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Cheers chaps.

Or maybe they are getting promotions and bonuses but, unsurprisingly and due to historical actuality, the majority of executives in organisations are still white blokes. Unless someone can show that BAME people are paid less than non BAME people for doing the same job it's all a little pointless (same as the gender reports).

It would be pretty odd if they were.

That guy was completely out of his depth. Incoherent, rambling and unable to debate sensibly. Obviously he's not alone in that but he was a complete waste of a seat.

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Ronaldo raped Ched Evans?

Actually, yeah! I'd do them a chocolate "log". A real Cleveland Steamer of a cake. With **** in t'batter and red and white icing inside. With the white made out of jizz and the red made out of dirty blood. The ****ing ****ers.

I, for one, would not make a skate cake. So I have to agree with the decision.

Probably go with a PIE for that, rather than a cake. Unless the aim is to entice kids.

****ing travesty really. Glad we were in it when we were!

Check a traaaaade. Check-a-trade dot com.

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Agree with all that but we would need decisive leadership to deliver that and we don't seem to have it.

We've won 5 league matches from the last 39 so I would suggest a winning streak is looking unlikely.

Don't get me wrong, I don't want an owner who makes a tit of himself by spouting off and not delivering, like Everton or West Ham have. I don't want Gao getting personally involved in footballing decisions where he has no expertise. What I do want, though, is some sense that he has any purpose or clue whatsoever because at the moment it just looks like he just wanted to get some cash out of China and give his domestic profile a boost. Why has Kat kept 20%? Presumably because he couldn't meet the asking price. It all looks rather odd.

The decline is due to player recruitment failures and managerial appointment failures. Those failures have been exacerbated by a leadership vacuum which means nothing has been done to address the underperformance. Koeman did a cracking job and managed to bring in the likes of Tadic, Pelle and Van Dijk who did very well for reasonable fees. Quite simply, from that point on our recruitment has been rubbish. Not just in terms of quality of player but also getting the right mix of characters. Couple that with bull about the managers (remember the return to an exciting, attacking style of football under Pellegrino?!) and it isn't pretty. We've still had the odd success. Ings is a good signing, so is McCarthy and Gunn looks like a top prospect. But we've signed loads of garbage. Arguably we had been so successful that we were due a drop-off but we haven't acknowledged that our approach is failing and mixed up our strategy. We were desperately weak at centre back and kept looking for relative European bargains when perhaps we should have gone for a grizzly old PL stalwart. Same for central midfield. We've now got a squad of players where only two or three of them have any track record of decent Premier League perfoemances, week in week out. That's a gamble, and it's an unnecessary gamble when you've established yourself in the top flight.

Yes, but they did some of those too and didn't get booked!

Do you really think he would have spent 5 years sulking if he thought we were serious?

Signing Cahill would signal a change of approach. It would make sense but would also be an acknowledgement of failure from Les and Wee Ross. Cahill plus a strong midfielder with leadership qualities and we would look half decent. Cedric---Yoshi/Vest-Cahill---Bertrand ---------------------New------------------------- -------Hoybyeeeerg--Lemina----------- -Gabbi/Mo -----Ings----------Redmond That should be plenty good enough to finish safely.

Personally, I would have let him see out his contract. I would have issued a statement saying that we are happy when our players get recognised by top clubs and we understand we are a stepping stone. We expect, however, that when a player signs a new long-term contract they give their best until we agree to sell. I'd have told Van Dijk to look at the Schneiderlin situation and that if he gives us a proper year of effort we'll consider selling the following summer. I wouldn't have issued some bull**** about him and Hoedt forming a great partnership. That's what I would have done. Can't see him being prepared to sit around doing **** all with the reserves for 5 years.

He did play advantage. Then Bertrand fell over so he gave the original foul. So he did exactly what you're saying he should have done. There wasn't a "second one". The ref booked too many of our players - in particular, the Lemina booking was soft as anything - and not enough of theirs but he didn't give any big decisions against us. If anything, he helped us by not giving them either of their two decent penalty shouts and not sending Ings off. On their second goal, there was some blocking by Luiz but it was fairly minor in the context of the typical shenanigans that go on in the box and the ref can't see everything. People complaining about offside just don't understand how that rule is applied nowadays.

Correct.

Thought the ref got it right. The first challenge was a foul and it was roughly where the free kick was taken. Bertrand made himself look like a complete tool and picked up an idiotic yellow card. Smart captain.

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