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  1. No. We targeted younger players that have potentual to develop further - investemnet in long term rather than a quick fix. If you believe that we shoudl play and do whatever it takes to stay up' date=' then we should just have bought 3 or 4 'units' and parked the bus - then other fans could say we were doing it 'right' in the very narrow and blinkered attitude some fans have - the legacy of the sky millions and media focus on the prem - if you believe that to be the best you can takes several years of invetsment in younger players (and as with all things osme will go right, some wrong), and thats its more important that we take a long term view to play an attcking passing game, then no, we have done OK, but have possibly missed out on another defender at some point - as all clubs do unless very lucky.[/quote']

     

    Problem is, if we don't stay up the better younger players will be off ASAP, and we start again.

  2. Contracts can be a nightmare and complicated if you do not know what you are doing, particularly for work with a lot of specialised elements in it like building a training ground - a bit different to building a house. The spec for this would run to hundreds of pages.

     

    If you start altering the spec after the contract has been agreed the builders rub their hands in glee as this is where they make their money. On some projects they make nothing without alterations.

     

    In reality there will be lots of changes throughout the contract and the budget nearly always goes over as you can never think of everything. However even changes which the client may feel are minor or have no cost implications can come back to bite you big time. Any alterations or extra work needs agreeing and signing in blood.

     

    And of course there is the other side where the client (usually an arrogant sort) doesn't see why he should bend to the hired help and tries to rip the builders off.

     

    I have friends who make a hansom living banging heads together in precisely this situation - it is very common. So lets hope that it gets sorted, because as soon as the lawyers arrive the costs go through the roof if you loose.

  3. Reading that just gave me a pang of regret. How great would it have been to have him here now. Such is life I know.

     

    As Virgil said, and we would all do well to remember

    [h=1]“Death twitches my ear. "Live," he says, "I am coming.”[/h]

     

    I think that was Scott

  4. Two things. We weren't "days from extinction" and never were.

     

    And two, when has MLT said anything resembling "hang em/flog em" about the "manager, team, players" recently? He's very supportive of all three.

     

    I mean the bed-wetting after Arsenal, etc.

  5. What a strange opening post.

     

    How ever he is right in reminding how we forget. I'd forgotten about MLT involvement with pinnacle. What was all that about? Did he ever come out and explain it?

     

    This was 'Pinnacle' who was actually a taxi driver living with his parents in Golders Green who said he had 'contacts' (he probably meant lenses) if I remember?

     

    When this came out we were days from extinction, which is why I find the 'Hang 'em flog 'em posts re the manager, team, players chairman etc so strange.

  6. Is this in real life or just in your head?

     

    I say this because being a gentleman of a certain age, as are most posters here it would seem, I know things can get confusing.

     

    Also define 'Had'

     

    Dont get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with her, just some of you weirdos are acting like you've never seen a woman before, when you'd see easily 20 as good as that on a night out, more if you went to London, Manchester or similar. Quite a few people I know, myself included have had jut as good if not better.
  7. Go down this road then threatening another team is equally OK. Hello South America.

     

     

    Agree 100%. And anybody who tries to justify it should realise that if that is acceptable, paying another rival team to win a match is not that far morally from paying another team to lose. They are just two sides of the same coin. It is easily arguable that these so-called win bonuses if paid by a rival team are nothing more than a bribe.

     

    But the FA and the Premier League have rules about this sort of thing, thankfully, so no doubt they have marked his card and will be watching him closely.

  8. I think we are just being used here to drive up the price/wages until a suitably large, 'proper' club (Liverpool) comes along. Unfortunately Mark Dickhead Lawrenson knows this. Similar to the Buttner fiasco where the 'Third Man' was probably one of Fergie's henchmen having a quiet word.

     

    Meanwhile QPR seem to be able to sign anybody they like fairly quickly - I would have thought we would be a more attractive proposition - just the Mark Hughes factor and a few more quiet words from Fergie??

  9. Stunned by today if its all true.

     

    I am feeling so magnanimous that I shall say this, for one time only:

     

    I am starting to feel a bit sorry for Tommy Forecast, who apparently, has been quickly found out by Gillingham. As someone else posted once his contract is up his football career is over - Wessex League? - Probably not even that at 26 and having been a 'Future England Keeper'.

     

    His entire career must be like that dream I know we've all had where you get caught shoplifting, naked, in BHS. I usually wake in a cold sweat before I've even reached the home ware department, but Tommy has had five years of this humiliating exposure.

     

    Poor Lad.

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