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If Bruce got the job I would have to change my name. I couldn't take the shame. -Bruce

@ken sorry to hear this. I'm always impressed by the detail and hard work in your blog posts despite your health issues. Sending you best wishes from ...

I think it's less do with age and more to do with context. Robson, McClaren and Karanka where all on their first job but were financially supported ...

It does seem pretty obvious that there was a critical breakdown and that the club hadn't planned on sacking Wilder. Seems akin to the Monk sacking tho...

The Catt's out of the bag, it seems.

There was some research done about "revert to the mean." Basically, if you sack a manager after a bad run and get a "new manager" bounce, was it going...

My impression is that teams in the UK are fairly evenly divided between 3 at the back and 4 at the back. As you say, yesterday 11 teams lined up with ...

Glad I missed that. By all accounts the team is shot right now. Individually we have a squad full of good championship players. But as a team and in t...

That's the thing isn't it. You can watch a player and make an opinion about how good he is. Admittedly 2 fans watching the same player will have 3 dif...

Thanks Bob. Great starter as usual. Interesting to see what we do. Assuming Crooks has a hernia I think he needs to get it operated on. Possibly he...

I missed the first 10 minutes which sounds like that was no bad thing to miss. As others have pointed out, in some ways the match was very similar to ...

This is one thing that might actually work for us. Assuming that Leo is in charge I think there'll be a real attempt by the fans to back him and the p...

The start of 7 games in October which can make or break our season. If we are seriously looking up the table then every single one of those games is a...

We're up there with WBA... What this shows is that either our players are poor, or our system is poor or both. If xg says that you have a 60% ch...

@jarkko I agree that Wilder seems to have no interest in developing younger players. Looking at the recent announcement for the new head of recruitm...

phew! That's a relief. I was worried there for a while. 👀

Thought it was interesting that they specifically said this is a financial "stability" package not a package that is aimed at levelling the playing fi...

Really good posts on here today. Fundamentally it comes down to diagnosis. Results and performances have been poor for a sustained period. The ques...

Barring a bust-up or Wilder walking, I think we need to commit to him for the rest of the season. We can't keep continually overhauling the squad and ...

For what it's worth, my 2p on the monarchy. I'm a republican. I don't believe our head of state should be based on who popped out of a special vagin...

That was depressing. Listening to the audio commentary but gave up. My deepest sympathies to anyone who travelled to see that match. This has to be ...

That was a bit of a back to basics performance. It could have gone horribly wrong if Sunderland hadn't missed an easy chance in the first 10 minutes. ...

Bulkhaul won't pull the plug while Gibson is its owner for the reasons you mention. In terms of law, Bulkhaul is an entity in its own right. If Bulkha...

The club's accounts are on Companies House so things are somewhat transparent. There are two separate but related issues. 1) Is the club making a lo...

Well this is now Wilder's window of opportunity to prove his mettle as a manager. The club has embarked on a massive overhaul of the squad and got abo...

Same here. It feels like the season hasn't really started and I don't have a sense of how it will go. Objectively, when you change this much of a team...

Thanks to Andy for another excellent opener. It will be interesting to see how we set up for this. Against Swansea we set up more defensively and play...

As we're heading towards the midnight hour, we seem to be repeating last summer with a twin-track approach of experienced/loan players for the manager...

That's a relief. It started as two poor sides with no self-confidence but the early goal settled us. The second goal was a classic Wilderball goal and...

I don't know if it's true but I always thought it was after the dog in Tom and Jerry cartoons. Could just be because I grew up watching both.