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What the hell is a Dacia Duster. Sounds like some sort of hoover. Some cheap ass car. Loan signing incoming Nah, it'll be the car to take Colback away. That would be a bin wagon.

Comes into the thread hoping all these new pages means some important news. Sees pages of avatar changes and conversations about fantasy racoons. Thinks should be disappointed, but instead starts laughing. Thanks for the cheering up folks, was needed

Four dot ellipsis for a trailing off sentence. Urgh.

Also behind Rafa 100%. We have a genuine football manager, and a great one at that, at the club for the first time in what seems like forever. I hate all this stuff about questioning him, we are working with a squad that's barely adequate for the championship and yet he managed to get us up with them. He will have had a list of players, we all accept that, and it will have had a list of other choices if those could not be gotten. Thing is, he's been given very little to work with. Never mind <falsetto voice> "but they're his players", how far down the list are the players he got? How many were meant as long term prospects and not expected to have the weight of an entire campaign thrust upon them? Imagine if The Duke of Wellington was sent to conquer Napoleon's armies, all of whom had cannon and horse whilst he had been provided with a gang of small kids waving blunt sticks. Just because you have a great general, it doesnt mean he can work miracles if you don't provide him with a decent calibre of troops. This is why I can't be doing with the short sighted criticims I read. Like it would make the world of difference which barely adequate keeper we play. There is only so much anyone could do by switching poor player for poor player. I love this forum and really enjoy the discourse on here by some really intelligent and helpful posters, but I would like those who criticise Rafa based only on what is in front of them now to really remember who we had as "managers" before. It makes me shudder with disgust when I think of those inept smeg harvesters who sucked up to ashley and left fans feeling underwhelmed with their dire management, yet it was Rafa who made me beleive in this club again. Think back to those times, then think forward to what we could be again and I think that our best chance of that better future is having Rafa at our helm.

I'd be interested to know that too. I've heard of it with regards to thinking and the way your brain can make decisions but not in takeover stuff. It sounds like it could be the handover process maybe? Where the new owner has come in and there is that period of time where the previous owner stays along side to keep things steady. Just guessing though.

Sellars and Ginola? Ive also got a hazy feeling that Tino scored a freekick too. I could just be imagining that though.

I still rant about him. I think all the feelings I feel have been covered already, but I am known for my "i hate pardew" rants. In one of my jobs I mix with folks from all around the country and if we're chatting about football before the event then they will get me onto the subject just to hear me spew bile about the smug festering arse bubo.

Yeah, I wonder about that too. I really love our forum, and one of the reasons is the way it's organised. One thread per player, individual match threads etc but their board is just a mess of whatever random thought comes to them at that particular moment. I've seen the front page of rtg have 3 or 4 threads about the same person/match/thing rather than just have the one consolidated thread.

Apparently it was on this day last year that this excrement covered tampon chewer was sacked by crystal palace.

Just when I thought I couldn't love this man any more. Ryder? EDIT: Dammit, beaten to it.

Outstanding

Reading that article and it made me wonder; is mike's wife really called Laura? Laura Ashley? Really?

On a slightly different track, what do we reckon will happen to the likes of charnley should a takeover happen? will he he kept on?

I'll join in the penalties one, but from a slightly different angle. When a manager grumbles about losing a match because of a penalty not given to his side. Nah mate, set up and train your team to score goals and then you don't have to worry about getting penalties. As far as I'm concerned, a penalty should be a bonus and not what a manager relies on to get a result. I have hazy recollections of souness doing this a lot.

Wasn't a mod as such, it was a setting in the options I think.

Didn't Douglas take a pop at them the other day?

An offer was made and apparently knocked back. What happens then? What is the process after this initial knockback? Say PCP offers their £300m, ashley's lackeys review it (which could take a couple of days maybe, I get that) and it gets declined then what happens next? You'd think that if it was a lowball offer, or PCP would suspect ashley of rejecting their first offer, then they would have a plan B waiting in the wings. Hell, even a plan C just in case. Can they not just spring the new offer there and then (or even after a couple of days for any tweaking etc) Or is it like meeting a new lass and you don't want to sound too eager so you have to leave it 3 days before you call again? There's probably some protocol I don't know about that doesn't make it as simple as I've just made out, and that's what I want to understand.

I've considered this, and the Ashley not spending in January scenario, and whilst possible I can't see it to be true. Not because of logic, as I say both things are possible, but just because of the utter dispair and heartbreak I'd feel if it is all a nasty ruse.

Yeah. The "sources close to the club" are clearly just the potential possibilities spoken about on forums.

He wasn't there long and he hardly pulled up any trees either. Shagged my mate's sister whilst he was here though.

There was a comment on that Star piece earlier saying that The Star has just made it up. Its now not there.

Love your explanations of this sort of stuff. Thank you.

I don't know as it's not my area of expertise, but the issue with HMRC; won't it be the individuals involved that will be in trouble and not the actual club? I know that a company must have a named person who is responsible in case legal action has to be brought and it's that individual who would face charges and penalties. In our case, it was charnley who was arrested. What I'm not sure on, and haven't seen any expert commentary on it anywhere, is in such a matter who is directly responsible, what sanctions would be met and what the knock on effect could be (league standing etc)?

Maybe they have set out a table for his party in there, but the tables and chairs are really tiny child size and he's sat there with a party hat on looking ginger and miserable.

It was this lad who I associate with the absolutely awful and completely untrue trite expression that I hate "it's like a new signing" as he always seemed to be injured. I did see him outside the pictures once and a group of young lads came and asked him for his autograph and he happily gave them a signature each. I think this post covers several threads at once.