It was more a situation of keeping both on, when really only 1 of them should have been kept.

I agree with this. I'm a "fan" put me money where me mouth is for a few years and couldn't give a fvck if he says I'm spoilt. Don't understand why everyone gets so precious about it when they spend half their waking hours battering him.

The disappointment for me is that there's the core of a very decent team but the rest are not near good enough and there's zero contingency for injury. With two or three decent additions this could have been a good season where we build a winning feeling, the better players want to stay and progress is being made. We might even attract a good loan which is harder to do when a team is struggling.

Instead they'll be getting the hump and their agents will be all over it.

Why is there a lot of talk about the New Stand not happening ?I know Simon Jorden commented on this but couldn't back his claims up .The extra costs is relatively small in premiership terms and planning issues have been overcome.So why would we not proceed ?

Agree

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

Sunderland are expected to move for Kim Hellberg who has been relatively successful in the Swedish league.

I've previously posted Will Still would be an exciting prospect. He was interviewed in the Times about a week ago.
He describes himself as an introvert "But put me inside a dressing room and I know how to make them feel right about themselves and what we need to do and that we are there to win."

And on taking over the reigns at Reims
"Before, we were very 5-4-1, defensive low block, a bit boring and I said, ‘Stuff it, let’s have a go, we are conceding a s***load of goals in any case.’ So we turned it on its head"

He is absolutely going places, he will become much more widely known in the near future [unfortunately he is a West Ham fan]

My concern presently is that Roy, like Pardew previously, is a pragmatic manager and may get "more slack" from the management like him in terms of change due to his stature at the club. That said Pardew had the FA cup run and more points in the bank than Roy, so his possible departure may come quicker.

“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ”
—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld