CB Fry

We still need the return of Dodd Williams Fonte plus Dave Watson sacked for the full Nordic climax. #prayforNordic

It may not be fashionable around here, but I'd like to come down on the side of Sally Nugent.

You don't get to be "we" when you bottled out of voting the first time around.

It would, however, be boom time for the piano wire industry.

Most of the "sticky fingers in the pie" (ie big business) will ensure that the one thing that will definitely not happen is no deal.

They've signed plenty of expensive duds like Musa, Slimani, Mendy, Silva. The kind of spending that if it was a different Sporting Director in charge of them, Glasgow would be jolly upset and listing them out over and over again.

Yes, although today was better than I was expecting. It will get voted down first time round. Bit of drama. So we go back to Brussels, miniscule changes/tweaks but by this point it's January and the stock market/business is in total meltdown/panic about no deal. Brexiteers now sh it scared of no Brexit. Moderates now sh it scared of no deal. So that focuses minds. This piece of sh it deal will go through because it's what the people voted for etc etc etc.

Just like Lemina. I miss him since he was definitely sold last summer.

I still think it will go through Parliament. Moderate MPs from both sides scared of a no deal will back it. ERG headbangers are ultimately bottle-jobs whose default position is complaining and objecting rather than actually taking responsibility and making decisions that have consequences. They will be sacred of Corbyn or no Brexit. Ultimately they will take getting out in any form and then settle in for the next thirty years of blaming the EU for everything just like the previous thirty years. Win-win for Peter Bone and gang. Corbyn ultimately will get tied up by the fact that May's deal isn't that far away from what Starmer and co have been asking for. Rump Labour MPs in leave constituencies will also bottle it (despite all the evidence that it won't impact their majorities) and enough will row in behind the deal. Much as I'd like to see the government collapse for the LOLs I just can't see it happening - most Tories, when it comes to it, will not rock the boat and self-destruct plus enough Labour MPs are pathetic enough to back it, plus those like swivel eyed Hoey actually believe in it anyway. And not letting the SNP and especially the DUP wag the dog will also play a part too. Hold your noses, lads.

Pardew replaced Reed at Charlton so they never worked together, and Pardew managed Charlton in the Championship for the entirety of the following season after relegation. I don't think they had any kind of positive relationship before, during or after their time at SFC. I thought Cortese was a dynamic visionary who knew his own mind and didn't take sh it from anyone and made all the decisions his way on his terms. Maybe appointing Les Reed was entirely his own idea?

No. The one thing that the Brexiteers avoid talking about is that their Canada plus plus deal does not solve Ireland either. Ultimately the UK is still trying to have a trade-off to-and-fro "negotiation", while the EU is just working through the implications of a nation leaving a rules based union/market, with those rules fixed and unchanged. This is why they haven't "conceded" anything. Because they don't really see it as a negotiation, just the application of a process. Cross-purposes, and two years of it.

Probably the Quincy Promes of football administration. A load of media hype/rumours and then it all goes quiet and then we recruit no-one or someone utterly hopeless.

On this forum, we've had people actually running a kit-based boycott campaign who couldn't scuttle down to the Saints shop quick enough to buy it the day it came out.

Let's hope she does it like they do it on the Discovery Channel.

But you've just explained exactly what I was responding to in my original reply. So turns out it didn't go "over my head" after all, then. Utterly bizarre. My point, pretty simply, is there isn't really anything that Puel has done to give Gao any pause to consider that a decision that happened before he had any control was a mistake, when far more pressing errors have been made, on his actual watch, since. Spoiler alert: this isn't Quantum Leap and Gao isn't Sam Beckett. Understand?

What would that board do if Hughes decided to resign then? If you don't think they are capable of overseeing a simple recruitment process for a board level sporting director, how can they ever recruit anyone connected to the playing side?

But Lander were involved/negotiating/getting clearance/etc etc from January 2017 and it progressed through the summer, so it's not like they had no idea, and not impossible that they would have been informed. At the very least the new leadership team would have looked at that decision as a potential root cause of where we are now in retrospect, even if not at the time.

Well, on reading that, I've got to say yes it did go over my head. I have absolutely no idea what point you are actually trying to make about Leicester, Puel, Gao, the Chinese, Saints, Les or anything. I think it may be because your post was just absolute dogsh it.

Puel has not gone on to be a "great ambassador for Leicester", that's just garbage. Leicester fans don't really rate him and he hasn't achieved anything there thus far. He's done a perfectly good job in the face of a non-footballing tragedy but so would any manager thrust into a situation like this. Craig Shakespeare or Claudio would have also dealt with things in a dignified way, as would have Pellegrino or Mark Hughes had a similar thing happened to us.

2/10.

I'm honestly not that fussed about "a football person" recruiting our next manager. If the Chinese want to do it, fine, if we end up with someone with a decent CV, especially if we show some intent to better ourselves. It's not really that difficult. Our last football man appointed three successive duffers so we haven't got much to lose.

I've tried to read the whole interview but I gave up when he started talking about amateur arms. Personally I have moved into a space and area where the figurehead and leader of strategic direction for global Christianity would very much target the action of tears and the opportunity of crying in the same direction we are moving in with regard to weeping.

I'm not a Reedite sweetheart, I just think you write utter horsesh it on this forum. And you do.

Les we forget.

I'm worried we might end with a Steve Walsh/Craig Shakespeare/Claudio Ranieri dream team. "It worked before" type stuff. All available I believe, and the kind of lazy appointment I can see Gao regime making.