Micky

I love your wit sir. They are currently struggling to put out a fukkin' 5 a side team and the only buxom thing around will be AA's pay packet once he has left them high and dry - geeze, wotamess...!!!

Can't see any VFM there at all....

Had to laugh at this comment though: Jagermeister, 19/07/2010 12:38:21 Nugent will be fine in the Championship no questions asked. Needs 6 or 7 games to get match fit and will be gr8. If we can keep him he will be good for 25+ goals and if we can sort our def and midfield and keep David James we will have a good chance of promotion. Come on offer DJ coaching job or whatever it takes to keep him, he will be worth 20+ points alone between the sticks Ummm so the plan is - Jamo keeps 'em out at one end, Nugent bangs them in at 'tother and all will be well. My I laughed...!

Some pics here: http://www.fcsochaux.fr/fr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1888&Itemid=106 Obviously biased towards FC Sochau, but worth a look anyway.

Simple really: P 46 HW 23 HD 0 HL 0 F 90 A 0 AW 23 AD 0 AL 0 F 90 A 0 Pts 138 Anything less will simply be failure and should result in AP and NC out FFS...!

Errr what...??? He and his team had a decent game, refereeing THE biggest game on the planet. The players made it a fractuous affair with constant fouling and calling for cards. He did very well to keep all the players on the field for as long as he did. There is no bigger game than that that he has just officiated at - so you could well be right in a way - he won't get a bigger game.

Indeed, congrats to the Kiwi's.

Practice by slinging it up in the garden before you go: Looks fairly easy to me...!

I would tend to agree, but if the quotes in the article are true, it would appear that they could be in line to get at least 7 million for him. If RH has put that figure in the quote to 'test the water', then PFC have to make a serious decission as to whether they accept or hold out for even more and risk losing the deal altogeather. Either way 7 million is a lot more than most on here thought he would go for, but on the other hand the article might hold no substance whatsoever.

And that, according to the article, is a low bid, so perhaps some have under-estimated thier ability to raise the 15 million.

Muted celebrations here in Germany - I think they really thought they were in for a shot at the big one. That said, a fairly young team that did very well all told.

Errrr personally methinks he tells many many porkies....!

Yeah I know - but you really shouldn't wish this wacko on anybody. Looking at that website I'd rather have my 6 year old son calling the shots - he'd do a better job (ohhh and probably a better 'Blueprint for Success' lmao).

If you check out the IBASE website you can see that it is a very professionally run operation...! Strangley though, until recently there was at least three directors listed there, they seem to have now disappeared and the only contact details available is mark@ibase - strange eh...! http://www.ibaseuk.com/index.html Mind you if you want a boat that's the place to go, they can buy you one of those too...!!! I feel for the AFCB fans - this guy is a complete wacko.

Have nothing but praise for the man (and NC as well). Just think, we could have been a year down the line under the stewardship of Pinnacle and probably further in the mire than we were. Thank you Markus and Nicola.

Bit of an air of depression around here right now - best get a beer and slope off to bed before the locals kick off...!!!!

I'm not bothered either way - but I should warn you that at the last WC Final I was in Lake Garda surrounded by Italians - they won it, this year I will be in Germany for the Final....! Should have been 2 nil there....

Oooooo errrrr it's all gone quiet over here right about now..... I'm driving a dutch registered car as well which will probably get trashed in the car park now - doooooh...!!!

I'm currently in Germany and the locals are getting wrestless...!

He did have a sly dig in the press, but nothing more. To be honest sometimes people deserve such treatment and it was pretty harmless to be honest. MLT took some pretty harsh critcism from some on here over his handling of the Pinnacle debacle - so the occasional 'slap on the wrist' or 'stern reminder' is hardly out of order really. Matt and Lawrie are both big lads - I'm sure that can look after themselves.

Have to say that I still find most of this stuff all very trivial, however I would like to know; 1. Is this pure autocracy on the part of NC, i.e. he took the decision(s) completely by himself, consulted nobody else and is solely responsible. FWIW, he himself may be against some or all of these moves, he might have argued against them, but been told to implement them by the owner. 2. Why all this vitriol against only NC, surely these decisions were agreed by the owner either way, yet he appears to come in for no critisism whatsoever.

Hate to say it but I don't think the guy cheated at all - if that is the case then every player who committed a tackle or handball anywhere on the pitch could be labelled much the same. The bottom line is he commited a foul (rule 12 I think) and the officials dealt with it correctly. Unfortunately for Ghana they were unable to convert the situation to thier advantage - which ultimately is a shame - but is also why millions upon millions watch the game. The word cheat is used far to readily - as SS has stated above, the guy had a split second to think about what he was going to do and then execute the action - he did not go through the game thinking 'I'm going to cheat in the 120th minute of this one'. It may seem a little hard to take, even distasteful to some - but if an England (or Saints) player had done the same I wonder if they would so readily be labelled.

The problem is hypo - every single decision is now being microanalysed with the end result that it is NC's fault - it's getting more than a little tedious. I know it's the close season, but honestly, do we really need endless threads all aimed at discrediting the same person? Yeah - I know - if I don't agree (or like it), don't bother commenting, but whilst my comment may have seemed ridiculous to you, it is a true representation of how I feel the general tone of this board is going of late. Apologies if you don't find this serious discussion.

Another great great thread. The Suite names have been changed (we think), nobody consulted us (again), somebody needs to get hanged for this decission. Just had a phone call from SMS, NC wants to go for a dump, anybody know who, on here, is on 'dump sanctioning' duty today?

Top idea - don't forget to p iss in the champers first though eh...!