Decky

Would be a brilliant fixture for us. Id love Northern Ireland to get into the top 8 2nd placed teams, would love to get them. Yes, because that's exactly what the situation up north needs right now. Fuck it, I want to see that fixture at some point in my life

In terms of competing with Italy that would be perfect. Also a win tonight would cancel out our slip up against Montenegro, what with Italy drawing with Bulgaria and probably winning tonight. Cant wait until these games kick off.

Would be a brilliant fixture for us. Id love Northern Ireland to get into the top 8 2nd placed teams, would love to get them.

Thinking that myself. I reckon we could have the Italians at home aswell. The play off worries me, it would be absolutely awful to get that far and not go through

What a miss

How is Heskey still starting for England?

Didnt realise this was just a friendly. How come this isnt a qualifier when most other teams are playing them? Especially when these 2 have to play each other anyway? Seems strange.

I like that all white look, wish Ireland would do something like that with green.

Having seen it on the players, it isnt bad actually.

Plenty of Irish people on here, may aswell have a world cup thread. Must win game tonight for both teams id say. The republic need to win imo, no Berbatov and we are at home, Bulgaria will probably be the only team to stop us getting into the World Cup so we need to beat them at least once. If we got 10 points clear of them it would be an amazing position, especially with Italy coming up. Goodluck to Northern Ireland aswell, got abit of a tough game tonight but at least its at home. Come on the Irish

Bruce would probably only get the job here as Ashley would want to piss off Whelan. If Bruce didnt currently work for Whelan, Ashley would never go for him, too much money and he wasnt a big manager in the 90s.

Is that actually the kit they will play in? I thought it was just abit of merchandise?

why is there an "if" at the start of your sentence? Because there is one a the start of the thread title

If we stay up Nicky Butt and a consortium buy the club, Butt then makes himself player manager with a 20 year contract and renames the Milburn Stand the Nicky Butt Stand.

David James is such a mong, really does fancy himself.

It is just awful and to think it will/could get a shit load worse over the next 2 months. I can see if being bad for years. I really cant think how long it might take us to recover from this mis-management. Ashley is never going to be able to sell us so I can see us being under his "guidance" for a few years yet We would probably end up in league one. He will draw up a plan for the Championship which will fail as he is guaranteed to underestimate the league. He will prob keep Kinnear or heir some other has been who will probably do shit but Ashley will see him as the next England manager.

I cant believe this club is risking its survival in top flight football, for Joe Kinnear. This has to be the quickest deterioration of a club in football history surely? Has a club ever gone from fans on cloud 9, top 6 ambitions etc to this in the space of a season?

It is just awful and to think it will/could get a shit load worse over the next 2 months.

Just found out that if we did go into administration, our points deduction would infact be next season. Would be a fucking disaster if Ashley did it as we would just be fighting the drop next season again, but I still dont believe he will.

Im not so sure. Our debts arnt as big a problem now, its mismanagement from Ashley that has us in this situation as he spent too much time on the books and not enough on the squad, so relegation will more than likely happen and cripple him. Kind of ironic really.

I think Big Sam knew that he was going to get sacked. Once Ashley took over there were cries he wanted his own manager. Seemed Sam had given up come December aswell. If he was enthusiastic about his future here i.e. knew if he did well he would be here at least 5 years. Then I genuinely believe his time here would have been completely different.

That would be a dream

Why would Ashley put us into admin anyway? Incase we are forced into administration in the summer, so just doing it now so we lose points this season rather than next? Lets face it, we dont pick up points in the next 3 games we are down anyway.

I actually want him to be our manager, I want to embrace my nightmare. Cant beat em join em and all that.

Would it surprise you if he did?