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Roeder by a country mile, hated the way he treated the fans, the comment about 'Must have missed your tenure as England manager' was a step too far, then bashing Neil Adams too -- no repect for him at all. Sad to say Gunny - legend of a player, I was okay with him taking over untli the end of the season because I thought we were going down anyway and it would give the club extra time to source a manager. They appointed him and I know he took it in the belief he could do well but he was not capable. Only good thing out of this was bringing in Agent Lambert. For #3 I would go for Megson.

I've watched the highlights a number of times, if we had had VAR then Barnes goal would have stood. Really close and I can see why the lino flagged it offside. At the exact moment the ball is kicked Barnes is around 1 yd behind the ball and behind our guy and the theirs, a split second later and he outpaced his two defenders. From what I see he never once gets in front of the ball but as I said it so close I can see why he was flagged. It was also interesting to see only one Cardiff player appealed for it too.

Agree with nearly all of this, great report. I did wonder last year about playing McClean as a central defender but we have been on a good run since he dropped in there. Maybe he does better at starting attacks off from the back, he certainly does very well at playing long diagonal passes to the forwards to split things up sometimes.

Farke took us up twice as Champions, we came straight back down, having a great Champs team is meaningless in the Premier league. I like us being a big champs team, a team where I feel nearly every match we play we have a great chance of winning, but there is also the real possibility of a loss, easy wins each week would be meaningless. Even in the seasons we went up as champs we had the odd loss here and there. I started to dread the Prem matches - yes there were some big wins like against ManU and ManC but then you play Manu/ManC/Liverpool/Arsenal/Spurs/Chelsea as a run of six matches and get hammered by 4-5 goals in half of them and perhaps score 1-2 goals over the set of six the enjoyment evaporates. I remember there was a stat a few years ago, we are the only team to be promoted as Champs, runner up, and thro the play-offs and also relegated as 18, 19 and 20.

Great reporting Ricardo, I think the team looks 'balanced' for want of a better term, there are no really outstanding players (unlike say Hucks, Emi in the past) but those we have are combining really well to bring the best out of each other. Really liking the 'keep going to the end' attitude as well. It reminds me alot of the first few years under Lambert.

I thought it was a godo interview, thanks for doing it all three of you. I think we are very very luckly that these two guys are interviewing so many people esp current club staff and also previous players. One of the interviews I really really thought was great was the John Ruddy one, there was a line in there where he said that he felt compared to other keepers such as Greeno that he was unappreciated. I think it's good for uis to hear things like that and remember that players are people too and can have their own insecurities.

I've watched the Barnes disallowed goal a few times, I really can not see how that was disallowed unless the linesman has missed the player who is standing in the goal itself because the post is between him and the player.

From what I see Hughsy didn't seem to be winding the crowd up, most of the boo's I heard where from when someone came to grab him and lead him away. I thought the boo's were at that - i.e. Hughes being taken away. Fair play to the guy, after a loss like that to even approach the fans and try to talk when he could have run down the tunnel shows he cares.

Thanks Ricardo, thats pretty much how I saw it but reading other posts made me wonder if I had watched a different game. This is the first game this season I gave up watching 10 mins before the end and went to bed (just before midnight here). I just couldn't see any point in watching the last 10 mins when the only thing that was likely to happen was a 4th or 5th goal. Love your reviews, they make so much sense. The loss of Mclean, Hanley and Gibson has done for us in this end of season run in.

Good for you, I was 45 at the time and ended up having an artificial ligament sew in as they had to chop back the ends of the tendon as they apparently looked like the ends of mops. Between doing the ankle and the operation was 3 days without pain-killers as it didn't hurt too much. Made a wonderful 'pop' when it went and I fell over.

Did one of mine around 6 years ago, was in a leg brace for 6 months and then another 3 months rehab after that. Very depressing time indeed, ended my 'Sunday' football for good as Drs said if I continued I'd do the other one within a year or two and I couldn't face 9 more months of recovery.

Fantastic summary, with the time zones there was no chance I could watch this but your summaries are a brilliant substitute.

I think we are quite lucky here, instead of arguing who can take a position because the incumbent is poor we're arguing over which keeper is better for the position we are in as both have areas they are better than the other in. For me for the position we are in at the moment I would choose Krul because of his leadership qualities, if I was the manager I would emphasis this to Angus as the difference so he can work on it to be our #1 next year.

Sorry for your loss, your reports are the first thing I look after a match. I hope your new project turns out well.

Not signing suitable cover when Gunny broke his leg. The signing of players like RvW, Naismith, Hooper. WRT to Roeder, I think the brain tumour altered his personality, others have spoken well of him. Not signing Ashton at the start of the season. WRT to Chase, at the time I was very anti-Chase, however now I have mellowed and if it wasn't for him looking at the long-term future we wouldn't have what we have now. You have to remember we made a European run under him too. On the fence about sacking Farke, I am 100% sure we would have been relegated under him but wow playing Champs under him was exciting. Building the hotel, I know we can't have a fully enclosed ground because of access but the hotel isn't right. Blue shorts, we had a season where we had blue shorts for one of the strips and then a few matches in there was a vote of going back to green which was almost unanimous. Not telling Webber to make it up with the pinkun. Doens't matter if you like him or not we've had alternative seasons of good and not being good enough under Webber - certainly better than the seasons before.