orangecity23

Next time you do a detailed ft post about the youth team or exciting cheap wingers from Scandinavian teams, make sure to drop in an occasional trademark Ric Flair phrase every now and again (complete Norris, beans and little sausages etc) as a watermark, so when it gets printed verbatim in the Mercury we'll know they are copy + pasting.

With successful 5 at the back systems, if they are going to be attacking it normally involves using wingers as wing backs, instead of regular full backs. For example, in the great escape, Pearson tried it Vs Hull with no effect using De Laet (who was pretty attacking for a full back) and konchesky. To get it to work required a switch to Albrighton and Schlupp as wing backs. Looking at our squad, I guess that means we would have to go for solid wingers with some pace - so maybe Bob (who's played the role before) or Macateer.

Red hot Chilean? Anthony Kiedis and Flea are both 62, about the right age for a Rudkin 3 year contract.

Wolves wouldn't have lost that if Steve Cooper was their manager. His trademark "no plan" tactical plan would have absolutely definitely delivered a result, because he would have pragmatically let Liverpool have 20+ shots on target, lulling them into a false sense of security before trying to score a goal for 5 minutes at the end after making 1 like for like attacking substitution.

Only really Kante (complete with a release clause that meant we missed out on millions, classic bit of crap Rudkin negotiation), Fuchs, Huth, Okazaki were signed under Rudkin. Mahrez, Kasper, Vardy, Morgan, Simpson, Albrighton, Drinkwater, Ulloa were all signed before Rudkin ascended the greasy pole to the top of the mountain.

Good job we didn't get anyone in, wouldn't want to risk that PSR headroom. We could get a points deduction, and end up like Everton, or Forest. Better play it safe and do nothing instead. Fast forward 12 months: Somehow, half our TV revenue has disappeared, and despite selling anyone worth anything in the summer, we have failed PSR. Oh well, points deduction, might still make the playoffs.

Fair enough. Man United Vs Leicester away, is in the league, we conceeded 3, scored zero. So by your own definition, a hammering. It's all academic really, but it winds me up when people claim we were "miles better" under Cooper, because it doesn't ring true at all. As I've said previously, it's 7 points Vs 10, 2 wins apiece, identical results against a lot of opponents. But people keep acting as if he would have got results Vs teams like Fulham or Villa, ignoring the facts Cooper already played them and failed. Theres basically feck all difference between them.

I'm assuming you are declaring a hammering as losing by 3 goals, so counting the games against Newcastle, Everton, Wolves and Brentford (not Ruud)? In that case Cooper has defeats by 3 goals to Man United in the league, and again in the cup (shipped 5 with ol Danny Ward in net, who was in for the Wolves and conceding 3 out the 4 goals Vs Newcastle). Shipped 4 goals Vs Arsenal and 3 Vs Forest at home as well.

3 more points from the same number of games (unless Ruud somehow beats arsenal). Literally the only difference between them is a win against Brussel Martins Southampton , who are on course to be the worst Premier League team of all time.

When it comes to cash we are very needy these days, as we are about to get relegated for a second time in 3 years due to a lack of it preventing the reinforcement of a shit defence.

It's very weird, that in a climate rife with psr and potential points deductions, that a potential multi million pound fee can be just left dangling for several years. The guy already has a league cup winners medal and has played in the champions league. But we are in a situation where if we go a million over allowed loses we get hammered by the prem, but they seem to have no appetite to make their big 6 chums actually get around to paying for a player they have just snatched. That money could have enabled us to get a promising winger or striker in January, if it was enough to offset the first year amortization of a four year deal, for example.

The run tracking thing gets even more bizarre, as recently he's added the occasional lung bursting track back, but only when the centre backs (normally Vestergaard) have completely been left for dead. So he'll ignore normal work, but then go full throttle every now and again, before reverting back to idle mode. Then you get the occasional moments (normally when we are losing and getting desperate), when he suddenly decides "**** it" and dribbles past 6 players with no-one able to stop him - but he'll never do that at 0-0.

Given the exhaustive search for a manager in the summer ended up with Cooper, and the location of where Seagrave is and where Cooper is based, I think our method of searching for managers literally just involves looking out the window for a bit. If that doesn't turn anyone up, just leave the door unlocked and see if anyone wanders in off the street.

Scored two goals and a disallowed one for us, and the distance of all 3 from the goalline combined is about 10 yards. Nice poaching, Bob.

Alright, which chump reset Soumare to factory default settings? It took 3 years to get him onto a working configuration settings.

if Ayew starts running at his top speed, he might make it to the touchline for the sub by half time.

I was expecting us to be patronised a lot on ITV in the midst of their ususal Man Utd bumfest, but I didn't realise Villa were going to get insulted too. Roy Keane thinking its a massive step down to leave midtable Unitd to go to a Champions League club

The audacity of a Man United fan comparing us to Arsenal as an insult because they haven't won the prem in years, whilst completely lacking the self awareness to realise we've won the Prem more recently than YANITED.

Get the authentic KP toilet experience at home, by finding the largest dustbin in your house, then placing it directly in the middle of your bathroom doorway. Then move a bookshelf so half of it sticks out over the door.

Remarkable stuff, finding the one possible way to both weaken our own defence and strengthen Wolves, in a sea of endless possibilities including the possibility of doing nothing at all. That's the kind of leadership that will lead to a second successive relegation achieved whilst trying to avoid psr points deductions, because, err, they might get you relegated.

Loum Tchaouna, what a wonderful phrase Loum Tchaouna, never seen him play But we've got Jon Rudkin, and it's transfer deadline day.... We've got a signing-free, philosophy No chance of Tchaouna

The long awaited return of "Tonights going to be a good time" blaring out the pa system following a 0-5 defeat to Arsenal, while the stadium announcer reminds us for the 15th time not to forget to sell your season ticket on the resale platform for the Man United game.

I thought staying up wasn't a terrible idea, given it was starting at 11PM, was a Saturday night and only a 4 match card. At 3:30AM when it finished, was when I realised I'd made a big mistake At least it wasn't a Logan Paul win, with that would have been a real slap in the face, especially given the flat end of the Women's rumble. Whoever does the newer wrestler's theme music needs booting out, so many entrances just greeted by silence by the crowd as it takes them 20 seconds to work out who it is because the music is so crap, generic and unrecognisable.

The upstairs expansion to the Super Game Shack is a big improvement, makes the upper floors seem alive again.

Did hire two consecutive heads of recruitment who managed to help Sunderland on their way from a prem team into a League One team though...