Fatwax

Colour has nothing to do with managerial ability, he's right there.. but I fail to see his point. I can't imagine any league club in the UK consider turning down a manager because of his race and I can't think of any situations where this has happened. It's not like Barnes has never got an opportunity to manage at a decent level.

Yeah.. but did he pick Danny Simpson as the emergency RB cover? Someone obviously singled that player out for loan.

Shola will disappoint because he's inconsistent and injury prone. His ability counts for nothing when he can play a blinder one week and be anonymous and constantly offside the next.

Like any other striker, he thrives on service. When someone like Barton is feeding you the ball rather than some 18 year old kid you're bound to score a few more goals. Being a striker has to be one of the most thankless jobs when the majority of your job depends totally on the team around you. You can't put the ball in the net if you don't get it. (eg: Owen) He actually scored plenty, I think the comments were more directed towards his general play. He didn't score plenty.. I remember one match he scored 2, but as Binnsy will say his general play looked weak and directionless and although Cubaricho is saying that he's only getting service off reserve/youth players he's also only playing against reserve/youth players. As I've said constantly, he definitely has ability.. it's whether he's willing to adapt it to the English game. He's not a goalscoring forward either.. he's much more of a targetman that plays with his back to goal with hold-up play and bringing other players into the attack. This club lacks a true goalscorer.

It's from The Sun.

Sure they've got a third kit

Don't think he's ready for a start quite yet. It'd be better to save that for Huddesfield than at home to Wednesday.

I'm impressed that he's willing to take a pay cut rather than just sit on his pay cheque here.

Can't see it being anything else.

It's irrelevant, since he was just answering a what if question at an interview.

Can't remember the exact comment but it was saying that although he was enjoying working as Cardiff manager if the offer from us came along he'd give it serious consideration.

He might have enough money and outside investment to run the club, keep it going and improve/maintain the first team squad but not have enough money to pay for the initial £100m price tag. That's how I understood it. To be honest I lost interest a while ago, if the season hadn't have started when it did I'd probably just watch a different sport this season. Them 3 months or so were painful.

Seems a bit weird, an ex boxer getting offers from prem clubs.

DJ is a good manager, what's your problem? He's only favourite because of a passing comment he made in an interview and some idiots hoyed a load of money on him.

Feel more sorry with the wife that has breast cancer to be honest.

The boxing day game at their place will be brilliant.

You're right, like. This is probably where we're going wrong. On the other hand you could argue that we're undefeated in two with a black powerless team..... I assume Shola doesn't count, then? He's BLACK?!!! Shit...

On the other hand he hasn't actually come out and denied anything.. and we all know how much he likes to natter on in the papers.

Hughton was given the green light for free and loan transfers supposedly a week or so ago.

Hughton has stated that Simpson is going to make his debut for this game, meaning that Barton will almost certainly be out and R.Taylor will be pushed up into midfield.

He's not a brilliant defensive player in the English mould, thats for sure. He's always had a touch of class on the ball and has hidden speed and acceleration that can make him a danger down the left since it's not expected. He's a fairly tidy passer of the ball and with some proper coaching on his crosses (something this club has lacked for a LONG time) he could be an extremely good player.

I rate Xisco from watching him in La Liga a couple of seasons back, but I've seen nothing in any of scattered appearances to suggest that he'd be any good here. It all depends on the player and if he'll be used or have the urge to want to try and make a success of his time here. I wouldn't be surprised to see him loaned out to a Spanish team.

Get your head out of your arse. It's taken him 9 years or so of first team appearances to get a hat trick and it was in the championship. Also, 3 goals against Reading doesn't automatically clear the fact that he is extremely injury prone and very inconsistent. Before we all start patting Shola on the back about a job well done as a return to something resembling a footballer lets not forget his last 6-7 years here. It's a bit early to start wagging our dicks about over this.

Old news, most of us with sense figured it out years ago Brambles potential as a centre half has never been in doubt, whether he would have achieved it here is a different matter though.

Enrique was getting criticism from some people on this board, but there's not a player that hasn't either been overhyped or underestimated here.