Noodles34

Obviously the advertising deal is tax deductible but the little add ons, entertainment at the games etc. ST's, free merchandise perhaps? is he declaring them as BIK's or are they lost in 'advertising'.

Sermoneta

As good as Bertrand is, would still have Luke Shaw, but what do I know, I wasn't on the 'glad we got Tadic, he's so much better than Lallana' bandwagon, obviously missed that one well and proper

Wahts this Bertrand fella like? Any obligatory YouTube videos? also, have we really signed a players that's going to miss 20% of the rest of the season? Shocking Les Reed!

so Saints and Huddersfield were the only clubs in for him, Rickie Lambert, so in demand. Easy to say now isnt it, just like GR and DO.

never sang his name in my life, the song is not even factually correct. So who signed JR and VW? and Lovren come to think of it? Sorry, who was in charge when the likes of Shaw and Chambers and Chamberlain came through? I fail to understand why you have such a vendetta against someone, albeit bank rolled by his boss, took us from pretty much bottom of L1 to mid table PL, and built the basis of where we are now, that big picture is down to two people, Markus and NC. He carried on spending the money that he clearly had a mandate to, until he was reigned in by the new owner, didn't like that and stormed off. that was his and KL's prerogatives. Was he a nice man? Probably not. Was he living within a normal ego? Nope, again not by the looks of it. But I think he did everything he thought was right for the club, ex player free tickets, gone, and one or two didn't like that. Ignoring the history (except for the red sash shirt with no sponsor!) was pretty poor, charging for the car park and losing the guy from Coronation St as a STH. Lots of things that divided opinion and put people out on their arse. So he overspent on the training ground, big deal! Not all my projects fall within budget, get over it. How much did we save buying the stadium from Aviva, do you think ML brokered that deal? Suddenly he is responsible for the bad buys but not for the good ones, and they fall into the majority, that's why we are third. I am no big fan of Cortese, but i recognise that he did more good than bad by a long way and i dont care if he was an arse, he took our club to where Markus wanted it. Its been an incredible few years and thats down to him, I fail to see how you can continually slag him off? But I guess thats you. Anyway, that's me done on NC with you, just putting the record straight from perspective.

And J rod and VW? Sorry, missed that?

Sometimes you're just a tiresome troll, other times you are just a knob. today you are the later. So it's convenient that two of our worse signings were by Cortese but our best by the Manager? what about changing from Pardew to Adkins? What about changing from Adkins to MP? Or was that Les Reed. wish there was a geeking yawning icon, I could attach that to most of your posts.

You're so right Turkey Boy, Cortese wtf? Imagine if he'd signed players like Rickie Lambert and Jose Fonte, God where would we be now..... Oh, hang on a minute! But they didn't cost so much, luckily nor did Victor or Rodrigues..... Oh, hang on a minute!

Is Les Red the new Nicola Cortese now?

Is anyone aware if the box office take back tickets and resell them? So maybe for the QPR game, someone wants to return a ticket for a refund, is it worth keeping a check for any returns? Like when one goes to the Opera.

Are we not suggesting one for Les Reed, as it seems that he has become the most important person at the club?

I also have it on good authority that Cortese did nothing for this club whatsoever, ruined it actually. God, imagine where we'd be if he hadn't had done such an awful job, I, like you Turkey Boy, dread to think!

I am after one myself now, not overly enthused about going in the away end, sort of defeats the object really. Just looking for one and will pay over the odds if that helps!

what rationalisation have i suggested? Apart from we wont catch City and Chelsea.

yes, dont understand this 4th place talk! Fair enough for the top 2, perhaps Chelsea and City will be too much to catch but who is supposed to be replacing us in thrid then? My heart prediction is : City Chelsea Southampton Arsenal Man Utd Tottenham Liverpool My head says: Chelsea City Man Utd Tottenham Arsenal Liverpool Southampton

seemed very straight forward registering and buying a ticket via QPR though!

thanks, fortunately looks like a mate has come up with a spare

where in the stadium is less volatile for away dayers in the home end, any ideas?

It's a no brainier until the attacking options, I would have Davis and and Tadic either side of the two CM's and play Pelle and J Rod up front, 4-4-2

I have to admit, for the first season I wondered if we might as well have taken Dean Hammond to the PL with us, very underwhelmed, but this is the sort of player every team needs. Industrious and such a great engine, the only thing he lacks is finishing, He must have missed two three nailed on's this season, but wouldn't be without him, his bursts forwards are what we don't get from Morgan and Victor.

Thought the BBC coverage was poor, too many mistakes. Hate it when they talked about FF being so good. Very biased toward the Premier League team too, very embarrassing.

This is a good post that will be overlooked by the usual suspects, seems like GS is still missing on this thread but the others are here in good voice.

of course you are right in many of the above but as well as the religious argument, the west on the soils of Islam is a very evoking issue for many. Why did Bin Laden materialise into what he was, because of Americans in Saudi (obviously not as an invading force) and he (and many others) see the infidels on their land as a real issue (clearly actions like today don't justify this viewpoint). It's a fact that the west in Afghanistan and Iraq severely stoked a fire that was admittedly already burning.