Danny Murphy on Talksport today

[MikeW]

Hovewhite: I get your point totally.  But the players who got us up - with a few exceptions - cannot live with the pace or quality we are now faced with week, week out.  Fact.  My beef is the scouting staff have seemingly worked this past summer purchasing very expensive players who are well short of the physical demands and skill set needed for the Prem.  On paper yes, it does look like 'wonderful recruitment' but they are way off the mark. Stuart Grey anybody? Proper coach.

[davew]

Perhaps he had a vision of what was coming (Stuart Gray), most of us fans didn't and now we are in rebellion and rightly so!!

[Steven Ageroad]

Wasn't Murphy part of the "Panel" who chose Kit Symons as our manager?

[KJS]

Danny Murphy has turned into the typical pundit, all mouth and criticism but doesn't have the bottle to stand up and be counted as a manager himself he is fast becoming another Ian Wright!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Carborundum]

A long time ago I went on a half day course on how to deal with the media.  The nub of it was that people in the media make money by swiftly identifying who is in the doghouse and pointing at them.  This is now Danny Murphy's job.  If he's insufficiently pungent he will be replaced.

Wise insights, historical anecdotes, jokey banter, all peripheral to the main task: find the pot with unpleasant stuff in it and stir vigorously.

The fellow giving the course refused to use the term "journalists" in a similar way to Gentlemen Jim referring to the Blue team down the road as "them".  The name he used was "reptiles" on the grounds that they only think in primal urges.  Very good course.

[hovewhite]

Hovewhite: I get your point totally.  But the players who got us up - with a few exceptions - cannot live with the pace or quality we are now faced with week, week out.  Fact.  My beef is the scouting staff have seemingly worked this past summer purchasing very expensive players who are well short of the physical demands and skill set needed for the Prem.  On paper yes, it does look like 'wonderful recruitment' but they are way off the mark. Stuart Grey anybody? Proper coach.

I do understand the other side of the debate the coaching side in the club I wonder about,a 2 week international break and still the same outcome.

[ToodlesMcToot]

Danny Murphy's opinions are a bit like a flag in the wind.