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If Villa sort themselves out, it might be like the 06-07 Serie B, where you had Juventus, Napoli and Genoa take the top spots. Just not fair on the other teams.

Neil Warnock has just become available.

Still can't get my head around how people are queuing up for season tickets after he got us relegated again. He's a genius (and a massive cunt).

I knew he was out of his depth, but I wasn't really sure how inexperienced he was. I was wondering exactly what a "football secretary" did, so had a search and found a job description from another club. So he was literally just a secretary. He booked hotels and buses, and filled in forms, then suddenly got promoted to Managing Director. No wonder he's made such a cockup of it.

How many scouts do proper clubs have? Anyone know?

Your average rating is 5.8 and no-one got below a 4. That's pretty impressive for a team full of expensive players that got relegated.

He's like Charnley. Given a job which he's got no experience for and is completely out of his depth. Is probably a decent scout ( and what sort of club relies on a single scout?), but should never have anywhere near as much responsibility as he does.

I quite like it here. I do go on SMB, but tend to stay away from the Pure Football section most of the time, preferring the other forums. I don't know what you mean by totally embarrassing. Do you think I should be ashamed of the behaviour of people I have no control over? The majority of you fans are embarrassing, bitter and obsessed people whether you are ashamed or not makes no difference to me. The irony is you're acting like someone off RTG.

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Blob's getting off lightly. Can't stand the guy after those "know your place" quotes from a while back.

I think Stifler was trying to crack an actual joke there. It would probably have worked too, if it wasn't for the typos/every other post he's ever made.

I'm surprised he didn't go for a five man strikeforce of Aguero, Kane, Vardy, Lukaku and Giroud, with Mahrez as the midfield anchor.

Your having a bad day aren't you! Argument with the missus!! Think he's having a bad nine years.

Benitez has picked up more points in the last 6 games than Pardew has since January. If we'd kept him, we'd probably have ended up in an even worse situation - we wouldn't have replaced him with Benitez, we'd have replaced him with McClaren.

Second choice keeper who played just over half our games.

Oops, forgot Toronto.

Decided to have a look at the honours won by every manager we've had in the Premier League era. Didn't count things they won with us (lol) or after they left. I've referred to the English Leagues by their current name, not what they were called when they won them. Keegan -First job Dalgish -Premier League x4 (two different teams) -FA Cup x2 -League Cup Gullit -FA Cup Sir Bobby Robson -FA Cup -UEFA Cup -Dutch league x2 -Portuguese league x2 -Portuguese cup -Spanish cup -Cup Winners cup Graeme Souness -FA Cup -League Cup -Turkish Cup Glenn Roeder height=100http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/uncyclopedia/images/1/17/Long_Tumbleweed.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20080515210612[/img] Jabba the Hutt -Irish Second Division -League 2 The Second Coming -Championship x2 -League 1 Joe Kinnear -World Cup x5 -Premier League x4 -Champions League x7 -Time Man of the Year x3 Alan Shearer -First job Chris Hughton -First job Alan Pardew -Johnstone's Paint Trophy John Carver height=100http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/uncyclopedia/images/1/17/Long_Tumbleweed.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20080515210612[/img] Steve McClaren -League Cup -Dutch League Rafa Benitez -Spanish League x2 -UEFA Cup x2 (two different teams) -FA Cup -Champions League -Italian Cup Only Dalglish and Sir Bobby's achievements come close, but I reckon Benitez's are probably more impressive.

I know his attitude has been shit, but I thnk Rafa might try and keep him here. He likes players who can counter quickly, and he'd score plenty in the championship. If he couldn't be bothered in a relegation fight, how's he going to motivate himself in the Championship?

There's a real inferiority complex going on within our support judging by posts like this. Expectations have been smashed to bits over the last ten years. Says a lot that posts like this are being made, yet also concern over whether he'll take the bloody Everton job. I like the guy a lot but he is not some cast iron degree of success. No manager is in football. Why has this hypothetical poll got me going so much You'd be hard pressed to find another manager more likely to be successful with any given club than Rafa Benitez though, even with the whole fanbase against him, he delivered for Chelsea when asked to do so. A true pro and I agree that we'll never have a better manager, at least in my lifetime. Klopp maybe but that'd be 10 years down the road if at all. If Ashley sits in the back and gives Rafa the autonomy he gave the previous regimes then we get what we want - a club that tries, that is run well and there would be a chance for success. Ashley goes, and in walks in Massimo Cellino v2. It's a massive gamble, and a silent owner with Rafa Benitez running everything would be the best possible circumstance we could hope for. Voting A is just voting for revenge, which I understand, but take a step back from the 10 years of lies, s**** and comatose existence and realise what B would actually mean. Voting A is just voting for revenge? Do you think Ashley's changed or something? Rafa will be gone in two or three years at the most, and then it'll be business as usual. Elaborate. Because this will never happen. He's show time and time again that it won't. Such as ? Have you been in a coma the last nine years? The only managers he's hired who haven't just been stooges have been treated like s***, lied to, and forced out of the club. And hired by who exactly lol. Pardew was Llambias, McClaren was Charnley, Keegan is the only example of this. And this was when he had Dennis Wise telling him what to do. Llambias and Charnley were appointed to run the club in a specific way with specific targets. They've not been acting of their own accord. And if you need more evidence that Ashley's not changed, Lee Charnley still has a job.

