City manager Joe Royle, setting his sights high, said: 'If you go into the season thinking survival, you will have a survival battle, so I am not thinking survival. I am thinking: "What can we do to threaten Europe in our first season?

Joe, tell them that Shaun Goater is coming....that should get them worried.

-- Anonymous, June 23, 2000

Answers

It's all bluster - they'll do very well to survive - and JR would be delirious if they did just that.

-- Anonymous, June 23, 2000

"What can we do to threaten Europe in our first season?"

do a bradford - enter the intertoto cup while it's still in the semi- professional rounds

-- Anonymous, June 23, 2000