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If you think saying "no need to get aggressive" is an example of being precious then I question your judgement even more.

It's not particularly hard to take it Snowflake, I just considered it unnecessary and so pointed that out. I believe I called your suggestion that the negativity of this forum was keeping Pellegrino in a job absolute b*llocks and I stand by that wholeheartedly.

Well that would completely contradict the reports of looking for Premier League experience.

I asked Jeff for some clarification and was given some abuse in return. You put words in my mouth and lied about what I said and I called you a cretin. If I had done something similar then I would have expected some abuse too.

You may be unhappy but as you have said there are no other realistic alternatives bar Silva who some are saying would turn the job down so we just have to make the best of it. Blame the board for not sacking him in December, not for appointing Hughes when they have barely any realistic alternative.

And if the club knew that Silva was unavailable and sacked Pellegrino anyway then you would still have supported the sacking knowing that our realistic options were Billic or Hughes? Of course you would have because I would have to. No one is happy that the club decided to sack him so late and leave us with a lack of choice but they are the best options we have available now and are the only realistic candidates that will give us a chance to stay up this season and will deserve our full support if either gets appointed. I think we've come to an agreement.

The choice was for Pellegrino to stay or to be sacked now and have a limited number of realistic options- possibly three. If for some reason Silva is not available then that list shrinks to two people. If the choice is then Billic or Hughes and you are very unhappy with both then the question is would you have preferred that we kept Pellegrino? You may be unhappy with the available choice at that point but it's still infinitely preferable to having Pellegrino in charge so we have no choice but to accept one of the limited options available and make the best of the situation.

No need for all that aggression just because your views weren't entirely clear. Alright then so your view is that of the available and realistic candidates who meet our criteria only Silva would be acceptable. Someone claiming to be ITK on here earlier said he wasn't interested. Hypothetically if that were the case, what would you do then?

Then I would have seen that we had decided to appoint Kelvin instead and I would have died laughing...

So I really don't understand your opinion. You agree that you wanted rid of Pellegrino and you are happy that he has been sacked now. You accept that we have a very small list of realistic candidates and you would only be happy with Silva from that list of candidates even though there is a possibility that he was never interested in the position. If that were the case, then it seems you would be unhappy with any other realistic candidate being appointed.

It seems? You have no idea!

We won't be appointing Ancelotti.

He was less of an annoying **** than Lord Duckhunter.

Here's an example of what I was talking about earlier. Cloud cuckoo land. No wonder some are outraged at the thought of Hughes if that's who they think we should be appointing.

Christ that really does leave us with many realistic options does it! What vastly superior yet realistic options would you want then? Assuming silva turns us down who do we go for?

Always seemed like a nice guy but I think he realised he was totally out of his depth. He must have known after Saturday that the end was coming and he can't have any complaints.

I think lots of people have swallowed the club pr about us being special or doing things better than the other lower mid table prem teams. The truth is we have been spoilt during our time in the top league. A series of bad decisions has now left us with limited options near the end of the season and a damaged reputation. It may be in a couple of season we can get back to where we were and be a more attractive proposition again to exciting managers but right now we have to hope there is an experienced manager who will agree to take us on and help us claw our way to safety.

Well one of you has to be wrong. If he was just going to reject us he wouldn't be meeting us today.

Yes I agree! We should have bloody thought of the future back in November or December but we didn't. We now have to take the best available candidate out of a very small list of people who would actually come here and could possibly give us an immediate upturn in form to keep us in the league. It's really the clubs fault that we have been left with such a small pool (and we don't even know how many of them would actually be interested either) but there we go.

I was referring to washsaint and another poster from earlier in the thread. Ridiculous reactions for who is in truth a hit of a meh manager but certainly not someone who would destroy the club like some are making out.

What's the choice then? Our options at this time will be extremely limited and people are talking about Rodgers and van gaal. They are deluded.

We don't have the luxury to think of the future-- our short term goal is the pressing one which is to stay up. We can debate next season in the summer but if we go down then everything changes.

My point is its absolutely ridiculous to be apoplectic about a potential new manager given the situation we are in and the situation. If the choice was staying with pellegrino or getting Hughes then everyone would take Hughes yet some are still going mad about he prospect. Just odd.

Definitely different. The kind of comedy that is unfunny.

That may be true to a degree but I stand by my view that pochettino could have done more to change a game when things weren't working either with personnel or tactics. Hopefully this will be something that silva is adept at anyway if we end up appointing him (probably not, it will be Hughes most likely.)