Murrr

It's just another smarmy English yes-man who's failed at his last three clubs, being assisted by a gibbering troglodyte. I give him a chance and hope he succeeds, like everyone we appoint, but this is a big missed opportunity if it goes ahead.

Looks like we're getting McClaren with Carver as his assistant. More of the same, then.

Reckon he felt the walls closing-in. Perhaps someone's caved and finally grassed on him. Get yer popcorn oot, this is getting interesting.

Episode 8 was amazing: one of my favourites from the whole show, and comfortably my favourite of the season thus far. "Winter is coming" doesn't seem appropriate anymore.

Yeah, I'm delighted with this. I absolutely loathe the Old Firm derby and all the stupid, hateful nonsense that surrounds it. There are undoubtedly "good" Rangers and Celtic fans, but their efforts will never completely transcend the bullshit and make that game entirely about sport and competition, so it's better that we just don't have it at all. Keep those teams as far apart as possible for as long as possible. The league's been infinitely better without Rangers and I can't wait for next season now. Get in the bin and fucking stay there.

https://vine.co/v/ehbtHBrUEUr Hahahahaha. Dick.

This is absolutely insane. There's no logic behind it whatsoever. Like, I don't feel like I even have to explain how stupid this whole thing is. Still, I'd rather take a shotgun blast to the face than see Carver get the gig, so...

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11678/9870513/newcastle-to-talk-with-patrick-vieira-over-managerial-vacancy ... eh?!

I disagree on Liverpool. I think they've performed very much to their level over the course of 38 Premier League games. They've been minging lately, yeah, but this is evened-out over the course of the season. I just don't think they're a very good football team. Rodgers has qualities I admire, and he's very idealistic, but he has purchased the wrong personnel on a regular basis. Even looking at their forward line, Lambert is a good player but clearly unsuited to what Rodgers expects, Balotelli has been predictably garbage, and that Origi they shunted-out on loan to Lille as a horrific footballer by all accounts (voted into Ligue 1's worst XI this season). Their back three is a revolving door of complete lunatics and their full-backs are average. They've also handled the Sterling situation very poorly, which I'm sure was a big factor in the Stoke shellacking. I think Sevilla would take them to the cleaners, and if they played each other 10 times, Sevilla would win at least 7 of those games. Rodgers has this nice idea of playing three/four busy little tricksters up-top with the idea that their movement and intelligence will create gaps, but Coutinho and Sterling, for all their positive qualities, are too inconsistent for this. That's the manager's fault and I'm surprised he hasn't done something about it.

I didn't even realise this game was on tonight. What a silly bunch of pricks, man. Motherwell have been murder all season: they have zero momentum and a deeply-ingrained losing mentality from a season of shellackings. Rangers, on the other hand, are in excellent form and just dumped Hibs on their arse. This should be a gimme for Rangers, but here they are, losing 3-0. Fucking glorious. They really are the gift that keeps on giving.

This FIFA ish went straight over my head today, somehow. Fucking love it though. I'd pay a lot of money to see Blatter and Warner pulled over hot coals.

You guys really need to see the away kit. Pretty special:-

It's staggering to think that Man United still have to add a significant number of players after last summer's mass recruitment. I'm still not convinced by them in any position, but they still finished fourth. Says a lot about the quality of the league this season. Lots of players that are clearly very good but have underperformed, and lots of middle-of-the-road plodders.

Not sure I'd call a guy who has twice asked fans for a fight (at games, in front of tens of thousands of people) a "top notch guy" like. The man's a lumbering fuckwit.

I'd be really sad if Klopp ended-up at English football's designated comedy club. Really, really sad. That said, if Rodgers gets binned, I'd like to see us throw a wad of cash at him. He's a total David Brent/Alan Partridge type, but his teams are entertaining, and his transfer market whackness wouldn't be an issue at Newcastle, where he'd have less control over player purchases. I'm at a point where I probably need a pro-active playing style to hold my interest: artless victory grinds just don't appeal anymore. We've been linked with Jimmy-Floyd this morning. That'd be fun, at least. It's gonna be Carver though. Fuck's sake, it's gonna be Carver.

I'd like to see Ancelotti come to Manchester City, just to give Chelsea some competition. The Premier League was a dull-as-piss one horse race this season and I don't think I can cope with Mourinho Mourinho-ing his way to another league title without any real opposition.

The last few scenes in yesterday's episode were today bangers though. Saw the Cersei/Sparrow thing coming, but that didn't make it any less satisfying. Get in the fucking bin you horrible bint. Bronn didn't die either. Get in. I feel like things are finally starting to pop-off and I'm looking forward to the next episode.

I don't know what the fuck I'm jabbering about. Carver's definitely getting the job. Shame we couldn't have wrapped this up in January though -- could've saved us a lot of bother.

*shrug* I try to trust fan opinion on things like this rather than numbers, but it could admittedly be a bit of sour grapes from Derby fans. They seem to speak very highly of him in other departments, just not entertainment value. Either way, it'd be a hugely "meh" appointment and I will be very disappointed if we don't look outside the British Isles for our next manager.

I've heard the exact opposite from a couple Derby fans. Dull, reactive football lacking in imagination and excitement. In fact, his style of play seems to be the main complaint lodged against him on every Derby site I've investigated lately (I go full Sherlock whenever we're linked with someone).

Apparently burned his bridges with Ashley when he turned us down, and Ash is definitely one to hold a grudge... but I wouldn't be at all surprised if we appointed him. It'd be a hugely underwhelming appointment. Not sure how much more sleep-inducing defensive football I can take.

You've just described Jack Colback. Anita is a quality wee player, the problem is that Carver and Pardew expect(ed) him to play like Tiote. He's too lightweight to play that destructive role: I see him as move of a playmaker, who can use his excellent athleticism to manipulate space and create opportunities. We'll never play him that way though. I really like him as a footballer and it's a shame he doesn't really function in our prehistoric system. Certainly a far better player than Colback (terrified of receiving the ball) and Tiote (irrational aggro-dealer).

I was obviously watching our game, but a United-supporting mate was updating me throughout. "No shots," "we can't be arsed," etc. I was twitchy as fuck, especially when the otherwise outstanding Anita fluffed a 4-on-1 breakaway and passed it straight to Adrian. Fortunately it didn't matter in the end. Jonas' story is almost fairytale stuff. Diagnosed with cancer, beats it, comes back to the club and is told by Pardew to "stay away," recovers, fights his way back into the team, produces the best performance of his black and white career on his final game. His ability has diminished and there have always been valid criticisms about him, but he's always seemed like an excellent guy, a great servant, and a tireless worker. I'm really delighted for him. Jonas, Anita and Janmaat effectively dragged us to victory yesterday, and Jonas will now go down as a club legend.

I am a total gibbering wreck of a human tonight. Just... Jonas, man. I love that human.

JONAS GUTIERREZ.