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Given the fact that they've got a huge injury list, there's surely no excuses for not coming away from Goodison with all three points. Oh, wait! Yes there is - we've got that clueless **** in charge. That's a good enough excuse as any. Another loss.

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You'd think so, wouldn't you. There's the easy way and then there's the Apple way.

I'd pay the same price for a standing space as I would for a seat. In the standing area, I'd expect there to be better atmosphere. In the seating area, I'd expect there to be less atmosphere, but I'd get a plastic seat to sit on. There's a trade off - atmosphere vs plastic - and because of that, I'd pay the same. I could actually imagine one of the London clubs being first to adopt this. The fans of Arsenal, Spurs & Chelse pay extortionate amounts for tickets anyway so I can't imagine they'd give a **** if it meant they'd have to pay the same for standing as they would for a flimsy, uncomfortable bit of flappy plastic (I might even ask the question to all the London team supporters tomorrow at work; given that it's in London and I'm surrounded by them). I guess it depends on the fan - how worried they are about saving their little legs for 90 minutes, and their own perception of cost vs benefit. When the whole/large parts of the Holte End has stood up for 90 minutes in the past, I wonder how many people wrote to the club to ask for a refund on part of their ticket because they couldn't get to use the seat provided.

Everton's home form: WDWWDW Our away form: DDWLDL It'd be a miracle if we were to even scrape a draw.

I don't think it means that. I think it's saying that we'll appoint Steven Staunton as a coach (rather than as a replacement of Houllier). It would be a PR stunt though - "Let's get an old Villa favourite in as a coach; that'll quieten them down"

Down at the bottom of the article. And that will achieve what exactly?! Good player back in the day, but hasn't got a **** clue about the managerial/coaching side of things as his record shows.

Evening General, If you get to your new role and you find a manager there who has fallen out with most of his staff, slagged off the students, is really incompetent at his job, can't sort out basic problems in his department, talks more fondly about a college he used to work out rather than the one he works at now, and is generally underperforming... Would you sack him, or would you allow him to keep his job? Just hypothetically speaking, obviously. :winkold:

But you are aren't you? Or haven't you got that far yet? Wooosh!

Hi General, Apart from Mrs K, obviously - if you could have your way with any other woman in the world, who would it be? Could be anyone famous or non-famous (e.g. Carmen Electra, Kelly Brook, Megan Fox or even Claire from work).

Depends what she's decided? No problem if she thinks you're a good lad, but not so good if she's got you down as a complete word removed.

General, The following quote has appeared in several newspapers: Please can you find out who this can be attributed to? Will the club be making a formal statement? Also, the last sentence is the most baffling. Our current form (taken from he last six games) is currently the joint-third worse in the Premier League. Premier League Form Guide Surely changing things can't make anything any worse than what it currently is. The form we're on at the moment will get us relegated; especially given the fact that most teams below us in the Premier League are currently above us in the form table. Making a change now, however, might improve things just enough for us to stay up. It would certainly lift the negative vibe which is currently surrounding the club and hopefully get eveyone pulling in the same direction again.

Don't get too excited by this, but SkyBet have shortened Houllier's odds on lasting the season from 9/2 to 7/4. As it'll be a small market with hardly any volume going through it, any money that is placed will move the odds quite easily. We can only hope that someone who has lumped on knows something that we don't i.e. that he's getting sacked in the morning.

Hi General, Hopefully Randy, Paul and your good self will be handing Houllier his P45 tomorrow. Once you've done that, any chance you could take a leaf out of Tottenham Hotspur's book by bringing in a GOOD manager very quickly. In 2008, Spurs sacked their manager - Sergio Ramos - and replaced him the very next evening with Harry Redknapp (and look how that's turned out for them). They had to pay a £5M fee to Portsmouth for his services, but I'm sure it was much cheaper than the alternative (i.e. relegation). Anyway, I'm looking forward to reading about the good news in the morning papers tomorrow, Cheers.

Right, we've got two weeks before the Everton game. Sack Houllier tonight and then spend this forthcoming week bringing in someone else. Don't dick around like last time by bringing in headhunters to identify potential candidates followed by a lengthy, drawn out process of interviewing people. Identify who you want (someone decent this time) and go out and get him. Don't let fatty Faulkner drag his heels like the last time around. Oh, and before anyone says "it's not that easy!". Bollocks. Spurs tinned Ramos on the Saturday night and by the following evening, Redknapp was in place.

He's lost me. I'm now firmly in the Houllier Out camp.

Definitely this! I saw a bloke in some flip flops earlier. Yeah, okay - the sun is out, but the temperature is in single figures and it's still only March for **** sake. Plus you're in the middle of a grimy city; not the **** Côte d'Azur. People seem to wear them for as long as they possibly can each year, too. Last year I remember going to work one day and it was pissing down. I was walking along under my umbrella it was coming down that bad. What did I see? Some tool flapping along in the wet with his **** flip flops on! They're not comforable, they don't look good, and they show off one of (if not THE) most ugliest parts of your body. I should start walking around with my rusty sheriff star on display. That'd be equally as un-attractive.

I've been reading a lot recently about a training system based on 'Time under load'. You basically do two workouts a week and only seven exercises - split into workout 1) chest/back/shoulders; 2) legs, tricep and biceps. Exercises: chest press, lat pull, bent over row, leg press, shoulder press or military press, preacher curl, tricep dip. You do 7 reps for each exercise, only one set, but each rep should take 10 seconds (five up/five down). You should have the weight so that the seventh rep is where you fail. On the last rep, you should be trying to push it out like your life depends on it - you should keep pushing until you cant push, then hold the weight in a static position at the sticking point, and then lower it as slow as possible. Rest for 2/3 mins between each set. That's it. Should take you ten-fifteen mins each session. Sounds easy, **** isn't. It's very, very intense. For CV - jump on the bike and do interval training: warm up for 3mins, 30 seconds of cycling all out, 1 min 30 at a steady pace. Repeat step two and three until you've done between 4mins - 8 mins of all out cycling (so 8-16 x 30sec sprints). That's it. There's no need to spend over an hour in the gym to keep fit and/or build muscle.

Miranda is beyond awful. I'd like to kick Miranda Hart up her fat, unfunny arse for producing such shite.

Buy yourself a stubble trimmer. I'm not sure why anyone would clean shave rather than just keep at least a little bit of stubble. Stubble looks better and the chicks dig it. A clean shaven look is proper ghey.

Did you think of that? You're a sick young man.

Mate, can't you see that there's a real irony about this. This is a manager who once finished seventeenth, was given time, and then the very next season finished fourth.

Old habits die hard: I recently pissed in an old protein-shake tub when I couldn't be arsed to stumble down the hallway to the bathroom at 3AM in the morning. I'm 30 years old. 8)

First year: I was in halls, and my room was miles away (well metres away, but still) from the toilet, so I kept a plastic container under my bed and used to piss in that when I couldn't be arsed to walk to the toilet (usually when drunk). Second Year: I had a random sink in my room, but no toilet, so that used to get pissed in. Third Year: Mr room was right next to the bathroom, so used to piss there rather than in a makeshift en-suite (i.e. plastic container under my bed).