Lenny

Quite looking forward to seeing what a competent manager can get out of him. His smile has been missing for a couple of years now.

That's a heel turn right there

You could indeed be

I thought this might be the case, too.

I personally think the opposite. If they were going to just go with Jones for the foreseeable then you'd think they'd have just binned Bruce last week. Perhaps they're now close to landing their target and therefore confident enough to start moving things into place.

He was lucky his tenure was spent for the majority without fans in attendance, otherwise it would have been far worse for him.

Hung out to dry or not, there was still more than enough at his disposal that a half respectable manager would have gotten significantly more from.

Going to assume that whilst Edwards wrote the article, he didn't write the headline

Surely someone (Fonseca?) must be legitimately lined up at this point then? It's the only reason I can think of, that if they were going to put Jones in charge in the interim, they wouldn't have binned Bruce off a week ago and done it then.

Fucking finally!

Must be Jose, then.

One in one out might not be particularly sensible given the likelihood that some of our deadwood will be hard to shift.

He's just a troll that's moved onto the next topic that will wind people up now that there's nothing left on the bone regarding "will there /won't there be a takeover".

There's also a (hopefully extremely minor) possibility that things might not work out as well as we might hope and for they reason you really should just enjoy how it feels right now. The hope is literally infinite at this point in time.

23 when he took over. Pottered around for several years doing bugger all before eventually meeting someone that would put up with me and now we have a house, dog (pending second) and I'm hunting for a ring. Its not been all bad outside of supporting my team I suppose.

I think, that somewhere over the last 14 years, my brother (54) inappropriately advanced on my old man. That's it.

When someone articulates your thoughts and you therefore needn't make any effort... GG Poot.

Pow, right in the kisser.

If you're looking for a reasoned, "grown up" discussion on what you, and likely several others will feel is an important topic of discussion, might I suggest hat you pick a better time than just shy of midnight on the day that the worst owner in our living memory just exited the club?

Obviously lots to do, but the the key signs of intent will be more than good enough a start for me - sack the manager, remove every trace of SD from the stadium and give it a clean.

Upgrading the non alcoholic beer I intended to drink for a nice ale for a start.

Have one for everyone on the forum that's not there with you

How do I compute sporting excitement again, I can't remember?

I'm still fighting with my emotions, refusing to be all in until there's an announcement and even then I feel like it's just going to be so surreal

I still can't bring myself to get excited whilst this isn't official, although I can't deny that seeing all the cynical/long term posters being so optimistic is making it difficult to remain calm