Biggest Week of Our Lives???

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

if mears (and riley) is fit why does coyle shoehorn boyota in at right back? cos mears couldnt tackle a fish supper thats why.

Mears is (like Alonso) the type of full-back Coyle seems to have wanted: predominantly attacking, even at the risk of defensive liability. Maybe he's recognised that (particularly in 4-4-2) we need more solidity? If so, polite applause...

I haven't seen enough of Mears to make such a judgement. Have you?

He hasn't only ever played for us, Willy.

Although I'll admit the "is" is a bit too strong: "seems to be" would be better.

[lovethesmellofnapalm]

I thought Boyata did very well against (the) Villa

[Wandering Willy]

if mears (and riley) is fit why does coyle shoehorn boyota in at right back? cos mears couldnt tackle a fish supper thats why.

Mears is (like Alonso) the type of full-back Coyle seems to have wanted: predominantly attacking, even at the risk of defensive liability. Maybe he's recognised that (particularly in 4-4-2) we need more solidity? If so, polite applause...

I haven't seen enough of Mears to make such a judgement. Have you?

He hasn't only ever played for us, Willy.

No - I understand that DSB. I realise my question may have come across a bit facetious( ) but it was genuine.

I haven't seen much of him, maybe with Burnley on the telly but I don't remember him.

[Prufrock]

Unfortunately we are in a better position to go down than stay up because we have no saleable assets that we want to sell also am I wrong in thinking the parachute payments would service our debts? I'm beginning to think it may be in the club's best interests to go down and try and do a Newcastle. Clean slate. Come back, younger, stronger, hungrier with more fans because we've had a massively successful season behind us. Of course we could stay down...

That is backwards maths of the highest order. The income in the Prem dwarfs what it does in the Championship. If cost cutting was the be all and end all, you'd want to stay up, then make all the changes you would make for next year, thus having this imagined expenditure, but with Premiership income not Championship!

Any scenario that has us better off going down than staying up is wonky maths unless the players are on such ginormous wages that the 25%ish cut they'll have would be a bigger saving than the £40million we'd lose. Even we aren't that f*cked.