There's a real inferiority complex going on within our support judging by posts like this. Expectations have been smashed to bits over the last ten years. Says a lot that posts like this are being made, yet also concern over whether he'll take the bloody Everton job. I like the guy a lot but he is not some cast iron degree of success. No manager is in football. Why has this hypothetical poll got me going so much You'd be hard pressed to find another manager more likely to be successful with any given club than Rafa Benitez though, even with the whole fanbase against him, he delivered for Chelsea when asked to do so. A true pro and I agree that we'll never have a better manager, at least in my lifetime. Klopp maybe but that'd be 10 years down the road if at all. If Ashley sits in the back and gives Rafa the autonomy he gave the previous regimes then we get what we want - a club that tries, that is run well and there would be a chance for success. Ashley goes, and in walks in Massimo Cellino v2. It's a massive gamble, and a silent owner with Rafa Benitez running everything would be the best possible circumstance we could hope for. Voting A is just voting for revenge, which I understand, but take a step back from the 10 years of lies, s**** and comatose existence and realise what B would actually mean. Voting A is just voting for revenge? Do you think Ashley's changed or something? Rafa will be gone in two or three years at the most, and then it'll be business as usual. Elaborate. Because this will never happen. He's show time and time again that it won't. Such as ? Have you been in a coma the last nine years? The only managers he's hired who haven't just been stooges have been treated like shit, lied to, and forced out of the club.

There's a real inferiority complex going on within our support judging by posts like this. Expectations have been smashed to bits over the last ten years. Says a lot that posts like this are being made, yet also concern over whether he'll take the bloody Everton job. I like the guy a lot but he is not some cast iron degree of success. No manager is in football. Why has this hypothetical poll got me going so much You'd be hard pressed to find another manager more likely to be successful with any given club than Rafa Benitez though, even with the whole fanbase against him, he delivered for Chelsea when asked to do so. A true pro and I agree that we'll never have a better manager, at least in my lifetime. Klopp maybe but that'd be 10 years down the road if at all. If Ashley sits in the back and gives Rafa the autonomy he gave the previous regimes then we get what we want - a club that tries, that is run well and there would be a chance for success. Ashley goes, and in walks in Massimo Cellino v2. It's a massive gamble, and a silent owner with Rafa Benitez running everything would be the best possible circumstance we could hope for. Voting A is just voting for revenge, which I understand, but take a step back from the 10 years of lies, s**** and comatose existence and realise what B would actually mean. Voting A is just voting for revenge? Do you think Ashley's changed or something? Rafa will be gone in two or three years at the most, and then it'll be business as usual. Elaborate. Because this will never happen. He's show time and time again that it won't.

There's a real inferiority complex going on within our support judging by posts like this. Expectations have been smashed to bits over the last ten years. Says a lot that posts like this are being made, yet also concern over whether he'll take the bloody Everton job. I like the guy a lot but he is not some cast iron degree of success. No manager is in football. Why has this hypothetical poll got me going so much You'd be hard pressed to find another manager more likely to be successful with any given club than Rafa Benitez though, even with the whole fanbase against him, he delivered for Chelsea when asked to do so. A true pro and I agree that we'll never have a better manager, at least in my lifetime. Klopp maybe but that'd be 10 years down the road if at all. If Ashley sits in the back and gives Rafa the autonomy he gave the previous regimes then we get what we want - a club that tries, that is run well and there would be a chance for success. Ashley goes, and in walks in Massimo Cellino v2. It's a massive gamble, and a silent owner with Rafa Benitez running everything would be the best possible circumstance we could hope for. Voting A is just voting for revenge, which I understand, but take a step back from the 10 years of lies, shite and comatose existence and realise what B would actually mean. Voting A is just voting for revenge? Do you think Ashley's changed or something? Rafa will be gone in two or three years at the most, and then it'll be business as usual.

Look at the likes of Leon Best, Danny Graham, Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, Marlon King and Glenn Murray who haven't. If it was that easy, why has no-one in this league ever signed Jordan Rhodes or Ross McCormack?

The division is entirely relevant - people like Vardy are the exceptions.

Jesus Christ. Wot m8? We don't know what would happen after Ashley leaves. This is fairly basic stuff, keep up. This isn't to say I don't want him gone. But we know exactly what will happen if Ashley stays. The same shit that's been happening this past decade.