Hang abouts! If we win our two games in hand on Liverpool we're back in the top four

[redgunamo]

Must we have 'minimum expectations' and 'ask serious questions', though? It all sounds terribly dramatic.

It is, after all, a game.

Certainly people prefer to see their team win the league. There's nothing wrong with that, imo.

[Burney]

Must we have 'minimum expectations' and 'ask serious questions', though? It all sounds terribly dramatic.

It is, after all, a game.

Well you say it's just a game, but it's also a business, isn't it? It employs a bunch of people whose incomes and even jobs may be threatened should it start to enter a period of serious decline. So we may think 'It's just a game', but the people who run the club may not.

[Burney]

Was there one of Micky Gynn - I liked Micky Gynn. Tiny wee fella. As opposed to Mickey Quinn - fat tosser

There was certainly one of Quinn. Gynn, I'm not sure about.

[Sir C]

Well you say it's just a game, but it's also a business, isn't it? It employs a bunch of people whose incomes and even jobs may be threatened should it start to enter a period of serious decline. So we may think 'It's just a game', but the people who run the club may not.

Well, quite. For the shareholders it is a serious matter and they are entitled to ask whatever questions they deem appropriate.

The rest of us are just watching a bunch of lads kick an inflated sphere about. It's nothing to get excited about.

I'm wearing my pragmatic head today.

[Ash]

No, I think our expectations are to have a manager who will leverage the financial power of the club, and any other means at his disposal, in order to try and win trophies.

The view of many, for very good reasons imo, is that Arsene Wenger is no longer such a manager.

Leverage.

Get off. Get off the fùcking pitch now WES. There's no excuse for that kind of behaviour.

[Burney]

Well, quite. For the shareholders it is a serious matter and they are entitled to ask whatever questions they deem appropriate.

The rest of us are just watching a bunch of lads kick an inflated sphere about. It's nothing to get excited about.

I'm wearing my pragmatic head today.

Oh, I agree. As you know, I'm even less likely than you to get myself excited about it. However, I just felt Monty's tone a tad misplaced and felt the need to pull him up on it.

Is it Decline and Fall again tonight? It's on at the same time as the Saxon violence thing, I think.

[Alberto Balsam Rodriguez]

I thought we were unmitigated gash?

Your mum is unmitigated gash

[Burney]

Leverage.

Get off. Get off the fùcking pitch now WES. There's no excuse for that kind of behaviour.

You know he pronounced it to rhyme with Dame Edna Everage as well.

[Burney]

Your mum is unmitigated gash

Played.

[Ash]

Very good. And Squadron certainly enjoyed a Christmas Carroll last night. Anyway, he had him trussed and bound like a turkey.

We think times are bad for us, but over at the Taxpayers' Bowl it's definitely a Bleak House.