DT

Good point well made. Cheers!

They could always simply include a clause in the deal preventing him from facing his previous employers. Or 'claws' if you got my previous analogy.

I think someone is crying wolf on this one. See what I did there?

Hardly humble, is it?

Because I disagree with you. Nice one. PS From the above thread I appear not to be the only one who thinks DMcG isn't very good PPS 'player'

What it boils down to is this: my opinion is that JP is not as strong on tactics or indeed in motivation (by the looks of it) as other managers who in my opinion (again) could get more out of the same squad, albeit one which as you quite rightly point out has been faced with severe financial pressures. Or so we are told. In my opinion (yet again) we should have employed Billy Davies when we had the chance, or better still, rewarded the man who kept us up last season with the continuation of his contract. I suspect that both men would have been better on tactics and motivation, but would have been problematic to Lowe because they would have been more vocal and more able to stand up to his ego.

Just let it go, Mrs Davis.

We already have cacka

Very bad news for us. We'll continue on regardless while other clubs sack managers with far better records than JP. Hope they don't get new manager syndrome against us. Mind you, Boothroyd isn't all that...

Exceptions proved the rule though

Just to qualify and save you losing your house, presumably you mean by 'February' 'February 2009' and by 'here' presumably not 'East London?' Arf

V good summary.

Any eating of words should surely happen after the window shuts, no? It's 14th of January, FFS. I personally think Lallana will be sold and we'll keep hold of Surman. And I reckon Lowe will drag it out so that we have no chance to spend whatever we get for him on essential buys like a striker, or even paying off our pretty clueless manager.

Double Dutch Chin

I think he is really poor and runs around like he couldn't give a monkeys. Not very good in the air. Can't see a pass. Woeful at shooting. Not very composed. Has 'mares and still gets picked. And doesn't defend from the front or make runs that take defenders out of the equation for others to benefit. Apart from that, he's brilliant. Perhaps Man City could offer him £500,000 a week?

We could be the next Stoke. Red and white stripes. Same players. Give us some money to pay our wage bill for one week/service our debts for three days.

He'd heard Prince Harry fancied watching the game...

What makes you think I believed it?

What makes you think I believed it?

The trouble for me is that DmcG is so goddam LAZY. Never makes a decent run, doesn't offer a 'defend from the front' mentality that is so important, doesn't close down their strikers, and boy is he slow. He's also not got vision and can't see a pass when another player is in another position better than his own. This is what makes me a bit more optimistic about our chances if we can keep hold of Saga and we're not only playing him to put him in the shop window. He does a lot of the above. If we could get another in - a real harrying, annoying type like Paul Dickov, I reckon that would be much better than a languid, nonchalant player who seems to play for himself and the torso he loves so much. Rant over. Short answer is that our strikers are not good enough but would be even worse if we sold Saga to make a quick buck.

The trouble for me is that DmcG is so goddam LAZY. Never makes a decent run, doesn't offer a 'defend from the front' mentality that is so important, doesn't close down their strikers, and boy is he slow. He's also not got vision and can't see a pass when another player is in another position better than his own. This is what makes me a bit more optimistic about our chances if we can keep hold of Saga and we're not only playing him to put him in the shop window. He does a lot of the above. If we could get another in - a real harrying, annoying type like Paul Dickov, I reckon that would be much better than a languid, nonchalant player who seems to play for himself and the torso he loves so much. Rant over. Short answer is that our strikers are not good enough but would be even worse if we sold Saga to make a quick buck.

any movement on this story?

any movement on this story?

Birmingham manager Alex McLeish has lined up a £1m bid for Doncaster defender Matthew Mills. (Daily Mirror) Get on with it, Alex. Could be a good destabilising factor for a certain somebody if he hasn't gone already (or not risked).

The downside of the win at the weekend (and probably the only one) is that if Rupert Lowe's little purse was just beginning to open up, with the gravity of our situation at least beginning to dawn on him it has now firmly snapped back shut, leaving us with little in the way of striking capability or indeed back up at CB still and a ball-winning central midfielder. By the way, we need to be safe by the last game because we ain't winning at Forest, who will by then be in contention for a play-off with Davies at the helm (anyone else notice what he said about needing some older heads in? How apposite).