Ronaldo

I don't mind Warnock these days. Like Kinnear he'd bring an entertainment factor. I'd still be pretty much done with the club, mind.

Equalised at Stoke late in the relegation season, think he'd scored against West Ham as well. Yep, at City too under Kinnear when the Given thing was kicking off.

Carroll had scored goals in the PL too, by the way. If there's one player I totally misjudged it was him. Thought he looked absolutely awful in the first half of the Championship season and wrote him off. He's mostly been brilliant (when fit) ever since.

Brewce looks dashing in a suit.

Putting it mildly.

They waited far too long to sack the bloke they shouldn't have appointed but that is another problem they have and they did the same with Pardew. Rafa could look at that as a positive, it will show him that he will be given time that other clubs might not give him. A bloke as confident and successful as Benitez isn't going to be influenced by the club's reluctance to part company with yes men like Pardew and McClaren, man.

I think we'll get this one right and he'll remain, the stakes are too high for the club if they mess it up and I'm sue they know that. They know absolutely nothing about football though. Their concept of what needs to be done could be absolutely anything. Aye. It'll be Brewce in charge come August.

The Yanks don't get any of the references, though. We can't patronise the place just for their benefit.

The problem with him getting total control is it would surely necessitate regular contact with the owner - which we all know won't happen.

One improved us, one didn't. It's pointless, though. Shearer's not a manager. Never will be.

No.

Is that why that short wannabe journo who used to post on here is a Mackem now?

99 times out of 100 footballers become fucking useless specimens the second they retire, like. They get nothing right, any of them.

Eh?

It's basic stuff and it's pretty unthinkable that people still don't get it 2 days after relegation.

Or we could just, you know, get a striker or two in who've scored goals at that level, or a higher one. Honestly, you post like you're constantly on magic mushrooms, man.

Rafa seems to gravitate towards pace and graft up front.

He's definitely slow, like. The rest I'd take issue with.

That or Pancrate. I'll raise you to Ben Tozer.

So if Mitrovic is our main striker and we're top of the league you predict he'll be one of the top scorers?

The one thing you need in the Championship is a little bit of quality, the standard's generally crap. Our current squad of bottlers would walk it. I think if you look at the teams we put out in promotion season - especially the first half of it -you'll agree that we basically had a team (with exceptions) of grafters with hints of quality. In attack, especially, you won't get anywhere unless the quality is compounded with experience and a pair of bollocks. It's not like the Premier League. Defenders in the football league will fucking eat Mitrovic alive, for example.

I'd like to take this opportunity to make it clear I'm not one of them Aye, only because now you can drive past his residence whenever you want.

Maybe after Spurs he'll be given a microphone and he'll sing to us a la Ancelotti.

Shearer's exactly right with that but I find it a tad rich he keeps going on about how long it took to sack McClaren. Even after the Bournemouth game he refused to advocate a managerial change on MOTD. It was left to Martin fucking Keown to say it for him.

What the hell are Arsenal on?