Wade Garrett

I'm worried by Les Reed's supposed power base at the club. He was a crap coach and manager.

I was exasperated at times how Pardew instructed the team to play. Plymouth home, Wycombe away last season and quite a few more.

Why not. It would be off the record, and maybe, just maybe, it will support Cortese's decision.

Ask Mick Channon.

Correct. However, the manager and coaches are judged by results, and if they're not good that's when the chairman does his job. Fact is, we dropped too many easy points last year where we didn't look like a team. Wycombe away will forever live in my memory. We looked like a Wessex League side and persisted playing through the middle of a boggy pitch instead of playing wide, where the ground was much better. Playing long ball as we did against Plymouth, with 2 smallish forwards finally persuaded me that maybe Pardew wasn't that great. The timing of the sacking stinks though. Would be interested in Matty's views on Pardew's performance in these 2 games and a few others I could mention.

All I'm saying is that Matty only has Pardew's side of the story. He should have got some balance before going to the press and potentially harming the club. I'm sure he could have got some info from the players and staff, you never know, they might think that Pardew was an arse. He's been a bit quick to put the boot in, and I have lost a bit more respect for him.

I may wet myself if this happened. Alan Curbishley has a link to Les Reed, but Coppell and Zola for me.

Forget what I just posted. Just read his comments in the Sun. I think he is unwittingly being used in their campaign against Cortese and has gone along with it because Sky and Rupert Murdoch are now his paymasters. Why not speak to Cortese, or other club staff for a more balanced view Matt. Why not just keep schtum instead of talking the club down. You are rightly a club legend Matt, but you nearly destroyed the club, and judging by these comments you're not as bright as perhaps you think you are.

Matty was a club legend on the pitch and obviously loves the club to death. But, try as he did to save the club in our hour of need, his actions very nearly had the opposite effect. We were saved because Cortese sold the dream to Markus. For that reason I am loathe to slate him, and to be honest, I think Matty is too and this is just the usual gutter journalism I have come to expect from the Echo. The best thing they could do is to get Bob Brunskell back on board and give hime a free hand over the sports editorial. At the moment they have a load of Sun wannabees working there.

Face it, no-one has a clue who the new manager is going to be. Even the ones that pretend they know but can't say anything. Cortese does his business in private.

George Michael f*cked up Wham when he split his partnership with guitar genius Andrew Ridgeley, and then went on a w*nking tour of public conveniences in the USA. To blame Zola for this is Madness.

You haven't been snorting Diego's talcum powder have you?

We need someone to take the team tomorrow night, and Dave Merrington can't do it because he's doing the radio, Lawrie Mac is away playing golf and Ian Branfoot is trying to learn the offside-rule on his subbuteo pitch.

Lawrie Mac with John Mortimer as his assistant and Dave 'Tempo' Merrington in charge of the youth team.

Tony p&sshead Adams would like the job because it's just round the corner from the Priory.

Kevin Keegan would love it, just love it, if he could take the club to the Premiership promised land. He would crawl over broken glass from the Northern sh*thole he is probably in at the moment, and would be just round the corner from Mickey Channon's stables at Ilsley.

Nigel Pearson missed Hull's game on Saturday as he fell ill.

The timing of this decision stinks. I would be horrified if Cortese hadn't lined up Pardew's replacement in advance. He is playing a dangerous game, and will be staking his reputation with the success/failure of our next manager. We need someone for the long term that will galvanise the club and lift the City.

More holes in that lot than a tramps cacks.

That's a hell of an assumption.

F*cking hell, you make him sound sh*t.

How do you come to that conclusion?

Loan with the option to buy in January. Not ideal I grant you, but not too bad a deal.

Not if better players become available who are better than the better players that are available.

I'm not analysing AP's every word. To be fair, I am hypothesing on some likely scenarios.