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What does any of that have to do with Hull having a better season than us. There is more to a season than league position. Hull are off to Wembley and will probably make a cup final with a great chance to win it. They will remember that for years.

Here is another person overestimating the influence of this place. It's just a bunch of blokes who should know better with some time on their hands taking the p*ss and analysing stuff to do with SFC. It's not really affecting anything is it and has precisely zero effect on the current and previous chairman's behaviour.

brilliant. If I got a load of spam texts from my boss every day I would be mightily p*ssed off.

Bit rich considering the endless paragraphs of nothing you normally serve up.

Chelsea are never going to just spend what they earn. They are going to find ways around the FFP, it is obvious.

Yep and that's why I said earlier this would be a frustrating day for the win at any cost fans.

What is most remarkable is that he gave it away to the world for free. An unbelievable act tbh.

Corpy isn't happy over on pol... I disagree that we should support Barker. Not only have we not imroved since sacking GW (which was the right thing to do) in the points per game we're achieving Barker's dour, turgid style of play is driving people away from FP and will without doubt see a fall in ST renewals for next season. I suspect the board realise this and that's why Catlin issued his "more money to spend on players" rallying call earlier this week. People seem to be suggesting that the style of football will somehow miraculously transform next season once Barker can bring in new players. He's brough in almost a full team of his own men and there's been no improvement at all. He's allegedly tightened up the defence but our GD has failed to improve in the slightest so the net gain once again is nothing. We've scored 7 goals in our last ten games which shows a pathetic lack of threat and to help address this Barker has sent the only two natural goalscorers we have on the books out on loan - where both have scored several goals. Not only are we not scoring, we're not even threatening to score. In the last three games we've managed 4 shots on target. That's four on target efforts in 270 minutes play. Or one every 67 minutes. Twenty or so games into his reign I can see no evidence of any progression under Barker, no style of play emerging, no method to his team selections and no promise. His style of play at Crawley was described as defensive & dour and his lat seven games there resulted in one goal. Why should we support this man? Nothing, absolutely nothing I've seen or read about him since he's been here makes me think he will bring success to this club. His churlish comments blaming previous managers, players and the Dalai Lama for poor performances are just the icing on an extremely **** cake

It depends who we sell how many we sell and who we replace them with. Nowhere near as black and white as you suggest.

Good news. If he doesn't want to go then he won't be sold.

Not sure what else you would have wanted him to say. Set out his vision for success, outlined his philosophy and said there was a lot that needed doing on the commercial side of things.

Well said Adrian. Good post.

Thanks for the advice but I'm not in any sort of frenzy. A frenzy was the way people reacted after that nauseating pr piece on the BBC a few months back. As I have a background in pr I have my eyes wide open thanks very much and of course actions will speak louder than words. I like what I have read and heard about this guy though and as an initial statement it is exciting and seemingly a very positive and refreshing change.

Although neither are comparable or in any way linked...

Because he wants to go? Lovren was not raised in the Southampton way but he is bloody brilliant.

Have you listened to the interview? Because it sounded the polar opposite of what I heard from cortese. As wes said in another thread, this should hopefully be more exciting because he is goibg to keep the business acumen whilst respecting and including the fans and respecting the history of the club.

In league 2! Ha sometimes I have to pinch myself. What an absolutely awful team and a nightmare for them. I hope they are still in league one and two in a decade, then we will see how loyal their fans are...

Dare I say the return of the fans forum?

Cortese never gave a toss about anything other than on the pitch success. Today is a blow for the success at any cost types but is a hugely satisfying and exciting day for the rest.

Excellent. Believes true success is on and off the pitch, he believes in openness and strongly believes that fans are more than customers and should be treated with respect. That is already a huge difference between him and cortese and it bodes really well.

Well they have said pretty much all I wanted to hear. My main gripes with cortese was his lack of respect for our history, the way he treated fans and business associates and the lack of communication from the club in general. It seems that this has been recognised and we should hopefully retain our vision and business acumen whilst gaining some humanity and openness. Very exciting and it looks like Duncan has been getting all depressed over nothing.

Since when has that ever stopped anyone at sms? If anything that would make it more popular.

Exactly. If we hired dave Brailsford as chairman this would be met with excitement and interest. This appears to be a similar sort of appointment imo and could be a shrewd move. The most important thing is to get pochetinno to sign a new contract as that will be a statement if intent.

Pompeys case as has been outlined numerous times is completely different as you well know.

It doesn't matter if Hull fans admire us. If they win the cup this year they would never swap for anything we have got and I would agree with them.