Saint George

"A video game villain wants to be a hero and sets out to fulfill his dream, but his quest brings havoc to the whole arcade where he lives" Sounds about right

Anyone still wondering why Pochettino got the hell out of dodge?

That would never happen.....He's not called the "The Bedroom General" for nothing y'know

So Kruegar has finally nailed his vision to mast.....European qualification So how do the peeps who were ridiculing Cortese for the same ambition feel about this? Personally i think we had a better chance under Cortese.....This lot are gunna have to make a huge step up and restore some drive...but anythings possible for me

Interviewer........Is it disappointing? Reck it Ralph....."I think it's important not to use the word disappointing when you're in a LEADERSHIP position" He had to get it in somewhere, LOL Trying real hard to convince peeps

Add me to the Jorge Sampaoli camp......His teams are some of the best coached sides I've ever seen....He's also a student of the Bielsa philosophy, same as Pochittino. Will never happen with this crew running the show, but can only live in hope

The problem is here, Cortese had the Club running so well with everything ticking over like a well oiled machine, I'd say back in October Katrina and Ralph got the impression that anyone could do it......I'm guessing they're finding out out it aint quite so easy.

Nope...Check again........Just a shadow of it's former self....... Add the faffing around with inappropriate Board appointments, failure to convince our manager and players that there's going to be anything left here to hang around for, suggests to me, we're about to go the same way.

I heard it was a bit like this before Katrina's other businesses (MALI Group) disappeared down the plug hole.

Cortese had contempt for losers...That's why the likes of the basement (and bedroom) dwellers on here have such a rabid hatred for him... Only ever seen respect for him from the players and other driven achievers at the Club.

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Could you imagine having to deal with basement dwellers screaming things like "This is totally disgusting and disgraceful behaviour from the club" over the slightest hickup.....Would be a laugh minute

You say that as if it would take a lot for a steel frame building to loose it's structural integrity.....Lemme tell you it doesn't.....That's the very reason every piece of structural steel installed in buildings in the US, EU and elsewhere, needs to be at least 1 hour fire protected, usually by wrapping with dry wall or vermiculite......What would be the anticipated fuel source of a fire in most buildings to warrant this protection?...yup, office furniture, carpet etc. Without the fire protection a steel frame building would likely loose its structural integrity within 30 mins or so and that's in a 'normal' fire.....Now are you going to tell me all that the dry wall fire protection remained perfectly in place after a 767 flew through it.....Let's not even mention the thousands of gallons of aviation fuel.

Funny...The bitter Rat Pack were telling us just a month or two ago that Cortese was fired, cast iron 'fact' they said. Too many complaints about him, poor commercial performance etc etc they said....Now it's..... he bottled it/quit/left/walked/ etc...You couldn't make it up, but no surprise for this place.

The bitterness is strong on this thread

"great communicator, positive thinker and a motivator". is how Krueger describes himself, can't say I've heard anyone else call him that.

Nope, it's the Green Bay Packers for us, and that came from the top

I think they should stick to what they know...Geology........Still, can't say i blame some of them for jumping on the gravy train. The slush funds available totally dwarfs anything they could get their hands on elsewhere. So we agree the models are wrong...That's the first time in 7-8 years on here that anyone supporting the AGW theory has accepted that....I'm usually met with howls of ignorant derision when that point has been raised in the past, yup, almost hysterical at times....'The models couldn't possibly be wrong the Guardian said so!' The problem is, the models only even get close to right field because of a lot of historical anomalies are being ironed out and adjusted to force the data to fit the theory....Once you start putting back the manipulated data like 1940's Reykjavík warm period and many others and then add in the missing external influences, the models don't even hit the right planet. Not one Model predicted the 15 year "pause in warming" we're currently in, not one.....If they cant get the very basic near term projections right how can they be trusted for 100+ year projections?......Because Hanson, Wigley, Mann and Jones say so? The AGW theory may have appeared sound on the surface, but it's not even close to being proved and the more the climate does what it historically does the more off the wall the AGW theory becomes, at least RE the catastrophic predictions we've been hearing over the last decade or two. Na...But it's true the Oil and Gas industry is a huge part of the overall regional economy, more so Homa and Cajun country than New Orleans it's self. But we'd all feel it down here if production was to cease permanently.....Obama's six-month Rig moratorium was devastating for the region....But Oil and Gas production wont be going anywhere soon.....The resources will dry up before anything is affected from politics....The US simply needs it's Oil. Ironically Louisiana being a 'Solar energy State' has a bigger direct economical effect for me....There is so much public money sloshing about for Green energy it'll make your eyes water.....I'm no different to those Geologist's....Following the dollar

Jury's out for me....I think her heart is in the right place and she has the best intentions, so it's hard not to support her. But i cant help thinking she's out of her depth and needed to appoint a strong Team around her to get things done.....This for me is her first and possibly the most crucial failing. Markus earnt his success and knew the score, he appointed someone he trusted to make things happen......I just hope Katherina takes stock and gets some good advice.

If the 6m a year is true, then i suspect it's 6m a year for his team....Mauricio Pochettino, Jesús Pérez, Miguel D'Agostino and Toni Jiménez. Pochettino won't accept a deal without making sure his team are taken care of and if the news has been leaked from the Club then the 6m is probably the total cost to the Club for the 'Pochettino' package.

Of course the Earth's climate is fluctuating......It always has and always will and there's not a damned thing you or anyone else can do about it....If you took every single human being off this planet tomorrow, sea levels will still rise and fall....Just think about those poor saps that used to live where the English Channel is now.....They lived in mud huts with near zero carbon footprint and that didn't help them. The Data comes from Geologist's....a real science, based on solid scientific principles, unlike the quazy circus that is the climate gravy train. You should probably go and take another look at the models that all the hysteria has been based on again.....They're wrong, all them...not one has been even remotely close....In proper science, a theory needs to be proved before it becomes a law. It's called ****ing in the wind......and 20-30 years is non existent in the grand scheme of things, a total irrelevance....The sun will fart at some time in the future and this planet will become a lifeless rock....THE END!

No worries here....We learnt some lessons from Katrina, put right some man made **** ups and adapted......9 years and $14B later we're ready....Can you say the same? http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf/2013/08/upgrated_metro_new_orleans_lev.html http://www.arcadis-us.com/Content/ArcadisUS/docs/News/AUS_DefendingNewOrleans_ASCE.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-10_Twin_Span_Bridge http://www.swbno.org/work_drainageSELA_claiborne.asp So my recommendation to everyone is to quit the hand ringing and get on and prepare for the inevitable Oh and @Hokie...You do realize that there were no ice glaciers at all in Greenland just 35m years ago?.....We, at this moment in time are just a small snap shot of this planets existence, nothing more and nothing less

Hoping Pochettino stays, but if he were to leave then Pepe Mele would be a decent replacement for me http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01yyvf9 Have zero confidence the new board would be up to making the right appointment though.....Would probably be the Eastliegh or Sholing coach, "making the heart of the City click" and all that.

Even worse than that...The news of "financial difficulties" rang huge alarm bells in the ears of the people who matter.....The Coach and the players. Didn't need any vultures circling after that.

Now, now, Whitey......Stop confusing the poor alarmists with facts and logic.......The NYT omitted that bit just to intensify the hand wringing.....Nothing new here