OzzieMandias Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 Eh? I never said they weren't, I'm just saying I don't think Zola has even spent a penny but they still finished in a respectable league position, which shows it can be done without spending loads. Answer me this anyway, do you think you need big investment to finish in the top half/top 8 of the PL? With the debt we're carrying, we seem to need big investment just to stay in the same place. Any club with terrible manangement is going to need more investment then normal just to stand still. Which is why some common sense and an idea about Football is much more important then lots of money (especially at a club with so much financial muscle of its own). Whether Moat actually has that is another question of course, but that's the question I'd be asking. I think we need both things. We'd need some kind of Nobel Prize-winning football genius to get us back into the top half of the Premiership without substantial investment. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdckelly Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 that guardian article could have been written by me for all thats been said in it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howaythelads Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 I couldn't give a fuck if the buyer invests their own money tbh, if they run the club sensibly and with ambition we'll be fine. The potential is there; a small amount of speculation will see us up, cut the dead wood (Geremi etc) and get in a manager who you trust and back them within reason. Don't need to be especially wealthy to make a decent success of this club. And there it is. It really is fucking easy to make this club a success as all one needs is common footballing sense. Ashley and his cronies have clearly lacked this and here we are, slowly clawing back to normalcy despite the fat one's ineptitude. I wish. If it was as easy as you make out how come the people who have done the best job of trying in over half a bloody century are despised by so many and thought of as shit, unless the "so many" who think this way are total know-nowts? You tell me, mate. Because they lost their touch many years before they relinquished control, and left the club in a godawful fucking mess. Obviously. Which as I said earlier to someone else, this would make sense if people like you hadn't been rubbishing the previous Board way before they "lost control" as you call it. You weren't happy with top 6 finishes. You said it was shit. You really should be quiet about this otherwise I'll have to remind everyone that you were one of the main whingers about the previous Board during the time we finished 4th, 3rd then 5th. I may go on to remind people that despite having signed Woodgate in January 2003, Darren Ambrose and also Lee Bowyer (England international at the time) on a free during summer 2003, you slagged the Board for not spending millions that summer. I might even remind people that you then amazingly backed the destruction of the team by Souness and the bankrolling of him by the Board to the tune of ~£50m, then you ironically slag the Board for spending despite your boring mantra of "judge him when he's built his own team." Mate, you're full of shit most of the time, almost everything you post is based on 20/20 hindsight and is still tripe. If you can't respond to a post without trying to shove words into someone else's mouth, perhaps you should acknowledge that talkboard discussions aren't really your strong point, chum. As for our failure to strengthen a demoralised squad in the summer of 2003 -- the absolute pivotal moment in the decline of this club, the moment where the old regime started pissing away everything that had been achieved by Sir Bobby Robson -- I still fail to see what the purchase of Woodgate six months earlier has to do with it. Chronology is obviously not your strongpoint either. But you score pretty high on selective memory. A weak response, tbh. And total bollocks as usual. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nige_S5 Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Nearly every post you've made is about ITKs though. Weird. Is it really? I'm interested in news, and even peoples views of the situation. It does annoy me when people claim to have facts, which turn out to be untrue. Are they after the attention? Leading up to the close of the transfer window, most people on here were desperate to find news concerning the future of their club. Having people queue up to seemingly use that near desperation to gain a boost to their own ego grates on me - that's reflected in my posts. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezGiven Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Nearly every post you've made is about ITKs though. Weird. Is it really? I'm interested in news, and even peoples views of the situation. It does annoy me when people claim to have facts, which turn out to be untrue. Are they after the attention? Leading up to the close of the transfer window, most people on here were desperate to find news concerning the future of their club. Having people queue up to seemingly use that near desperation to gain a boost to their own ego grates on me - that's reflected in my posts. Surely posting about ITKs because it grates you how much attention they get is a self-defeating strategy? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nige_S5 Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Nearly every post you've made is about ITKs though. Weird. Is it really? I'm interested in news, and even peoples views of the situation. It does annoy me when people claim to have facts, which turn out to be untrue. Are they after the attention? Leading up to the close of the transfer window, most people on here were desperate to find news concerning the future of their club. Having people queue up to seemingly use that near desperation to gain a boost to their own ego grates on me - that's reflected in my posts. Surely posting about ITKs because it grates you how much attention they get is a self-defeating strategy? Maybe it would be if I were praising them to the roof like some others have been Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMc Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Because atention can only be positive........ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Redheugh Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 I have given all I can Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nepharite Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 06930080 Derren Brown has been on mate Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nepharite Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 I have given all I can Thanks... I think? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Redheugh Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMc Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Erm what? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sicko2ndbest Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 I have given all I can is it good enough? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Redheugh Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 I have given all I can is it good enough? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilko Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 I haven't the faintest clue whats going on here. I've had four Blackthorns and I'm shattered, but even without such impediments I doubt I'd be able to decipher some of this bullshit Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
clintdempsey Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Ok Sillius. Time to spill the beans When can we expect your clients in charge? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Five o Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Ok Sillius. Time to spill the beans When can we expect your clients in charge? He will get back to you 24h before the cron print the next takeover article. If he could be straight, just say he gets the info from the newspaper, no problemo. But saying he works at a law-firm, just doesn't make sense... No hard feelings Sillius, just what i think Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Redheugh Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Ok Sillius. Time to spill the beans When can we expect your clients in charge? He will get back to you 24h before the cron print the next takeover article. If he could be straight, just say he gets the info from the newspaper, no problemo. But saying he works at a law-firm, just doesn't make sense... No hard feelings Sillius, just what i think OK - predictions Not the Chron CS in the DM Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nepharite Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 In a moment of weakness, looked up those numbers at Companies House nowt there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sicko2ndbest Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Cover story inthe daily mail ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilko Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Caster Semenya in the diamond mine? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JH Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Charles Sale of the Daily Mail. Did an article a few days ago IIRC. Probably will come out with more speculative bollocks only to be denied by our friends at St James Park. Which will probably be the case, regardless of how true SS seems to think it will be. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Redheugh Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Just a prediction, mate. Think we may get a mention too Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pont-toon Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Just a prediction, mate. Think we may get a mention too silly sod Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Five o Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Ok Sillius. Time to spill the beans When can we expect your clients in charge? He will get back to you 24h before the cron print the next takeover article. If he could be straight, just say he gets the info from the newspaper, no problemo. But saying he works at a law-firm, just doesn't make sense... No hard feelings Sillius, just what i think OK - predictions Not the Chron CS in the DM Ok, so your get your info from Charles Sale then, eh? It just that several times you have come with info, it been just before the papers, and just what the article say, coincident, maybe? or... Just keep the info coming, but its sad its not some genuine news we wont read in the papers the next 24h. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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