Welcome Roberto Di Matteo and Steve Clarke

[Chico Hamilton III]

A variation on the "rotten from top to bottom" message from Graham Taylor. The first step to recovery is acceptance....

 

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I've mentioned before but the benchmark has to be Newcastle. Despite being run by a clown, they've always been an ambitious club. I can't see them looking to take two seasons to get promoted and neither should we. Hopefully they'll be eating our dust as they look up the table.

[Clampy]

I've mentioned before but the benchmark has to be Newcastle. Despite being run by a clown, they've always been an ambitious club. I can't see them looking to take two seasons to get promoted and neither should we. Hopefully they'll be eating our dust as they look up the table.

I wouldn't use Newcastle as a benchmark at all. You call them ambitious but they've been relegated twice in the last few years.

[Dave]

I've mentioned before but the benchmark has to be Newcastle. Despite being run by a clown, they've always been an ambitious club. I can't see them looking to take two seasons to get promoted and neither should we. Hopefully they'll be eating our dust as they look up the table.

I wouldn't use Newcastle as a benchmark at all. You call them ambitious but they've been relegated twice in the last few years.

You can be both ambitious and shit at the same time.

[Diablo]

Hate to say it but I'll be really surprised if Newcastle don't walk the Championship.

[Toronto Villa]

at the end of the short video Wyness makes it very clear that promotion at the first attempt is the priority. RDM is stating facts and maybe tempering expectation that this is process, but the expectations have been set for him by the board.

[four fornicholl]

Hate to say it but I'll be really surprised if Newcastle don't walk the Championship.

Hate to say it but I would be more surprised if Villa didnt walk the championship.

[ChicagoLion]

Hate to say it but I'll be really surprised if Newcastle don't walk the Championship.

Hate to say it but I would be more surprised if Villa didnt walk the championship.

until that squad is ripped asunder I would expect nothing.

[cdbearsfan]

Agbonlahor will almost certainly walk the Championship. It's less effort than running.

[four fornicholl]

Hate to say it but I'll be really surprised if Newcastle don't walk the Championship.

Hate to say it but I would be more surprised if Villa didnt walk the championship.

until that squad is ripped asunder I would expect nothing.

Newcastle have a settled,strong squad then?

[ChicagoLion]

Hate to say it but I'll be really surprised if Newcastle don't walk the Championship.

Hate to say it but I would be more surprised if Villa didnt walk the championship.

until that squad is ripped asunder I would expect nothing.

Newcastle have a settled,strong squad then?

its not about Newcastle it is about the least motivated and least deserving players that I have ever seen wearing the shirt and I want them gone.

[brian green]

You are preaching to the converted Chicago.  We all want the malingerers moved on. What has been repeated by many posters is that the days of knee jerk, emotional decision making has to be put behind us forever. What happens to the players has to be what is in the best interests of the club.  No more bomb squaddery.  All the players have a value and that must be exploited.  If we have to come to games with a sick bag and watch one of the trouble makers play because the manager and his staff consider it to be sound business, sobeit.

[Ron Manager]

As I have said a hundred times there is absolutely no chance of getting rid of Agbonlahor due to his wages of reputedly 54,000 per week.We might get Richards out though with a bit of luck The others have their uses.

[ldavfc4eva]

I know we all want the usual suspects to leave, but there are decent players in there somewhere, some positive coaching and who knows.

There are some I would love to just go, like Gabby and Lescott, as I genuinely don't think they are any good, but Richards for instance could be a very good player at right back next season - if he has some decent coaching and applies himself.

What I hope RDM and Clarke will instill in all the players is a positive, hard working attitude and to also come up with a solid bunch of tactics and formations so the players are settled in where they will play and what is expected of them when they do.

For too long the squad has lacked a manager who leads from the front and sorts shit out, I think Sgeerwood was quoted something along the lines of "I don't go in for all that tactics stuff" or similar, hopefully with the new management team things will be much different.

[cheltenhamlion]

As I have said a hundred times there is absolutely no chance of getting rid of Agbonlahor due to his wages of reputedly 54,000 per week.We might get Richards out though with a bit of luck The others have their uses.

And as I have said before, every player in the squad has a wage reduction written into their contract in the event of relegation of between 30-50%, so they aren't pulling down the huge wages they might have been last year.