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Pearce was a good signing for a couple of years, Barnes was a good signing for a season too. And I was talking about the cornerstones of Keegan's team, not the additions. Lee, Ferdinand, Ginola, Beresford, Albert etc all over 30 in Dalglish's first full season. Bottom line: Dalglish did some good things here. McClaren didn't.

Graham Carr will be gone soon. As if his shit recommendations from France are gonna be given the OK by Rafa Benitez.

My tune won't change. SMc was a minor symptom of the disease this club is fighting and, whether we're relegated or not, he'll never be the sole reason we're down. KD had a far more damaging effect on NUFC given the respective circumstances. Aye so damaging in fact that we were finishing and 4th and 3rd a few seasons later. Including players like Solano, Speed, Shay and Dabizas that he signed, by the way. Dalglish's team were aging and on the way down. He had one bad season in which we finished 13th, beat Barcelona and reached a cup final. McClaren has quite possibly gotten us relegated with his cowardice and ineptitude.

Yeah well, we'll see if tunes change if we go down. Dalglish had no Shearer for the season and suffered the consequences.

Mitro gets bullied far too easily like. Can see Huth and Morgan having a right laugh with him.

You hate Dalglish more than McClaren? That's just plain fucking weird. We finished 2nd, played CL football and reached Wembley under the former. Under the latter we spent virtually an entire season in the bottom 3 - that's if he hasn't effectively relegated us with £80m worth of investment in a team even John Carver kept up.

He lives near Hoylake on the Wirral. It's a really nice area. Mendieta used to live in Yarm, not Boro, but I think he sold his house there a couple of years back.

What a strange comparison that is, like.

He wasn't saying 'game over', he was saying 'don't listen to me again, then'.

Costa's such a dirty cunt, man.

Except we don't have a replacement, like.

Like McClaren and Carver you mean?

Only if they wanna finish outside the promotion places.

Oh shut up. There's still a good chance we'll go down. As if he deserves any credit for the realisation we need a top manager to fix his mess.

You can't do that in the box, man. Stupid defending.

Has Roberto Martinez done his usual 'I just cant understand it' yet?

HTT can never resist including one utterly ludicrous sentence in an otherwise commendable post.

What did he say about him? Bellamy is the exact kind of character, who you'd expect to clash with......... well anyone. But despite what you read about how detailed Benitez is and how his football is a bit boring. It seems a lot of his former players are speaking highly of him. Carragher said exactly the same things about him in his book: outstanding tactically but a total control freak and extremely ruthless.

When we were linked on Wednesday I pulled out Bellamy's book to re-read what he'd said about him. I think the players will hate him, like. He'll get them winning games if they listen to him, though.

Andrew Sachs.

Steven Taylor? We were 15th, anyway.