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Of course I've met the said tourists, how do you think I got to talk to them and know of their debt problems. I have to talk to them about other things,most of them just like talking about thier problems. NB I don't drink in bars or frequent other ex-pats. Sorry to disappoint you. I am totally Francified, TSW is my only contact with the UK (other than the tourists of course)

Can't see it myself. Still who knows. If Lupoli arrives either Saga or McG will leave.

Well we could do with some of that "Global Warming" around here in the frozen Forez. So if there's any to spare anywhere you know where to send it. I see that some dogoodies are trying to ban Foie Gras, just let them come over here and try that, they'd wish they'd never been born.Would teach them a good old lesson in fact.

The "sand thing" came from advert that you used to get in magazines for transforming 9 stone weaklings into Schwarzy lookalikes in only 6 weeks. Charles Atlas was that it???

Well that's not really surprising is it.KJ didn't want to be here so probably slackassed his way through pre-season. A few rough and tumbles against Norwegian pipe fitters and car salesman don't need much "fitness" do they. Thompson is a young player, may be lacking in physical strength.That"s why he's down in that craphole in the first place.If he was a serious contender for regular first team football in the CCC he wouldn't be down at Bournemouth. He'll have to watch out he doesn't get sand kicked in his face this spring.

Not suited to English football, needs to wander off over the Channel to try and rebuild some sort of career.Probably French second division though. In France all footballers are schooled according to the same coaching methods.These are extremely useful and thorough but they're based on forming generation after generation of Platinis,Cantonas and Blancs.Trouble is they need to much time on the ball for our game.Unless a coach understands the two styles of play and has a system for transforming one into the other most of these young players are headed straight for the dustbin. Perhaps Prost had some sort of knack but seeing as we've signed quite a few and none of them have come through I doubt it. Griffit,Folly,Bayesa plus all the young Italians,Spaniards and Argentines that we've had just prove my point. The English game is different and unless you have the kind of young foreign player capable of taking it by the scruff of the neck and imposing his will on it, then most of them will fail.

Whatever you say John, I'm glad to be where I am, been here nigh on 30 years now, same as ART I suppose, maybe a couple of years less. I'd just as soon be here as anywhere else. Anyway if we do started "feeling the pinch" Pastis sales will rocket so the downturn will be short lived.

These are just statistics,important ones no doubt but they do not affect the average househokld in any way shape or form. As for all of the rest I couldn't give a sh*t. I know from speaking to many many people how it is in "France profond" Simple people,living simply without all the trappings and attributes that so many of our countymen seem to need so badly.I work with 107 other people and not oner of them is in any way affected by the "global downturn".

Anyone remember that diving header from about 25 yards? One of my favourite chocolate box goals. Archers end must have been. Can't remember who it was against though.

On the other hand I may just ask him to lend me £25 just until I get my divvy from the Luton and Hemel Hempstead Building Society.:yawinkle:

I think I shall register and ask him what are his views on the Lorentz-Lorenz correction to Einstein's Theory of Relativity then.

Except that he gets fired quite a bit. You know sometimes even the best managers can do nothing whatsoever with a big bunch of absolute tossers that they inherit on joining the club. If the club has sufficient funds a couple of tweaks here and there may give good results but on the whole it's not an instant process. On the other hand there are bad managers who can do nothing at all with real talent but get reasonable results with a bunch of jackasses, ie Mark Hughes. Can't handle talent, plain for all to see.

What like Charlton and us under Gorman and Dodd??? Or even Watford with that wallah they've got now, whatisname Rodgers, Chelsea sidekick of some sort. The "new manager" theory remains to be proved by anything more that circumstantial evidence.

We're talking about Glen Roeder here !!!!!

He got old. Happens to all of us you know. Some player go into a long gradual decline, some just drop like lead bricks. It's a sign of talent and class. You can fake it up until you're about 28 but then only true class will tell.

I forgot Stoke, boy are they going to come a cropper in the near future. They'll not survive 1 season in the CCC when they come back down in May. I think you could build a better side by going round boy scout jumble sales.

Nah, Harry needs real players just now, not boy wonders who may come good in a couple of years time.

To be honest Chelsea didn't look a whole lot better than us against Utd. True Utd had more of their "first team" on the pitch against Chelsea but it was a bit of a damp squib all the same.

No-one will pay 14K a week(or even 10K a week) for an iffy player of his standard any more. He's no longer premiership quality and no-one in the CCC is flush with cash for a risk like Euell nowadays.

I think one of the main problems concerning football is that virtually every Premiership and CCC club in the UK has been ripped off in the recent past for vastly overated European 'talent'. Be it on loan or on definitive transfer we have imported tons of rubbish that was no better than our own home grown talent and vastly more expensive.That's fan power for you, always clamouring for new faces, better players....

Just Molyneux and Saejis?? Probably more than Molyneux,James,Saijs,Perry,Schneiderlin and McGoldrick. they really don't earn that much down at SMS nowadays. Wait and see till the half year figures come out

Lets say the average household is by far less exposed to the effects of lack of credit.Credit is far more harshly regulated in France. IN THEORY you can't borrow more than you can afford to repay.France will suffer from the global downturn to be sure but on the whole the average household won't suffer much in the short term.Neither will you run of the mill business.There'll be hard time but not too many house repossessions will occur. We have our idiots as well, it's possible to contourn the credit regulations by outright lying,veilling the truth and falsifying documents but it's not really widespread. I'd say immigration is a by far greater problem than the credit crunch just now.

Adrian, Rasiak and John aren't coming back. Deal with that.They don't want to and we don't want them to (we being the club board)

Euell in play me or I'll leave shocker. No doubt that if we could find a taker he wouldn't be making that cliched filled statement. He wants to leave, we want him to leave so where's the problem?? Oh yeah, no other suckers will pay him 14000£ a week.

Told you so. When you see it from without it's far far worse than what you see from within. Been heading on a downward spiral for about 5 years. Everybody told you all in blighty that endless credit for anything and everything would be your come uppance. looks like they might haver been right. It was obvious to anyone w