Agree about Diarrhoea, whom I always rated - rather too full of himself for my liking as a young player, but he could back that up.
I also agree we can find a decent Mascher replacement (provided the money from the deal is made available and not siphoned off into some bank's coffers) but not on a like-for-like basis. Mascher's attacking play is still limited, but there's no-one out there who plays his specific DM junkyard dog role so well. Whoever else comes in, others will have to share the defensive slog more than they do with Mascher around to take care of business. It'll mean changing the whole balance of the side and I'm a little nervous about our prospects of doing so successfully.
Incidentally there couldn't be a better word than "imagibe" to describe your usual style. 😉