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They can’t wait to find an excuse for that can they. Bloody ridiculous. This might be the fixture they make s sacrifice of, in the interest of maintaining’the global appeal ..’ type of bollocks. Especially if they fear La Liga are gaining an advantage by playing fixtures out of Spain.

Good. At least it takes him out of reach of Rasmus.

Some good points. You can’t fault Dragan’s willingness to invest, but how it’s been done is dire. If only he rid himself of the Rasmus input things could possibly be different, although it seems we’re past that point now. For me Ankersen, and to a lesser extent Spors should be the targets. (Spors we don’t know how far if at all he’s working to the Rasmus blueprint). Last time we were lucky with Liebherr taking us over, could have been SISU or Fialka !!

Definitely seemed a turning point. Didnt it coincide with an interview with Ralph talking about his retirement in 18months also ? Perhaps pure coincidence, but certainly by the end of the season Ralph appeared to have had enough.

Another from Man City’s academy. Young, guaranteed to improve and sell in at great profit. Do we ever learn ?

Agree. With a leader at CB I think he might have developed into the player we hoped him to be. But put in amongst our spineless team the poor fucker was only going to go one way. Downhill like the rest.

Shame. Thought he had potential and would have done well with better management this season. We might see his career develop elsewhere and regret this.

I’d be inclined to view the playing conditions before pitching him in on Saturday. It would make sense to play him in many ways, but I wouldn’t risk him getting an injury on a frozen pitch. Although that would fit in with our luck and decision making. Injured GK for rest of season to join Stewart seems all too predictable.

Good idea, but who is going to sanction it ? The only person who might put this in place is Dragan, and as Dark Munster points out his chief adviser is the one who probably obstruct it. Why does Dragan or anyone else need input from a dinosaur like Warnock when they already have the genius of Rasmus on hand to tap into ?

You think we might win ?

Final comment on Tisdale, taken from a BBC article by Tom English (who was equally damning of Russell Martin, good read):

From what I remember from the time Cortese wasn’t sacked or kicked out. But he wouldn’t stay with Katherina Liebherr and her team overseeing the club, and its finances. Why ? I agree about our improvement under him, but shame he wasn’t prepared to remain and work with KL and her team. Interesting he hasn’t appeared at another club in the last 12 years.

Not sure Cortese would want to return with Dragan overseeing the club.

Having read this thread, and seen another on Sunday asking for the top three morons, the tune popping into my head, is Jilted John, and the continued : “Rasmus is a moron..” repeat ad nauseum

This is increasingly the sad reality of how many clubs, including us it seems are run. The DoF role seemed to start as an older head to offer guidance if needed to a younger manager, and a link between manager and board. Now as you say, it gives others, (often nerds and administrators) the option at playing at ‘football management’ without getting their hands dirty, or worst of all having to have any close day to day dealings with the players.