Whitey Grandad

We shall be the weaker for his leaving. Also in the Mail today: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1209322/Wolves-chase-Readings-James-Harper-Royals-seek-Grzegorz-Rasiak.html

Fair enough. I saw the original block but not any 'afters', probably because there weren't any.

Beg yer parden, sur! I thought you were talking about last night!

But this is business. As Remo says in 'Casino': "Why take a chance?"

I suspect that his behaviour and temperament would not sit comfortably with our new management and owner.

I don't see how you can say that. It was a cracking game and it only cost me £3.

Maybe, but he should not be taking corners. 7 minutes into added time we win a corner and he hits it over everybody's head to the opposite wing. Game over.

Is there any video evidence of this? If it can be proved, then there may be a case for a private prosecution...

Lambert was clearly pushed as he went for a cross from the left in the first half..

Has he left yet?

Brilliant game, but it all went wrong after Murty went off. James was actually quite good in midfield but back to his old self at fullback. Atrocious refereeing. You couldn't tell which was the premiership team. We were mugged.

I hate the multiball system. It would be interesting to see a correlation between when we play multiball and when we win games. I was watching closely last season and our first win came when the ref stopped it during the match and the second was against Birmingham when the competition didn't allow it. Apart from these, we didn't win much. Does anybody know about the away games?

Agreed. He was slow getting back for most of the game and had no physical presence.

It's quite simple really. The high turnover of managers led to a bloated playing squad with quantity instead of quality which drained the finances out of our operations. Couple that with a megalomaniacal micro-manager and you have a guaranteed recipe for disaster.

Take one new player every two days and if it's not better in 9 months, come back and see me.

His missus?

Let's not panic yet, let's panic later. Halfway through next season perhaps.

That's what I suspected but I wasn't there. At one time when they had a corner he was trying to mark two players on his own. I used to play full-back and you tend to notice this sort of thing.

From watching that we seemed to be wide open around our left-back position.

I don't care how much profit the club makes. All that matters to me are performances and results on the pitch.

There's a few of them playing for us at the moment.

Even stating the truth can get you into trouble if you present it the wrong way.

It's the manager's job to tell the players how to play, not the other way around. The next thing you know, he'd be telling Alan who to pick and it might be for all sorts of reasons, none of them to do with football.

In which case things should have improved after half-time

I'm prepared to wait until it's Pardew's team and not last year's failures.