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Who said that?

this. Same fucking question a thousand different ways. Fuck off. That aside, the polar opposite to how I felt 11 or so months ago, to be honest a lot closer to tears of relief now than I ever was to tears then! Fucking come on!

On bbc as 5 minute separate highlight now... Shows just how dominant we were really. Forest get no more than a couple of attacking moments. Although I'm sure Forest fans think that's just the biased media and their 'Geordie love in' though...

For me it's Williamson and A N Other. I just think he'll make the step up like the Brum lads have. Nothing more than a feeling so can't really try and argue my corner on it, other than to say I think he is the most 'no nonsense' of the lot and I think that's what we will need next year. I also think he's the one that strikers will least look forward to playing, he's big, strong and brave (you could say the same of Taylor, but I think Williamson is more actions less talk, which gets under strikers skin more)

I still have a sneaky feeling Colo will get caught out next season. I really hope I'm wrong as I love the guy, think he cares about the club and has been awesome this season, I just think sometimes when he appears to dwell on the ball or bottles out of 50/50s he'll get shown up far more regularly next season. In fairness, the same will apply for all our defenders, I just think with Colo being 'forrin' it'll get highlighted a lot more in the media and he'll end up losing confidence, being dropped and heading back to Spain. As I say, I hope I'm wrong and he turns out to be a fucking rock. He, Jose and Jonas are without doubt my 3 favourite players at present.

You guys obviously missed a few games last season then... http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/7788422.stm

This feels very similar to the annihilation we suffered to the scousers last year, every cross looks like Liverpool will score

firstly, other than the fact they had a fight, everything else is rumour, hot air and bullshit. if taylor has been a complete arsehole and carroll has snapped, that's a big difference to someone just attacking someone out of the blue. secondly, hughton's job is to get results for us. he could have got on his moral highhorse, banned carroll, and we'd not have beaten doncaster. or he could have played him as he's in red hot form, and watched him score the winner. which he did. good management. They represent the football club and are in a privelidged position, let's be honest, it's not the first time Carroll has spoken with his fists eh? Granted, Taylor might have been a prick but it doesn't mean Carroll had the right to chin him. It's nothing to do with Hughton getting on his 'moral highhorse', it's about him doing the right thing, you can't have the players scrapping with each other, whether it's off the pitch or not and getting away with it. I mean, the win at Donny was absolutely HUGE and I'm glad Carroll started, but he shouldn't have done given what had allegedly gone on. Besides, if he hadn't got the winner Leon Best would have. When Bobby was in charge did you think he should have been sacked because of ill-discipline within the camp? Plenty of that when Bellamy, Dyer et al were at the club. I was more than happy with the way he dealt with it behind the scenes and without the fuss. Alternatively there's the hard man Souness method. Remind me how that worked out for us again...

What is wrong with you? To not have faith in Hughton is one thing, but to suggest Mowbray as a better option is absolutely insane. His teams are never defensively sound and that will always be a major issue. Hell no! And at what point over the last 15 years has our team been defensively sound? Err, we've just kept our 19th clean sheet of the season and have the best defensive record in the league, with 2 of our defenders the top picks for fan's player of the year... So, this year?

The problem with the last line is that if Hughton fails, we either get relegated or then have to try to recruit a manager mid-season when the rules prevent you from poaching another club's manager - and the ones currently employed are most likely to be the best ones...... Eh? Have I totally missed a new rule being brought in that stops managers moving club mid season?

Yeah, I think to say Hughton is 'inept' at PL level is pretty harsh considering he's never actually been a PL manager. You cannot judge someone on a few games as caretaker, it's madness. I actually think Mowbray was treated harshly by Celtic, they should have given him this season to entirely bed in and judged him on next year, but that's football these days I guess.

I don't really care about 'liking' the way a team play in the Premiership if it means that they are going to get relegated as a consequence. You admit that our players wouldn't be capable of playing the football he'd try and get them to play and even when he had his 'own' team in the Premier League he was unable to keep them there. That sounds like an awful plan.

I have us on 98 them on 88. They'll go on a bad run from Reading away I reckon.

Bit gutted they've got rid of Johnson, they couldn't play any worse than they have the past few weeks. Getting twatted at home by Donny in their last match had me very confident, not so now. Will be at this one.

