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I wouldn't disagree with you there. I just think it's ok for someone to have had enough of a manager and say so. It's all just guesswork from the outside, looking in

Agree. We cannot know who might be able, interested, tipped from within the game, affordable or interview well. We can only go by what we see out on the pitch and draw our sketchy conclusions as to who is responsible for a faltering team. It's fair doos to say "someone out" without offering a replacement.

Who was on a 10 year contract other than Clive?

Punters paid peanuts to get in. Don't worry writing the book (Southampton spent the 80s in the 1st division incidentally, on meagre and dwindling crowds, and avoided liquidation as far as I recall. How so?) Bit more research and digging needed, methinks

Southampton v Everton to start with. How did Southampton afford Keegan, Dave Watson and later Shilton and others on crowds no bigger than we got (76 - 80) in a poorer ground than AG and both maintain top class football and avoid financial meltdown? 24000 the crowd for this cup tie. If Richard Latham wasn't quite so nice/"wet" perhaps he might a proper meaty book about this era and what really happened and went wrong. A way more interesting era than the SL dull-fest for two decades. There's a story in this that hasn't really been told.

Very sorry to hear that.

How's your dad?

Trev scored a header - past Jan Moller - in the '79 European Cup final so he had been there a while. Funny how the 80s were bookended by cup ties at Forest. Watching old series of the Big Match, you see what a good player Trevor Francis was, and why he played for England.

"Oh no it isn't!" (Slaps thigh)

I don't quite follow you there, sir. Who told you this?

Lovely. What's his name?

It would surely, in the succinct words of @Banjo Red, benefit Kasey if he "pulled his finger out his ass." If Banjo's plain, blunt advice was good enough for SL the other week, it's good enough for Kasey P45. In my uninformed and not entirely humble opinion.

With hindsight, Coventry '77 was a disaster. We should’ve slipped back down that first season, reduced the wage bill by losing some of the highly paid over 30s players, sold two or three of or best, bought one or two up and coming players, brought through Kevin Mabbutt in a winning, promoted team, and some more from the youth team, possibly fired Dicksy and attracted a coach for the fast-approaching 1980s - Joe Royle, who applied for the job here twice, and was turnt down, twice! - invested in better scouting, added more seats in the ground and developed the Grandstand adding exec boxes to generate income, sorted the bloody boardroom squabbles out, and maybe returned a little stronger and wiser. A bit like Norwich or Leicester spent the next two or three decades doing. Reminder: the word "hindsight" is second word in, at the top.

He's done that. He's been here, there and Huddersfield. Only one club was stupid enough to sign him on permanently. What will be different when he moves? Isn't what is needed is for a shift within Kasey himself. If someone signs him he will move and change nothing, waiting for football and the world to change instead. Is my speculative guess with nothing to base it on other than the performances here and the realisation that we've seen all this before, many times.

Tricky for the opposition to "set up" right against us, then?

If Kasey fancies joining Benik at Millwall, then we say au revoir and we wish him well. But he get himself there.

K's getting his P45, hopefully.

Sounds good. What's his name?

The Government are making it difficult to watch Bristol City, currently. Fair enough. But Bristol City have been making it difficult to watch Bristol City recently/for decades now, and no doubt for months/decades to come. To be fair.

Most humans are selfish and altruistic. And less blinkered than, say, most reptiles. And moles. And bats. And plankton. And mollusca. And birds of prey (so bloody blinkered, and selfish, birds of prey. Especially, my sparrowhawk - no concern for any other one or thing but herself. Unbelievable). Stop consuming the news and get off social this and twitter that. Step outside, and smile at yer (blinkered, selfish) neighbour. Unless he's g4s

Just look at 'is face!

Don't be daft. Rewarding @Harry by swapping dull, grinding notwinning bottom-half football for dashing, winning top of the league football. Plus vegan grub. And home quicker.

Let's call it 50

Yes. Either that, or completely and utterly unaware about he or them.