acrossthepond

From http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id...and&cc=5901 What's that? A mystery payment owed for a deal that was never done by a club formerly managed by Harry Redknapp and owed to a club currently managed by Harry Redknapp? Stone the bloody crows!

Let it never be said he wasn't hardworking. Bye Butt and good luck.

The Fist will pay for that "you'll shit bricks one."

It's a brave man who'd bet against Barca at the Camp Nou. Even if they lose though, Mourinho has restored Inter and no matter what his detractors say will leave yet another club better off than when he arrived. Madrid would be truly formidable with him in charge and I think if he spent a couple of years there and waited for Old Whiskey Nose to (pop off) retire then he'd have another top club waiting for him in Man U.

Fair play Plymouth, we'll remember you fondly. WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!

4-0 to us and the Green Army go down the drain, volcanic ash and all.

YA RLY. NO WAI!

True hilarity. Good post though. I'm not quite as ready to write Germany off as you are but I think with their keeper troubles they won't pose much of a threat. I'll be keeping my fingers crossed we don't face those Portuguese scum again. Argentina won't get far, I don't think - it'll take more than miracles from Messi to undo the fact that Maradona is a crack-addled fat dullard.

For me, the board is always this way around this time of year. Obviously not last year because we were going down, but by this point our season is usually effectively over, so we're just in a lull waiting to get to summer and hoping that this time the board (whoever they are) will get it right in terms of transfers. I don't think it's symptomatic of some kind of decline on this board, just the times we're in at the moment.

They should swap us Diaby like. I'd fly over and drive Nolan myself.

Oh aye so the 30-odd million tonnes of cargo a year that they deal with is all imagination is it? Christ, when was the last time you were there? Late December back in '63.

I thought he was a mackem at first. If only

You just got done telling us it was a blip! http://www.toontastic.net/board/index.php?...st&p=727701 Can you not stick to a position for longer than 5 minutes (besides "I love Mike" and "Chris is great")? Seems like you've got your constants but you'll argue black is white on anything else and come back the next week to do the reverse. Contrary doesn't begin to cover you. Hey Hey its stalker man! Your weekly hour on the prison PC I take it. Come on, have a go this week and tell us your opinion for a change. My opinion hasn't changed. Fat Mike will try to scrape by again, just like he did in Jan 2009. He'll give Hughton 8-10mil to spend, we'll aim for 17th and we'll get relegated. Again. And it'll be his fault. Again. If we want to progress, we need to survive. And if we want to survive, we need to compete. Look at Birmingham's spend and look at Burnley's spend. Pretty obvious difference there, right? And a pretty obvious difference in their league position too. And if we want to compete, we need to spend proper money. Nothing less than 20mil - if we keep the current squad minus deadwood - will do, and if we sell any key players it'll need to be more than that. I'm a "doom monger" because I don't think Fat Mike will open up the chequebook to the tune of 20mil when he wouldn't spend 10 to keep us up in 2009. I don't call that a doom monger, call that someone who has two fucking brain cells to rub together.

You just got done telling us it was a blip! http://www.toontastic.net/board/index.php?...st&p=727701 Can you not stick to a position for longer than 5 minutes (besides "I love Mike" and "Chris is great")? Seems like you've got your constants but you'll argue black is white on anything else and come back the next week to do the reverse. Contrary doesn't begin to cover you.

Always seems to be Nolan who pops up with the goals when we're playing like shit. Good signing by Fat Mike for a season in the Championship if you ask me. Excellent planning like.

Oh are you starting to believe at long last? IM stilll resisting......just., However I g find these comments very worrying. Every man and his fog realises Ashley needs to take this opportunity. If he fucks this up then fuck him That'll last for what, 5 minutes?

Unbelievable he didn't walk for that. That cheating scum.

I don't. After how they carried on last season I'd rather Niall Quinn came on here to congratulate us. I used to feel some sort of affection for them but now I've got absolutely no time for that club, from nothing they came and to nothing they shall return after O'Neill walks and I can't wait.

I like their sponsor, all of their players will be needing that site soon.

If relegation was, as you say, just a blip, then why would we want an open top parade? Surely parades are for something you want to celebrate. Why would we celebrate the correction of a blip? There should be nothing to commemorate promotion and nothing more than a perfunctory party to celebrate winning the title. We are only back where we started, after all.

Love to see them go up. That'd be one relegation spot done and dusted. We'll need all the help we can get. Anyway, we'll beat them 2-1.

Of your categories where would Alex fit in? Something acrossthepond said as well about certain posters coming and being accepted straight away. Well there's a lot who aren't, more than three year I've been on, and certain hardcore polit bureau members would wish I would fuck off. Luckily Yeltsin and Gorby are onside these days though . Alex is Malfoy, keep up. He's CT's arch nemesis. He's the Grand Poobah, the Ayatullah, the Godfather. And he has disciples. Like Louis XIV, he is the board. @Gemmill: Sure, I thought Martins was good. Pretty sure I wasn't alone in that. No, what really got your goat was that I said I'd rather have Le Sib than Owen.

CT/Phil alex/Jonny2J Parky/voices in his head Stevie/Leazes Leazes/AvatarAxeman/Toonpack (General Chat alliance only) peasepud/Scottish Mag although he's never on lately, shame. Then there's the group of people who like to bait Leazes (mostly the same who used to bait Fop, manc-mag chief among them). There's plainly an elite on this board who've been here forever, but I don't agree with HTT's comments. The amount of stick I got when I first started posting here was immense (magness which I still believe in btw) but levelled off over time. Same happens to many new members. Then there are others like Jon H, OzToonFan, Nyff/Revolver who were accepted from the start. Basically if you don't come on here and start talking shite (for example, "jab" who started spouting pro-Ashley stuff from minute 1) this board is an enjoyable place. It's got its WUMs and nutters but it's full of good posters.

Spot on, the mistake made by past managers/past boards was offering long contracts on ridiculous wages. Case in point - Geremi, three year deal on 60k, he played regularly (and abysmally) for half a season then stuck around for another two years picking up a wage that no other team would go near matching. That's fucking bonkers!! Another Fat Sam special.

I'm going to throw Willie McKay and JFK out there too. For all I hate Owen, I don't hold him accountable for the decline of the club. I do hold him accountable for being a useless waster who trousered our money and gave us fuck all, but that's a different story. McKay has basically been a parasite on this club for years and the amount of dross we've been peddled by him and deals we've done to satisfy him doesn't bear thinking about. Of course you blame the administration for allowing it, but I point the finger at him too. And JFK helped to make us a laughingstock and helped to send us down. Literally any one of the managers who talked about wanting to manage NUFC after KK left could've kept us up. We had people like Zico, Fatih Terim, etc. coming out and saying they wanted the job - and instead we got him.