive the drop from the Premier League. Incidentally, this Sunderland side would go down as probably the 4th or 5th worst team ever to survive. And they still beat us.

SSN say they're about to release a club statement any minute now, anyone know what they're talking about?

Are we going to keep their sponsorship? I wonder if they have a clause that lowers the payments they have to make.

Has always happened to good centre-halves here for the last 4 years or so. He'll go somewhere else and be an average defender, but we've ruined his chances to ever feature regularly for Argentina or play Champions League football.

I don't really know to be honest, I'm no real aficionado of the available, or potentially available, management talent, but the club need to be doing whatever it takes to find someone and provide them with what they need to do the job. There's got to be someone out there with a decent record of success who'd be willing to take us on. Coppell is a good manager and a nice bloke, but I'd worry about the pressure getting to him if he came here. Steve Coppell is one of the most grounded and logical managers in the game, plus he has a good Championship record, I'd be reasonably happy to see him here if Shearer refuses.

Oh my God. Here we go... Bye then! Really just meant that I can't believe, despite our shite, that we were a deflected goal away from staying up.

What did he say? On the BBC he said that he wasn't blaming any one individual, guess he has to be diplomatic but fucking hell.

Hull won 1 game in the last 22 they played. 1 game. And we still couldn't beat them.

So true, we're gonna have to have legs especially in the midfield if we're to come back.

He'll have to do more running in the Championship than he has this year, plus he'll be a year older.

This day was hyped up so much by Sky, the BBC, etc, but in the end there was absolutley zero drama on this day. No last minute goals, no real drama, just 4 shite teams slipping away like they have all season.

I have a feeling like its far from over. I think we'll be back within 2-3 years, but it also wouldn't surprise me if we're in a Leeds-esque position in 5 or 6 years. Those who voted yes, hope you're ready for an absolute disaster.

The best way for him to protect his investment, save his money, a remain a rich man would be to put a large, up front investment in terms of a transfer kitty. If he decides to release 4m or something he will keep losing cash.

Has this thing about a relegation wages clause actually be substantiated? If Shearer stays on, I think it'll be on the condition that we clear the shite.

Selling Given was a huge, huge, huge mistake. Should have implored him to stick around for the end of the season.

I want to keep: Guthrie Martins Enrique Nolan Bassong Harper R. Taylor Jonas Beye Lovenkrands Taylor Xisco Ranger Maybe Caroll We'll be lucky to keep half Give some of these young lads a chance, especially Ranger and LuaLua

It was awful, awful singing

Get Setanta, they often show the Friday night games and sometimes show the Saturday noontime games

It won't be enjoyable if we don't start the season really quickly We need the PR machine to go into action and everyone should immediately be bigging up this club and talking about how big it actually is, trying to keep some of our better players on for just the one season that it will take us to come back up

Let em have their fun, they deserve to stay up

Much ado about nothing