Todays game

[WHU]

just seen the recording, francis says fu(k all when proven wrong

w@nker

[palerider]

Alan Hansen highlighted captain Mark Noble's performance.

And the footage of Nolan in the tunnel after the game.

A new role for both I hope.

[WHU]

a lot of people don't like nolan but he has a blue peter badge in team spirit

can you justify £55k a week on the man for 5 years?

absolutely not... but he probably was a big factor in out promotion and susbequent retaining of prem status

next season i'd like to see him and the manager gone with a new broom in the both areas

[rednekst]

I watched the 'Football first on Sky' last nigh and as soon as I heard Francis voice I told my mate "here we go for a slagging off"

The clunt has ALWAYS slagged us off over the years.

[Woosnam]

Agree with WHU. Although Nolan played an important part in the last couple of seasons, climbing out of the championship and consolidating our Premiership status, he is now clearly past his best and should not be included in the team's future plans and calculations. And of course that also goes for Allardyce.

At the time of his appointment BFS was the man for the job, that job is now done (touch wood). More generally this obsession with mere survival speaks of a management with low ambitions. We should be looking for a future of the club which is not solely about avoiding relegation in the annual scrap in the bottom half of the table. Teams clubs with fewer resources than us manage to avoid this, so we there seems no good reason why we cannot emulate this.

I am getting a little tired of all the nail-biting, and high blood-pressure stress which is the usual Saturday afternoon scenario. Is it too much to ask for a little minor success now and then? I live in hope.

[WHU]

well put sir