[theo_luddite]

I'd say mainly the few hangers-on from the Prima Donna League days that are still left and are still bitter and twisted are mostly responsible for that Snoots. That we didn't get promoted last season (or before) when we were bookies favourites for a bottom 3 place doesn't enter the tiny space between their ears. The bookies were only out by a season it would appear so far. There's almost always one team that dives down the division after missing out in the Top 6 the previous season and at the moment it's us.

Said before that Corberan wouldn't have survived the first season with fans in the stadium, we didn't exactly set off like a house on fire last season either but slightly better players in a system that wasn't "L666s light" with players unable to play like "L666s light" the previous season and a better defence did seem to get the game plan worked out most matches eventually. We totally didn't though when we played the previously useless Forest who had an interim manager in place. Look how that worked out, though their squad was always better than ours on paper, they just hadn't worked out how or why until that game.
Stoke still haven't found someone to get their highly paid misfits firing on all cylinders consistently and have finally parted with a few of them too.

"Funny ol' game Saint, funny ol' game" as one of the countries best ever goal scorers used to say. (Or was that only on Spitting Image?).

I was hoping to be joining the tale end of the long, long, queue of traffic entering Sowerby Bridge round about now, but numpties playing dodgems on the M6 have put paid to that. I'll have to wait until tomorrow now to join the hopefully not quite so long queues to pay homage to the lads on Saturday afternoon. Still, got a nice bottle of Seth Efrikan Merlot to keep my spirits up.

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Prospect of queue to join queue as Queen mourners told capacity reached - that would have been like trying to drive up the M6 this afternoon then. A queue south of Stoke to join another one north of Stoke and then another one from south of Knutsford (where else?) to the M62. Bound to be another one when you try to join the M60. All that to join the queue into Sowerby Bridge, which has the most un-coordinated set of traffic lights in the world and there's only a slack handfull of them in a few hundred yards.

[theo_luddite]

Latest odds show a few changes, Wagbo is cooling down a bit



Carrick seems to be increasing his chances

[Devongone]

Steven Schumacher? Really?

Ernst Schumacher would be a better bet.

Michael Carrick has a great knowledge of football and knows the game inside out, but I am not sure he is management material ....

Paul Warne does well at Rotherham if a yo-yo life is what you are looking for. Promotion would be a cert' next season, but not from the right division.

No one would argue with Duncan Ferguson, but there might be lots of arguments.

With these runners and riders Wagner looks your best chance of staying up. I'd be hoping for a few late entries. Liam Richardson?

[theo_luddite]

I'd rather have Ralph Schumaker to drive us up the league

[Devongone]

Small IS beautiful, ask King Charles III.

If people are prepared to queue for five miles to file past a coffin which may (or may not) actually contain the remains of our former monarch, how long would the queue have been to meet and briefly touch the hand of the living woman? Mourning and grief, I understand only too well, but there seems to be something slightly disturbing on view here. involving the need to be seen taking part. When my partner died, if thousands of people had wanted to share the experience, I think I'd have thought they were stealing him from me

Any road I struggle to queue ten minutes for a bus!

[Lord Snooty]

I'd probably queue to shake David Wagner's hand.

[Amelia Chaffinch]

I'd probably queue to shake David Wagner's hand.

You're still reeling from Jacko's handshake.

[jjamez]

I'd probably queue to shake David Wagner's hand.

You're still reeling from Jacko's handshake.

Probably slipped with the amount of hair wax he uses

[Devongone]

But what if the hand proves to be limp, clammy and unpleasantly damp?

At least you won a game even if you did sack the opposition manager. I've always thought in football if you want to defend better, you need to do better up front.

[theo_luddite]

The odds, they are a changing.



Though Warne and Schumacher have reportedly distanced themselves from us, what you read v what happens often aren't the same thing.