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We've had a flirt with relegation in recent years, under Gullit, Dalglish,Souness. I think we're riding our luck a bit this time though. I'm shitting bricks.

I wish. Good players just turn shite when they get to SJP.

I'm going out now. This normally means that we score. See you later.

He's a prime example of "all mouth, no trousers". Just been owned by Stelling though.

see, now Charlie boy's laying into Reading and Steve Coppell.

i dont agree, i think the keegan comment was far too harsh. It's just opinion. 'no wonder he's been out of the game so long...' bit more personal than an opinion. Ach, it's just Charlie being a gobshite. I just don't get why you give it so much importance.

i dont agree, i think the keegan comment was far too harsh. It's just opinion.

Apart from johnnypd - what a load of over-reaction!

nicholas went over the top imo. dont think anyone else said owt wrong though Charlie's sometime a bit excitable.

To be fair, they were simply stating the obvious, very very bluntly, Skirge.

What? You've never said what you know your boss wants to hear you say, just to keep your job? Cos that's what's going on there, I reckon. The boss now wears a King Kev 7 shirt now even billionaires get bored of Yorkshire skip rats that cant score Yokshire skip rat. Like it.

What? You've never said what you know your boss wants to hear you say, just to keep your job? Cos that's what's going on there, I reckon.

I cant see us being beaten no more this season. (Hows that for optimism?) It's double negative.

Or maybe your over analyzing & the whole morale/confidence thing does not stem from Owen BUT results. I know that may sound wacky but I am putting it out there. Me? Overanalysing? Never!

Where is he whinging? He's just stating the obvious to be honest. Well aye, fair point..maybe whingeing is too strong a term, so I'll rephrase it: maybe there's a clear connection between Owen being down in the dumps, him wearing the yellow jersey, him being the club captain and our biggest star, and the generally piss poor morale and performance of the whole squad in recent weeks. Although I am, of course, merely indulging in conjecture.

No surprise to hear Owen whingeing...considering he's been wearing the yellow jumper again this week. Such a precious little Lord Fauntleroy, he really is.

I reckon we'll get another humping from Blackburn. 0-3 to the Rovers.

In answer to the OP and thread title: Half-way up Mike Ashley's arsehole.

I'd suggest that we could recruit Craig Gordon, but I know I'd get lynched so...

Brilliance.

Every day is silent and grey...

I can't believe anyone would be mad enough to build a team around a player like Michael Owen, who looks a. distinctly like he doesn't give a s*** and b. past it. I worry that his name/reputation will convince Keegan to give it another go rather than move on. If KK has a chance to sign a better player, or someone he feels will be more beneficial to the team and the way he intends to get us playing, Owen will make way. He may not peddle him but he will drop him or have him fighting for his place like everyone else which will be based on merit. I don't think Keegan will have been impressed with Owen, a player he has never really rated even when he was in his pomp. I can see the two parting ways, club and player. It wouldn't surprise me to see Sven come in for him and for us to take a loss. I'm not so sure. I mean he made Owen captain, plus Owen has scored a couple of late (and more which have been unfairly ruled off-side). Plus he's a good selling point for bringing players in... especially when you don't have European football. I personally believe his decision to make Owen Captain was more of a peace gesture and to thwart the media from causing trouble between the two and their much publicized difference of opinions relating back to their time together with England. That and to motivate Owen, a player who Keegan would need onside to make his job a little easier and to fire in the goals to take us through to the end of the season. Hasn't quite happened like that but I would hazard a good guess those are very good reasons behind his decision making. Make no mistake about it, KK can be very ruthless. He got rid of the player (David Kelly) who saved us from relegation and whose goals helped fire us to promotion because he didn't believe he was good enough for the Premier League or quite what he had in mind as to how he'd have us playing once we got there. He also sold fans' favourite Andy Cole to our then rivals Manchester United because he wanted to change the way we played which would mean bringing in a player with those different qualities and a different presence we talked about. Sir Les. And on that subject, KK took his number 9 shirt off him and handed it to Shearer, which is something Shearer stipulated if he was to sign for us. Don't be fooled by the nice guy image and the media persona. None of which means anything. History doesn't always repeat itself you know.

So are you saying it's now a receding hair line we're seeing from you?

I thought it was meant to be something more like £105,000 a week

That's what I was saying earlier. Any quality signing is dragged into the torpor rather than pulling the squad out of it. Instill a bit of belief, then make expensive additions to a club on the up. It's like they say about getting your hair cut, you should always go when it looks it's best. Eh? If you go for a haircut when it looks s***, your barber thinks you like your hair to look s***, and gives you a s*** haircut. Surely you go to the barbers to get your hair to stop looking s***? Nope. You need to be more pro-active than that. Well what if you go to your barbers while its looking good to have it cut, and the barber does a s*** job and the end result is that it now looks s***, despite not being s*** before you had it cut? Serves you right for having a 'trophy' haircut. Just because you spend £50 on a haircut doesnt mean you are going to pull! Hey my hair was in a right state after my last barber got at it. I'm planning to "spend big" when getting a hair cut next, probably around £150 in the summer. Surely my hair will lead to quality birds jumping in to bed with me... Give it a go, everything else has failed. Well the new barber I'm using actually used to cut my hair a little over 10 years ago. Was happy with how it looked then and so did the ladies, so perhaps it's good move. or maybe you'll just get a REALLY out of date haircut that people will just piss themselves laughing at... actually I just found out he hasn't cut anyones hair for 3 years. Bad move or not? Sounds like you'd be better off with a professional shearer...