Greenridge

I like this but would prefer to see a slight modification to the stripes as it reminds me a little of the Tesco Value brand

All with different men at the helm both in footballing terms and upstairs so no real trend to analyse.

The opening few comments from Lawrie seem fairly typical of his veiled digs at the current regime, he still struggles to surpress his feelings.

Doesn't deserve a thread of it's own and as this is a Championship Manager thread it seems appropriate here......Shearer is in talks to take over from Dave Jones at Cardiff. Seems a bit left-field that one.

Birmingham apparently seeking permission to talk to Steve Cotterill to fill their vacancy

Why?

NC has made it a policy to conduct his dealings off the radar and without the need to fuel gossip and speculation. Don't see any reason why he should change this approach.

Why?

So in only 10 weeks that Pearson was here you are able to determine that Adkins is head and shoulders above him? Interesting.

Not sure on what you base this argument, you can't use stats as they both were at the Club at very different times under very different circumstances. Well done to both, two of our best managers in recent times.

Was impressed with Stephens, alot of the play went through him, nice and simple, kept it moving. I honestly wasn't impressed with Dickson but seeing as pretty much everyone has him as their MOTM I'll shut up lol! I also thought Richardson offered little going forwards but all in all a very tidy and competent performance and afterall you can only beat what's in front of you.

Apparently originally commissioned to go in Harrods before he sold it off so he put two and two together and came up with FLC lol!

He would get paid his full current contract either way, just a question of how much the two clubs split the costs. Never heard of a player getting loaned out and receiving a lower salary whilst still having a valid contract at the parent club.

Isn't the plan for him to come on loan, at least initially in which case his wage will be guaranteed at his current contract rate, just a question for SFC and Reading to thrash out who pays what. Whatever may or may not happen at the end of the loan period is another matter for negotiation altogether.

It is of course premature to be even thinking about a change, NA needs time to mould this team and to decide on his best 11 which I don't think he has at this point in time. I was chatting with someone last week about the players Adkins has brought to the Club in his short time here and other than Butterfield I couldn't recall which of the players he brought in is getting a regular game? Can someone with a better grasp on the comings and goings clarify this?

This is about a Football Club not a Company...oh wait lol. It's about PR and it wouldn't have taken much to have a couple of people there representing the current set-up regardless of any other factors. Now I'm not a LMcM fan but I do appreciate what he and all the other attendees have done for our Club in the past. Whether Cortese had good reason to be, shall we say, frustrated with some of the attendees recent vocal angst against the club he could easily, very easily, have turned this into a positive PR of the Club (and himself) rather than, at best, a split view on his actions.

It's clear from reading the many opposing posts on this thread that whilst Cortese has demonstrated strong and determined leadership he is clearly lacking in accepting that positive PR will do him no harm whatsoever. It wouldn't have taken much to send a couple of 'official' representatives to this celebration evening, indeed he could have attended himself I guess, depending on his circumstances. It just seems so strange to 'appear' to actively alienate The Club in circumstances like this when, with no real effort required, he could have made everyone happy.

More importantly who was the presenter of the program? Truly awful!

Yes that would be good although I was more referring to Martin...

The loan window opens in a weeks time I believe

I think it's this thread that is causing all the problems

It was an L1 team

In relative terms a completely fair comparison

Expect to see him to go out on loan which was due to happen last week.

Just playing devils advocate but even SSN seems to be struggling to keep up tonight