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Dean Saunders sacked by Wolves whilst Kenny Jackett resigns at Millwall. Coincidence?


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Nigel Clough now the longest serving manager in the Championship


In other news, we've agreed a deal for Burnley 'keeper Lee Grant to come home. Seems to be highly-rated there (won Player Of The Year ahead of Austin) but he was poor when we first had him. He has my full support nevertheless

Tickets for the play off final are slightly cheaper than last year, which is quite a nice surprise. Booking on Thursday after I work out how many people I'm buying tickets for.

Best news in a long time, people may say The board were fickle and just pulled the finger but they don't know what Saunders was like. Awful manager who couldn't walk the walk or even talk the talk

I'm very envious of you. Do enjoy!

You never heard Andy Thorn, clearly. YouTube him at your leisure.

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Tickets for the play off final are slightly cheaper than last year, which is quite a nice surprise. Booking on Thursday after I work out how many people I'm buying tickets for.

I remember him and laughed! Him and Saunders would be happy together making empty promises

You have no way of going then? We've got 30,000 tickets and the cheapest ones are £30, so if you have time away from uni work you should definitely go. I doubt we'll sell the full allocation and if we do, anyone who wants a ticket will be able to get one.

I'm in Cornwall the day before the game running a creche for an organisation I volunteer for, which is slightly annoying. Means I have to leave at half six on Saturday, and spend six hours on a train to London. It could be worse though, the train ticket only cost £16.50 which is pretty fantastic.

Dean Saunders sacked by Wolves whilst Kenny Jackett resigns at Millwall. Coincidence?

Best news in a long time, people may say The board were fickle and just pulled the finger but they don't know what Saunders was like. Awful manager who couldn't walk the walk or even talk the talk

Thorn never made any promises, he just went 'Urrrr', chuckled, then scratched his head. Even with that fool as manager we nearly stayed up in 11/12-if someone with half a brain were employed we'd probably still be up.

With a proper manager like that in charge, Wolves would walk the division. Most clubs in League One have an annual wage bill of what, £3-5m. Wolves will get quadruple that just from parachute payments, and they're not in financial ruin unlike most ''big'' clubs who have ended up in the third tier. Nobody will be able to compete with them for players.



I saw some of his quotes on another forum. http://www.wolvesforum.co.uk/showthread.php?21311-The-Wit-and-Wisdom-of-Dean-Saunders

My personal favourite: ''The players have some pride – they don’t want to play in League One. Apart from Saturday, every time we’ve needed a win we’ve got one. ''

Please - if we're having a **** manager-off then we win hands down:



Fashionable, but completely and utterly incompetent to the point where we only just beat ****ing macclesfield.

Doesn't matter who the manager is when you're spending more than anyone else.


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Just a shame we're not spending more than anyone else then isn't it?

For instance Blackburn spent 8m on Rhodes - this season Wood, Knockaert, James and De Laet have been the only ones we've spent money on - most of which was recouped by selling Mills and Bamba - and cost less put together than Rhodes did.