brummie

Money from bums on seats plays a far, far less important role in football finances these days. Besides which, I wonder how much their season tickets cost in relation to most of the rest of the league.

Wrong about James Collins and Richard Dunne Wrong about Sidwell, but in the other sense.

Not being funny, but what the fuck do you expect them to do? They're your closest rivals. Football is built on hypocritical, petty hatred, and the longer it exists, the stronger the game would be.

Isn't Dindane embarassingly shite?

Sir Jack Hayward (now, he was a well intentioned chairman) sold the club to Steve Morgan for a pound, on the basis that he invest certain amounts, most of which would have been clearing the debt.

Out of interest, if you sign Kaboul you will have; King, Dawson, Woodgate, Bassong and Kaboul. In the summer there is no way you will keep all of them happy, so who do you think will leave? Woodgate will probably retire and King may not be offered a new contract. Kaboul has been a straight beast whenever i've seen Pompey play (especially when he played rb). I liked him when he was here but his concentration levels were poor to say the least. Every time I see him, that shitting goal he scored against us in that mental 4-4 anniversary game flashes through my mind. And then i do a sick in my mouth.

I bet we buy Robbie Keane in the next 48 hours.

To entertain the rest of us. They'll probably come in for Wayne Routledge from you before the end of this window.

You're probably right, but it might have to become possible the way things are going. No doubt about it. With the debts of the top clubs what they are, and the effect being felt on smaller clubs now, English football is headed for a crash pretty soon.

The money comes ultimtely from the Lerner Trust, so it isn't just a case of him saying "have this money, no interest" - it isn't just his decision to make. He's done exactly what he needed to do - injected regular sums of money into a club which was moribund, and had been rotting for at least ten years. 15m for the new training ground, for example. He's injecting more to rebuild the North Stand. He's also made money available for transfers, which whilst we've spent money, have been by and large sensible and not involving reckless wages. It is not possible to run a top flight football club on a "spend what you earn" basis with the way the game is now. You can point at Arsenal, but look at the debt they took on to fund Ashburton Grove. What Lerner has done, though, is get the balance absolutely right. He's invested where we needed investment, he's transformed the club, he hasn't saddled the club with unmanageable debt, and he's made us competitive again. We don't have anyone on 100k a week on a 4 year contract. In fact, I believe our highest earners are Young and Carew on 57k. He bought the club for 62m, and I suspect he knew one reason the price was so low was because it needed consistent investment. I don't know how much he could sell it for now, but it would be considerably more than that. He's playing a long term game. Look at it this way. 3 years ago, I didn't want to go to matches any more, I'd had as much as i could take. Since then, we've had two top six finishes, got back into Europe twice (albeit briefly this season), have gone from a squad which we'd have struggle to give away to one which is full of decent footballers, and which could quite possibly provide almost a fifth of the England squad in the WC, and we're going to Wembley next month for the first time in ten years. He's obviously doing something right.

We'll raise our game against Man United, we generally do against the better teams. Against Man City we'd have found it harder. Poor Gaweth Bawwy.

I know, that's not what I mean though, I meant let's reconvene in May and see how Routledge has done over a period of time, rather than whether he's been the signing that gets you promoted. Even I'm not harsh enough on one player to expect him to be a one-man-promotion-machine. Incidentally, if MON signed Nolan or Smith even, I would not be even remotely surprised

The most important result of the night last night. At last it has happened Dagenham & Redbridge 0-3 Notts County Davies 44 Hughes 47 Ogogo og 85

No biggie. Just expressing my point of view. Just feel there were a lot of other reasons why he would have been so poor then. We can only hope for the best afterall. If we don't get Vaughan can we have Delfouneso by the way? That boy is so promising. Yup, seems like it would be a good time for him to get more games on loan, but O'Neill doesn't seem too thrilled by the idea. We're too short up front, sadly. Last season was the time to send him on loan, I think.

No biggie. Just expressing my point of view. Just feel there were a lot of other reasons why he would have been so poor then. We can only hope for the best afterall. If we don't get Vaughan can we have Delfouneso by the way? That boy is so promising.

He'd done nothing at all at Spurs. He went to Portsmouth on loan and did nothing. He went to Fulham on loan and did nothing. Came to us, did nothing. Went to Cardiff on loan, did nothing. He's been at QPR, what, a year? As I said, though, let's see how it pans out.

Tell you what, don't want to keep banging on, so let's reconvene here in May and see how it went.

I hope he works out for you, as I did Marlinho, just saying it as i saw it. He was down there with Didier Agathe as a signing for us.

Robertson's a great coach, but there's only so much turd polishing you can engage in. Maybe Routledge didn't like the stench of 60 B&H a day, and therefore didn't bond with him or something. Or maybe I'm wrong, and he's actually the reincarnation of Garrincha, but I wouldn't hold your breath.

and brummie always laid into Reo-Coker as well which I didn't think was 100% warranted. Maybe it takes relegation and spending 6ok a week on other teams cast-offs to appreciate players values with a level head. I appreciate you all want him to do well, but honestly, trust me, he's fucking shite. You think Milner's crosses hit the first man all the time, at least he tried to get a cross in, Routledge is useless, if he can't knock it past the defender and beat him for pace, he hasn't got a fucking clue. What's more, he's got a dreadful attitude, slouches around doing nothing and hiding from the ball. When Marlon signed for you, I was quite honest in saying I tohught he'd do well at that level. Routledge won't though. He's not good enough. Sorry. As for NRC, can't pass three yards, blissfully unaware of the game going on around him, runs into brick walls. Has the first touch of a rapist. Routledge is worse, though. Can he run fast? Faster than the wind.

and brummie always laid into Reo-Coker as well which I didn't think was 100% warranted. Maybe it takes relegation and spending 6ok a week on other teams cast-offs to appreciate players values with a level head. I appreciate you all want him to do well, but honestly, trust me, he's fucking shite. You think Milner's crosses hit the first man all the time, at least he tried to get a cross in, Routledge is useless, if he can't knock it past the defender and beat him for pace, he hasn't got a fucking clue. What's more, he's got a dreadful attitude, slouches around doing nothing and hiding from the ball. When Marlon signed for you, I was quite honest in saying I tohught he'd do well at that level. Routledge won't though. He's not good enough. Sorry. As for NRC, can't pass three yards, blissfully unaware of the game going on around him, runs into brick walls. Has the first touch of a rapist. Routledge is worse, though.

Is it still de rigeur to use the word "naive" whilst talking about African teams? Can't wait to hear that old chestnut over and over again at the World Cup in the summer. Talking of African teams, every time I hear Cameroon mentioned, my mind goes back to the first game of the 1990 World Cup, watching Cameroon beat Argentina in the Cradlewell in Jesmond on the day of my last final exam, and a toothless, pissed-as-fuck 80 something bloke constantly shouting "it's the Cameroons, man, they're bettah than Brazil!" over and over. That was my last engagement with African football.

Paul Simpson being interviewed by a 9 year old. Mon dieu.

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