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Yeah, that's more or less it, Green was going to be one of Leighton's backers.

From what I read, Green wasn't going to put money in as a principle shareholder, but was rather going to lend money to Leighton to leverage his purchase. From a purely mercenary point of view, I want Leeds to go into administration and get 10 points docked. Wolves have had it, and in the scenario above Leeds would almost certainly have had it, meaning that there was only one place to play for (or should I say, avoid). Dog eat dog in the current financial climate!

Get the Tea Cake boy in. He could bring in 25 new signings on tuppence happenny and bring a refreshing windswept haircut into the dressing room. The half-time biscuity jam and marshmellow half-time confections shouldn't be discounted either. Although the prancing up the touchline to Bonnie Tyler is a different matter. When is a blip a malaise? Weren't we getting very similar comments on here two years ago before Andy Cole saved our hides?

Just to clarify, Roy's story was that it was a transfer "by committee": him, Jack Walker and John Williams. But in saying that, when he went on to justify it further, he more or less blamed Jack!

hmm, but possibly only in the 10 minutes before he left for Newcastle, when all else had failed. I don't have Charles Lambert's book to hand, but I think it was the night before, at either Shearer or Walker's house. And Jack did (allegedly) persuade him. But KK came calling the day after and his mind was made up. If I was in his shoes, I would've left as well, to be honest.

Just a personal view but I feel he'd be good management material, a view apparently shared by Jack Walker who offered him a long term player manager role before he left for Newcastle. Hell's bells, are you serious?! Have you observed his managerial attributes at close hand? We gave Howard Kendall a job because we were skint. What we need now is not a new manager but a new benefactor.

And yu could do that over Souness's head, could you?

Poor old Houllie chops! Tee hee!

That's very deep.

All administration means is that an accountant is sent in to maximise club assets and stop money pi$$ing out of the door. In return, the interests on the debts is frozen. Once the company comes out of administration hopefully cash management at the club is much better, and the creditors have a chance of getting their dosh back. No debts are written off, that only happens in a bankruptcy I think. Having said that, whatever stunt Leicester pulled to get out of the cr@p was a good one, because I don't remember any winding-up orders.

I do like Boeuf and Onion flavour. But I draw the line at ar$ey French Onion & sour grapes flavour.

If you look at all of Houli-hoops quotes in the press in the last couple of seasons, Liverpool must've turned a dozen corners and got over 3 or 4 watersheds. He's crap. I don't like him.

Not only do the Leeds board come out of this badly, but what the hell were the companies that lent to them thinking of? I can't see them getting more than 10% of their money back. If I was lending money and a club came to me saying: "we have a novice manager who will get us into the Champions' League for X years running. We need big finance to get into the Champs League so that we can get big money, all of which will pay off the big finance. Our repayments are dependent upon our novice manager not screwing up with the 100 million." I'd tell them to take a running jump.

They'll probably "do a Leicester" and go bust then start up again with a clean slate and get promoted back to the Prem. Which is bad.

Read one yesterday - Clive Woodward is going through Australian Customs just after his flight's touched down, and the passport officer is giving him the first degree. Passport Officer: "Do you have a criminal record, sir?" Clive: "Do you still need one to get in then?"

I thought the footy was on Saturday and the rugby was on Sunday? :-\

I bet they still have to drink their own wee through a sock though. Bunch of nutters. Although to be fair, I don't mind league, it's union I can't stand.

Yeah, it's sad to say it, but it leaves me cold as well. I hope they win, but I'm certainly not going to waste 90 minutes of my life sitting through it. I'm sure the fox-hunting lot will go bandy if we win, but the whole nation? Can't see it. Is it really a global game?

5 losses on the spin and we're in terminal decline? Absolute and utter pap. If that was true, what would you say has happened to QPR, Sheff Wed, Luton (good in the Eighties!), Oxford (days of Ray Houghton and Dean Saunders) and Notts County (they were in the top flight for a season not so long ago). Terminal decline means that the club goes kaput, it doesn't recover. Out of the clubs I've mentioned there, I think only Notts County come close to terminal decline. You seem to fit the facts to your argument all the time, it gets a bit tiresome after a while.

Let's get the chuckle brothers in then, it doesn't matter! :'>

I'm very depressed so maybe now's not the time to make a judgement. But sod it, we clearly can't keep the goals out the two we conceded today were bloody shockers. We play far too much football through the middle and don't pose enough of an attacking threat. Yorke although he did play better today just doesn't put the opposition on the backfoot. Shipping goals and not scoring them leads only one way - relegation. Although I've always rated Graeme we might have to say goodbye to give the players a fresh face and change things up a bit. We could certainly do with a few more faces in teh team. Looking at the match today, as soon as the first went in we looked like a relegation team, surprising because before we looked OK - the confidence just seemed to go (not surprisingly). I really wouldn't like to say "get rid" now, but with transfers only allowed in January it's hard to see where Souness is going to get three points from since he's tried more or less every permutation of team already. I really haven't a clue on what we should do and I don't envy the board. Sad to see him arguing with the 4th official again today.

Have we got enough decent strikers to play two up front?

Yep, I'm sticking with Souey. But then what do I know? I don't even like Celtic!

Unless it was semantics to give the guy the brush off, we didn't sign Gray because we didn't have any money. There's so many smokescreens about our cash that I really don't know what the situation is. Out of those who are calling for his head, how many were doing so before the start of the season? Rover6 and KennySuperPundit, anyone else? I suspect most thought that Graeme was the man. And they've all completely changed their minds in 12 games. That's football for you!

There are some bright points on the horizon. There's absolutely no pressure in the next game, if we lose it doesn't matter, as long as we perform really well. Of course it would be better for morale if we won, but the only consequence of losing is that we have less games to play this season. Winning against Liverpool would help confidence, but so would putting in a good performance. Shorty is due to come back, hopefully with Neill back soon also, and perhaps Babbel. Putting Neill at right-back will allow Reid to go to left-wing, Thompson to go right wing, hopefully this would reduce the amount of cutting in as well as bringing more experience to the backline. If we can go to Chelsea and get a draw with our first-choice backline, then we can't be all bad. So now we're getting our backline back again we should have cause for optimism. Watching from afar my feeling is that Souness introduced 5 in the middle because he was worried about teams going through us more easily, and he didn't feel that anyone playing with Cole would score, so it was not a big sacrifice to lose a striker. Also, the team is short on confidence and actually keeping a clean sheet would do wonders. If you don't think you're going to be able to keep the oppo out, it must be a bit demoralising before you've even kicked off. I'm going to wait until we get Short Babbel and Neill (they must all speak English!) back and playing together, and then make a judgement. Sacking Souness now would be a knee-jerk myopic reaction. Although it looks bleak now, there are reasons to be optimistic. The board is funny because it's so rectionary. We play crap at Villa last Jan >> Sack Souness. We finish sixth >> Souness is God. Duff departs of his own volition, which the club couldn't possibly stop >> Souness is a traitor for selling him, why did he let him go. We lose our best defenders to injury, ship loads of goals and can't win >> it's all Souness's fault, because he bought Todd! It's funny really how people can be so fickle (apart from miserable Jim). Perhaps we should go for the manager of my local Sainsbury's, who's transformed the grocery section on an impossibly tight budget!