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Indeed. But we have yet to see The Loan Arranger turn round a decline. It might be horrific too. Relegation from the Prem is a hammer blow that is difficult for many to reover from, ask people in Bradford, Sheffield, Nottingham, Derby etc.

....and we stayed up for six seasons under him without those millions and with MLT a bit part player or retired. Let's see Wonga Cortese beat that first.

Ask the Cult of Cortese t**ts on here, happy to sneer at MLT as nothing more than a former employee who was paid at the time. I look forward to seeing Nige get the same treatment the day he leaves.

The rest of your post is fine but I don't get this line - you say it as if finishing 17th is the worst we could possibly do. We could easily finish bottom on 20 points or less. Your plan to bravely stick with Nige seems predesposed on staying up, so not that brave. Loads on here, including me, would have accepted 17th in August. It's the "Champions League here we come" idiot brigade who were getting carried away.

13 wins. Terrible appointment, surely? Not that I care.

Yes, that's right. He managed across three seasons, one of them being a full season. Any more sarky questions?

Not that staggering. Pretty common really. I'd say Jones is the last one to do it. Even Strachan only actually completed one full season.

You're stealing my act. You need to stick to grizzling about other people wuining your lickle fowum.

He clearly hasn't, we're wide open. Gary Megson makes his teams "difficult to beat". Big Sam does. Big Mick does. Billy Davies. Mancini. Strachan. Hoddle. Capello. Poyet. Boothroyd. Arsene Wenger doesn't make his teams "difficult to beat". Nor does Brendon Rodgers. Sven. Pep. Holloway. Tony Mowbray. Adkins. Nicholl. Ball. Nice try at being a smartarse but being "difficult to beat" is not the same as "not losing". It's a style thing. Hypo's point was valid and your response was pointless, well done.

I agree. Ignoring Derby, all relegated teams win a handful of games, this will be one of those times.

Have you worked out what your painfully unfunny trolling routine is going to be next season yet? I know this one is going to be hard to beat but good luck with it.

Did it with Bolton, on five points from ten games when took over, and he kept them up. But of course, Gary Megson is not European football's greatest young managerial talent, like what Adkins is.

I'd like to know why both logos are essentially the same except for the shape of the animal. Just nuts.

Ten points from 16 games sounds pretty pathetic to me.

Most people? What people? Most on here know who he is. I don't think anyone was expecting Olly's tweet to be the lead story on the Ten O'Clock news.

Some on here got caught up in a load of lunatic hype about our manager, our players and the potential of the club on the back of the promotions, seeming to be convinced that we returned to the Premier League as some European megaclub in the making with a bottomless pit of cash and a miracle football genius factory in Staplewood firing us to the Champion's League. Adkins hyped beyond belief, our potential as a Eurogiant with 50,000 gates hyped beyond belief. Just horseshi t piled on horseshi t. However, that doesn't mean that the opposite is now true. A bit of organisation and discipline coupled with the firepower we have, we can win games in this division. We could have stayed up from August. It is now much more difficult but we can still do it.

As it stands there is no evidence that our manager or our chief executive are able to make the step up to the Premier League. Only one of the two will lose their job in the short term, though and that's our Nige.

Our current plight reminds me very much of Sir Alex Ferguson's early tenure at Man United.

Completely unreasonable to expect us to get anything from an away game against one of the top five megateams in the league.

About time for a couple of Adkins inexplicable substitutions isn't it?

Gary Neville better say we were brilliant or I'm complaining to Sky.

Shane Long playing like Michael Laudrup out there.

I'm more of an Only Connect man myself. BBC4 about now.

At least we haven't reverted to aimless clogs forward. Only the beautiful Southampton way for us.