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I particularly like how he was trying to compare 1960's and 1970's council housing estates to the private apartments (the like of which are selling for outrageous sums of money all over the centre of Manchester). WTF?! The problem is that these boneheads will try and drag anything up - even if it's complete - to try and support their argument.

lol! That's what I always tell the ginger one when I'm ignor..............er.......when I don't.....er......... see him!

Indeed Inspiral how about ........is a slapper, her .....erm.....:censored:y's very tight and when she's (hugging) Beckham, she thinks of Tommy Wright!

Can we afford Peter Taylor? He wont be cheap.

Ed - at least you've come up with some suggestions - but paul jewel - $$$$$ - not a chance that he'd come here anyway. micky adams - $$$ I doubt he'd come here and I'm not sure how many would want him john gregory - Are you on drugs? peter reid - See above mike newell - Good shout IF we can afford him and he's up for the challenge big joe - Going to Leicester apparently and I can't imagine that he'd want to risk sullying his status by risking a second term with us. david oleary - $$$$ and ask the villa fans what they thought of him and his 'buys' john aldridge - Hasn't managed in how long?

It's a big risk SIG but dropping Davies to the bench to allow Ricketts and Wolfy is IMO worth a shout. Speculate to accumulate so to speak. Let's face it, as a unit they can't do any worse than they are doing at the moment, and if it doesn't work with Rico and Wolfy then put CD back into the starting 11. The ideal situation of course would be our midfield actually managing to get closer to the oppo's goal than the half way line - ie picking up the 2nd ball and sliding Davies and Ricketts in. Hopefully Gary Mc might be able to reproduce some of those box to box runs we saw early last season tonight! Fingers crossed anyway!

Neither did Beckett or Porter. Or Killen for that matter but it didn't stop them getting goals. The simple fact is that if we are going to use a target man then he needs somebody to mop up the flicks and knock downs. Davies isn't doing that, Hughes (and probably Wolfy) would. If we insist on playing Davies up front then we need either a target man which Wolfy certainly isn't and I doubt Hughes is either, or we need the midfied supporting the attack and surging into the box/winning the 2nd ball to feed the strikers.

"The best man for the job"? PMSL. What a lot of ! Ok, so can we have some viable suggestions as to who the 'best man for the job' may be. Bearing in mind that there will be no money and a contract (or 2) to pay off. Or are you gonna dodge again, cos like all the rest, you haven't got a scoob of who we could attract in realistic terms who aint gonna cost us a fortune that don't have?

I know you're still online Senor cos we can see you lurking and I'm hoping that in the hour and three quarters since I first asked, that you may have been able to come up with a sensible option to replace Sheridan, whould he get the tin tack after 3 consecutive defeats. Go on, enthrall us with the masterplan.

I was gonna say d but I reckon c. £42.50 - you're taking the :censored:ing now mate! Edited cos I'm an illiterate retard.

Ok - early half of last season Wellinho and McDonaldinho. Come on mate - £45 but your breaking my frickin heart here!

Great. So we lose the next 3 and replace him with.....................................?

Get off, you great big pansy! It'll all be alright in the end. .......and Swansea away last season. I'll just take £50 upfront and save you the petrol money. You can pay it straight into my account, Nik.

Surely it should be Ricketts and Wolfy rather than Ricketts and Davies up top until our midfield start to get closer to the strikers than 25 yrds away? I like Davies and think he's done well (and he's the only one scoring at the minute) but if we're going to lump balls into the box for a target man (which isn't the best way to play Ricketts) then we need somebody who can mop up the flick ons and nod downs etc.

Amazing exile, those first 2 seasons look as though we may be heading for mirror image results if we carry on playing the way we are.

Not sure if that was in response to me RBL, but I agree that Rodders deserves a chance, but not and I mean ABSOLUTELY NOT at the expense of a fit Gregan, as was being implied in angus' post. Certainly not while Hazell is here and playing very well in partnership with Gregan.

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight. Whatever you say angus.

No, he's not 'convinced us he's got a plan b' yet, but like I say, he's barely out of his management pull-ups yet - he's got time to learn. He needs to start doing that though. If he's have been some seasoned manager who'd been there done it and got the t-shirt I'd have been more worried by his perceived naivety, but he's not, so we have to give him the benefit of the doubt. And, I'm disillusioned too at the moment - as BB80 puts it, to have seen that opportunity slip away last season and to be stumbling around in the dark at the moment, is hugely frustrating. However, we just have to keep going, keep supporting, keep believing, keeping the faith. What else is there to do? I know Royle's name gets trawled up on here whenever we talk about managers and their respective acheivements but as has been discussed a good number of times, his early managerial record was nothing to shout about.

Thing is though Prozac, there's a world of difference between the two. Ronnie was a football dinosaur, seemingly incapable of changing things around effectively - hence the 'no plan B' tag. Shez by comparison is barely out of managerial nappies. Yes he's having a hard time and he needs to start learning from his mistakes. However, fans are rightly giving him time to do this and giving him the benefit of the doubt, but I don't think that means he's immune from criticism - having posted myself of several occassions this season and last that I though Shez had got things wrong in certain situations.

I'll bow to your knowledge there DS because I only saw the Dale and Weds games. I certainly don't think we've used him in that role in a competitive game though. Worth a stab surely?

Shez seemed to manage alright for 2 seasons with knackered knees. He had a good engine alongside him though in the forms of Carss and Murray. I have said this loads of times but a Wigan supporting mate told me 2 years ago that Lidds best position was playing in the hole behind the strikers. We've never (as far as I can remember) used him in that role, and I reckon tomorrow night would be the perfect time to try it.

Completely random 5 as picked by my generic mp3 player Dream - John Lennon I Like You - Morrissey Means To An End - Joy Division Rollercoaster - EBTG Freedom Song - The La's

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Didn't help that the only people regularly singing were the usual crew to the right of the goal. The rest of the Chaddy End sat there like it was a morgue for much of the game. As OAFC0000 says - same old same old.

Gemma, I could have written that post myself almost word for word. We wont see the best of Ricketts while he's being utilised with his back to goal, especially whilst his strike partner can't decide whether he's a CF, LW or RW. Runing onto goal (as he did at Walsall) will always be where we see the best out of Ricketts. Wolfie should have been on with at least 20 mins to go, and you are spot on that it should have been Davies making way and not Ricketts.