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An excellent and very worthwhile contribution and a big ''bravo'' for what must have a lot of hard work. It''d make for an interesting discussion topic in an open forum type gathering.

Well that''s one way of looking at it, absolutely and entirely wrong of course but, well, far be it from me to point out your glaring omissions.

Far be it from me to get involved in a neighbour dispute but at the time of the meeting at St Andrews Hall there wasn''t a Board of Directors to speak of, poor old Mumbles had to be dragged back to form a quorum until the cavalry arrived. As for Worthington, like a few others on here I''d have to call it time, I don''t think I could stand another dose of "Know what I mean Roy" and "toe tee toe, two honest teams Roy", right at the moment this is giving me some awful Mick Wadsworth flashbacks. Now that really was a happy happy time!

Apologies if it''s been mentioned elsewhere but it seems the Board have hit the Nayul well and truly on the head, trouble is they hit the wrong bloody Nayul.

Quite how we''ve managed to find ourselves with a proven goal scorer at the very highest level sat warming the bench is, once again, a particularly pertinent point regarding the current mangement team. The obvious shouts of ''It was only Celtic'' must also be tempered by his performances in the Champions League. Last year under Cautious Chris why we even bothered buying a striker is yet another mystery but back in the Chump, it beggars belief. Grabban looks ok, yes he scored early on in the season but I''ve not seen much to write home about of late, quite why he''s keeping Hooper out is, well, just plain weird. Then me come onto Adrian Coote''s evil love child namely Lafferty, he looks a complete liability but as we saw can do well enough whilst playing for NI.

Fret not, I''m sure they scoured Europe for the right supplier.

Good call, I saw Daryl Sutch selling BMW''s in Bury a couple of years ago, he might be up for stab at it.

It''s a pertinent point, sacking him is one thing, what they chose to do next is a really worrying thought. Mavis the tea lady up at Colney must be busy finishing her CV off tonight in keen anticipation. The moment Roeder was unveiled my Mumbley, Gunn being reappointed, Hamilton, Grant, oh yes indeed I''m just brimming with confidence at the thought of another extensive pan-European search.

He should never have been put in this position in the first place, they''ve learnt nothing from the Gunn fiasco and here we are again. I''m really struggling to think of any other multi million pound business that''d give the most important job to someone with absolutely zero relevant experience. He won the FA Youth Cup, a worthy accomplishment of course but is this really a mandate to take over the reigns in one of the most competitive leagues of all? It may well be the case that he does the honourable thing, I''d also like to think the club can accommodate him back in the Academy as they''re entirely culpable for yet another hapless appointment.

"Aus aus aus" Having just arrived home having travelled in complete radio silence I''m amazed to read he hasn''t been potted yet. Out .

Malky was indeed the standout candidate, I think it''s been discussed before but I rather think that somebody on our Board might have been aware of the ''great vengeance and furious anger'' Vincent Tann was about to mete out. On one hand I think he''d have done well for us but just imagine him being in the job for just a few weeks and then Vincent Tann cluster fucks him? At the time dear old Colin wasn''t doing anything much more than Talk Sport and yet by the start of the season he had himself a Premiership job. Granted his appointment wouldn''t have been welcomed by most supporters (me included) but he has a reasonable enough track record for getting clubs out of the Championship. Again possible hearsay but I seem to recall he gets on with Delia and always speaks warmly of her mum when asked about us. Oh and I thought he was pretty good on the radio, not that it counts for much and of course some of us find ourselves averse to a commentator turned manager. Despite not having managed in the Championship Neil Lennon was the one I really thought we''d have ended up with, the CE''s time at Celtic, Gary Hooper, all a bit 2+2=5 but I was convinced he was going to get the job and never ever did I think they''d give the job to Adams. Not after the very sorry Brian Gunn debacle and the harm it caused but it just goes to show it pays to be surprised at nothing in football. At the time dearest Royston Keane esquire was available I think, he got a team promoted and of course would rate incredibly highly on the Nigel Pickover Scale of Marcus Evans adulation, fawning and quaffing pints of frothing IPA

But the Pickover isn''t, oh no make no mistake on that front please. His Nigelness really knew how to whip his readership into a frenzy of waving twenty pound notes and assaulting a plastic bin the likes of which you can only dream about. Keep working on the analogies and you to may, with a large amount of bowing and scraping, reach his heady heights of bile inducing fawnology

Oh baby, I''m feeling decidely Pickover. For the benefit of the OP lets just savour another morsel of fawning forelock tugging ''Here is a stylish, driven, hungry individual who attacks knowledge and business targets as a proven Premier League striker attacks the goal.'' It never fails to hit the spot.

Well quite, when do you invisage meeting with Marcus Evans at his offices?

Blimey I''m rating that piece as a 6/10 on the Nigel Pickover Scale of Owner Demagoguery, analogytastic indeed. The use of Leeds is irrelevant, their current plight (what a shame) can be traced quite easily back to Peter Ridsdale and the wretched debacle he created, despite Bates and now this mentalist Italian the structure of their club is entirely different. At the start of this season we were a debt free club with a very strong squad who backed the new manager like no manager has ever been backed before relative to the league we are in. Rightly there is and was a very high level of expectation and The Board for reasons known best to them elected to entrust this to a manager with zero experience of league management. A £1000 suit with a £35 pair of shoes, seeing as it''s analogy Friday. Many of us of which I am entirely and absolute am one, questioned what the hell they were doing? factor in another Cananry Conclave, scouring Europe, the right man being under their nose, Joe Royal, fannying about for weeks on end with the appointment, it did nothing but create an atmosphere of ''here we go again'' or in a more wordy sense, prescience. How many times have we been down this road before? the managerial market had several contenders with absolutely relevant experience for the job and it certainly couldn''t possibly be to do with money when you look at the millions of pounds of playing talent that''s sat warming the bench and players we spent large sums on who we haven''t even see play. The Board were happy to splash the cash but gave it to someone with zero experience, for those who remember just how close the club came to an entirely different outcome back in 2009 this doesn''t sit comfortably, moreover it made and still makes no sense. All joking aside I enjoy reading your contributions but on this occasion I must forcefully disagree. Oh and ''Buh'' fuck off and bore somebody else, your contributions are worth less than soiled Andrex, let''s keep the discussions meaningful wherever you might stand on this issue. Healthy debate is a valuable commodity.

