CB Fry

What has that list got to do with "Stupid PR" then? That is the point I am debating. How about a "fans charter" launched with great fanfare mid last season and then axed months later. Is that not "stupid PR"? What about the teeth aching teaser campaign for the new kit - harmless, but tedious and the dictionary definition of "stupid PR". As usual on this forum one can never debate a single point, because you just get sledgehammered by lists of irrelevance. I've not said a thing about the signings we've made or the support Pardew has had. I've picked up your point about "stupid PR". I am happy with the Cortese regime in the whole, but unlike you I don't think they can do nothing wrong. And their obsession with PR is at least as much, if not more, than any other regime we've had. By the way, I don't ever remember any previous regime signing a player to cheer us up after a disappointing England showing at a tournament. Or anything even resembling that. I wonder what you were thinking of.

Promotion from League One with the richest club in the division that season. And a play off finish in the CCC. Breathtaking. Move over Sir Alex, there's a new king in town..... Nige is a perfectly fine manager but he has achieved absolutely nothing to have any kind of reputation as "one of the best managers in English football" to "cement". Calm Down.

Stupid PR exercises, you say Arizona? What, like releasing key club news at quarter to midnight? For all the good they've done i'd say this regime leads the way on 'stupid PR exercises'.

Not entirely sure why you quoted me in your reply, but happy to make it clear I 100% agree with you. The club is being run in what seems like a rather petulant way at the moment, and this episode is a pretty stark example of that. The divs writing "diddums" are in the wrong, as are the people rolling out the "we should all stick together" stuff, unless that sticking together is firmly and aggressively against this pointless, childish and arrogant action.

So are you saying we should all be united in saying the club is wrong in taking this action, or united in saying the club is right in taking this action? You post doesn't make this clear, just vague "we should stick together" platitudes. You have to pick one side of the argument if you want everyone to stick together, or just accept that there are two sides to a debate, and people are allowed to have differing views.

Hodgson to be England boss by August. The only sensible option if this pans out the way it looks like it is going to, with an ignominious early exit.

They have had a points deduction. You're getting so carried away with your tiresome "they've got away with it" schtick that you are now making up them escaping punishments they have actually had.

The hysteric on that thread would be you, because no one was calling for Pardew to be sacked in that thread, but it didn't stop you spending the entire season bleating on about it. And this time last year it was you hysterically sneering and mocking anyone that predicted success for Pardew and the team, calling us immature and unrealistic. You forecast failure for Pardew last season and you were proved wrong, wrong, wrong. Pardew delivered sweet, sweet instant success and your hysterics last year were proved to be the garbage I said it was at the time.

Tell us again about how you have less debt than almost any other club in the Prem. That was just brilliant. And how right you were.

Being that everything you have ever written on this forum about the Echo (which is a hell of a lot) is uninformed, uneducated but at the same time teeth achingly pedantic drivel, I think it would help a lot. Go on, tell us about the time you didn't get through a job interview at the Echo. Everything you post about it screams of a failed and frustrated journalist.

Indeed. I think it was said some time ago that Pompey have sacrificed at least the first two years of parachute payments - the PL is distributing them to football creditors. No creditor on earth, and certainly not the taxman, is going to take a pittance only to watch Pompey spunk parachute payments up the wall on wages and transfer fees.

What is easy to forget in the battle for the playoffs is getting there is really not an achievement, because the whole point is getting promoted. You can't slate a team for "wasting a play off spot" because three always will and Huddersfield finished sixth so the most likely to "waste" it. We knew what we had to do, we fell short but not through lack of effort. And we'll be playing Huddersfield next season, and Huddersfield will be playing us.

SOG is the self appointed leader of the "give every manager five years regardless of results" arse-aching pontificators, droning on about how impatient people are and related pompous tedious guff. But then his routine on NC shows what a hypocritical arse he is, deciding that our chief exec is a wrong 'un on zero evidence and uneducated guesswork. But then he delivered the same damning judgement on Pearson on the strength of a handful of games. SOG is as childishly impatient as anyone else on this forum. The Lowe comparisons are pointless at this stage because one year in Lowe was actually doing quite well. Dave Jones had just won LMA manager of the year and we were higher than we'd been since the Bally season five years earlier. Cortese is doing at least as well as that, and at the moment looks like achieving a lot more than Lowe subsequently did. So any chance SOG might just belt up and let the man get on with it?

Tory Majority of 10 to 20. All those people telling Pollsters "ooh I do like that Nick Clegg" were full of it. Straight in the booth and on the Tories.

I'd suggest Michael Gove would be a journalist, a career he was doing incredibly well in only a few years ago.

Postal vote.

Polling card says the stations close at 10pm. So closing them at 10pm sounds fair enough.

Correct. Sounds like a load of div students bumbling down there from the pub with no polling cards which slows everything down for everyone else. Frigging stations opened at 7am FFS.

Roeder led WHU to seventh the following season, and they only went down on the last day the season after that. So if you are blaming Redknapp for a relegation two years after he left then yes, it was all his fault.

Spurs have spent absolutely cr ap loads of money. And "money is a guarantee of success" was pretty much your catchphrase on this forum and its predecessors FOR YEARS when you would blather on about "why don't we just buy Michael Owen" and rant about "if only we'd invest in the team etc etc etc etc" But of course this was when we were skint and it was a comfortable theory. Now we are by a country mile the richest club in the division you've retreated into the familar surroundings of money doesn't mean anything etc etc etc etc etc etc. The only money that guarantees success is unspent money. As soon as it is spent it becomes "irrelevent" and everyone just moves on to something else we haven't got instead. Hence the unbelievable hyping up of the lack of pre-season this time round*.

Damn, I knew someone would quote me. Forget it, I agree with the OP - the terminology of "brave work of genius" led me to believe he was taking the ****. It was the right decision to nationalise but "brave work of genius" is pushing it.

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The usual garbage about population and potential from delusional Plymouth fans. 10,000 gates in the Championship is not much potential and crowing about how their city is bigger than Derby, Leicester or Southampton is pretty meaningless, as those three clubs have double the core support as all three commanded 20,000 gates in L1. Presumably PAFC will be down to 8,000 odd in L1. You can't just wait for promotion to the Prem and suddenly expect 30,000 to come streaming through the turnstiles. The same thing has been said about Bristol for time immemorial. Maybe, if one of them got into the Prem and stayed there for a half a decade, they might have a sustainable Saints-Derby-Forest-Leicester-Wolves sized fan base. But it's a long road.

That doesn't look anything like Neil Shipperley. It does, however, look like someone who has eaten Neil Shipperley.