OzzieMandias

Rant away all you like, but the EU does have the world's largest economy. Fact! https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2001rank.html Methinks you're the one who's been listening to "too much propaganda" Why would we? It's utterly irrelevant.

Snap. Ish.

The facts don't fit your opinion, yet you apparently find it interesting to repeat yourself over and over like a parrot on whizz.

Let's hope we don't match the "ambition" of Shepherd when he failed to provide any transfer cash at all the summer before a crucial CL qualifier and the point where, after all of Sir Bobby's good work, we just might have established ourselves as one of the Big Four. Ambition? mackems.gif you mean Bobby Robsons good work, supported by Shepherd [you forgot the Halls again Ozzie lad] ....... hope your not criticising for this "overspending" now , having criticised for not releasing cash that wasn't there. Apart from a small amount like 9m for Woodgate though ........ Still, don't let facts get in the way of your opinion after all this time now Thanks for demonstrating that you are laughably short of answers for that particular point. Shepherd's biggest fuck-up, our last shot at the CL places before the drawbridge was pulled up, and you are the prize hypocrite who ineptly glosses over it while bleating about "ambition". And you wonder why no one takes you seriously? mackems.gif mackem WUM attempting to gain some credibility Thanks for demonstrating yet again that you simply can't answer my point. I win. And, as usual, you aren't gaining any other converts to your eccentric point of view, either.

Hogwash. The principle of free movement of labour is a little more than an inconvenient regulation... http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/areas/industrialrelations/dictionary/definitions/freemovementofworkers.htm

Let's hope we don't match the "ambition" of Shepherd when he failed to provide any transfer cash at all the summer before a crucial CL qualifier and the point where, after all of Sir Bobby's good work, we just might have established ourselves as one of the Big Four. Ambition? mackems.gif you mean Bobby Robsons good work, supported by Shepherd [you forgot the Halls again Ozzie lad] ....... hope your not criticising for this "overspending" now , having criticised for not releasing cash that wasn't there. Apart from a small amount like 9m for Woodgate though ........ Still, don't let facts get in the way of your opinion after all this time now Thanks for demonstrating that you are laughably short of answers for that particular point. Shepherd's biggest fuck-up, our last shot at the CL places before the drawbridge was pulled up, and you are the prize hypocrite who ineptly glosses over it while bleating about "ambition". And you wonder why no one takes you seriously?

Let's hope we don't match the "ambition" of Shepherd when he failed to provide any transfer cash at all the summer before a crucial CL qualifier and the point where, after all of Sir Bobby's good work, we just might have established ourselves as one of the Big Four. Ambition? mackems.gif

We've got the fifth biggest wage bill in the league. We're not the fifth best team. Not even close. Anyone who thinks it's all about money and nothing else has their head up their arse.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/may/30/1

Notoriously abrasive character. Few incoming managers would want him around and the players, by all accounts, don't like him either. Unlikely to want to come here, and temperamentally unsuited to a Keegan-type set-up. He won't have any trouble finding a manager's job somewhere in Europe.

I used to think he looked like Moshe Dayan.

Scared the shit out of my dad, that pitch invasion. The 12-year-old me found it quite exciting when the whole place erupted, but my old man never went to another match after that one.

And score 30 goals a season like Ameobi.

I can't see any way that would be workable. What counts as "local"? How would it work in, say, Birmingham or Stoke? For which team could Owen Hargreaves play? how should i know, i don't work for fifa, i just said i liked an idea - why the snipe? for arguments sake though either anyone signed up at 16 in a clubs academy or anyone signed from abroad before a certain age (say 16 again?) can qualify as "local" or "home grown" players...anyone outwith that is either senior & english or senior & foreign you need to have 5 "local" or "home grown" players in your match day squad - a senior player bought from another english club couldn't be counted don't see the downside...bigger clubs couldn't sign anyone between say 16 & 21 from another english club, if they tried to to sign someone from south america for instance they'd not get a work permit, if they sign them and send them to belgium or something they'd be classed as foreign when they arrive not home grown work the rest out yourself, it's not my manifesto or anything, idea just appealed It wasn't a snipe. It was a question. If you can't handle people taking issue with your posts, perhaps a discussion board is not the ideal medium for ya. so can you still not see any way that would be workable? Depends how you define "local", hence my question. In simple terms it would advantage some teams more than others.

I can't see any way that would be workable. What counts as "local"? How would it work in, say, Birmingham or Stoke? For which team could Owen Hargreaves play? how should i know, i don't work for fifa, i just said i liked an idea - why the snipe? for arguments sake though either anyone signed up at 16 in a clubs academy or anyone signed from abroad before a certain age (say 16 again?) can qualify as "local" or "home grown" players...anyone outwith that is either senior & english or senior & foreign you need to have 5 "local" or "home grown" players in your match day squad - a senior player bought from another english club couldn't be counted don't see the downside...bigger clubs couldn't sign anyone between say 16 & 21 from another english club, if they tried to to sign someone from south america for instance they'd not get a work permit, if they sign them and send them to belgium or something they'd be classed as foreign when they arrive not home grown work the rest out yourself, it's not my manifesto or anything, idea just appealed It wasn't a snipe. It was a question. If you can't handle people taking issue with your posts, perhaps a discussion board is not the ideal medium for ya.

I can't see any way that would be workable. What counts as "local"? How would it work in, say, Birmingham or Stoke? For which team could Owen Hargreaves play?

Why the fuck do you fucking say "fair fucking play"?

Why?

I don't know if EU free-movement-of-labour regulations would affect this, to be honest. Clubs could still employ whatever players they wanted; the FIFA rule would only affect who they could play in any given match.

Bad luck for Welsh and Irish players.

I wonder what Ashley's doing? I've never seen him doing any work so it's obvious he must be doing nothing. Bit worrying, eh?

Well, they're obviously crap if they're going to the CL final and don't sign any players while the transfer window is closed.

fux sake, i refer youback to "(when i refer to wise i refer to all of the scouting staff by the way)" what i'm saying is ostensibly it seems to me they've done sweet fuck all since being employed on very generous wages...go back to the post that wasn't out of context - it was about them being on holiday, fuck them being on any type of holiday til they've done some type of job for the club NOW is the time fo these people to be earning their wages, not being on holiday - it's not that hard a concept to grasp is it? but then i suppose since employing so-called experts in their field we can make the same mistake of sitting back doing nothing til the window opens by which time EVERYONE is looking at the same players...far be it from me to think these people might actually think making early moves might have some benefit to their employers [i always get tripped up by this on here, you have to spoonfeed people every facet of your opinion otherwise they can't understand it, no-one seems able to make a leap] p.s. that's an excellent point about the CL final, i agree, who knows who wise met and spoke to? so lets see that as a positive then, i agree You haven't a clue what these people are doing, or not doing, so why get your knickers in a twist about a series of unfounded assumptions?

So was there some other game on that night that he should have been watching? Seems a bit of a daft complaint – that one of our directors shouldn't put in an appearance at one of the major events on the football calendar. And who knows who he met/talked to on the trip. Or, indeed, what he's doing the rest of the time? Scraping the barrel for something to whine about here, tbh.

I haven't got the slightest bit of sympathy for him. Wish his humiliation was greater, tbh.