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If he is so desparate to join us why doesn't he just resign? Didn't the club promise us "Wow". You seem to have signed up to the Cortese bandwagon Nick whereas I had you pegged as your own man before?

Why wouldn't he? He just sacked a perfectly good manager after a 4-0 win away.

He fancies the wedge. I hope he gets the job, we shall see how good he really is. Succeed or fail though, he will be minted.

Probably better than wearing a ringpiece.

Why, do you think it hasn't? Really Nick, I think you are popping the happy pills. We have a good squad and had a decent manager. We had a slow start but were making chances and got it together at Bristol. We sack the decent manager and the club turns into a farce. Two managers of lowly status have found reasons not to join us today. Alan Pardew has managed reasonably well in the Premiership and is a memory. The wow factor we were promised has turned into "Wow, what a c*ck up." Perhaps we will go up this season still, but I don't think that todays events have made that any easier.

As Dame Edna Everidge once said to a Tory nob, "If you can't laugh at yourself, you might be missing the joke of the century."

By all means have a pop at my thread Dune, but a troll?

I appreciate that some people are kicking off and that some people are trying to be fair and even handed. However, whichever way you look at it it has not been a great day for SFC. I really hope I am wrong, but I think today's debacle, be it Cortese fault or the medias fault, makes promotion this year more unlikely. Is it a coincidence or has the fact that Markus has sadly passed away means that a steading hand on the tiller has gone and we are now adrift and well off course? And if that is the case, how long before the family get shot of us?

Because it would show him in a bad light. He got rid of Pardew because there was a clash of personalities, not for footballing reasons - and now he is trying to replace him with lesser managers.

Lowe is the past and Cortese is now, but the more I hear about this character the more I worry about our future. Today's debacle has done little to improve his status. This season lurches from bad to worse. To be honest I think we have actually found someone worse.

If we are going to get rid of a manager like Pardew, wouldn't you try and replace him with someone better? With all due respect, I don't think that Howe or Adkins are better.

Are Pardew, Adkins and Howe invited?

Neither Adkins or Howe have the WOW factor for me, but today has not been great for SFC.

This is the problem though. Pardew wanted to be judged after 18 months yet some had him down as a failure after 18 matches. He never did make it to 18 months and despite winning something and doing ok is seen as a failure. We are expecting to go up THIS season. Nothing less was expected of Pardew. Will Adkins (if it is him) be allowed time to do his job or branded as a failure if he doesn't make at least the play offs?

Wigley and Gray were obviously both highly thought of within the club and good at the job they did. I don't think there is anything wrong with promoting from within if you think you have the right person. As it turns out neither of them were really good enough for the step up but that only became apparent after the event. There was a round of applause from the 1st team sqaud when Gray was announced as manager. Wigley was unfortunate in that he lost a number of his better players to injury and didn't have the chance to bring his own in. However as neither of them have gone on to stake a claim as a decent no 1 then you must assume that they were better where they were (and there is nothing wrong with being a decent no 2 or coach). Even the great Clough failed at Leeds though so perhaps it is just often timing and circumstances. As we know the first thing the great Lawrie Mac did was to take us down!

That comes at the end of the season and if he takes us up fair play to the bloke and he will get a wow from me. I am talking about the initial reaction and it is a hmmmmm rather than wow. When told to expect a wow I wasn't thinking hmmmmm I was expecting a wow (and no, not MoN). I am sure you get my drift Nick.

Where are they going to install him?

Like Terry Hurlock?

And if you are reading this, was Jimmy Saville a peado?

With all due respect to Adkins, the Wow factor is not something you associate with him.

Did they take pictures of the site without permission?

Do they have a red sash across their donkey jackets do you think?

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Paul

I wonder if George W Bush is a distant relative?

I was delighted when I heard we had Pardew and we need someone else with a decent pedigree. I can't see Brown getting the job as there would be another clash of egos. Proven for me but it looks like we are going for potential, which is fine if that potential is realised.