[theo_luddite]

Ok here's my answers.

I copied and pasted (and edited out a few words/names as appropriate) from either the Unexamined or The Telegraph.

a) - Chris Powell
b) - Mark Robins
c) - Lee Clark
d) - Chris Powell
e) - Lee Clark
f) - Mark Robins
g) - Chris Powell
h) - David Wagner
i) - David Wagner

I didn't look up anything that was said about Grayson as I can't stand the Leeds loving @!*&%^, even if he was in charge when we got promoted, but he's just as likely to have repeated any or all of his clichés about him as he did about anyone else. Champagne football for beer money prices Ternant was here when Deano took over and was first out of the door. I didn't check but he may have praised him to the hills too a few weeks before turfing him out.

I'd give you all a Rep point, if I knew how, for joining in (where's AmChaff when you need her?). Snoots you were pretty much spot on with that first line of your answer.

I'm convinced that one former member of his Card Shop staff, his "Author" for want of a better description, has written out somewhere around half-a-dozen clichéd one liners for Deano. He pulls three or four of these out of a hat each time he hires a new coach/manager and drops them into the Press Announcement as he feels fit. Maybe he should get someone from his old HR Dept., or a team of Head Hunters if he had one, to do the interviewing in future rather than him being like an ever-awed kid in a candy store (OK, Sweet Shop).