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Derby,Charlton and Watford, three recently relegated teams. Strange that, do fans of relegated teams have trouble adjusting to their reduced status and put too much pressure on the team by expecting too much. All three have also recently changed managers.

Do you honestly believe that they've nothing better to do all day than post on internet forums.I'm sure that if Mike Richards has something to say to us he'd use his own name. Andrew Cowen ?? I don't think so,the construction is far too chaotic in places for a really educated man..

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what this one ? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7842954.stm A snip at 30 million, can't even get a decent centre forward for that amount these days.

But we can't pay them. That's the problem. Whilst we have Euell,Skacel and Thomas hanging around for a Kings Ransom we have nothing,zero,zilch,nada whatever you want to call it. If we could afford better players we wouldn't have loaned out the ones we do own.We pay kids a couple of rupees a week. We employ players from sale bins in the bargain basement. I would think your average CCC player asks about 4K a week, we are paying about 500£ or so. Schneiderlin didn't cost very much until he make xx first team game and gets some France U21 caps. Strasbourg HAD to sell him because they were 6 million euros up the swanee and they don't mess about with that in France. If you can't balance your budget you can get relegated in the blink of an eye.Theyb sold whatever wasn't nailed down for whatever they could get-even on the never never, as long as we'd agreed to pay them a certain sum within the period of their annual budgetthey were OK with that. The rest of our signings are just freebies and give-aways.

No, the one that lives in our village is called Geraldine, but she's on holiday at her daughters in Canada just now so no translation-sorry.

Hmmm; but we hadn't unwrapped the begging bowl in those days. Guys, we have no money we've just got to muddle through with what we have and hope it pans out in our favour. This is the scenario: You're down at Sainsbury's and you fancy a nice T-Bone steak, you know it's good right, lovely with a bit of Bearnaise Sauce and a few Duchesse potatos, but your bank manager sent you a letter yesterday saying that if you spent any more than 1.23£ this month he'd take your chequebook and payment card away. So you have to settle for a packet of crisps and some faggots.

No, as I said yesterday Tigana and Puel at Monaco. I couldn't say about Wigley and Sturrock. I thought that was Claus and Dodd

Someone told me yesterday he had a big bust up with Hockaday and that since then Hockaday has been shoved out on gardening leave. I still think (although I have nothing other than precedents to base my opinion on) that Hockaday was probably scheming behind Jan's back

Lord Duckhunter,Kelkel31 to name but 2. Plus any yank hanging about in the vicinity. Defence is spelt Defense,Offence is spelt Offense so hence must be spelt hense right???

I've just noticed that Mike Withers has reduced his shareholding in the recent past. Not a lot, some 125000 shares or so, but seeing as it's not the best time to be doing that it must be taken as a sign. Unless of course it's just an in-house transfer or something along those lines.

We'll be without Surman at Norwich, we shall see how it pans out without him. Perhaps give Skacel a chance in midfield.Surman is a decent player but seems to have slipped away a bit of late.

I honestly doubt that anyone pays anyone to post anything on this forum. Except that we all pay Baj and Steve £5 for the privilege I think you're all getting carried away with the old Mulder and Scully. People have friends and aquaintances, they champion the ideas of their preferred ideaology but it ends right there.

Not so sure, perhaps if they have the biggest financial clout it's a possibility. But anyone could come in with a bigger and better plan and deny them their devious way,so I don't think they risk administration as a calculated means to an end Depends just how much they really have to lose.At some point or other injecting cash must become more viable than losing the totality of their investment. I mean blokes like Withers can't be short of a bit of folding can they,I get the idea though that before we see any of it we'll need to see the back of Crouch,Wilde and the Corbett family..

Made possible by the fact that looking into the shareholding of SLH PLC is like looking into a pond of thick treacle covered by a mirror and trying to tell what's at the bottom..

But whatever happens we will still have 20 million debt on the Stadium.Administration will never make that go away. If we want to continue playing there we owe Aviva 20 million, that's final.Barclays won't just bugger off either and write our debt down to experience, they'll get there 5(or so million) by hook or by crook.Apparently we don't owe the taxman so the only losers will be staff, players,small shareholders who've never made more than a few pence dividends and local traders. We don't owe enough to enough people (other than the two cited) to make it worthwhile. We've just got to tough it out whatever happens on the field.

No, administration for us is bad news, anything but that. Other clubs may have gone down that road but we have far more to lose. Plus it would mean Leon Crouch losing £2 million and that would be the end of him.He deserves better than that, he bought a lot of shares in good faith.

Good, you're always telling us how crap they are so if we can offload someone you'll have one less to moan about.

Lallana and Surman are bit part players because they're woefully inconsistent. What we are now playing is the nucleus of the side that got to the Academy Cup Final (whatever it's called) Huw Jennings and then George Prost did a great job, but the crop of players that we're currently trying to incorporate into the first team haven't really come on as far as they should have.Prost left in about March 2007 to return to Lyon who are currently producing some fabulous (and highly coveted)young players like Ben Arfa and Benzemma. It's no coincidence that's all.

The directors (or most of them) did recommend the SISU bid, the people that own the club didn't want to listen because it meant them losing control for virtually nothing.

Well we had Monday and Wednesday as potential take-over days for this week. We're only half way through Wednesday (although by wednesday was the real mccoy) If some of you people are counting on Fulthorpe,Merrington,Crouch,Salz,Davies, Tommac or Lifelongsaint well forget it. They either don't have the money or the incentive. If anyone takes us over it will be someone we've never even heard of before. The Kaka fiasco may make more than one gazillionaire think several times over buying a football club. You can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear and you can't make the worlds best players sign for third rate clubs, no matter how much money you have.Man C have been taken for a ride already and it will get worse. 14million for Craig Bellamy is nuthouse business.

Why do you feel this need to be so aggressive on a quasi permanent basis Alpine?? I'm talking about the pros and cons of Georges Prost. I'm not looking for(yet another) argument about Rupert Lowe. All I'm saying is that he may have misestimated the true potential of the academy without Georges Prost.

Perhaps, however they'd tell you the previous administration sold too many at the same time without stocking up the next batch.Now we've no longer Georges Prost our "hot prospects" aren't so hot.Perhaps this is one of Lowe's main dilemas. He left an academy capable of producing a starlet every season and came back when it was no longer true. Perhaps he really believes that it was the "academy" that produced players like Walcott and Bale and not Georges Prost.

Evidently, doubt if any club wants to buy them though; This must be the longest period in recent history when we haven't one single player that other clubs really covet.