No Buh, it''s because I can construct an argument infinitely better than you can both in this life and the next. If you wish to engage me in a duel you''ll need a whole lot more ammunition than that. Pathetic attempt.

But Purple, all you''ve actually said (again) is you don''t like my opinion, what you''ve failed to do is to say why. So you don''t think there was a Board Meeting to discuss Adams appointment? Even if there was a Board Meeting that they all agreed on the appointment? You don''t think the manner in which Lambert was appointed was different to every other appointment over the last twenty years? Then, oh yes then we come to the Chief Execs remuneration, I am you may be surprised to learn aware that he is an employee and entitled to the bonus and a handsome one at that. Great, it was because we were promoted and he''s been in the coal face ensuring the day to day governance of the club was up to scratch. He went down the M4 to undo the Gunn debacle, even better, he was and is entitled to every penny and as such is why I can''t quite see why people are choosing to point the finger at him now. So then, have a stab at answering the question and then perhaps we can move on to the suggested tacit ''dark hints''

Sorry but no, the Chief Executive''s role is one of implementing the Boards decisions, yes he is a member of the Board but any failings are a function of their collective decisions and indeed where the balance of power happens to lie. He for now is not the problem, the decision to appoint Adams will have been favoured by some and possibly opposed by others, once their decision is taken its down to the Chief Exec to implement. It''s why he took the bumper bonus upon promotion and the Chairman took nothing of the sort. The trouble is we don''t know who made the decision to appoint him, we can best guess based on previous track records and indeed the manner in which Lambert was appointed. This however is where it all starts to get feisty and unpleasant

Broadstairs covers most of the bases for me, I really can''t argue with any of it. Reading through other posts there is a near religious like fervour when it comes to criticising both the football management and indeed the clubs governance. For some it is akin to an act of heresy and the mere utterance of so much as a single word of objection is considered blasphemous and as such not a proper supporter. So to the Flat Earth Society the continued support of a bloke who did well in the Accademy is some sort of daily incantation "He will succeed, support the manager, support the team, he will succeed, support the manager, support the team" But if you put down the Green n'' Yellow Roasary and look objectively at the facts you can almost certainly only come to one conclusion, it is not a question of if he fails only when. Despite the occasional naysayer we have a squad of players that should be the envy of every other club in the league, he has been backed like no other manager before relative to the league we are in. The rights tools are at his disposal. There have been too many performances that suggest we will not mount a meaningful promotion challenge this season, yes there have been some good ones and so there should be but there have also been some awful ones. Wolves, last night, Charlton at home, Fulham and of course there are teams who are looking far more than the sum of their parts. The sum of their parts, think about this when you jump to the managements defence as we are anything but. Players that we haven''t seen in months and have forgotten about entirely, a multi million pound bunch of bench warmers, it''s all so painfully profligate for a club that reestablished itself the hard way from League 1. Tactically is where I really lose faith (excuse the pun) but I do not want to see any Norwich team hitting high balls to Kyle Lafferty playing out wide left, not ever. Honest to goodness I could have got up and left on Friday, I hate that sort of football, players out of position with tactics out of the Ladybird Book of Football. Awful, just awful. If you chose to look up and see what is before you there is a wealth of evidence to suggest the Earth isn''t flat its round, yes we were top of the league but we certainly aren''t now and are highly unlikely to be so again anytime soon. Let the scales fall from your eyes, the Board didn''t scour Europe, the obvious candidate wasn''t under their noses as none of this is from the mindset that saved the club, it drove down the M4 sacked Brian Gunn and brutally poached the right man for the job. More of the same please.

I''m inclined to agree with the original post, you only have to look back to all the fucking about with his appointment. Scouring Europe, he was under our noses all along, Joe Royal, the management team, it was all horribly familiar and bore no relation to how Lambert was appointed. Funny that.

Isn''t Canvey in Europe?

Hallelujah I''m not on my own. Hand on heart I thought Friday''s win was pretty gruelling viewing and I looked at the exit longingly at Half Time and now this.

In answer to the question no and by some margin given the wealth of resource that were made available. I am no more convinced he will succeed now as I was in August.

There was a Morrrisons salad bowl being consumed just behind me, a hearty and healthy pile of conjealed fat and beetroot. It was ever thus.

Seemingly there are a few very short memories, I can''t remember Lambert being negative. With the squad he had available back in the Prem he was limited in the way he could approach certain games but unless I''m much mistaken that was against teams that''d cost hundreds of millions to assemble. Why he chose to move to Villa was always something of a mystery to me as well, yes they get drawn into this whole ''Big Club'' lark but I also firmly believe he could have got himself a much bigger and better job than that with another year with us under his belt. A quick look at Roberto Martinez CV is the best point of reference here. Seemingly he won''t be at Villa much longer so hypothetically would I have him back? Yes absolutely but I doubt very much Ian Culverhouse would be coming with him so a back room team would be essential, you only have to look at the two nimrods Hughton chose to keep by his side. What he achieved for us is beyond reproach and beyond compare, he did and always will walk on water in this household.