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RevidgeBlue

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  1. A full on relegation scrap is more exciting than "the battle for 15th"?
  2. Rumour has it we were piddling around with a derisory offer for a loan this season followed by a permanent move. Then Fulham came in offering what Southampton were actually asking. As such we would never have been realistically in the running regardless of what his girlfriend wanted. Offering the vendor Club the going rate for a quality player you really like. Who' ever would have thought it? Our usual modus operandi seems to be to offer a fraction of what the player is worth, hope the vendor Club are daft enough to take it and then act all hurt surprised and complain how impossible the market is when they don't.
  3. Possibly. Other players of all types of background and ethnicity seem to manage without being involved in these sorts of incidents on a regular basis though.
  4. Taking nitrous oxide, missing a plane and turning up for England duty a day late, having a machine gun tattooed on his leg and then complaining about the coverage when it caused a furore in the Press, complaining in general that he's been singled out for unfair attention off the media and now this latest incident with Gomez. He's extremely high maintenance off the pitch to say the least.Thank God Gomez wasn't white.
  5. I've always thought Sterling was a complete knob. Yet the way he's been portrayed in the media of late you 'd think he was Mother Theresa and Gandhi rolled into one.
  6. If it was your own money, would you give Mowbray any money to spend in January? If the owners do entrust him with any more then we still need as a bare minimum exactly what was needed after Raya was offloaded. Quality keeper, experienced no nonsense centre half and a quality main striker. Won't be easy to find in January especially as we seem to find it virtually impossible to get anything over the line even when we have all summer to do it.
  7. I do not agree with the personal abuse directed at you above but as a fan's column should your role not be to cast an independent over view of what is happening down at the Club and to call a spade a spade if things are not going well? You'd probably sell more papers or attract more viewers if you told it as it is rather than just accepting everything the manager says without question. There's more of enough from that from Rich Sharpe who probably doesn't want the Club to fall out with the so you can afford to take a more objective stance.
  8. So if we continue to lose matches by the odd goal and get relegated but don't get drubbed by anyone score wise that's ok then? What a load of cobblers. Bit like his post match comment about Leeds' 15 shots on goal not being 'hundreds". He's really struggling to say anything constructive whatsoever now. Once again singling out Nyambe by giving him a back handed compliment but at the same time inferring it's his fault we're struggling is an absolute disgrace. He should have added to that comment 'RN's doing his best but isn't helped by players like Elliott Bennett who are absolutely dog***** every week." Assuming all the players all like each other you do wonder how the treatment of Raya, Nyambe, Brereton, Chapman, Rothwell, and Mulgrew sits with the rest of the squad. It's hard to imagine squad morale is that great when certain players are obviously treated so much more favourably than the rest and at the other end of the scale certain other players are singled out for criticism or frozen out altogether. The more I hear from Mowbray the more I'm becoming convinced we'll go down unless we make a change.
  9. A new man needs to come asap and assess the squad ahead of the January window. Why wait until January to make a decision? By then we'd be struggling to get another manager in before the end of the transfer window which would be another one gone and wasted and we'd be in real difficulty avoiding the drop. We made this mistake in February. TM should have been axed then and a new man been brought in for the last ten games or so to assess the squad and have a clear out and stamp his authority on the squad in summer. By not doing so what could have been a very good campaign in the most mediocre Championship I've seen will instead be at best another wasted season where we've gone backwards and at worst another relegation to League one. I'd take Warnock if he was interested. Not sure what he would make of the attitude of this squad of players though and the relaxed holiday camp "we're aiming to make a challenge for promotion sometime within the next ten years' type mentality which seems to be prevalent. I think he'd be disgusted by both.
  10. Think Hughton comes into the Warnock sort of envelope. Decent manager at Championship level, not really up to it for the Premier League. Would be an upgrade on Mowbray but would probably believe he could still get a bigger job at the moment.
