HanoiVillan

It's a good point that.

He's also won more games than Sherwood, both in absolute terms and as a percentage, and has lost fewer games, both in absolute terms and as a percentage. Really, we can go round and round on this all day.

Why would I 'not like it' that he saved us last year? Yes, the team played for him in the semi-final. Unfortunately, they didn't turn up in the final - which, I'm sorry, matters more at the end of the day - or at all for him this season. The last sentence is fair, that's your opinion.

What a bizarre post.

Only need to be less shite than three others

Nobody remembers the semi-finals. We're not going to go down in posterity just because we played well in the semi-final. As for 'where are we now in the table', we're 20th and adrift, exactly where Sherwood left us.

flack x20. Whether Garde is good enough is open to debate. But this stuff about Sherwood being a better pick is nonsense. Have people forgotten where we were in the table? 'He'd inspire the players!' Yeah, just like he did in the fricking FA Cup Final.

Well, his tweet still seems to be leading the sports news on the BBC. What a prat.

Even if you restrict your view on a 'shafting' to any form of loss (which is ridiculous IMO, and does complete damage to the meaning of the word 'shafted', but let's grant it for the sake of argument), you will see from my list of results that we've only lost 4 out of 9 games this calendar year, so we still aren't 'shafted every week', not even close.

Recall Steer from loan! Apparently he's had a decent season.

This is just flatly untrue. We got shafted this week, which is not the same thing at all. Our results this calendar year have been 1-3, 1-1, 1-0, 2-0, 0-0, 0-4, 0-2, 2-0 and 0-6. Out of nine games we were 'shafted' twice, which while clearly twice too many, is definitely not 'every week'. I'm not against greater youth involvement. Given how lazy Richards was yesterday, and the fact that Garde seems to like Lyden, I have already suggested in his thread that he should start the next game at RB. There are several youth players who could be getting a few minutes from the bench, especially strikers given how comically threadbare we are up front. But we can't play the whole U21 team, unless we want to repeat the experience of Sunday a dozen more times before the end of the season.

I'm prepared to bet any amount of money you can name that we won't enter League 2 in the next ten years (I say ten years because at some point I want to collect my winnings). Literally, name a price.

I don't actually have an issue with him admitting Liverpool are better - we all know they are - but I still can't get over admitting that both he and the team weren't actually trying yesterday. Effort doesn't always beat quality, but if you don't have quality AND you don't have effort you get thumped.

You got a like for the edit!

Yes, I suppose that's what I mean.

That's tough, sorry to hear it.

Certainly can't argue with that.

No, not all of them will. Your position is essentially that every other club will always manage its financial affairs in exactly the most optimum fashion, never wasting or blowing money, and you appear to be holding this belief in the face of vast amounts of contrary evidence. The financial gap between the Championship and the Premier League is bigger than ever before this season, yet we're still - in mid-February - where one of last season's promoted teams is in the top half, and the other two could easily stay up, and one of last year's relegated teams is stuck in the bottom half of the Championship. There will not be a perfect revolving door.

Don't worry, it's still drivel.

How did Coloccini lose that race against Costa when he had a five yard head start? Thinking about Newcastle's defending is the only thing that cheers me up from that miserable weekend.

I don't need your help, but thanks anyway!

If he doesn't still get to appoint the board of directors and the chairman, then he doesn't get to keep control of the direction of travel. I can't see the benefit for him.

Out of likes, but yes, this.

'such a prick to fans' He posted a picture. It was nothing more than a visual depiction of what the fans were calling him. Many of the same fans had been wishing death on him. You know the kid in school who just loves pushing others around, and calling them names, but then one day, for the first time, another kid fights back, and then the first kid, the bully, suddenly starts crying and then running and hiding behind the teacher's skirt? That's not a good look. EDIT: And please let me give a very hearty 'LOL' at the idea that Kobe Bryant or Leo Messi are somehow better role models.

I don't think he fits the 'corporate profile' to be honest Dem . . . if I had to bet, it'll be somebody totally underwhelming like Ronny Deila.