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Why does that last line remind me of a song.............. What's that coming over (well in this case under) the hill????

Probably the best keeper in the squad. BUT right now the problem is the defence in front of him. What we really need in goal is someone with experience who MIGHT be able to organise and help the defence in terms of holding the line etc. From what I've seen of Gazza he seems a bit quiet still. Can't level that charge at Boruc.

And maybe somebody will ask TB the "How the hell did we end up in this situation?" question.

So which is it? Is TB waiting for Or is he really leading the Trust to The Little Bighorn?

No of course not. I am questioning whether one could exist though. It's difficult on here at times to work out whether we are Stephen Moffat or Benedict Cumberbatch Is Rallyboy for example writing the script or are we trying to follow convoluted clues?

Sadly, it is all too believable

Damn, we so should have got Eddie Howe in as manager when we had the chance... :rolleyes

So, The Sound of Silence is starting to crack at the edges and events are raising some random questions. Back at the last Deadline there were a "number of interested parties" (including some Fialka clones) that TB would not talk to.... Chanrai held all the aces but the FL (and the excellent Mr Hall et al) "killed him off" TB backed the PST bid whilst we all questioned it's validity and likelihood to collect the pledges leading up to Christmas, We thought it may be because their plans and numbers were so strong, yet by their own admission they STILL have not completed all the numbers. Strange, what DID TB base his backing upon? He is supposed to be a mixture of a Lawyer & an Accountant.... BDO & PKF are at ADVANCED merger stage which places the whole oversight of the pcfc job in an air of possible change. TB may have convinced his PKF bosses he had everything under control, but what happens IF he gets a new set of bosses? Maybe he is lined up for a promotion to a big boss role? What then? An Administrator approving an annual salary of 416,000 a year for ONE player? And then Appy, who let's face was pretty damned close to events says the PST is to all intents a busted flush (confirming months of speculation on here). Now, we can see PST's problems (whilst admiring their efforts) but slowly it is looking more & more as if they are being conned to be frontmen by the Property Developers in a similar way to MLT & Pinnacle. How else to explain their total lack of transparency with their own Supporters? We can read that they are "shaky" And yet TB never actually talked to any other people that wanted to put a bid in. (or even from what we could see reply to their calls) Why would an Administrator hang on to a VERY long shot/busted flush and over all this time ignore every other possible Avenue? Imagine what could have been our fate IF Mark Fry had ignored the (late) phone call from Cortese? It all seems to point to an as yet deeper conspiracy within a conspiracy How will those potential bidders that TB ignored take this latest turn of events? Don't need to be ITK, all of this is posted on here and all of the questions have been asked time and time again. The one we have missed is What is REALLY going on?

Interesting

That Is The First Time I Have Heard That This Week honest

Two fun snippets then. What could possibly be the repercussions of the BDO takeover of PKF? And quelle surprise appy's done a runner. Now what was all that stuff about the Trust bid remaining on tick? Oh sorry I misread an earlier post

Supporters Direct ‏@SuppDirect David Lampitt: "Supporters are being sidelined by club governance structures that promote unsustainable practices." #footballfinance Oh PLEEEAZZE stop it.... :

Fact is Alps, what is more horrific but in some ways less surprising is the way that this is escalating, is it now starting to link Care Home abuse as well as Politicians. To an outsider it almost starts to look as if this behaviour was (is) endemic in certain sections of UK society. One of the press articles mentioned Tip of an Iceberg could yet turn out to be the most prophetic words you have ever uttered on this forum

So, could this mean "Corporate Rationalisation"? Possibly even Job Losses?

Derek Knight ‏@delrico hey, Mitt, turns out our Olympics worked out fine. How was your election campaign? Retweeted by James Pearce

I ignore myself.

Yalla (sic) A local word that covers so much. Permeates the expat community and more. It simply means OK everybody let's go/move/come on/move your ass FFS/shut up and get to the point/sort it out as in Yalla NC

oh trust me, the last thing I wannabe is a wannabe. Hated the Spice Girls What hacks me off about it all is that there simply is no way that someone 3,500 miles away should be told such stuff. The CSI stuff - well that was obvious as all the hints and links were published in the Echo. It's not MY fault that the newco I work for down here decided to outsource our monthly payroll to a "Well known UK based Accounting Company's branch office in Dubai" who bought me lunch (a nice Lamb Shank BTW) this week, most of which got sprayed onto the table when the "unsubstatiated and (no doubt) completely fabricated rumour" was passed to me as we talked about golf football & the upcoming Rugby 7's. I can't blab what the man said - it's kinda likely to drop me in the Dole queue for breaching confidence. But I can ask someone else I happen to know who may work in a similar business to go and check the story to cover my ass. Trust me, all I was trying to do was to blag some freebie Hospitality Tickets for the Heinekan Tent at the 7's! Anyways. Let's wait and see. If it's right then I simply suggest everyone go and buy one of those plastic keyboard covers and some Anti Static screen cleaners. If it's wrong then keeping schtum means I ain't sent this place off in the wrong direction, but could share what I was told after it has been shown to have been rubbish. My ITK knowledge is simply "something funny this way comes" You get to laugh at me for being stupid (again) or..........

Yep

Vialli or Di Canio eh? Well there is a surprise. Out of that list, I'd pick an out of depth lost the plot, squad, and Chairman, NA

So the few never boo their own players. And they never leave early. Glad we were reminded of that in the pre season run up

This thread and the OP are an absolute DISGRACE. Clearly started by someone who knows NOTHING about modern football. It is obvious that we have the solution within our existing ranks. Richard Chaplow IMHO We simply MUST start against Swansea with Chaplow & Lambert in the CM roles. Rickie used to play there, it is time for him to stop being selfish and take on the role the team needs him for.

Yep. But the secret to perfect Comedy is timing

In other news, it is nice to see that besides The British Embassy, we are able to buy our Poppies down here every year at one of the major Supermarket Chains. (Although this year I got mine at Gatwick on the way home from the Spuds game. Someone with a brain placed a collection box & Poppies just in front of the Security/Metal Detectors, they were doing a fine trade)