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Charming.

Oh my goodness, you never know who you're talking to, and I didn't realise I was talking to someone who has a 1992 cut-off when it comes to football. We have been in the top flight before, football did exist before 1992, it wasn't some sort of rule change that stopped us picking up the ball and...

All I need to know is that I don't want to go down the "Southampton route" if that means you have to endure 10 months of Mark Hughes. Eek.

I don't have access to those stats, but I'd guess they are similar across the main Leagues in Europe, although I would perhaps doubt the Budeslisga, as purely from a casual viewers perspective,.that League always looks a little more open, competitive and more of a throwback than some of the others.

Past experience is the only basis we have for predicting the future, and the past experiences tell me that we have rarely seen managers come our way that are better than the one we have now. My "stupid" (don't appreciate that) question merely demonstrates that fact, as does everyone's inability...

Another stat for you is that if Liverpool win their last two games this season, that will take them to 30 wins, which is the most (joint with 1978-79 season) wins they've ever had in a single season, and Man City will almost certainly pip them! More than in the dominant years of the 70/80's...

Yeah, that probably has been a factor, as has the demise of tackling. A team knocks the ball around now, and generally you get it back if you intercept, but watch a game from 15 years a go and tackles are flying in, so the ball is bouncing around more. But the over-riding difference is the...

If you want stats, how about this one: Games where one team has 70% or more possession in a game. Last 2 seasons we've seen 60+ games each season dominated to that degree. That's 1 game in 6. In the first 3 years of OPTA stats (about 15 years ago) there were just 3 games, 1 per season rather...

Bottom 5 in the EPL in terms of record transfer fees paid, and wages. We do not compete for the same players that teams in mid-table do. Whatever we want to believe, we have assembled a bottom third squad. With Gross and Izquierdo picking up injuries for long periods of this season, that has...

Oh come on, you are now just re-writing history to suit your agenda. We played some fantastic stuff coming up from The Championship.

The Man Utd reference explains that just because we can attract a better calibre of manager, doesn't mean we get one. I think we have much further to fall with a bad appointment than we have the ability to rise with a better appointment, and the odds are that we will appoint worse. It's been a...

Of course you are entitled to an opinion, I don't think I've been saying otherwise. But in truth many of the phrases you've picked don't apply to me, so I think it's more general comments you make. Reality is though, that finding a better replacement is not easy, very difficult in fact. Not...

Name 3 better managers we've EVER had? I'll wait ..... By "thinking like a League One side" I take it you mean, ah but we can attract much better managers these days. Hmm, ask Man Utd how that's been going lately. And they can attract the very best, but they've had none since Fergie that I'd...

Trouble is that they are NOT "big money signings" in terms of the division we are in. If people are grumpy that we are on the edge of relegation (the right side of it mind, and have been ALL season) then they are looking at being somewhere like where West Ham are I presume. To get there they...

Can I also remind people that back in August 2017 the mood on here was of horror that we were going into the season with Murray still as our main man. We hadn't secured some big money striker, and most people on here thought that had effectively doomed us. The more optimistic seemed to think we...

Because managers as good as him do not come around very often. Arguably the best manager we've ever had, so it could be a VERY long time before we find ourselves with a better one. We will look back on his time as a truly great era in our history, and him as the catalyst, the man that...