benjii

What a waste of space this thread is. Can't be arsed to read the recent pages but unless someone is prepared to confirm the reason for any banning then we have no idea if it's justified or not. It might be, it might not. Dunno.

Maybe it is costing them nothing? ie, no loan fee and no wages. If that's the case it's hard to think of any rationale why it shouldn't be allowed. The article thanks Tony Pulis for making it happen so it sounds like the terms are, er generous. Alternatively, it hasn't been ratified and they're just being silly buggers.

Possibly a fairly accurate summary IMO.

My point is that NI's post seems to say that he hasn't managed to speak to anyone about this *****il yesterday). I find that extraordinary. If you phone the number given for the ticket office on the website you will speak to someone. I'm wondering if he did that? If you are complaining to a company you don't demand to speak to the CEO (or whoever, "senior management") you follow their complaints/enquiries procedure and if you're not getting anywhere you escalate it. If he's not been able to speak to someone after three weeks of trying then I would suggest he has been phoning the wrong people.

Exactly!

Indeed, if all the grounds for appeal need to be examined in court (ie if HMRC don't get a simple slam-dunk on the factual questions around voting procedures) there's no way they will be finished in one day. The issues around football creditors voting are complex and require in-depth legal argument.

That is certainly a valid point - there is no doubt the PL is an international brand and players images are worth something overseas. I've no idea what the tax implications are around that though. BUT It still doesn't get around the fact that they appear to have paid more than Man U did. I still think Rooney is worth more in Malaysia than Hayden Mullins. HMRC are not challenging the concept here (they might another time) - they're challenging the amount.

Nah. Loads of things that get discussed on here are completely irrelevant. But that's not the point, we weren't talking about relevance, we were talking about credibility which is something quite different.

No, it says he's been trying to contact "senior management". Bit strange, that. I think you'll find that many companies try to protect their branding. NI got slated on here for recent fan events. Do you think the club really want any risk of their own brand being associated with those events?

Steve, what a terrible argument. Truly, a nonsense argument.

5. Despite repeated e mailed requests to various members of senior management at the club and attempts to speak to them on the phone I again have received no reason for this happening or until yesterday anyone who would actually acknowledge my correspondence. Why's he trying to speak to "senior management" over a ticketing issue? Surely a trip to the ticket office or a phone call to the ticket office would result in an immediate response instead of pestering "senior management"? Maybe doing what any normal fan would do, as opposed to an uber-fan, may have been the better option. This whole episode seems unfortunate but I'm not going to lose any sleep over it until I hear both sides to the story. As I'm unlikely to hear the club's side of the story (it being none of my business), I doubt I will ever really care one way or the other.

@ reporting the agent. I would be a bit surprised if the case concludes one way or the other in a one day hearing too.

So, it's all a load of rubbish? Wow, what a surprise.

He's quite a raw player. In the same way that Beattie was. He doesn't look like someone with naturally soft feet. I've seen him play several times. That said, he has attributes we need. He might never be a Premier League star but if he helps us get promoted who cares. I have no doubt that our squad will be stronger with him in it and our chances of promotion will be greater. So sign him up!

+ 1,000,000,000

Sometimes the mind boggles!

Secretly, I am quite happy that you can now order from TKMaxx online.

wtf?!

I'd always assumed it was fairly pricey, property wise. It would have to be a nice area of Bournemouth to meet my high standards, of course. Could be tempting one day...

Really? Is Bournemouth that cheap?

Bascially, as I said... both seem a bit ****e!

"everyone involved in this will realise that there is more to gain by coming to some sort of compromise or deal " - that could be where he is wrong and could well be the nail in their coffin.

Sonko can't be joining Bristol. The FL are bending over backwards to make him join Skates. OldNick says so!