Fuzzy Wotsit you mean.

Do you think we should be after an expensive pastit Harry Belafonte lookalike Revidge?

Harry who?

You dunno who Harry Belafonte is?

"Banana Boat Song" means nowt to you?

Fuzzy Wotsit you mean.

Do you think we should be after an expensive pastit Harry Belafonte lookalike Revidge?

Like that scene in The Naked Gun where the bloke goes for a jimmy, and his mike's still on!

I always liked Big Ron, always thought he was a top bloke.

He's made a very silly error of judgement. I'm certainly shocked that he said it, didn't think he had it in him.

I'm sure there's a few more in football capable of that language, they're just more guarded with what they say.

What a sad end to a commentating career. He always livened things up for me with his little aphorisms, but there was no way he could stay on.

How predictable that the anti-Man Yoo brigade are out in force.

Posted by: Crunching Tackler & laughatthedingles

who would you say are the 3 toughest opponents you've faced?

So many, Al, Sherringham, Ferdinand, Ian Wright always gave me a bad time at Southampton, but not at Rovers.

Teams, Brazil and Italy,

Well done Mr 75.

Never knew you'd played against Flowers tho'?

I've just read on the LET that Souness wants Robbie Blake in the Summer.

Graeme, you have quite clearly had a Matt Jansen-style accident at some point last summer.

Now you want to buy a dingle.

I can't think of a more compelling argument to get shot.

When you operate in the rarefied world of accountancy, it's easy to lose patience with lesser mortals!

To be honest I don't think KSB is a wind-up merchant.

He just has very firmly-held views.

If he did go, Parkes has done us proud in the past and I'd like them to put Parkes in as caretaker - there's no frills but he certainly gets the players playing for the club that's for sure.

I still remember that 5-1 defeat at Barnsley. Ouch!

I don't think TP would help this time.

Boersma's departure has been discussed before but I think it is probably the biggest influence on our poor form this year - without his trusted right-hand man to call on, I think Souey is being let down by the quality of his backroom staff, and this should be the first thing to be addressed this summer.

I thought Boersma left because of player discontent?

It seems like Souness can't win sometimes.

Some people just can't read. I didn't blame anyone for his departure, just stating it as a matter or fact and as a possible underlying reason for the slump in performances this year.

That's rather provocative, and uncalled for.

I was querying something, raising a general point of interest, not attacking you.

Boersma's departure has been discussed before but I think it is probably the biggest influence on our poor form this year - without his trusted right-hand man to call on, I think Souey is being let down by the quality of his backroom staff, and this should be the first thing to be addressed this summer.

I thought Boersma left because of player discontent?

It seems like Souness can't win sometimes.

That Yorkshire consortium have pulled out after "financial investigations" (acc. to F365). Wonder what form they took? "Just how much manure are you in?"; "Very very deep."; "OK, that concludes our investigations".

Oh dear oh dear!

About Steven Reid-  I think people have a right to judge from what they've seen.  He's another "one for the future" who'll end up being quietly shunted out of the club (a la Greer and Peltzer) when the future becomes the past.

1. You can't spell Pelzer, get your bloody facts straight.

2. How on earth are those two comparable to Reid, who's an established international? Greer was a very modest gamble, who at the time was lauded as the brightest young thing to come out of Scotland for years, and Pelzer was a free transfer FFS!

Your prediliction for bashing Souness at every possible turn is extremely wearisome. It's not even connected to the facts, it's rabid hatred of Rangers coming to the surface once more.

You could put Fisons out of business. Hell's bells.

Anyone remember teh film "The Wild Geese" with Sir Roger Moore?

He's in top eyebrow-raising form in that one, I can tell you!

Gary Megson? Micky Adams? Mark Hughes?

Good grief, that's almost as bad as Paul Sturrock.

There's not many managers around who've gone to different clubs and won trophies. Otherwise why would Newcastle have gone for 70-year old Robson?

