Have the club accepted relegation?

[PaulTheVillan]

Get ready to wave goodbye to top flight football for a very long time.

[Dave Javu]

Can I be the first to say "We are not going down"?

After all, there'll be about 2000 of you wrist-slitters queuing up to say "I told you so" if we do go down. However, I'll be the only smart-arse in town once we stay up. So Ner!

[Merv]

Surely if this is the party line he's having to communicate, what does it say about him as a professional and as a human. His stock is tumbling, so if he had even a small pair, surely now is the time to resign and keep some professional dignity. His position as manager is untenable under this regime.

Lambert's body language and demeanour in press conferences is beginning to remind me a lot of Alex McLeish this time last year. When, you'll recall, we started to look like needed one or two new players, and yet we signed no-one....

[flybo]

Get ready to wave goodbye to top flight football for a very long time.

Shame but that is spot on when we go down it will take years to get back. We may be the next shef wed 

[onje_villa]

The abysmal performances are one thing but this defeatist, giving-up is just

FUCKING PATHETIC!

And I'm sorry but the ONLY way Lerner will take note is if the attendances drop massively or there is a huge protest at the game. Not buying a sodding pie will do bugger all.

[Apyadg]

I'm not giving a penny to this club while these fuckers are here.

Wow, it really is like Doug is back.

Not having a go, just saying.

I didn't think things would get much more depressing than that last year or so under Doug/DOL.

We'll be playing Bradford in the league before too long.

[Chrisupnorth]

I genuinely cannot believe what I've just read. I genuinely cannot believe that the club is now apparently so spineless at all levels.

Reading this, it is impossible to envisage an immediate return should we be relegated - after all, why spend money chasing promotion in case it doesn't pay off? We are the new Leeds.

And that's what's so confusing.  Our current squad of youngsters will struggle even more in the more physical Championship, which means we will have to recruit some solid, experienced personnel to get us back up.  So, why not invest in those personnel now and give ourselves a fighting chance of staying in the top league?  Aboslutely bewildering!!!!

[eastie]

What a fucking disgrace.

Shambolic- really hurts seeing our club run down like this .

[Irish villain]

Lerner and Faulkner have got away so lightly.

I can't believe they have been allowed to do this with barely a whimper from the fans.

Thing is, IV, if you let the John Wayne act slip for just a second you might be accused of being a drama queen, and you wouldn't want that.

Well excuse me for caring.

[Jimbo]

I wonder if he's still got that tattoo on his leg?

He's had his leg amputated and replaced with a solid gold one. 

[midnite]

That is one of the sadiest interviews I've read. Really, really down about it. It also add fuel to the fire about what some people on here have said about lambert not getting sacked. Is it because they just can't afford to pay him and his staff off if they do?

Proud history... No future.

[Pete3206]

As I said before, against Newcastle on Tuesday and for every home game after that if need be the fans need to go to the game, scream their heads off for the lads but not spend a single penny on anything in the ground in the club shop.

 The only way Lerner will get the message is in the pocket. He isn't there to see or hear the issues, he isn't bothered about the club, but he is bothered about money. That is where he needs to get hit.

Firstly, I don't think this could ever work. How are you going to convince everyone to stop buying food/drink/shirts, etc.

Secondly, you risk putting people's job's in jeopardy. If no one buys a programme, why produce any programmes? If nobody buys any food or drink, then why provide the facility? Shut the lot down and save on electricity, transport and labour costs. 

[not3bad]

Well, what do you know, it wasn't a 5 year plan after all, it was a 7 year plan.

[Monty]

If we go down I actually don't know if Lambert would want to stay on. He's made mistakes so who knows how high his stock is, but I find it hard to believe he'd have come from Norwich if this was the plan - specifically plan not to strengthen the squad IF we're in trouble. It's the maddest, stupidest, most suicidal, most supine, pathetic, miserable abnegation of responsibility in the history of the club. Nothing can justify this, nothing, nothing at all.

Randy Lerner, that tattoo on your ankle is starting to look like a murderer wearing a trophy of his victim.

[pauliewalnuts]

It's the maddest, stupidest, most suicidal, most supine, pathetic, miserable abnegation of responsibility in the history of the club.

*nods respectfully*

*scribbles down in notebook*