VectisSaint

Think he's working for Sky in some way

Makes some sense, Luton just signed Steve Basham from Exeter, probably Harford looking for more experience up front. 10 from 27 league goals last season, ex Boro Youth Cup winner, looks half decent for this level. LOL at the poster that thought Luton were appalling. Maybe we can with the JPT this season. 30 point deduction they were always going to be relegated.

The bit that caught my eye was "Nicola is running everything at the moment". So what is Oldknow doing? Is he really part of the set up, or did he really just broker the deal. I thought he would be more involved on the commercial side, but this comment suggests maybe not. The scouting bit is deeply worrying. How has the system been allowed to get in such a state? I don't have (m)any good things to say about Lowe, but he was always very keen on the youth, yet we sem to have even managed to screw up the scouting for the Academy, and that can be very damaging and difficult to put right quickly. We really could do with Prost or similar back. Still, reasonably hopeful for Saturday. We do have a reasonably good looking 1st XI (which as AP says almost picks itself), but outside of that we look threadbare. Lets just hope no injuries or sill sendings off. Davis, Murty, Perry, Thomas, Harding, Lallana, Gillett, Wotton, Holmes, Rasiak, Paterson seems to be the team, with Mills, Schneiderlin, Saga, Lancashire, Bart and a couple of kids on the bench to make up the numbers. Not too bad.

And still, after all the debate on here, people cannot tell the difference between the FA (Football Association) and the Football League. We did not get hammered by the FA, we got hammered by the Football League. The two are not the same, indeed the FA and the FL have at times in the past been bitter enemies. One of the reasons the PL Clubs do not get hammered is because they are subject to the rules of the FA who run the Premier League, whereas the CC, L1 and L2 are subject to the rules of the FL. Incidentally I don't have a problem with the points deductions, but I do have a problem with the people that got us into the situation getting away with it, with no punishment, not even being banned from football for life. The points deductions though should be applied consistently, and not applied differently depending on finishing position.

I think if you are pooing your pants it may be better to keep your feet together

Read the criteria again. "Highest level" includes the Football League (thats us), and even more bizarely the Irish premier league (in Northern Ireland). I suspec that is not the reason for refusing the permit. I suspect it is more likely to do with his age, and the criteria of contributing to football development in this country. In any case whatever the reason I am 99.9% sure that an appeal would be successful, they almost always are. The only one I recall failing was the kiddy at Watford last year I think which was seen by everyone to have been one of the most heartless decisions ever made.

So you don't think the player or the players agent are privvy to contract negotiations

Or more likely from the FA, the player or the player's agent, or even the Home office for that matter, since it is an immigration issue. Plenty of sources, not just the club.

So it did, but it deffo was not on the OS 15 minutes ago. Mods, lock this thread, thought it odd that I spotted this first

You're welcome

now on OS

What it says on the title

Not delusional at all. Fact is his goals did keep us up to a great extent. On top of that he wants to play at the highest level, i.e. the highest level he can attain, and at this stage in his career thats clearly CCC. **** people about (not AP or ML's fault) and you don't get loyalty in return. Basically we lost SJ because of RL's mad experiment.

Will it be before Skacel signs?

Good things about League 1: Its not League 2 End of...

I used to stand in front of a drummer at gigs, but then being over 50 AND a bass player, I think there have been enough insults on this thread already. A drummer is someone who likes to hang around with musicians Actually I have no problems with the idea of a drummer to help the atmosphere. Not an American idea, that would be playing an organ when the ball goes out of play.

Mr Trundle meet Mr Wilkins

Really find this argument a bit lame, and it seems like its just an excuse. The Polish manager already knows how Ras and Saga play, he has played them many times. They don't suddenly become useless because they play in L1 (unless of course they are already useless). Why are these two so concerned about their international "career" - it is their club football that pays the rent, half a dozen mainly meaningless international strolls a season. No, they may be saying they are worried about their international career, but in truth this is just code for "we want to be paid more and whether or not we actually get a game at a higher level thats all we are actually interested in" (and who can blame them after the shabby way they were treated last season). International career ********, more wonga thats the issue.

I know where you are coming from, but maybe its not so black as you are painting. Assuming Murty signs (I know its not certain) then we do have a 1st XI, essentially the team that played Hearts with Rasiak instead of John. So we're OK for Millwall, AP still has the resto August (3 weeks) to bring in some permanent signings to strengthen, we clearly don't have much else other than the 1st XI. Even after that we can still bring in loans, this usually starts in earnest once the Prem teams sort out exactly who they need in their squads. I agree its getting late, but I'd be more worried if we didn't still have Rasiak and Saga under contract. I expect both to leave, but not until later in August.

The question was "players", not crop circles

Well, as of right now Rasiak and Saga are still under contract to us, so there is no reason why one at least of them will not be in the starting line-up against Millwall. John was a different matter, he was out of contract and a free agent, so he has elected to go elsewhere. If a decent offer comes in for Ras or Saga I'm sure they will go as well, but I don;t anticipate they will do a Kenwyne and withhold their labour in the meantime. If one or both go I'm sure that Ap will bring in a replacement. So in summary as things stand we have 3 strikers, Rasiak, Saga and Paterson for the opening match.

Patently not true, just because ML bought the llot does not mean the debts are null and void. ML either paid off all or some of the debts, or he took them over completely. Problem is no-one on these message boards actually knows (some claim they know). The only ones seemingly who would know would be ML, AO, NC, DJ or Fry (together with Barclays and Aviya). None of these seems to want to actually put the record straight (though there was a hint from AO I think that the debts were paid off in full. In the end, while ML is still interested it really doesn't matter, it only becomes a problem if he loses interest and wants to sell on again. I would have guessed that ML paid off the overdraft to Barclays, and took on the mortgage (or part thereof) with Aviya, but others will disagree from the same position of ignorance as me.

Just a couple of points. First, to be pedantic, Saul has nothing to do with Christmas as far as I know. I'm not too hot on Christianity (being a Jedhi Warrior according to the last census), but I think Saul was an Old Testament King of the Israelites. Secondly, we have at least one more famous London Street, namely BAKER. There are probably others, but the fictional home of Holmes and Watson (Sherlock and Dr John, not Nick and Dave) is at least as famous as Carnaby. There is a Peach Road in W10, but I would hardly claim that as famous.

Will we have to pay Renault a transfer fee? Bellamy is surely a bit old now, he should stick to Compost Corner.

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