Rayvin

It's annoying not to know but the only real reason I can think of to reveal it would be to satisfy fan/media curiosity. Might take the pressure of the players a bit if the fee isn't published. Of course it could also mask all kinds of shady deals but I have the feeling they'd happen anyway.

Apparently about £1.5m? I meant his wages more than anything though. EDIT - unless you mean an agreed 'buy' fee - I think that was about £6m.

But we gave him a 24 hour window for this in the past and he didn't post, iirc.

Would any of them even come back though?

I thought we got rid of him months back...if he's here and injured, why haven't we terminated his loan? Why are we paying for this?

I've seen forums die before and I don't think this one is particularly close. The thing is, there's no reason TT shouldn't be able to go on indefinitely as interest in the club, generally, shouldn't wane. If there was more optimism about the team in general, I think there'd be more people on here posting. Given that the only real 'opinion' to have on anything currently is the extent to which Mike Ashley is hated, I reckon that many people simply don't feel that they can add anything to the discussion that hasn't been said multiple times over. The banned individuals, from memory, would be considerably more aggressive in their criticism, but I'm not sure that this is necessarily something we'd need. That discussion you all had earlier in this thread where The Fish was trying to argue for the club having potentially made a good decision on Carver if they hire someone new and competent in the summer and the rest of you were arguing about it was actually a good example of a forum debate that didn't get out of hand (beyond a bit of chest beating from certain people - harmless enough though). If we'd had Aeris or DTT etc, it would have descended into people flinging abuse at each other. Y'know, more so than usual. Finally, I've always preferred smaller communities anyway - you get to know everyone better.

Nah, Leazes wouldn't come back unless we sent him a handwritten apology and some antivirus software.

They're absolutely creaming themselves over this on the palace forum. Someone commenting that he's a remarkable player, 'always been quality when i saw him play' etc... Fucks sake, do we sound that bad over our signings?

Wow, looks like they're pulling out altogether. Maybe that's why Chiles was moved on. Unless this is related to Virgin's move to complain about the amounts being paid to Ofcom. ITV could band in with them on that.

Is Kone their number 9 at the minute?

Duncan Ferguson?

It's massively confusing actually I rely on avatars to identify people on here, not names...

Wasn't R.Taylor our preferred free kick taker back when he was fit? I don't know if that makes up for his shortcomings elsewhere, but he has a decent fucking shot on him.

@@The Fish - you know that you ignoring CSD is meaning that after he's had a few guesses, the rest of us can't make the same guesses without looking like we're just copying him? In this case he's made three suggestions, all of which sound possible, and it sort of means that none of the rest of us can say anything unless we've totally ignored his posts. That's not something I expect you to do anything about I'm just saying that it's happening. On that note, Fowler. I'll just try to ignore his posts in here I guess.

Pardew really didn't seem to have it in him to properly coach attacking play. In the final third we were either reliant on individual brilliance (Cabaye) or we were utterly blunt. Same problem with free kicks and corners I think. Pardew just wasn't a creative manager when it came to breaking teams down or exploiting weakness.

Sheringham?

I thought he was unbanned...? The thing is, he seems so desperate to come back

Those were the days..!

Haha he'll hate that.

Cazorla..?

Carroll

CSD suggested Collymore and Carroll (who definitely did manage it). It looked like you were suggesting them yourself though...

That was really confusing for a second, you taking his avatar...

Going against the trend here somewhat, I basically think that this is right. That said, you're saying it too soon after the event for most people, I think Appointing Carver will be an acceptable decision if a) we aren't relegated and b ) we hire someone who is actually half decent in the summer who would otherwise not have been available now. Appointing Carver will be a terrible decision if we are a) relegated, b ) he gets the job long term c) we hire someone godawful instead. The thing is, I reckon they could get someone godawful now if they really wanted to, which is why it's at least tempting to think that they might bring in someone decent.

This is my feeling on it as well. Even if we accept that Ashley knows very little about football, from a business point of view, keeping Carver on makes very little sense. Ashley would have very little concept of how well he'd do when left to his own devices across a full season, and having a relatively low profile manager in place is unlikely to be an attraction to the kinds of players we hope to bring in (i.e. young, cheap and looking to make an impression for their big money move somewhere else).