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The only problem is, Hanley's an inferior player.

Give it a rest with the guff, then. There are a hell of a lot of stones to be thrown at the PL but lack of top end competition isn't one of them. Certainly not compared to leagues of comparable quality.

Exactly this, but Ron knew that. He's just being like that because it's what he does. 4 different winners in the last 4 seasons says you're talking shit, as per.

What does this nonsense even mean?

To be fair none of our centre halves look good....one looked ok in thre prem, probably the best at bringing the ball out but hasn't been given a chance at this level, as for the forward, done ok in the prem and similar to Murphy in this divison, played in formations or tactics that dont suit. Or do you think if the manager doesnt play them it means they're crap.....means Colback's great no ? I like both Mitrovic and Mbmeba as it happens, but neither were remotely fit for the purpose they were bought for. We needed two players to form opposite ends of the team's spine in the Premier League.

To be fair, Carr was tasked with bringing in a starting CB and ST for the Premier League and given a budget of over £20m to do so. The fact that the players he chose are now effectively behind Daryl Murphy and Grant Hanley in the pecking order in the Championship says it all. He's a fucking shit scout probably trying to blame shift.

Unfortunately this is one of the those rare occasions where you're essentially right. Some of them would stay regardless. Far too many.

"It’s a disgrace to be honest and if I was American I would of got something like this ten years ago." I think that sums the thick twat up pretty well.

I'd rather have Rafa on his worst day than Klopp, personally.

You'll get your chance tomorrow Ah, I thought ON was in there with him today. Make sure you give him lots of love tomorrow, like.

You're the only one interpreting it like that, I suspect.

You do it every single day even when you've got to stretch the truth or tell fibs to accomplish it.

Optimistic Nut.

You're talking absolute shit, like. In the last 10 years it's changed drastically. Honestly, why do you have to defend the man every chance you get?

Absolute rubbish mate things have settled down lately because it looked like things have been going in the right direction I'm not sure what you're getting at. The atmosphere in the ground has largely been shit all season.

You were defending our transfer business the other day, man.

How've you swung that?

Dummett's been poor recently but he literally did about one thing wrong last night and got us out of jail several times. I'm sure people decide what type of game certain players have had before it kicks off, like.

I didn't imply he would, either. I think he knows he needs at least that amount of first team players.

Agreed. I don't know how you reconcile the two, though. If they are prepared to finance a strong team for the PL, surely now would be a good time to buy and integrate one or two players of that standard?

I think you're perspective is over ambitious - especially with Ashley in charge. We'll look to avoid a relegation battle, not much else. He won't ensure we'll have a squad strong enough for midtable, just put together something that might be strong enough for it. Much like the Townsend deal, why spend all the money to push a 85% likeliness of promotion to 92%? And as I said yesterday, if we invest an amount so meagre that avoiding a relegation battle is the clear aim, Rafa will be gone. He's not Pardew, he's a winner.

And Liverpool were barely interested and didn't come close to matching our offer for him, but yeah, other than that, true enough. I think his point is we were paying big money for a proven international player because mid-table mediocrity wasn't good enough. Things are unrecognisable from that.

Second best striker, but yeah, true enough.

Diame looked better there before going to Africa, to be fair. Pointless discussing it anyway, mate. Rafa's not going to play 4-4-2.