Souness has a track record, not always successful, but it's a damn sight better than three managerial candidates with bugger all top level experience between them.

Your anti-Rangers bias really ends up making you look silly. anything to justify sticking the knife into GS, eh?

We certainly do seem to have hit a wall.

My own personal feeling is that we'll survive and GS will be manager next year.

Rather than insisting that that will be the case, my last post was more a case of wondering why Waggy is so negative about Souness, he seems to conveniently disregard the previous 3 seasons and will pick on anything to support his prophesy of doom.

I mean, how much credibility do Grabbi's comments have? Absolutely bollard all.

Yeah, got rid of the deadwood, re-invigorated the club, instilled a proper sense of discipline, took us into Europe twice, won us a Cup, and got us promoted.

The man's a disaster!

Sack him now before he sends us into terminal decline!

The money has to be spent on a left sided midfielder, anyone can see it's upsetting the balance of the team.

Olembe plays down the left.

You can't 100% guarantee anything, so will spending 3 mill on Butt significantly alter our chances of avoiding relegation? We can't speak with certainty, but we can talk of probabilities.

You obviously think we should sign him, you must think he'll make a difference.

Maybe you should stick some of your own money in, your relentless criticism of how other people should be spending their money gets me a bit down in the mouth!

I'd love us to go out and spend 10 mill and transform the team, but it ain't going to happen is it?

Butt would cost at the very most half the transfer fee now, and half in 12 months, and in the event we did go down he could easily be sold for roughly what we paid for him.

If we go down it'll be £20m "we don't have" not just £3m.

of course!

That's the way it works: "Mr Williams, your team's been relegated and you're desperate for cash, tell you what, we'll give you roughly what you paid for Nicky Butt to buy him off you."

Rollocks!

Spurs have offered just 5 mill for Milner and Robinson. Is that what they're worth, even in a depressed market? Nein.

Is Nicky Butt the man to propel us up the table? We need a left-winger and a striker.

Birmingham have been bank-rolled by the Gold Brothers. We appear to have no cash forthcoming from Jersey and have the second-lowest attendances in the division. It looks like we can't afford to spend 3 mill even if we're in this division next season. Bit of a difference. Have you not seen JW's comments earlier this week?

And what's all this about being left standing by a team only in their second season in the Prem, how dramatic! We're only in our third!

I think we've had this discussion before and I think I said something like if 3 mill can guarantee us Prem football next year, whereas 0 mill will see us relegated, we have to spend. Are we going to go down with what we have, and would buying Nicky Butt be the difference? I don't think so, can't remember him scoring too many goals, although he might help keep some out.

Go and fondle a teacake or something.

Kin hell, same old Fissons Fertilizer for breakfast, lunch and bloody tea.

Give yer fingas a break.

I agree that he should concentrate on kicking some butt, but I'm not sure that doing work for Sky interferes with being manager of Rovers.

I think they concentrate on conceding goals in training. Dwights stays behind afterwards for a bit of "toothy grin" training.

BobF - In a swings and roundabout way you might have hit it on the head there -in my opinion he should stop his SKY appearance and concentrate on our problems (if that makes any sense)

Should he spend 24 hours thinking about Rovers?

Should he be sorting out the back four while he's on teh crapper?

Trust an American to be a free-marketeer!

I don't want to get mired in a big argument about free-market economics, but I do think given Leeds current problems, it wouldn't be much for them to forego 30% of their earnings to potentially save a football club. This is an industry where even bit-part players can be set up for life by their mid-twenties.

How much money do they need FFS?

Tell you what Jim, why don't you do your job for 30 percent less?

I don't think journalists get paid 40k per week to come in and train how to write stories twice a week and actually write an actual story on a Saturday.

Footballers salaries are obscene and are proportionate to the Nation's never-ceasing hunger for wall-to-wall televised football, it has nothing to do with a fair day's work for a fair day's pay.

They seem to be so far removed from reality that they'd rather their employer went to the wall than they take a (gasp!) 30% paycut. How thick can they be?