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From F365 forum.... I shall keep the forum updated as and when I receive any responses Almost a pound off each ticket? I'll not hold my breath.

Yesterdays game... http://www.101greatgoals.com/videodisplay/1799512/ A MIRACLE! A MIRACLE!

Dead by now shirley? Well Graham Kelly or whoever's in charge these days.

ahem....the NUSC link? If you want any extra links I'm happy to stick them on there for you if you post the url in here I'm Happy. You're Jonny. Been quiet today hasn't it.

I've not followed the story, but isn't the FA supposed to clear all transfers and issue papers that say a player now belongs to a club and is eligible to play? Shouldn't Sheffield Utd be suing Bert Millichip and that?

The Toon raising pirate prisoner spirits....

Self regarding nonsense. Your assumption is top players go to a club for it's magnificent fans. Even if the fans spend a lot of the time booing the team and protesting those in charge while the club hasn't got into a European spot for 5 years and have got through 6 managers in that time. Robinho's move shows that top players will go anywhere for huge money. But then, we're still only one win away from Man City who spent almost £70M in the summer. Either way. We agree that a competent manager is the most important step, and that backing them is imperative once they're in place. The current board didn't do that. Keegan didn't want to move for Ashley Cole or any "top" players, just for some premier league standard cover, and the owner didn't allow it. The problem is still going to be getting a manager given our history of impatience mentioned above. Kinnear might be our best bet for a while yet. We're only 14 games into the season. The crap squad factor doesn't start telling till inj and tiredness start to show (Dec/Jan/Feb). We're definitely short on players. That's the big thing I love about you, your insightful words, giving the public angles they'd never considered. Alan Robson stylee.

Leazes brought up Rooney, Berbatov et al as players we should be after.

Self regarding nonsense. Your assumption is top players go to a club for it's magnificent fans. Even if the fans spend a lot of the time booing the team and protesting those in charge while the club hasn't got into a European spot for 5 years and have got through 6 managers in that time. Robinho's move shows that top players will go anywhere for huge money. But then, we're still only one win away from Man City who spent almost £70M in the summer. Either way. We agree that a competent manager is the most important step, and that backing them is imperative once they're in place. The current board didn't do that. Keegan didn't want to move for Ashley Cole or any "top" players, just for some premier league standard cover, and the owner didn't allow it. The problem is still going to be getting a manager given our history of impatience mentioned above. Kinnear might be our best bet for a while yet. We're only 14 games into the season. The crap squad factor doesn't start telling till inj and tiredness start to show (Dec/Jan/Feb). We're definitely short on players. Oh how magnanimous of you. I give and take That's never been the debate though has it? It's always been you harping on about a £100 million and bringing it up as if our current position proves you right on that. Getting all Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc on my ass.

Self regarding nonsense. Your assumption is top players go to a club for it's magnificent fans. Even if the fans spend a lot of the time booing the team and protesting those in charge while the club hasn't got into a European spot for 5 years and have got through 6 managers in that time. Robinho's move shows that top players will go anywhere for huge money. But then, we're still only one win away from Man City who spent almost £70M in the summer. Either way. We agree that a competent manager is the most important step, and that backing them is imperative once they're in place. The current board didn't do that. Keegan didn't want to move for Ashley Cole or any "top" players, just for some premier league standard cover, and the owner didn't allow it. The problem is still going to be getting a manager given our history of impatience mentioned above. Kinnear might be our best bet for a while yet. We're only 14 games into the season. The crap squad factor doesn't start telling till inj and tiredness start to show (Dec/Jan/Feb). We're definitely short on players.

Self regarding nonsense. Your assumption is top players go to a club for it's magnificent fans. Even if the fans spend a lot of the time booing the team and protesting those in charge while the club hasn't got into a European spot for 5 years and have got through 6 managers in that time. Robinho's move shows that top players will go anywhere for huge money. But then, we're still only one win away from Man City who spent almost £70M in the summer. Either way. We agree that a competent manager is the most important step, and that backing them is imperative once they're in place. The current board didn't do that. Keegan didn't want to move for Ashley Cole or any "top" players, just for some premier league standard cover, and the owner didn't allow it. The problem is still going to be getting a manager given our history of impatience mentioned above. Kinnear might be our best bet for a while yet.

Anybody but Parky and his "Must spend £100M over 2 windows." this sort of response, is just being pedantic though If you don't buy a ticket you won't win the raffle. You will only ever find x amount of "bargains", at the end of the day, you MUST have 2 or 3 players the other top clubs want themselves if you want to beat them. ManU and Chelsea are a step up, but Liverpool have Torres, and Gerrard. They have also paid big money for Kite and Keane. Arsenal are now sliding because Wenger is not entering this sort of level of spending. Maybe he's not being allowed to, but he's always said he didn't want to do it that way. We're miles behind those clubs though and have been for five years.

Doesn't seem to have been posted http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/t...ted/7748347.stm

basic policy in a nutshell. Forget about all these fancy "plans" and other such bollocks. Getting the canny manager is the hard bit mind. Aye, Villa have backed O'Neill to the hilt and they seem to be getting the rewards, top 4 heading into christmas. They've certainly leaped ahead of Everton who failed to do just that.

Anybody but Parky and his "Must spend £100M over 2 windows."

...and the pundits agree

Taze him.

Aye, chin up Craig. Mick 7 (my dad) is on his third cycle of chemo this week and suffering terrible pins and needles in the cold from it. It follows his second time under the knive for colon cancer, spanning 20 years, and it's all going well (fingers crossed). He's still working and laughing his way through it all though. Made me and my brother a chinese yesterday before a night on the drink. He can't be more than 10 minutes from a bog like because they've cut so much away that everything goes straight through him. So don't fret that "bowel cancer is of course a killer" too much, he'll just need you to change his nappies

A lercal legend? No a ginger cunt.

Absolutley. Personally I think the transfer cash being put up is the least of their shortcomings. I think it's important though HF, in the sense that, if what I heard when KK arrived was accurate (and the other stuff at the time was, before it was public knowledge about the contract length etc.), he was sold a lie too in this regard. That's one of the things I'd put above the actual cash being laid on, the lies they're happy to peddle to staff and customers alike for short term gain. Not even just from word of mouth but from official statements that blatantly contradict each other. Aye. I'm not trying to push my ITK stuff here or anything. I've heard very little since KK was reportedly pissed off about Modric. But I was told he was told he had as much money as he wanted (when he joined). Obviously anything that isn't straight from the horse's mouth is liable to fall prey to Chinese whispers and so on. But I honestly think he was lied to and I think the official statements you're on about tend to back that up. I realise Ashley's situation financially might have changed too and I know KK isn't perfect for all I admire hime. But I think it shows where the greater burden of blame lies over what has gone wrong. The picture you painted proved horribly accurate.

Journalism? Aren't newspapers supposed to be obsolete within 10 years? I voted 16th - 20th btw

Absolutley. Personally I think the transfer cash being put up is the least of their shortcomings. I think it's important though HF, in the sense that, if what I heard when KK arrived was accurate (and the other stuff at the time was, before it was public knowledge about the contract length etc.), he was sold a lie too in this regard. That's one of the things I'd put above the actual cash being laid on, the lies they're happy to peddle to staff and customers alike for short term gain. Not even just from word of mouth but from official statements that blatantly contradict each other.

Absolutley. Personally I think the transfer cash being put up is the least of their shortcomings.

A lercal legend?

The ratio changes, but we weren't pulling off Rooney, Robinho, Berbatov type huge signings while on the up, however you remember it. On your own terms, we were spending between half and three quarters of what other top English clubs had paid when we were up in third and sixth.