benjii

I will be in Borough on Saturday evening. No plans for the Sunday night yet - any good shouts?

Aye Swindon away reminded me of the times I used to go to early League Cup away ties when we were in the Prem. That sinking feeling that no player is going to do themselves justice, that a less talented team will do you because they're better organised, that the home fans will be talking about beating Southampton. Absolutely gutting.

Fair points - that away leg was amazing, despite the result. I'll tell you what: JPT win this year Auto promotion next year Championship play-offs the year after How does that grab ya

That's rubbish. If he was, his analysis wouldn't extend beyond, "we'll be wanting to score more than them", "we'll not be wanting to concede one".

There must be a possibility that PFC still owe them £250k (or more) and they are simply willing to waive that final payment upon cancellation now of the loan ie. they don't think they'll get paid so they might as well get their man back.

Now you've embarrassed yourself in front of all the grown-ups.

That would be absolutely extraordinary and quite, quite wrong on many grounds.

Unacceptable IMO. Dire and defensive. We need width. Width and pace. Pace and width's what you need. And samba skills. And width and pace.

I have no idea why you think Pardew has been negative, at least since we got our team settled anyway. We have been playing with two out and out strikers and two wingers with licence to roam. Hammond is encouraged to get in the other team's box regularly. We have full-backs popping up in the six yard box to slot home tap-ins. It's hardly cattanacio. On Sunday we will pick the team most likely to win the match based on who's available. No doubt it will not be wide enough for you.

They took a throw-in. The guy receiving the ball decided he wanted to take it so caught it and then retook it. The ref allowed it. They scored. It rained that day too.

Barborne, Punchard, Seabsemibor and Otsemcheon

But they weren't sufficiently distracted not to win the game, so it's really not a problem. There will only ever be one final in a cup. There will only ever be one game immediately before a final. We won it. So it's a moot point.

Why?

That's a new one :confused:

Agreed. Although the original post raised a valid point, any advers effects of the JPT have, so far as I can see, been limited to the one match. Which we won anyway.

Pretty conclusive there that Gaydamak is viewed as un unsecured creditor by Andronikou. If the unsecured debts are £85m then I wonder who the other creditors are apart from Gaydamak and HMRC. If we use the figures of £30m and £20m for ease then there's another £35m of unsecured debt out there?! We know Sol is claiming a couple of mill (although I'm not sure if it is actually agreed that that debt is owing). Local trades etc will be owed a bit but certainly not millions, you would have thought. Are there a lot more football debts then? That's bad news for them as they will need to be settled in full or it's further points penalty/demotion time. If they aren't football debts then maybe the £30m that Gaydamak claimed to have written off from his original £60m-ish was contingent on payment of the installments of the remainder being made on time? Maybe he's in fact on the books at £60m again? Who knows! Either way, £100m, that's a shocking figure!

This.

Andronikou sounds mental in that interview.

Better start clearing space on the mantle-piece for the Employee of the Month award FF!

I think we should table a "job lot" offer. Just for laughs.

Steve Finnan would be useful. It might actually be worth a cheeky bid! Other than that, I genuinely don't think they own anyone much better than what we have. Their strikeforce is rented. Their best midfielder is rented. Their defence is useless.

Yes, on the wider scale I agree with you completely. Still, pleased about the PFC situation!

Probably dislikes Rupert Lowe. That's fair enough! Seeing as anyone with half a sense of decency agrees that we deserved the points punishment, even if the law didn't really allow for it to be applied, I don't see why he continues to get a hard time.

Also, it's hardly against the club is it? The underlying premise is that we have a team and manager on the way back up. It is a personal attack on Cortese full of lazy rhetoric about bankers and apparently outraged that Alan Pardew wasn't name-checked often enough in the other interview. It employs a load of ridiculous hyperbole that suggests NC doesn't know what he's doing and for some reason conflates that with the fact that our financing comes from someone other than NC. Rather odd as the fact that the financier trusts NC to deal with his money, having worked with him for many years, surely speaks much louder than the obese raspings of a far-off observer.

Samuel's article is as lazy as his picture suggests he is.