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We probably managed to put in a really low bid, ahead of haggling, and missed out getting a player from our own group. 🙂

Well done Nathan. A solid game plan. It came good early, and then Orient played into their hands. Nice to see him a bit more restrained (finger chomping aside) too. Also well done to Small and Ramsey. Lots of reasons why players are released. Both have more first team games under their belts, and are now playing at the same level we are.

Thanks for confirming you dropped all mention of players after being found out last time. Also for running away from the other points. I also saw you were still desperately trying to prove you were the first to break the Will Still news earlier, with the response that just rightly mocked you. Such a child.

It is progress though. I got the feeling they picked Nate and Russ from the EFL radio shows that boosted them both for quite a bit, and Juric from Talksport's Trans Euro Express. They've now made the leap to TV. 🙂

In the last couple of weeks you've admitted to "being a bit of a twat" and that you're "not bothered by people on this forum finding me annoying." Now, by equating yourself to someone you think posts like "a complete weapon," you're admitting that you are one. No surprise. As @The Kraken said "...as confirmed by himself, he’s perfectly happy acting the twat all of the time (and genuinely seems proud of it)." While normal people would be like @trousers who said "If people were to accuse me of being annoying, my natural instinct would be to engage in some self-reflection as I would see being perceived as annoying as a bad character trait..." I guess, with your attitude, it's no suprise you act poorly when challenged. As I said "digging holes based on being factually incorrect, logically flawed, missing the point entirely or often trying any excuse to defend any of the previous points." Not to mention editing your posts, going off in huffs and setting out to undermine posters. What a legacy, when you can look back in years to come and say you were "a bit of a twat" on a football forum. A number of people seem to want as little interaction with you as possible. "No reason not to" do the following, as you're often reduced to asking of others, after you've been embarrassed. "What might be better is that you put everyone you go off in the huff against on ignore. That way, if the original poster is not on that list, you get to have your trademark response. But you won't see posters demolishing your position. Therefore, you won't spend a dozen posts ruining the thread, trying to defend your nonsense, and it can move on far more quickly." I think there would be a few volunteers to go on your list, if it meant we could enjoy the threads." Is that the @Paul Chuckle who posted your "one to watch" guides? The ones where you failed badly to divert from the facts, admitted fibbing to the readers of the guides, then blamed the other SI thread creators and finally SI? That @Paul Chuckle.? There. You can learn. The last time you trotted out this one it was to impress people with the backroom staff and players who follow you on what has been X for a while. Only that turned out to be 2 youth players, one of whom had left and the other who noone had heard of. Another complete fail. Rather than do a bit of self reflection, you're now asking for forum settings to be changed to accommodate your nonsense. "a bit of a twat" indeed.

Under Will, if he's not cooking, he's...um...toast... Darn. @Turkish makes those cooking references look easy. 🙂

Thanks Christophe. It might be realistic, but it's essentially saying SR were either unprepared for the challenge, or made such a mess of it, that you could be spending a other 2 years in that division, just to get back to where you were. I have a bin full of 5 year and 10 year plans trotted out by clubs, when the tenure of managers resembles the lifespans of mayflies. I'd like to think about that with better recruitment, and your new manager, you'll get the results for a challenge in the season to come, considering VA's resources.

No, Kotchap, not Ketchup. 🙂

Oh, does he have to try that? 🙂

YouTube wouldn't host the follow up A&E video showing where they removed his microphone from, but it would have made you smile. 🙂

Silo

Fight and Win!

Expecting award winning French restaurants to have coaching badges is asking a lot. Oh wait... the Sunderland manager? Right. I knew that. Like Will, hits my criteria of managing in a top 5 league. Like Will, he's also done it for more than one season. The first ended up with an improved position. The second got them relegated. However, the Strachan clause is then activated, at least to see the circumstances.

Ah, c'mon @Paul Chuckle, it's important to give support and focus on the positives, now he's here. I didn't once let slip about the picture from Johannes Spors' meeting. "And should Mr. Still prove to be as short-lived as the rest of our managerial appointments, we have a brighter, younger coach in the wings... ...well, it will be the hospital wings during his birth. But he'll be a top coach!"

Sadly, that doesn't stop the threads we're reading ruined by you digging holes based on being factually incorrect, logically flawed, missing the point entirely or often trying any excuse to defend any of the previous points. What might be better is that you put everyone you go off in the huff against on ignore. That way, if the original poster is not on that list, you get to have your trademark response. But you won't see posters demolishing your position. Therefore, you won't spend a dozen posts ruining the thread, trying to defend your nonsense, and it can move on far more quickly. Since there's "no excuse not to" put people on ignore, why don't you give that a go? You can convince yourself every point you make is a winner, and we get the golden peace that the year of The Great Huff, gave us.

Meets the most important of the basic criteria. Has managed in a top 5 league, leaving the club in a better place than when he started. Will has also done this with multiple clubs in a top 5 league. He has moved around a bit, but the circumstances have been varied. While UEFA stats put the Belgian League at 8th, Opta have it in their league strength at 6th to 7th. His spell there went well. While he seems surprised the phone rings the second he's available, it shows how highly rated he's been in those countries. Tactically adaptable, and considers being a high performance manager as a winning manager. Music to our ears (even if some of the formations are 3 at the back). His coaching and communication skills are highly regarded. He is coming into a side weaker in almost every position since SR took over. It's a side that's also weaker than the one that was promoted under Martin. As much is riding on SR finally deciding on their goal, and recruiting accordingly. Despite their investment, every manager so far has been limited by SR failing to get key targets over the line.

Still here? Will out! Just to get that out of the way. 🙂

I recently saw some posts from 2012, and the word "bellend" was regularly used in relation to MLG. And those posts referred to earlier events. So, not sure about that one. I agree that more and more flies over his head, and the holes he digs are more desperate. His carer has reduced him to having the two buttons, "bullshit" and "strawman" to add to posts too.

1) As pointed out by several, there were far better ways to have communicated the same thing. But you went with a class defense of it. 2) You've been caught at this so often, your defence of it is infantile. Twice within the space of a few weeks recently. 3) No one else has issues, except yourself. Yet you were the one to give a list of several names. Perhaps you could put allmof them on ignore? Oh, and a few posters pretty much asked to be added, the following week, to be spared from your thread derailments. It's a bit pathetic not to take the views of a number of people into account, about how you post. Oddly, you are the first to go into huffs and hiding when challenged. It clearly affects you here. Just not enough for you to avoid endlessly repeating your behaviour.

While @Matthew Le God is here thinking on trousers (no, not Spors'), any chance of you replying to this... It was posted shortly after you were defending posting a video concerning a convicted paedophile, and a bit after your meltdown asking several people to put you on ignore, and getting caught editing posts to change their context.

The only doubt is the extent of SOG's lack of self awareness. Sadly, no doubt at all about his anti semitism.

A spot on assessment of his day.

If anyone in our family is feeling poorly, they get a Commando comic. It's tradition. Remember your Commando Comics Codex: Established officers will get their men killed through arrogance and bloody-mindedness. Sgts are the salt of the earth. They will bring young officers through, often getting killed as a final lesson in passing the torch. Young officers are morally better than their older counterparts, despite the class system boosting them into positions where it takes lower ranks to keep them alive.

Gah! More scoops than a successful ice cream parlour!

I have been called many things, but being called a "sit" is a low shot. I mean, you couldn't even be bothered to put all the letters in. That hurts. 🙂