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Rooney isn't a leader man. He's a hothead who is often is described as being very shy. Not captain material and doesn't respond well at all to pressure. It's, Terry, Rio, Lampard or Gerrard. I'd stick with Terry.

Rest my case.

The 'affection' towards Celtic is somewhat different, mate.

Fair play mate, you win. 9 goals isn't bad though, looking at the figures of our strikers minus Shola.

He has 8 in the championship and 1 in the cup. According to ESPN anyway who rarely get stats wrong.

Well if you were talking about league goals only the figure is actually 8.

Scored against Pompey 3 weeks back.

It's unlikely, given that they're inferior players. But we can hope i guess, and as i said when we signed Routledge, they'll confuse the hell out of opponents with their strikingly similar appearance.

I didn't say we deserved to get a point out of Fulham either. Truth be told, i'm so sure we deserved to get a draw from the Stoke game, for the first hour we were easily second best.

We were terrible under Shearer and didn't deserve to stay up under him. We deserved to be beaten by Villa and didn't deserve to beat Fulham.

We could have had him for £3m under Souness but he said he wanted a 'better' player.

He called Nicky Butt a 'fabulous player' and said there was nothing wrong with the performance against Derby, the guy speaks utter nonsense and I wouldn't personally consider that honesty.

Hughton is deluded tbh.

So did we, apparently in Owen, plus we had Martins who was always capable of getting a goal. But we didn't though, as most with sense knew. Oh come on you were banging on about Viduka who since leaving us even the A-League clubs wont touch. At least Oba & Owen managed to blag there way into joining CL clubs. Viduka was injured for 85% of last season, and isn't a natural goalscorer as such anyway.

Who's a role model within that setup?

As I said, there's diplomacy and there's outright nonsense. I'd don't trust Hughton one ounce to bollock the under-performers in the dressing room.

Next to 'tactics' i'd award him a 3/10 for last season's 8 games, but it doesn't really mean that much.

Was in response to that confusing post by Chris. I don't really respect many who call Nicky Butt a 'fabulous player' tbh. He's being quite dignified at times, but then again, why would we expect him not to be?

Preperation to go back down in other words.

What are you talking about?

How shallow that you cannot separate the two. I think he's a poor manager but he's never come across as anything but a decent bloke to me. He's probably is a decent bloke, but I don't respect him anymore.

We've had a mid-table premiership defence for most of the season, players too good for this league going forward like Enrique and Jonas, a genuine creative outlet in Danny Guthrie and Nolan, Shola and Harewood scoring goals. And of course because the league is absolutely terrible.

There's clever diplomacy and outright laughable garbage though.

isn't that what all managers do and why the interviews are pointless ? Not to that extent man.

His answers are usually diplomatic nonsense, I don't consider that honest. He's that bad a manager and such a coward, I cannot bring myself to like him anymore.