CB Fry

If there's one think I like about Batman is that he doesn't own or wear any clothing or shoes made by any major sports brand or clothing chain, and hasn't done for years. You have to admire his principles, you really do 👏 👏 👏 👏

I can post what I like to who I like when I like, Manji.

Great to have a completely independent analysis of Manji as a contributor from somebody completely different who is definitely not Manji in any shape or form.

Your regular reminder that David Cameron stopped being Prime Minister in 2016, just the 6 and a half years ago now. And that party got purged of non believers in 2019. Duckie is like a washed up old Communist whining on that everything would be brilliant, honest it would, but its never been done properly. No one has ever tried it. Not really tried it. Next time there's an 80 seat majority. Next time.

Oh he has? Can you link to the quote because I've not seen it. Cheers, thanks, love you bye

You're making up a scenario that hasn't happened and never will happen and then getting annoyed about it. Honestly there is some fucking dreadful "everyone is a hypocrite" whataboutery horseshit on this forum but what you've come up with here is pretty woeful by even Saintsweb standards.

The main thing that was "pretty clear" is that Manji has a clutch of different logins that he uses to "explain" or back up what he says. Fantastic to read your opinion though x x x

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I don't mean you, I mean the person I think you are basing your "supposedly" on, who also claimed that the Nathan Jones rumours was "all coming out of Luton".

Also tried to tell people that the club management were told by SR that "money was no object" in the last transfer window. Money was no object. Thats definitely why we splashed a breathtaking £6m on Aribo and a handful of £10m children. Money no object.

Yes, that is the bit that I am saying is not as simple as you are making it out to be. In your previous post you have already complained about virtue signalling and hypocrisy. So how does English football respond by publicly objecting to Qatar (the dictionary definition of virtue signalling) while at the same time their football clubs are owned lock stock and barrel by Gulf states (the dictionary definition of hypocrisy). Ditto France, ditto others. So who is making the stand?

I think that entire scenario is not quite as simple as you're making it out to be.

also, don't be gay.

Seems like Budweiser didn't know, as official beer supplier they seem surprised. But yeah, I for one am shocked that this didn't get throughly analysed during the completely open and objective host selection process.

They've banned all the beer at the last minute. Brilliant.

About four hours before the cut-and-paste king turned up.

Er, Bournemouth.

What we've got ahead of us > a couple of narrow defeats to clubs we should beat "well you can see what the manager is trying to do, if we play like we did in the first half we'll be fine. You can't judge the season just on that game" > some noble defeats to big clubs "we really gave them a game. "If we play like we did before their second goal went in we'll be fine" > we will win a game or two - relegated clubs can win six or seven every year, so we will win some. "what a result. Now we've turned the corner. This is the kind of result you can judge the season on. Definitely. We are going to be fine now, we won." > and some proper batterings I just don't see there are three clubs worse than us. Wolves will not go down. Brentford are not having that Steve-Coppell-Reading/Burley-Ipswich-etc second season syndrome. Even Fulham have put lots of points on: halfway there in less than half a season. Everton, nope, never. Rookie manager and rookie team. Thinking we are going to buy a game changing striker in January seems fanciful now. We blew that. The most critical thing is the players that aren't rookies aren't good enough to keep us up (Che, both Armstrongs, Moi). The tragedy is we have probably the best defence for years but a rookie keeper who never keeps clean sheets and an attack who never put us in games will make their contribution redundant. Its Bournemouth, Forest, Leeds and us. We need Fulham to at least make it interesting. This is the season we go down.

They don't get the whole lot all in one go. It's not a lottery win. In most cases what they get is their salary continued to be paid as now until their contract expires, probably less stuff like win bonuses etc. If they get a new job that stops and they get paid by their new employer instead. The compensation is for loss of work, once they start working they can't be paid by two separate clubs. They'll be break clauses as well - so they don't necessarily keep getting paid for (say) a three final years of a four year deal if they get binned for not hitting performance levels. So we will be paying Hasenhuttl for a while, until he gets the Austria national team job (are they in the world cup? I'd say I can't remember but what I mean is I don't know and I couldn't give a flying)

I don't think anyone is disagreeing with that. My point above was that Bournemouth are shit and will be in the relegation mix. And they are above us. Bournemouth going down doesn't stop us also going down.

We signed Rickie Lambert and a mere three seasons later he played his first game in the Premier League.

That is significantly worse. We are four points and five places behind Bournemouth, a newly promoted team who will definitely be in the relegation mix at the end of the season. And we're already tracking behind them despite the millions spent, and we are supposed to be an established side with new investment and new hope. If anyone had said in August "come the world cup break we'll be second bottom" you'd have called them a ill feeling pessimist, no doubt.

I didn't realise not winning the cup this season gave us perpetual immunity from any relegation ever again. Great news 👍👍👍

In some ways better than it could have been - if those rumours of us being prepared to drop thirty odd mil on Delap, we would have basically bet the entire farm on unproven kids.

Absolutely 100%.