Window Cleaner

Wolves get promoted?? we shall see; They're starting to go into stall already, the nosedive won't be long afterwards.

As they're only on part time salaries and haven't been back long the figure would be insignificant. Probably wouldn't pay Jason Euell for a month.

Anyway it would seem to me that only one thing will galvanise the support base. 2 straight wins in the immediate future. Remember the mood swing when we went and beat Reading at the Madjeski.

That was of course a poetic "everyone". Obviously there are always a few voices of reason who've seen it all before and understand the situation to some extent. Seem to be a dying breed though. I blame TV of course,and video games and Donner Kebabs and the price of Melons.

Not blaming anyone Hypo, just that it seems to be a recurring event at SMS. I remember how everyone turned on Beattie when he stopped scoring and Davies and Fuller,Blackstock got some stick. It's just human nature I suppose.

Anyway Lowe's and Cowan's payoffs pale into insignificance when compared to the pay-offs we've had to make to bad managers in the recent past. How much do you think we had to give to Dodd and Gorman or Gray or Wiggley or Sturrock. I seem to rember that the total bandied about for Gray and his "assistant" was well over 2 million £. Lowe error of course.

Yes but it's not helped by the fact that he was named as one of "50 for the future" in some rag or other recently. In a good side he'd probably score a lot of goals actually, like Rasiak and John--oh wait they can't score for nuts either. We've had so many cases of strikers being mute and fans getting onto their case after a couple of goalless games that have gone on to score prolifically elsewhere that I'd have thought we'd learnt our lesson by now.

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Well perhaps not BWP, especially if he was involved in the same hypothetical incident.Euell would be OK though

Those that were paid executives of the club would certainly have got a severance payment,same as anyone else in any walk of life who is made redundant or has his contract revoked.As far as I know Crouch took no salary from the club and would therefore have got no payout.McMenemy is perhaps a different matter. Anyway the sums are in the accounts on each occasion.Not individualised of course, just the total.

To be replaced by ??

Good appointment? perhaps not but if the club had given him a bit more time and organised his succession a bit differently we may have been less useless than under Wigley. In any case we should have given the job to Glen Hoddle but the board, on the back of supporter (or customer) frenzy, voted down Lowe's proposition. That probably irked him more than you can guess and he took the attitude that I'm right and I'll f*cking well prove it. The events that followed are well known.

What Rasiak who's been able to play just 18 games and score a sensational 3 goals?. Even McG has a better strike rate than that. Rasiak is one of the most overhyped players ever to grace English football. I bet if you knew a real Watford supporter they'd tell you that he is a complete waste of time and money. We should have tried to keep Saga though, that may have made a difference but if he played like last season perhaps not.

Even the "non-professionals" were of a better class in Bournemouth. Didn't chew gum, didn't drink pints, had some basic cultural knowledge.

There was always a better class of crumpet in Bournemouth, I remember it distinctly.

As head coach and not a manager in charge of scouting and recruiting. Lowe should have sacked him as well, after the home disaster against Ipswich back in January 2006. He didn't and gets his share of the blame in Burley's continued single handed destruction of the club.

Which player?? I think the offers we got were totally derisory, 200/250K for Surman and Lallana or thereabouts. the time to get Billy Davies was last January, as we all know we got Gorman and Dodd and then Pearson, the latter having done a respectable job in the fact that we stayed up-just,but wasn't Billy Davies. Davies might have been able to do something with us at that time, including keeping us in the FA cup and getting us a big payday (TV and gate) and autofinancing his post. That debacle against B Rovers was a true disaster in every sense, presided over by Gorman, Dodd and probably McMenemy.

Norwich losing was a good thing for us. Barnsley's recent results are atrocious and they've lost their last 5 I think. I still see the 3 to go down as Charlton,Barnsley and Watford Norwich have a difficult programme (mind you so do we) and their fate will be dictated by just 2 games,those against Watford and Charlton. Brynn Gunn is not a good manager and has no experience, neither do the guys at Charlton or Watford (apart from being coaches or assistants). True they beat Barnsley but then so did we, Wolves are beginning to fall away (again) and the draw Norwich got with them was a fair bonus but no great shakes.

Another player that we turned into temporary bad news,still he's doing tidily now in the Prem or so it would seem.

Exactly, shouldn't still be here, not because he's a ***t but because he's an extremely bad footballer.This is where the old management have left a terrible legacy for the current one. There are bad players,some of whom may be bad people to boot,who we just can't weed out because they're on too much money to be of interest to anyone else. It's a problem we've had for several years. Players who were respectable and performed reasonably elsewhere have just turned into complete dump the moment they put a foot inside our club. I blame Burley of course. He is the root cause of all of our current problems. I also blame of course anyone who should have sacked him 2 years ago and didn't.

It's also fractionally less than a third of the season left, which is a third better again.Just now 2 good games could tip the balance for any of 5 or 6 teams. Where were you all in our Premiership days,get those Great Escape T-Shirts out and start remembering.

That would be the Atlanta Falcons then. Awful team on the whole but Matt Ryan did a fair old job with it.

I was just thinking a bit of footage from our Alehouse era might dispel a few notions of our "glory days". There were games, seasons and eras when we were absolute junk.Nobody moaned though, well not all day and every day anyway. Nobody called for George Reader,Alan woodford or Ted Bates to resign on an hourly basis. There was a time,when TB was thought or rumoured or asserted to being kept in the job because his Mrs held sway in the boardroom or amongst shareholders.¨Probably not true but it certainly did the rounds when we weren't playing well. Football is a subject in which opinion,discussion and memory sometimes get out of control.

What about that bloke who owns the Patriots, doesn't he want to buy a "soccer" team? Perhaps we could get Kaka on free agency for a couple of 2017/8 first round picks, or one of T-Tim's starlets in the draft.