Which muppet can we appoint next?

[LeverEnd]

Can't argue with that. I still don't like his eyebrow raising habit but I could live with it if the results are right!

[bobo the clown]

Can't argue with that. I still don't like his eyebrow raising habit but I could live with it if the results are right!

Is that a Savile based euphemism ???

[LeverEnd]

Can't argue with that. I still don't like his eyebrow raising habit but I could live with it if the results are right!

Is that a Savile based euphemism ???

You have a twisted mind for a children's entertainer!

He just looks permanently surprised in interviews.

[jonnycooper]

And he's a scouse git!

[bobo the clown]

And he's a scouse git!

... oh.

[jonnycooper]

And he's a scouse git!

... oh.

Adkins! Not you coco!

[bobo the clown]

And he's a scouse git!

... oh.

Adkins! Not you coco!

I realise. It's just that I've never gone "give me an 'A' ... etc., etc." for a Scouser. It quite turns my stomach tbh.

[Bruce Rioja]

Get this - Hibs have allowed Alan Stubbs to talk to Rotherham. Yes, fecking Rotherham!

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Get this - Hibs have allowed Alan Stubbs to talk to Rotherham. Yes, fecking Rotherham!

Not that enormously odd, if you're comparing the clubs. They're both second-tier outfits, one of them in the country the manager was born.

Hibs' average attendance this season was 9,339; the Scottish Championship average was 7,397, massively skewed by Rangers' 45,325 – Hibs had the second-largest attendance and six of the 10 teams averaged under 3,000.

By comparison, Rotherham's average was 10,025 – only just bigger than Hibs, true, but the smallest in the division: the average Champo attendance was 17,578. Which might make them the tiddlers in the pool, but it's unarguably a bigger, richer pool.

[Bruce Rioja]

Get this - Hibs have allowed Alan Stubbs to talk to Rotherham. Yes, fecking Rotherham!

Not that enormously odd, if you're comparing the clubs. They're both second-tier outfits, one of them in the country the manager was born.

Hibs' average attendance this season was 9,339; the Scottish Championship average was 7,397, massively skewed by Rangers' 45,325 – Hibs had the second-largest attendance and six of the 10 teams averaged under 3,000.

By comparison, Rotherham's average was 10,025 – only just bigger than Hibs, true, but the smallest in the division: the average Champo attendance was 17,578. Which might make them the tiddlers in the pool, but it's unarguably a bigger, richer pool.

I'm not comparing Rotherham with Hibs, I'm comparing them with us.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Get this - Hibs have allowed Alan Stubbs to talk to Rotherham. Yes, fecking Rotherham!

Not that enormously odd, if you're comparing the clubs. They're both second-tier outfits, one of them in the country the manager was born.

Hibs' average attendance this season was 9,339; the Scottish Championship average was 7,397, massively skewed by Rangers' 45,325 – Hibs had the second-largest attendance and six of the 10 teams averaged under 3,000.

By comparison, Rotherham's average was 10,025 – only just bigger than Hibs, true, but the smallest in the division: the average Champo attendance was 17,578. Which might make them the tiddlers in the pool, but it's unarguably a bigger, richer pool.

I'm not comparing Rotherham with Hibs, I'm comparing them with us.

Ah, in that case it's quite simple: They're in a higher division. As are Barnsley, and Burton, and Wigan. Watch this space.

[Bruce Rioja]

Get this - Hibs have allowed Alan Stubbs to talk to Rotherham. Yes, fecking Rotherham!

Not that enormously odd, if you're comparing the clubs. They're both second-tier outfits, one of them in the country the manager was born.

Hibs' average attendance this season was 9,339; the Scottish Championship average was 7,397, massively skewed by Rangers' 45,325 – Hibs had the second-largest attendance and six of the 10 teams averaged under 3,000.

By comparison, Rotherham's average was 10,025 – only just bigger than Hibs, true, but the smallest in the division: the average Champo attendance was 17,578. Which might make them the tiddlers in the pool, but it's unarguably a bigger, richer pool.

I'm not comparing Rotherham with Hibs, I'm comparing them with us.

Ah, in that case it's quite simple: They're in a higher division. As are Barnsley, and Burton, and Wigan. Watch this space.

It isn't "quite simple" as being in a higher division and well you know it.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

No, there's a bit more to it than that: they've got money and we're f*cked. They've got one owner pulling in one direction. And they're in a higher division. And besides, Stubbs has previously clearly displayed that he's after whatever's best for him, so Rotherham it is, because they're a better bet than us.

So yeah, perhaps not simple, but still quite easy.

[Prufrock]

I'd be staying there if I was him. All the goodwill in the world from their fans after winning the cub for the first time in about 120 years, surely certs to go up next year. Get them up, finish top half the year after and he's looking at a Derby equivalent.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

I'd be staying there if I was him. All the goodwill in the world from their fans after winning the cub for the first time in about 120 years, surely certs to go up next year. Get them up, finish top half the year after and he's looking at a Derby equivalent.

Alternatively: lose his best few players to Celtic or Rangers, struggle to overcome the bitter pill of not going up, fail to stop short-lived Eurocampaign overshadowing league games, get sacked before Christmas...

All of which is an exercise in theoretics and I don't really care. I suppose there's a chance he'll come here but I hope not. He's a long way behind Adkins, Cotterill, even Evans on my preference list.

[Prufrock]

My own views are freely available on how we should handle his interview . feck him. Let's get Jason McAteer.

[LeverEnd]

Rotherham are welcome to the wanker. Would be gutted if he came to us.

[Bruce Rioja]

No, there's a bit more to it than that: they've got money and we're f*cked. They've got one owner pulling in one direction. And they're in a higher division. And besides, Stubbs has previously clearly displayed that he's after whatever's best for him, so Rotherham it is, because they're a better bet than us.

So yeah, perhaps not simple, but still quite easy.

You're being adjectivally selective now.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

No, there's a bit more to it than that: they've got money and we're f*cked. They've got one owner pulling in one direction. And they're in a higher division. And besides, Stubbs has previously clearly displayed that he's after whatever's best for him, so Rotherham it is, because they're a better bet than us.

So yeah, perhaps not simple, but still quite easy.

You're being adjectivally selective now.

Heh! I just don't see what you're upset about, me old mucker. Don't want him anyway, but is it Stubbs or the fact that Rotherham are (by the ruthless meritocracy of the league structure) a better bet than us?

[Bruce Rioja]

No, there's a bit more to it than that: they've got money and we're f*cked. They've got one owner pulling in one direction. And they're in a higher division. And besides, Stubbs has previously clearly displayed that he's after whatever's best for him, so Rotherham it is, because they're a better bet than us.

So yeah, perhaps not simple, but still quite easy.

You're being adjectivally selective now.

Heh! I just don't see what you're upset about, me old mucker. Don't want him anyway, but is it Stubbs or the fact that Rotherham are (by the ruthless meritocracy of the league structure) a better bet than us?

Nooooo, I'm not upset, Chief, I don't want him either. I just think that it's a real indicator as to how much our stock has fallen by when, as you indicate, Rotherham are now a better bet than us.