Greenridge

I'm in Geneva all week, I'll let you know first hand I'd be more than a little surprised if NC wasn't 'ruthless' afterall you don't find many large company CEO's, Chairmen, MD's etc who aren't. Whether he is any more 'ruthless' is yet to be determined and the only 'evidence' being provided so far is his spat with the Daily Echo which seems more childish than ruthless and the fact he got rid of Wotte straight away. Then again that seems normal protocol in similar circumstance.

I would hope that he doesn't plan to adopt a promotion at all costs strategy...we have seen the downside of this approach all too often. We need a team that will get us out of League 1 then I am sure we will see another team for getting out of the CCC and so on. Some players will make the transition, some won't. We started the season slowly and of course we had the -10 so for me this season looks beyond us especially considering our recent performances. Other than circumstantial evidence however there is nothing to support your view he took the cheap option on recent signings. There could be a 101 reasons why other targets didn't come to fruition.

Did we establish yet why he has been given the label of 'ruthless'? Was it his arranging of tea and biccies at the ticket queues last week or arranging for all the ticketing staff who worked the long hours to be treated to a meal in the Channon suite?

I think this is where a lot of the problems lie. Look at Birmingham, something like 13 games unchanged and it's not doing them any harm. AP seems to have the ability of indentifying and signing good individual players but slotting them into the team and finding the right team formation seems a little way off at the moment. More time needed.

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=20047

And of course we do NOT know the answer on this one and it get's a little tiring to hear such supposition. NC and ML don't seemt the type to penny pinch a few 10's or even the odd 100K considering what they have invested so far in the Club. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever that they would adopt such a strategy.

Yes it's quite unusual for a new management team to bring in their own man.

That's 'ruthless'? Thanks, I was under the impression he had fired a lot of under-performing staff in his short time here.

Could you quote some examples of his 'ruthless character'?

You really are a grade one plonker.

As you say it would be foolish to give up and I'm sure we won't but we are a lot closer to fourth bottom than 6th top and this result probably means our push for promotion will have to be the 2010/11 season.

Very good, like that. The background my need to be a little lighter for reproduction clarity but very classy.

...and the implication is that they have to start paying off the £3.5M fee with immediate effect...ooops

I believe Avram is looking to join us....

I guess we'll be losing some capacity due to segregation.

It's like a scratched record, very monotomous and predictable. I've not a lot of time for LM but I respect what he did for The Clubs history and don't feel the need to raise the topic at every tenous opportunity and train crash each and every thread with the same diatribe. Welcome back NC.

Why is it unthinkable? What purpose do the Daily Echo serve anymore? At best they are 24 hours behind with the news which makes it tomorrows fish and chip paper. I don't agree with the spat that NC and The Echo are having but at the same time it doesn't give me nightmares, let the two parties involved worry about it, not us.

Looks like they are stalling by applying for a delay in the HMRC proceedings planned for next week....

It's not a pointless thread due to whether or not certain regimes have 'acted even handedly' but because the argument SOG put up was shown to be incorrect. That is the point not whether you are pro RL or NC which is neither here nor there. READ the posts it will become clear.

Read Wes Tender's post #1.....it somewhat highlights why SOGs OP is baseless and therefore pointless. It's not a question of RL vs NC, it's a question of stating facts rather than trying to massage something to fit an agenda. There are numerous posts on this thread that put SOGs argument to bed. And as has been pointed out by others 'twaddle' is very polite indeed

Enlighten us to what is 'interesting' about the post John. Before you do though take a minute or so to read the few posts after yours and you will see that SOG is really talking twaddle I'm afraid.

Have you considered it could be purely coincidental that in the two examples you quoted it transpired that the 'cheaper' of the players were signed. I think you are missing some basic understanding of transfer conditions if you are thinking the transaction price is the be-all and end-all indicator (even though you state this yourself?). There is huge difference between spending little or no money as certain previous regime's have done as opposed to spending wisely and not being taken for a ride just because we have a few pennies in the bank. It's called astute business practice.

And it doesn't really aid the debate when mods join in with 'brik-brats' as well. He may not be everyone's cup of tea but he's asked two reasonable questions in the opening post that don't deserve the mandatory 'you don't go to games so can't contribute' type statements. The 'I'm better than you' fans had hopefully been a thing of the past but prehaps not. Back to the questions posed then it would seem that Connelly is continuing to struggle with niggling injuries which is why his contract was structured as it was. You can't show 'form' in training. You can show effort, desire, enthusiasm and fitness but not form. Hopefully Barnard will give us the additional fire power we need after being a little light in personnel with the departures of Saga and Paterson.

Pardew: ''We are now finished for this second half of the season in terms of transfers....''

Bridge split from her at Xmas so I guess you can work out the answer from there Westy?