Ron Jeremy, City fan.

If you want to hear more of the odious Mark, then he can be heard on the Scrimmage podcast featuring Grant Holt. He comes on and makes some vacuous point about goalkeeper kits. Recognised his dulcet tones and immediately felt nauseous.

Nay.

Excited in an eager and wholesome way. Warnock, Lennon, Curbishley etc yadda, yadda. New start, no expectations, let''s unleash him and see what he can do.

[quote user="iron_stan"]the reality is we arent good enough to be promotedfar too inconsistent i get the feeling the players think they are better than they really are, which is why we need an experienced manager to give them a dose of reality [/quote] Spot on.

This is what our Chairman was quoted as saying back in June; “Both mine and David’s wives have been telling us for god’s sake, get over it,” added Bowkett. “My wife says it’s only football, although I explained to my wife she thoroughly doesn’t understand what’s going on here. However, she is right. “So David and I decided that’s it, the past is the past. We are joined at the hip to make this a very successful football club and we are determined to give it a real go next year to seek promotion.” I would imagine most Championship clubs are adopting this mantra, err...

[quote user="morty"]And as sure as night follows day, the usual suspects can''t wait to revel in a bit of bad news....[/quote] I take it that you''re not in the PR world...

Having to listen to Danny Mills on 5 Live. I can deal with Steve Claridge''s excitable octave changes mid conversation/interruption. I''m prepared to brace myself with Robbie Savage''s butchering of English grammar with ''those'' and ''them'' players, situations etc. But there is nothing appealing in respect of either content or delivery with Mills. Thank goodness he''s not connected with any footballing body or think tank...oh hang on...

“My wife says it’s only football, although I explained to my wife she thoroughly doesn’t understand what’s going on here. However, she is right." Hopefully that means that no one has lost their job due to the impotence/incompetence of the Board (sic) during the, ''Shall we, shan''t we'' Hughton sacking period. I actually admire the old definition of a crisis at 1p5wich; no more bottles of Chablis in the Boardroom. We seem unable to organise a piss up in the proverbial and Bowkett''s ''mea culpa'' seems to do little to dispel that perception.

Plenty of people giving out about Adams, but what about Malky; are we not good enough for him? Is this his ''Mark Hughes/Aston Villa moment''?

Two points; who is on the NCFC ''X factor'' panel and secondly, what''s the curved ball question to decide who gets the gig?

As he told anyone who would listen, he basically ran Man Utd in the latter stages of the Ferguson era. Would he be considered by the board with a DOF above him?

What an absolutely class act.

I won''t be clogging up my Sky box with MOTD recordings looking at middle aged men committing heinous fashion crimes. I won''t hear Spurs alumni all saying, "I know him and there''ll be no one working harder than Chris to turn this around." So good news all round.

Because McNally boxed himself in by talking about managerial changes when in the bottom 3. So we hover at fourth bottom until it''s too late to make a successful change with the last remaining games. Hughton bought players who weren''t suited for the PL or couldn''t be bothered. A lot of the players were brave keyboard warriors on Twitter and then went AWOL on the pitch. People saw this coming and waited for the inevitable after the West Ham game. We got fed up with the PL and being turned over by teams we could have beaten.

I presume that if the club is relegated there is going to be a root and branch review as to how this was allowed to happen and an acceptance of responsibility. That there will also be a fully ratified plan for immediate return to the premiership. And in line with wanting to be fully transparent, I would hope that as CEO, David McNally''s salary is sufficiently reduced to recognise the level of failure on his watch. Maybe one of the other directors could post the results on his Twitter account.

We''re not going down, we''re just going somewhere different.

I think that if you read my last post you will find that I am not stating a view that any one particular player is exceptional. I am only pointing out that there was a budget used by CH to buy players. I also struggle with your rather generalist statements about being a ''poor PL outfit'' and ''not being bankrolled'', as well as your continued use of the word ''deluded''. I fear you''re getting yourself a little confused.

Apologies my dear old thing; but it''s, ''None of our players IS exceptional!!...'' not are. Suggest you direct your query to the Board. After all the ''bottom six squad'' was augmented to the tune of circa £30m this season and presumably there was some sign off at senior level prior to purchase. Although be warned, McNally isn''t going down by himself and cites that it was the fans who wanted change - got to love that abrogation of responsibility.

Presumably as we come up to panto season the chanting will be, ''he''s behind you''.

I''m a numpty.

[quote user="Thirsty Lizard"]Give me Ed Balls anyday over George ''I haven''t got a clue'' Osborne. His slogan for the next election is going to be: ''Vote for me - I''ll give you a recession every year.''[/quote] Err, presumably you''re not going to be at Davos anytime soon.

Good job we were playing WBA in such imperious form today then. Yes, great news we''re safe but had it been a form team, then Tuesday might have been more urgent. 2 from 19 is probably Premiership sack stats. Need to ensure that today is not seen as papering over the cracks.

http://www.newsoftheword.org.uk/payne120412 Re above link, we''re dealing with a pretty formidable line up here people...

Andy Marshall was my JFK moment. The Cottage pub, Colehill Lane SW6, came on for an injured Bryan Gunn against Notts Forest, I think, 1994? Not offensive, just misguided and the more we make of it, the more parochial we look.

Spent a most relaxing time at the Compasses at Pattiswick this pm, where the chef is a ColU fan. We both agreed that this game was a distraction in our mutual loathing of Ipswich. The conversation with the South Afican barman on the cricket was not so bullish...