  11. Sorry, think this theory is absolute nonsense. It would indeed be naive to think the owners had no input whatsoever into transfers and if they said any major expenditure had to be on younger players with a sell on value that wouldn't surprise me one bit. Strikers are also in general a lot more expensive than defenders so if successive managers have decided to concentrate the majority of a limited budget into forwards that wouldn't surprise me either. I don't believe however that the owners would interfere with transfer policy to the extent of saying you can spend decent money on forwards but not defenders. If the argument was put forward that at times during Venky's tenure the overall budget hasn't been big enough then it would be hard to disagree with that but I actually think TM has been well backed financially since we were relegated. We've also had numerous managers under Venky's stewardship and not one has ever said or hinted that they were prohibited from signing a certain type of player. As far as we know TM wasn't precluded from going after Bauer either, he decided he didn't want to pay Charlton's original asking price and hung around for 12 months hoping to get him on a free before on his own admission cocking up the negotiations with the spiel about Bauer coming in as a squad player. As far as keepers are concerned as well, Walton would presumably be very expensive at his age were we to sign him permanently and if only he was any good. We weren't to know that he would as another poster memorably put it "make Alan Fettis look like Dino Zoff" so that doesn't necessarily tie in with the theory either.
  12. I'll agree up to a point, we need promotion at some point and if we were lucky enough to achieve that it wouldn't particularly matter what the style of football was. Once you go up however you need more than that these days imo. It would be nice to have such problems to worry about I guess.
  13. It seems more likely to me that it's a a fictitious "stick" made up to beat the owners with and absolve Mowbray from any responsibility.
  14. But there's absolutely no evidence to back this claim up?
  15. I could never understand people's reticence about maybe having to pay a couple of million for him when we were first linked with him. Everyone seemed to think we shouldn't go over about 500k but if the lad is at the age he's at and is as good as we presumably thought then 2m is an absolute snip in today's market. From the Club's point of view our pursuit of him turned into an absolute farce with us fluttering our eyelashes at him for 12 months then getting gazumped at the last hurdle after Tony gave him the spiel about him not coming in as a guaranteed starter and having to displace others already here. If he's the player you really want, pay the money and get him in. We should have had him tied up long before Preston even got involved. Then again, every transfer window has been an absolute car crash since Waggott joined the Club, not sure if it's more down to him, Mowbray or Venus who for some completely unknown reason is now involved with negotiating the contracts. Probably a combination of all three.
  16. If we don't get rid of Mowbray we'll go down. May limp narrowly to safety this season, may not, but if not it'll happen next season or the one after. So I would flip your argument round and say if you know you're going to ultimately fail under this manager, why would you bother hanging onto him? The sooner he goes and you take your chances elsewhere the better.
  17. I doubt anyone would ever undertake that role again as many times as Parkes but right here right now who knows? We desperately need an injection of new ideas and enthusiasm from somewhere and we'll never know if we never give him the chance.
  18. The fact that the powers that be might appoint someone worse should never be used as an excuse for keeping someone who is failing miserably in situ. If you take that attitude you'd barely ever have a change of manager and if we hadn't pulled the plug on managers in the past we'd never have enjoyed success under the likes of Furphy, Lee, Kendall, Dalglish, Souness (temporarily) Hughes etc. I'm not sure who the current owners would replace him with were he to be replaced. Probably someone currently out of work but the obvious short term option would be to give it to Damien Johnson on a short term basis and see how he goes. Let's face it, he could hardly do any worse.
  19. Apparently he said today after the game "Leeds didn't have hundreds of shots" No Tony, they had 15. What the hell is he on about? Is it just me or is he talking absolute cobblers? Should have been replaced in Feb and nothing has changed.
  20. Another narrow defeat which by the sounds of it could have been way worse in the second half but which will no doubt be painted as another hard luck story due to the controversial penalty etc. Hate to say it but I'm almost at the stage where I think we need a couple of 5-0 gubbings to concentrate the owners' minds. Horrible to have to think that way but it's as plain as day we're only going one way under Mowbray. Can anyone explain why you would possibly bring Evan's on for Holtby at 2-1 down? It's almost like Mowbray is deliberately thumbing his nose up at the supporters.
  21. I suspect you're right about him not being under imminent pressure from the owners and to me it's the most depressing thought imaginable. For me there isn't a snow ball's chance in hell that we'll ever challenge for promotion or enjoy any success whilst he is in charge. Yet he keeps pulling out the odd win or two whenever it looks like we're going to sink into really serious trouble and his position might come under scrutiny but as soon as we look a bit more secure and hopeful of pushing on we embark on another bad run taking us to just above crisis point again. Rinse and repeat.
  22. Yep, I think we all hope this will be a genuine turning point and we can go on the Villa type run that Mowbray has been on about but will it merely prove to be an aberration that keeps him limping along a bit longer? We'll soon see I guess.
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