The Kraken

"Getting the better of you in a discussion". What does that even mean? How can someone get the better of an opinion that someone holds? Its like trying to say somebody is wrong for having a favourite food, or a favourite colour. What a funny thing to suggest. And what a strange desire you have if you go out to "get the better of someone in a discussion". Seems quite closed minded to me. To each their own I suppose.

I'm fluent in French; send a couple of links would you please Art? I'll google translate any Spanish and German newspaper links too. Cheers.

FFS, why are the club prioritising a right back when we should be signing a CB??

Which comments? Those of the reporter?

I do Bear, I do. I embrace a wide spectrum of opinion (apart from Alpine and Dalek's, of course).

But does it really matter so much that other people hold a different opinion to you? Just accept that others have a different opinion that you might not agree with. I don't agree with your side of it, but I respect that its your choice to ignore all other similar recent confrontation the club has had (legal and otherwise) and judge this solely on the few things you know to be 100% true. On the flip side, others choose to highlight a bit of a worrying pattern. Its a mongboard. Of course people are going to talk about rumour and conjecture in the absence of the full story. It would be a thoroughly dull and dismal board if it only dealt in facts. "Who do you think we'll sign this summer?" "Well I wouldn't like jump to any conclusions without any knowledge of the facts so I won't comment". that would just be a bit weird.

Why are you getting so uppity about it though? What difference to some comments on here really make to SFC? Some people have their views on it, and some are quite entrenched with them. Some like you have an opposite view. just accept that some people view this quite badly, some don't.

The focal point of comment on this site is about the team. And, being responsible for that team, being on the transfer committee, and praise of our on-field achievements is spread around the club to whoever is involved in its creation. Cortese sits at the head of that tree and has overwhelmingly got more things right than wrong, you'd be a lunatic to suggest otherwise. That's all a given. Other parts of the job aren't reflected by the team, but by what we read in the papers about the club and other genuine ITK info and rumour. Some of it has been good and rightly praised by many; some hasn't and has been rightly criticised. I don't know what "position" you refer to of Turkish; but he's right that there's definitely an undercurrent from many posters on here who don't want to discuss some of the bad things along with the good, which is often what causes genuine comment to descend into bickering.

And I doubt you'll find anyone who'll disagree with that. Which makes it all the more baffling when you know that as soon something like this happens again with the club not exactly appearing to be a shining light of integrity that any comments reflecting on it will again be treated with the "anti-Cortese agenda" horsesh*t from the regular brigade.

It's an absolute tragedy we never signed Gary Hooper.

You could have just put no comment.

Yes, it really is that black and white. F*cking hell. I'm out; you carry on thinking there's nothing at all wrong.

Which is why you'll notice that plenty of people have commented not on the outcome/terms of the settlement but on the amount of times the club has been recently forced into this sort of action. Appearances are not very good; at all. It seems to have become a regular occurence, with at least one more legal action in the pipeline (Adkins). Certainly not good from an aesthetics point of view, and in my opinion not a great way to be seen to be doing business. Especially so from an organisation that should be seen as central to the community. I don't need to know the ins and outs of every settlement to know that the visuals of being taken to court/arbitration and either not showing up or looking to settle immediately beforehand are pretty ppor.

They won't win the cup. In fact, its fairly likely they won't win another game this season.

Whoa there, clime down from that high horse. The same outcome of settling immediately before the court case. Blimey, emotions run high when defending the club it seems.

Amen to that.

Indeed. It certainly doesn't look good from the outside. And only an imbecile would argue that settling out of court is a better option that not facing legal action in the first case. On multiple occasions. With the same outcome.

Sounds like he'd get on well with MLG.

Ah yes, Illingsworthgate. Whatever people think of Nick (and the opinions are wide and often harsh) he got banned from owning a season ticket because of comments written on a website which were non-libellous and based in opinion only. So much for free speech (but then the embarrassing climbdown with The Sun didn't show too much good form in that area either).

Off the top of my head; corporate lounge refurb, training ground (maybe? can't recall exactly), this. Those were the ones that I can recall were published anyway. And the Adkins case still ongoing, of course.

Do you really imagine we didn't utilise any lawyers in the run-up to this case?

Your aim should be to get some new "material". This is just a tired and lazy effort at trolling.

It may well be uncommon, and call me old fashioned if you will, but I'd rather the club didn't act in a way that necessitated multiple out of court settlements and/or legal actions against it.