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Even the "non-professionals" were of a better class in Bournemouth. Didn't chew gum, didn't drink pints, had some basic cultural knowledge.

There was always a better class of crumpet in Bournemouth, I remember it distinctly.

As head coach and not a manager in charge of scouting and recruiting. Lowe should have sacked him as well, after the home disaster against Ipswich back in January 2006. He didn't and gets his share of the blame in Burley's continued single handed destruction of the club.

Which player?? I think the offers we got were totally derisory, 200/250K for Surman and Lallana or thereabouts. the time to get Billy Davies was last January, as we all know we got Gorman and Dodd and then Pearson, the latter having done a respectable job in the fact that we stayed up-just,but wasn't Billy Davies. Davies might have been able to do something with us at that time, including keeping us in the FA cup and getting us a big payday (TV and gate) and autofinancing his post. That debacle against B Rovers was a true disaster in every sense, presided over by Gorman, Dodd and probably McMenemy.

Norwich losing was a good thing for us. Barnsley's recent results are atrocious and they've lost their last 5 I think. I still see the 3 to go down as Charlton,Barnsley and Watford Norwich have a difficult programme (mind you so do we) and their fate will be dictated by just 2 games,those against Watford and Charlton. Brynn Gunn is not a good manager and has no experience, neither do the guys at Charlton or Watford (apart from being coaches or assistants). True they beat Barnsley but then so did we, Wolves are beginning to fall away (again) and the draw Norwich got with them was a fair bonus but no great shakes.

Another player that we turned into temporary bad news,still he's doing tidily now in the Prem or so it would seem.

Exactly, shouldn't still be here, not because he's a ***t but because he's an extremely bad footballer.This is where the old management have left a terrible legacy for the current one. There are bad players,some of whom may be bad people to boot,who we just can't weed out because they're on too much money to be of interest to anyone else. It's a problem we've had for several years. Players who were respectable and performed reasonably elsewhere have just turned into complete dump the moment they put a foot inside our club. I blame Burley of course. He is the root cause of all of our current problems. I also blame of course anyone who should have sacked him 2 years ago and didn't.

It's also fractionally less than a third of the season left, which is a third better again.Just now 2 good games could tip the balance for any of 5 or 6 teams. Where were you all in our Premiership days,get those Great Escape T-Shirts out and start remembering.

That would be the Atlanta Falcons then. Awful team on the whole but Matt Ryan did a fair old job with it.

I was just thinking a bit of footage from our Alehouse era might dispel a few notions of our "glory days". There were games, seasons and eras when we were absolute junk.Nobody moaned though, well not all day and every day anyway. Nobody called for George Reader,Alan woodford or Ted Bates to resign on an hourly basis. There was a time,when TB was thought or rumoured or asserted to being kept in the job because his Mrs held sway in the boardroom or amongst shareholders.¨Probably not true but it certainly did the rounds when we weren't playing well. Football is a subject in which opinion,discussion and memory sometimes get out of control.

What about that bloke who owns the Patriots, doesn't he want to buy a "soccer" team? Perhaps we could get Kaka on free agency for a couple of 2017/8 first round picks, or one of T-Tim's starlets in the draft.

You're probably missing some Friends repeats as well. Must be on a channel near you.

I am an awful typist, I may miss out letters, or put in ones which do not belong but those that should be there are,usually, in the right order albeit infested by a few that shouldn't be or should be but aren't if you catch my drift.. In my day educated men did not type,they dictated or wrote in longhand. I guess I never got on the space age bandwagon on that one. Do not forget, one of the Apollo missions failed to take off because there was a comma missing in the program controlling(cobol or fortran I suppose) the launch sequence.I probably went to school with that guy.

And did you get to play for the Saints?? I mean not the A's, the real thing (well at least the reserves)

I was thinking about the Euell situation whilst driving home from work this afternoon. When he got sent of it probably cost us about 50K (or more's) worth of useless idleness.That's between 2 and 3 months pay for a CCC standard player.One rash tackle and bye bye 50K into the pocket of an idle waster.

Not to mention Okehampton and Boghampton. Ex Liverpool fan apparently, strange that, rich Liverpool fans always buy other clubs and become lifelong supporters. Same sort of thing about rich mexicans, they become spaniards.

Having seen from casual observation of this forum and it's predecessor that such tidbits are always swallowed hook,line and sinker.

I don't care either way, as long as we start next season free of leeches like Euell,Thomas and Skacel it'll be OK with me.

Definitely,definitely,definitely. Nick I wouldn't have thought you'd fall into the old definitely trap. God how that irks me that intelligent people can't spell that particular word. The rest I don't care about but it's pronouced definitely and can't even be the victim of transatlantic phonetic spelling.

£1, someone just told you that. He undertook to invest 30 million over a lengthy period of time. Which hasn't ended yet.

No it was explained to us last Summer by ones of superior knowledge. That nigh on everybody chose to ignore the fact and carry on thinking whatever suited their personal agenda is nor here nor there. JF was discussed on this (or the other) forum last summer and this fact was made known to us, by who?I can't remember.

26: seems like a good number.

Has not the "eco-tax", popular in mainline EU countries, reached the UK yet then. New tyres are taxed to recycle old ones, electronic gadgetry is taxed to recycle last year's model which is now a dinosaur and worth f**k all. You buy new light bulb, there's a tax to recycle the old one that you're going to throw in the dustbin even though you know you shouldn't do that. You chuck a battery in the trash in Germany, a couple of months later some inspector is going to come round and bite your ass over it. I've heard that there's a town in Germany that even tracks dog shît.DNA tests are mandatory on all dogs and they analyse the crap on the pavement.

Nope, as per usual in that sort of calculation you've forgotten to take out the VAT. If the £300 includes VAT you'd need 7843 tickets to make up the £2 million.

Meaning we have the most debt or the least revenue? If it's the latter I don't think it's the case.