hypochondriac

If he had left things alone I feel we would be doing better now. I realise that that is an opinion but it's an opinion I imagine which is shared by the majority.

Ask him if he is aware of the planned boycotts and the march last week where well over 1000 attended. Ask him if he would have sacked Pearson with hindsight. Ask him if he is aware just how many fans want him out. Ask him if he appreciates the title "Quisling".

Know what you mean wedgie, little bit of snow and Britain goes to hell!

Dam! Bugger **** Balls. What a terrible weekend now

But I would argue that at present Crouch is a better alternative to Lowe. Once agan I freely admit that neither are great but for the reasons I have already outlined surely he is better than this hate figure who will never give any hope within the club.

Forgot to mention that he is rather light on policies also... As much as we say to concentrate solely on the policies, the personalities have always been important. At the end of the day if I see someone like Cameron and I don't trust him, then why should I trust that he would keep to his promises? (oh and btw neither Labour or the Tories when they were last in power kept a whole host of their promises, I specifically read their manifestos just out of curiosity and it's all a load of rubbish.)

Can you see Nick how Lowe's position has now become untenable? Even on the remote chance that we start to improve, we will not have enough to win promotion to the Prem for a good few years and fans are so irritated by Lowe that they will not allow him the time to get there (and quite right too IMO). Eventually Lowe will have to leave so then it becomes a question of where he is going to leave us when he finally goes. I can't imagine anyone saying that he will leave us in a better position than when he came back in the summer, both in terms of league position and the feel good factor and optimism for the future. With Pearson Lowe had a win win situation if he was kept on. If we were doing better he would be praised for sticking with a manager and learning from his past mistakes. Do badly and he had the perfect excue to bring in the Dutch duo and could hide behind the fact that it was not his appointment. He chose not to do that and it was very foolish because it meant that he had to take all the blame if it went wrong (which it clearly has.)

It's a fair comment Frank. I am fully aware that either side would not be ideal. The problem we have is that there is no alternative so we must then choose which option is the least objectionable. With Lowe at the moment we have the protest marches, talk of boycotts and pitch invasions, the continuation of this Dutch and youth policy which is clearly not working and continuing disunity within the club. With Crouch we have the obvious sniping from the sidelines of the shunned party and a small group of disgruntled Lowe supporters. There have been rumours of poor financial management by Crouch but there have also been counter rumours that the bank were happy with Crouch as chairman.With Lowe we have a proven failure on more than on occasion but with Crouch there is no proof that he would fail if he was given another shot. In my opinion his big mistake was Dodd and Gorman but unlike Lowe he recognised his mistake and changed things before it was too late. I think this season has hurt more because it certainly seemed to me like we were beginning to turn the corner. I defy anyone on the pitch after the Sheffield United game to tell me that from that moment they were not feeling more positive about the future. There was a clear unity displayed and with Lowe coming back and acting in the way he has done has made things a lot lot worse than they would be. Regardless of who is right or wrong, the fan base and the club will be a lot more divided with Lowe in charge and that is the key issue for me.

That was an amusing analogy!

However bad Labour are I just cannot bring myself to vote for Cameron. There is something about him that I find odious and repugnant. Can't exactly put my finger on it but it's there ad everything he does just seems false to me.

I agree. The fact that he has now gone shows how much we are missing him IMO. I genuinely believe he tried to do what he thought was best for England (don't agree with everything he did but that's all I ask for from a leader because I am realistic.) I'm not sure I can say the same for Brown though.

He was quite happy for me to tell others about his views. I doubt he has anything to hide.

Both dark sotonic mills and 1 other pmd me to say that I had valid points and that if it was up to them it would be changed

Well then I have to ask at what point will things change? When quite a few choose not to renew? I think it makes sense to gain a consensus about where the forum is heading. It is run for us and we pay to use it so isnt it right that we should have a say?

But these issues were raised months ago and were just rejected.

Very true. I know that at least 2 (maybe three can't remember) mods/admin agree on this point.

I thought much the same. Every thread on the subject just descends into people taking the mickey. Bit sad IMO.

In the past there have been comments along the lines of "We are allowing you to use this site, it belongs to us." Just saying that this will undoubtedly changed now that we are all paying a fiver.

No reply?

Neither.

On average, we now get about 5 posts on the lounge per hour. It used to be much higher and thus the forum as a whole was a lot more interesting. It's quite sad.

There was certainly a lot lot more posts when it was just banter. As I said, the * rule worked well IMO.

So no then.

Yet one more person completely ignoring what I said. Did I say "Mclaggon is useless"? Or did I say he was useless yesterday? Two completely different things.

So now apart from the original poster not one person has sad he was excellent. I know who I would have my money on as someone who "Was watching a different game."