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Phil Brown was on an American radio show a week ago, and someone phoned in and told him that Hull should be in for Jimmy Bullard. I think he said he'd love to get Bullard but they didn't have enough money or something. Guess that bloke was on to something

I don't remember it being anywhere near this bad under Robson or Keegan (1st time around). Kadar's injury is a freak occurrence, a broken bone from an impact during a match unlike most of our other injuries this season that have occurred in training. It's those training injuries that we need to get a handle on, figure out why they're happening on such a regular basis. We have our share of matchday injuries too though. Beye, Barton, and Martins' injuries in-match. Shola, Viduka, and Smith have had training injuries, but lets face it, those three could injure themselves getting out of bed in the morning.

Why talk about things that are actually happening when you can blather on about the same old things FOREVER!

Guys, stop ganging up on the poor old man. Let him self-destruct at his own pace.

Jesus, what are they five years old or something?

Man must be working for absolute peanuts if keeping him would be significant savings over appointing a manager from the Championship.

Once Owen, Viduka and their like are off the wagebill the club will start generating a profit allowing us to consolidate slowly. Theoretically, after a few years of that we can just pick a moment to take a bit of financial risk to pull us up the table. (The "Villa model" so to speak) Until we get all the wasters off the wagebill though, it does indeed look like we're just going to have to struggle to keep our head above the water and stay in the Premiership. One thing's for sure: the age of "ambitious/insane" Shepherd-level spending is over. Forever.

Do you think people would have been happy either of them getting say a 3 year contract? Probably not, but I certainly would considering that the alternative looks to be 2 years of Kinnear.

[NE5bait] So essentially, our current inability to spend anything is down to us still paying for the sins of the Shepherd era? [/NE5bait]

I could be a c*** and just say "search the thread" Or I suppose I could be a decent man and just mention Aidy Boothroyd or Alan Pardew, both of whom are probably desperate to get back into Premiership management (or management of any sort for that manner) and would jump at the chance. There are also managers in the Championship that I'm sure could be tempted. Chris Coleman, Simon Davey, Roberto Martinez? They're not world-beaters, but like I said, "competent and non-embarrassing."

There are at least a few competent, non-embarrassing managers out there who would jump at the chance to manage any Premiership club. I don't know how many times I have to restate this.

Ha, i'd love that. Go all retro a la Arsenal and their 'red currant' goodbye Highbury kit. Shan't happen. Except for us it'll be a goodbye premier league strip :-[ 92-93 tribute strip to commemorate our return to the Championship?

Plenty of good players play in the Qatari league. What's concerning about this one is that he was never more than a bit player in the Bundesliga

The entire club is Ashley's "dividend" now.

NE5 needs a bit of time to figure out how he's going to bullshit himself out of this one. No worries, he'll probably get around to it soon enough.

If anything JFK is the least of our problems, in fact i'd say he's done better than most thought possible or i'll rephrase that to say the club is higher up than most thought at the start of the turmoil (with or without JFK) - if he could/would just turn down the bullshit a bit that would help his cause considerably. Everton are a stable club who 'have' splashed the cash when they've been able - mind you, also having a very good manager has helped too. That's my point, a better manager will help us too. I just don't get all this "Kinnear has done the best he can under the circumstances" bullshit. He's done an absolutely horrible job and has managed to embarrass the club on numerous occasions at the same time. Yes, Mike Ashley is the bigger problem, but he's not one we can replace. Kinnear is. btw, Moyes' entire net spend for his eight-year reign has been around 35m. I doubt many on here harping about "backing your manager" would be happy with an investment of around 5m per annum.

Just to put things in perspective, Everton has had a skint owner who doesn't really want the club anymore for a couple of years now. Yet with a competent manager, they seem to be doing fine. I'm not saying a different manager will take us to Everton levels of success, but shit conditions do not completely exonerate managers for their failures.

Robinho finally realizing how badly he fucked up

Mike Ashley did everything right until the moment Kevin Keegan walked in. The appointment was probably wrong as well, but then I wouldn't be able to use my catchy opening line, since he did a few things right after appointing Keegan as well.

Mike Ashley did everything right up until the moment Kevin Keegan walked. Everything he's done since then, particularly his capitulation after the initial supporter protests, has been an absolute, unmitigated disgrace. If Ashley had just a bit more strength and stuck with his plans, we'd be sitting pretty at mid-table mediocrity just like West Ham. Instead he's letting the club rot. That alone is enough for him to lose my support.

How the fuck did NE5 turn THIS into an old board argument?

It would make sense to sign him. That's probably why we won't.

We've probably gone and sold him for 8m or some other price that represents peanuts compared to what he's worth. Because the rule at the club these days seems to be that everything has to be run in the worst way possible. Fucking hell I'm going to be beside myself is news breaks that we've sold him for some pathetic fee. Just thinking about it makes me feel like I want to throw up. He's the absolute last thing I can be proud about in my club.

fucking hell if Given is in goal for City next Wednesday, I'm going to cry.

The only way Smith is recapturing old form is with a time machine. More likelihood of Shearer coming out of retirement and banging in 30 goals.