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Great response you simpleton

The foolish amongst us will continue to flog a dead horse. Those with a bit more upstairs have been able to see this for a while.

Assumed this was Yorkie until I seen the old fishing rod out there People who understand what they are watching know what is happening.

More Scottish Lowland League for us today. Berwick Rangers v Bo'ness United. Last game of the season so there's a bit of a post season party afterwards, awards presentations, live singer etc so we'll stay back a couple of hours and then staying out in the town for a while when we get back.

There's literally nothing I've seen in recent games to suggest that we'll put a decent run together. After Saturday it's Arsenal away next. Honestly I admire your optimism and I sincerely hope that you're right and I'm wrong but this doesn't look like a group of players who are ready to roll up their sleeves and go on a run now to finish top 6. The only way I could possibly see it is if we do as I suggested and changed around tactics and personnel because the way things are currently, no chance at all.

We aren't going down and we aren't getting into Europe. It's a total dead rubber. He needs to do something different to what he's been doing as it's not working.

When did this happen mate?

Won't lose too much sleep over this. Probably only Bruno and Hall I'd be really disappointed to lose.

No different to the Gallowgate End v Bournemouth on Saturday tbf

What if Howe doesn't want to change his coaching team?

So fucking annoying that Eddie and his merry men gave these cunts 6 easy points against us this season.

Sensible. And don't blame you one bit. I'm away to watch Berwick Rangers!

Aye. If you're wanting to charge top dollar to attend you have to serve up better fare than the turgid shit they currently are or else, in these tough economic times, people won't think it's worth the money. The focus has shifted from supporter to customer. That's now the price on the ticket. That's on the club.

It's a dead rubber tbf. Need your head checked if you're paying the obscene prices they're asking to watch this.

Time to experiment now. Nothing to lose. What we're doing now isn't working. Do something different. Play Woltemade and Wissa up top together for the last 6 games. See if they click. See if there's something to work with for next season. No point in ploughing the same old field over and over again.

Don't know a single person who wanted Souness here mind. Especially after we seen how bad his Blackburn team were that he'd just walked out of when we played them just before he took ove whilst he was on gardening leave. I'll not even mention the reaction to Steve Bruce appointment but it made me give up the ST I'd had since Ardiles was here. Good job you added that last sarcastic sentence

Discounting Carrick who would be a massive mistake for them I think, Iraola is the 4/1 favourite to be their next manager. I do think he'd be a good fit for them. Plays attacking front foot football and I'd like to see how he'd work with a budget rather than regularly losing his best talents.

I feel I need to sign up to that forum in the near future

Aye mate no way should we be discounting every single manager who hasn't proved himself in the Premier League over X amount of games when the time comes to choose a new one Iraola might be a step up. He might not. He might not be able to work with a massive budget (Howe couldn't last summer) and may be suited to a Bournemouth type job. On the other hand he might. That's the beauty of football. You don't know until you try it. What I do know is that with a fraction of the money at his disposal and continuously losing his best players, I prefer watching his style of football, but that's just personal preference.

The trend is for Premier League managers not to resign and sit around for their pay off but I could see Howe bucking that trend if we finish the season in the same vein and end up 13th/14th. He knows it's not working and his demeanour in his interviews suggests he might not have the confidence in himself to fix it. I've actually found his recent post match interviews to be quite difficult viewing. If he thinks he's come to the end of the road I do think he would make the decision to step down himself. He's not a Steve Bruce. He has pride, honour and integrity. If we finish the season where we are now I do think he'll be away one way or the other.

Again what does it matter? Had Howe proved himself at this level in the Premier League before he arrived here? Had any of the other examples? Absolutely nonsensical argument.

I'd leave it there as well if I were you The numbers are there for anyone to look it. It's not really an argument. We were making more in player sales than what we were spending in the summer before he arrived and the summer after he arrived combined and his only major sighing was Carl Cort. You say we was well backed though and I say he wasn't. We'll just have to leave it at that.

Read his post again before jumping in with 2 feet man He clearly states well proven in the Premier League as if it makes such a massive differencewhich is what I was addressing as it doesn't. Wenger came from Japan, Mourinho had only managed in Portugal, Klopp only in Germany. Guardiola had more high end experience but zero in the Premier League.

It was an era in which we had to sell to buy. Think we sold Hamann the summer before Robson arrived for something like £12m and Dyer came in. Howey went to Man City snd Goma came in. We received around £5m more than we made in transfers that summer. Robsons only major signing around that time (the following summer) was Cort and Ferguson made way for his arrival so no he clearly wasn't massively backed in the transfer market with big money at all. Our net spend that summer was half a million quid. Silly trying to suggest otherwise when the evidence is there.

I don't remember Keegan or Robson being well proven in the Premier League over multiple seasons either. Away from us I can't remember Mourinho, Wenger, Klopp or Guardiola being well proven in the Premier League either before they took up their respective posts at Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool and Man City. Maybe we should just go for "Premier League ready" managers then.