Smirking_Saint

If its been missed from the refs match report then he will probably be hit with a ban, and I imagine that its been missed as, like you said, he wasnt sent off for it. Shearer was retrospectively banned I believe, others too, I imagine he will be hit with a ban, I missed MOTD last night though.

3m !? You sure about that or are you not including what we have spent this year ?

I think it'll be a great achievement from him, he is a decent up and coming manager and has built a cohesive unit, he does make a few tactical mistakes though make no bones about it. And as much as he has do e very very well we as a club have spent a phenominal amount of money TBH culminating on the 30m this year, perhaps it was necessary, I think it was to build a solid foundation, personally we wont know if Adkins is truelly great until perhaps next year or the year after when we will see how his players bed in. We have not gone out and bought prem experience, we have bought players for the next few years in mind. Relegation this year woukd be unnacceptable, mid table respectable, and no Im not going to look down at what Adkins has done, I just like to be a bit more objective about things.

Though I sm not one to call for infractions against anyone but that comment was a little out of hand, Im not saying ban him but Hypo does need to look at himself after that. But you lot do make me laugh, happy to infract someone for absolutely no reason or for some paltry pathetic reason such as being sarcastic etc and then bottle it when you actually need to act Pathetic really.

Ive never understood this in regards to Harry, at the end of the day Harry is not the custodian of these clubs, he is not in charge of the overall financial state of the club, not the purse strings. Ok he has spent some money, what managers have not at some point ? At the end of the day it is the chairman of said clubs that have gambled on the financial future of their clubs, they dont have to blindly fund a manager spending his budget. If I was appointed as a manager and got a sizeable fund to spend i certainly wouldnt question the expertise of the chairman, thats not my job, my job is to get the best out of players I have and I buy and achieve success. And for all of the crap that gets posted about Harry, he regularly achieves success.

I would love it if chelsea lost this, I have NO affinity to chelsea any more, used to quite like them but their policy of dumping anyone who goes through any bad patch managerially is pathetic.

Are we talking what would our thoughts be if he finished mid table this season ? And so evaluate his performance to that point ? Sorry if Id missed the point here

I dont get this thread

You need to explain that we can express quantities as either a fraction or a number. Perhaps get 10 sweets or something and arrange into four quarters. i.e four sweets. Prove that the whole amount is 100%, 4/4ths and so 1. If you take one sweet away you are left with 3/4ths, or 75% which can also be express as 0.75 as you now you have removed a part of the original whole unit and are expressing that missing fraction as a decimal. What is it the ten year old is struggling with ? The concept of fractions ? Percentages or decimals ?

It could be Adkins, it could be thr boardroom, neither of which seem to like letting any little snippets get into the press, Ui can see the merits to this. Never really understood why all of you precious flowers need to know every in and out going on at the club, what difference does it really make ? If we are told Laana is out for aweek or a year itll hardly change anything at all. But it could do to the opposition, of course they probably could guess already but they dont know for sure, so why leak it ? Get over it and concentrate on other trivial issues.

What an absolute ton of bandwagon ********, I have heard a lot about scapegoats in my time, for many different clubs, Downing is just another one. I remember about 2 years ago I said Lucas was probably one of liverpools best players and they would seriously miss him if he wasnt there, I was called an idiot.. Downing was outstanding at Boro, and was the prem assist leader for Villa which prompted the 'pool to pay an overpriced £20m on him. As Chez said, he wasnt even that bad really, and in a cut price deal I would snap their hands off. Fact is, people forget, Downing, Henderson and Carroll were in the form of their lives before killer kenny came along and ruined their careers, still, ask a liverpool fan and he was a great manager not given proper backing

Why are so many on here finding this such a difficult subject FFS ? All is being asked is what value would you put on a premiership game of football right jow, not knowing how good the game will be as you never know that, just if you were asked to price the average game what would you find reasonable ? Personally I say between £20 and £25 is about reasonable for a premiership game at St Marys currently

Jesus christ

Out of interest what is the general consesus when onr of these massacres happen ? Over here obviously we blame the gun laws etc but interested in the local thoughts ?

Jesus christ

Exactly this, yes Sharp is a very good poacher, but that is the sum total of his game TBH he has nothing else. Not only that but he doesnt fit our system.

He was a top player at PSG though, I know he was pre the revolution, but still Id imagine he was a top earner, perhaps looking at 50k per week which to us is big dosh, I cant even see Ramirez being on that much. Great player and would definately be an exciting signing aswell as an improvement, unless we can convince him to take a pay cut to play regularly ? But TBH if he were to move it would IMO be to a bigger clib with deeper pockets possibly playing in europe, or maybe back to brazil

Good player, imagine he will be on enormous wages though

Not the worst idea in the world, and certainly does allow Ramirez to have his role behind the front men, just to change it slightly, how about playing a 4222 with cork back in his familiar role with Morgs but Punch and Ramirez both operating behind a front two but allowing for more fluidity between the AMF and striker pairing ? For instance Lambert and Ramirez sort of fluid on the left and J Rod and Punch on the right ? Still, IMHO I dont think Adkins will drastically change anything, itll be 4231 and I expect itll be the side that finished against Reading.

Attitude aside he has always looked to me to have ability.

Surprised he hasnt played in goal yet, but covering left back and centre back at the same time, Im not going to go as far as saying he could also cover CM too, thats just rediculous

Not saying we should, he occupies that no 10 position perfectly, but we just dont have that much out there to cover for Adam, I am pretty stuck TBH. I know what your saying, but we have tried J Rod out there already, Fox is a rediculous suggestion, Guly I dont think is as bad as everyone thinks but still not good enough really, mayuka is not really a wide man. That leavrs Davis, a youth product or Ramirez but given the freedom to roam like Adam was.

2 of the last 4 posts made me realise why I just dont bother very much any more

So you start a post with come on guys be serious... Then suggest Sterling and Walcott ?

Looked decent for arsenal pre injury, looked good for wolves pre injury, will be a decent player IMHO, Arsenal happy to release him, will come cheap, and if it doesnt work out so what ? Easily good enough to deputise for cork and morgan and arguably better than anything we have in reserve for that position.