Greenridge

John you say you are interested in the future but spend the majority of the time trying to defend the indefensible. History has shown that Lowe has made a catalogue of mistakes that have compounded the mistakes that others also made during his absence from the Chair. If shaving a few £10's of K's of the coaching budget has meant relegation do you think this is money well spent because the banks certainly didn't.

Congratulations to NP and Leicester. A club model we should follow next season without any eccentric experiments. Disappointing to see that this thread has also been invaded by the top angler fishing for bites. The thread is to congratulate NP not make petty snidey comments. Start a new one for that if you really feel the need.

It was an away game or did that element go over your head? It was also a very well supported away game. When you have lost any possibility of a structured argument I guess all you have left to blame is the fans eh Sunny D.

What an absolutely horrorific performance....

As you rightly point out Chez it was potentially a completey false economy and if (we will never know of course) it is the difference between CCC status and Lge 1 then it really was a myopic strategy. They could quite easily of found the £200K (if it really needed to be found) somewhere in amongst Pekhart, Pulis, Forecast et al

Sounds positive. Looking on SSN stats I see they show possession as something like 59/41 in favour of Watford.

Mr Fry must be your man I imagine

...and of course the PLC came in to being many years before the points deduction system was introduced so any benefit that comes is purely by chance and not intentional?

...I guess the argument is if we go down this year that will be twice

An interesting summary by Samuel and goes to demonstrate that the likely outcome is far from concluded. I have to agree that they are stalling for time in the hope that we'll go down and then they'll be able to close the loop hole for future, similar scenario's.

Is this John B?

I don't think anyone's trying to run him out of the club, the original poster raised a valid question as to why his form has dipped which is patently the case. Just a point for discussion nothing more sinister. He will come good again, he probably has a greater chance than any to make the grade but whether it's confidence, tactics, injuries, socialising, Johnny big time-itis or whatever then at the moment it's not happening for him. A good man-manager should be in a position to spot the cause and help him come out of the other side.

That's exactly how he has come across I agree. Such a shame when he could be using these interviews to benefit the Club rather than massage his own bruised and deflated ego.

UP maybe you could keep the teams that played in blue in the stats but not those in red or white or yellow. Or maybe it was the other way round I'm not sure but some combination (other than those that showed the increase under Crouch of course) will please your debating opponents I'm sure...

Now that IS funny

Sorry, I'm trying to keep track of all the threads running so may have missed what the outcome of the 10:00am Press Conference was? Did it go ahead?

I think post #55 is relevant. But that's not really the point of this thread. Now is not the time for petty point scoring (the team excepted of course!), it's a time to try and unite the fan base and maybe, just maybe the departure of RL and MW can lead to this but whether it's too late only time will tell.

I see they've resigned from both the PLC and the Football Club board.

Does he have any regrets about not letting Sundance Beast join his gang at school?

Absolutely. Orchestrated by that great visionary Graham Kelly. And let's not forget he was forced to resign along with our very own Keith Wiseman.

Mmm, I'm not so sure we've seen the last of the our saviour.

Oh dear, you couldn't make it up.

Cutting costs is an extremely simple task. Cutting costs whilst maintaining an acceptable level of performance both on and off the field is not. We do not appear to have achieved the latter.

Can you imagine the implications of that happening, I would think even the most ardent fans of those two would find that difficult to stomach. Something is up though as you say, the timing is 'intriguing' as will our popularity within the game if we escape the 10 point deduction through something that can only be considered a technicality. You would have to think the Board have taken some very knowledgeable advice on this matter to take the risk they can carry it off.

Strangely that whilst he may not have communicated his thoughts in the most constructive manner much of what he said has turned out to be true much too the disgust of those who opposed his opinions.