Yes, thanks Chris, and as a thank you we've given your job to someone else. I think if Hughton will be still here next season it will be as manager. If he isn't the manager he won't be here anymore. Joe Hart for example also went away from Portsmouth after being sacked and didn't go back to his former position. I think I'd rather keep nets for Brum than manage Portsmouth...

Slaven Bilic was rather decent on one of the shows the other day

The Beeb's official stats are fantastic reading. We only had 5 shots on target apparently 1 of the goals was a header. I think it's more a case of penalties not counting as a shot, still confused me initially when I glanced at them. Nor do headers, but were both probs right, with us having one shot on target that didn't go in. what? Of course headers count as shots on goal! What would make you think otherwise?

Shows they’re not fickle though doesn’t it? That they’re not going to start kissing his ring just because we win a few games in a league we wouldn’t even be in of it wasn't for the Ashley inspired disaster that was 08/09. Was there any need for Dekker to accuse them of not being proper supporters? I have my reservations about overall benefits of the signing section but they get behind the team game in game out. so not chanting about him is kissing his ring ? as for getting behind the team quite alot of it is taking the piss out of the oppositions fans and starting anti ashley stuff. i personally like the gallowgate east stand corberes response when the kids start with the anti ashley stuff.......they start chanting "newcastle newcastle newcastle" this was noticeable on the radio and made me smile. We're stuck with the guy, we are top of the league and we are winning 6-0. Not the time or the place. All that said I wish llambias would shut the fuck up, BBC, sky and program notes repeating same thing and clearly having a bit of a dig, all so tit for tat

sounds like we're the better team without creating much.

QPR have been appallingly mismanaged / owned... Attacking-wise they have some of the best players in this league. I actually quite like them, hope that Warnock turns them round (with the final game of the season an exception)

As someone who hasn't followed the thread... How has Parky managed to rack up a 3 goal lead with Benitez remaining in his job? Upsettingly reminiscent of Istanbul.

Fucking yanks I play saturday league at the moment, which is supposedly of higher standard than Sunday leagues, and I'm surprised I haven't seen anything kick off properly yet. I think it's partly because my team are a very sound group of lads but it's got close a few times. Having said that I was on the receiving end of a horror tackle 4 weeks ago (still got massive bruising) and my own team were laughing at it, the cunts. My experience of playing Saturday league was the standard is way higher but a lot of the teams tend to be full of cunts. Sunday League there is far more risk of an injury as players are slower, fatter, hungover and more inclined to Shawcross you. But they're generally a good bunch off the pitch. With the Saturday league team i played for i saw people getting offered out in the car park with bats and the likes. Half the team I played for were recently out of prison and clearly had nothing other than football in their lives and just weren't good enough to make it professionally. I played for the last 10 games of the season and did not go back. I too was / am a keeper. Appear to be a lot on the board.

I've not heard of any baggage in terms of off-the-field stuff. But every club he goes to seems to get disillusioned with him after a season or two, and he hasn't quite found his level. Keane produces moments of eye-catching skill which might tempt clubs to see him as the answer, but he's not particularly quick or strong for a player that seems to prefer an out and out striker role. Clubs tend to eventually opt for someone with more physical presence. I rate Ranger and I'd like to see him given more game time. Totally agree with this. Speaking to Spurs fans they haven't rated him since he came back, he didn't do anything at Liverpool so his last reasonable form was 2 years ago as he approaches his 30s. No thanks. And again on the Ranger issue, he's still not had a proper run in the team. I think he's totally equipped for the Championship and playing week in week out would bag a fair few goals. Unfortunately it's likely that won't happen with us, I really hope he does go out on loan rather than get flogged though. Hughton does keep mentioning him so seems he does have a future.

Nah, I'm sorry, I do understand the need for cash but this is an absolute piss take. The longest trip in the British football league calendar and to move it to a Monday night. No real excuse, totally inconsiderate. Saturday lunch, evening or Sunday would have all been far more bearable, now we are conceivably in a situation where we could seal the league at a game where supporters who have been going all season can now not make it down.

I seem to remember he was ill a few years ago and almost died, cannot remember why though. Seemed a decent manager too.