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I hope this is fairly low down on your list of concerns as I can't see it changing for the foreseeable future.

Not sure what "PR Management" has to do with this. If the club needs to get a message out then there are many more appropriate and efficient ways than using a local paper to do so. Unless it is actually believed that the club not talking to the local paper is bad PR??

The Echo reneged on an agreement with the club. The role of the local paper is diminishing, whoever within the The Echo decided to go against the clubs wishes basically cut the papers own throat. The club may look petty but the Echo look very dumb in all of this.

Sir Alex Ferguson didn't speak with the BBC for years.

As I type 75% of the 800 respondents from Saintsweb forum back Nigel - given our current circumstance that is as clear an indicator of the fans opinion of the man that you will see. Maybe I'm having a sentimental moment but that does make me a bit proud of what our club is and what our supporters believe in.

J-rod is probably better in defence

Thanks for clarifying WG :toppa:

Delldays - TCM posed the question as to why Chelsea had not gone out and spent £30m and bought a CB from Juve or Real... I wondered if the £25m they spent on David Luiz from Benfica counted.

I've no idea what you are talking about.

Now that would depend on who Grandad was responding to. I read it as Grandad preferring Premiership Quality rather than Premiership Experience. You've read the opposite. Easy mistake that one of us has made.... not sure how that makes me a fool though. Nice of you to point it out though.

Someone like Benfica? For say about £25m?? With no Premiership experience??? I must be making this up or did they really sign David Luiz.

Grandad gets it. Shame Austria's finest and TCM can't quite grasp it.

Ahhhh nice, group hug

Thank you for your kind observation. You've also made it clear that the likes of Hazard and Oscar are thriving at Chelsea because they are surrounded by those with Premiership experience, even if the majority of those surrounding them did not have previous premiership experience. I was errant with my thoughts that it was because they were quality players and would improve any team they played in. Thank god Cahill was playing otherwise what buffoons Chelsea would be looking right now. Please carry on casting your expert eye on my posts, I'm learning so much here.

Cech and Terry didn't have previous Premiership experience. Lampard is a bit part player now in Chelsea's best team for quite a few seasons. But apart from that I take your point.

Daniel Fox and Kelvin Davis have previous premiership experience.

Loving this aggressive style Alpine. (Trying to keep this on track) From your stained chair in Austria, do you honestly believe Ramirez is sh*t? Do you not think the money spent on Nathaniel Clyne is money very well spent? Neither have previous Premiership experience, neither would look out of place in all bar the top 4 sides.

As much I'm naturally geared to PMA and as much as I'd love to agree with you I believe we need a minor miracle to stay up. We're just back from an international break where all our defence (bar Fox) would have been in training, plenty of time to sharpen things up and tighten it up at the back and yet we gifted West Ham 3 goals.

That's it, I've requested refractions for you. Insubordination such as this should not be tolerated. Kick it out!

Please stop ganging up on Alpine. Yes his point is flawed but don't expect him to stick to the original point and accept he was wrong.

So. my. point. is. clear.. Premiership. experience. does. not. equal. success.. Quality. equals. success..

And their best performance...

Oh please stop abusing me, nasty man. I laugh at your counter argument though. Chelsea's line up in their mauling of Spurs: Cech (no prem experience), ivanovich (no prem experience), cahil, luiz (no prem experience), cole, ramires (no prem experience),mata (no prem experience),oscar (no prem experience), mikel (no prem experience), hazard (no prem experience), torres (no prem experience before being a success at liverpool).

What's a desert spoon? Is it used for collecting and dispensing sand??

Yeah because the secret to any teams success is to sign Premiership players. Chelsea have been cr*p since signing all those non-premiership players. Who should we burn??