Window Cleaner

We need for those annual accounts to be got out into the public domain and fast. Then you will see the exact level of mismanagement last season. First by "the execs" and then by Crouch and his cronies;

Experienced defenders, like Svensson and Perry? Perhaps we were counting on Skacel NOT throwing his dummy out of the pram ehh? Perhaps we thought Thmoas would actually play for us from time to time If we'd had a back four of Thomas-Svensson-Perry-Skacel that would be experienced enough wouldn't it. If I saw our squad at the start of the season i'd say the team we had in mind was Davies Thomas Perry Svensson Skacel Lallana Euell Surman Schneiderlin Holmes John or Mc Goldrick. Then the injuries started and the fans started boycottting so we got a pile of young players who don't always perform as they should.If you're 3000 down on you first home gate,well you have to recalculate don't you.3000x£24=72K, enough to pay the bonuses and everything.

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Even then, if they personally don't start doing something in the next 5 games they'll not be worth as much as they were in the summer. Should have taken anything near to £5 million for the pair. Memories are short in football; just takes a Greek or Egyptian wonder kid and the swans that were available to us for those 2 in August will vaporise as far as we're concerned.Getting a total of nearly £8 million for Bale was sharp business, very very sharp. Spurs wouldn't get that for him today.

Trouble is they are young players who lack consistency and stamina; I made no bones about it at the time, as far as I'm concerned we should have taken the offers from reading and Fulham and got £5 million in there and then and got 2 really experienced,CCC quality defenders. I've seen too many wonder kids at SFC to fall for the old chestnut that they're going to be here for ever and make us great.Moran,Williams,Wallaces,Shearer, yes, Lallana and Surman? give me the money any day.

What sort of setback, are Surman and Lallana winning games for us? Not at Coventry and certainly not last Saturday. In my opinion we could sell anyone in our squad and it wouldn't make any difference of a Saturday (or Sunday).

Stern really isn't all that good.Might be better than the incumbents in attack but he's no world beater.

Didn't score any today though did he?

Cheer up, you could be a Spurs supporter.;)

We're probably better off with the youngsters than blokes on crutches though.

Trouble is Davies wasn't a no brainer, he's not fit and believe what you will, the fact is we can't afford passengers again this season.He's been gone since what end of August, that makes a saving of 100K+ so far.What's more we got 1.3 million for him which decreases our borrowing and saves money on interest. We are in that apple cart, every situation must be weighed up to see if it saves us money. I expect we wanted to keep him if he wanted to stay, Rudi didn't want to go to Ipswich so someone had to move on. It's really not rocket science. We,seemingly, have established a budget on the base of 17K gates. Not much room for manoeuvre there if Skacel,Thomas,Euell, BWP and John are skimming off nearly a third of that every match.

There are plenty of idiots on that site, Skates for the most part but we do provide our fair share. I used to like TUI , some football content, a bit of a laugh but now it's just a clique about punk rock and a free slag off session for the blue few.

How can you fabricate a dislocated shoulder Ladysaint? it ferkin well hurts at the slightest knock long after it's back in place.

He's had a couple of runs out for their reserves, 'bout 1 and a half matches. Knee probably played up afterwards then.Knees are dodgy, some never recover completely and if some-one is going to give some swans you'd might as well listen.

I have never bought this appearance money business. If we had to pay Rudi say £2000 for every appearance he makes, then that's a reasonable sum compared to say signing Ryan Smith or Jordan Robertson on loan at say £3000 a week. If you're not playing a player because of "appearance money" but signing others who are, in theory, inferior whilst costing you more money then the whole argument falls to bits. Unless of course there's a biggish whack due to his former club for the very next appearance he makes.Skacel has played what 53 times for saints so it's not at all likely that the 54th was the lucky number, it would probably be a round number in any case. In my personal opinion Rudi Skacel isn't playing for us because he believes the standard of our team beneath him.Just my opinion though. Now if you told me he had a bit of a botched up contract where a certain part of his salary wasn't paid directly by the club unless he plays, that I could believe.That would explain the new contract in August.

It's nothing to do with Lowe and Wilde, unpopular as that may be. We can't afford a better manager or better players until we shift from our books the theoretically better players that we have that don't contribute one iota to our matchday performances. Skacel+BWP+Thomas+John+Euell= £50000+ (and more) every week. It needs 5000+ spectators in the ground every home match just to watch them err not performing. Lowe+Wilde have obviously tried to shift them but with no result. So you're paying your hard earned to watch them do err nothing whatsoever.That's not Lowe or Wilde's fault (well Wilde a bit) Because of employment law we have to pay them until the end of their contract .If nobody else wants to take them off our hands we're stuck with the bustards, good attitude,bad attituden,play, don't play, it doesn't matter 5000 spectators pay them anyway.So when you're olny getting 16K anyway 28% of your revenue has disappeared up the chimney before you kick a ball. The super stadium,much dreamed of for donkey's years gobbles up the hard earned of another 4000 spectators every game... So you're left with the square root of f**k all to pay the team that actually step on to the field.

You can blame everything you like but at the end of the day we missed 2 penalties that's it and all about it. It gives the opposition a shot in the arm and you a sharp smack right between the eyes.We have got to get Morgan and Gasmi onto the pitch by Tuesday.If not I want to see Thomas,Euell,John and Skacel there with their boots and their kit. If they can't play they should bring a note from their mum explaining exactly why,along with a cheque for the pay they're taking from us and not earning.

Will it? It will bring us the instant sale of Lallana,Surman and Schneiderlin and a 10 point penalty, prbably more.

If Micky said that it must be true.Brian still got any boots?

Yes well, if we hadn't had this Svensson illusion all pre-season perhaps we would have done something about that before it was too late. If Thomas wasn't such a big mary then perhaps it would be Ok as well. If Davies hadn't decided he was a premiership player, well just perhaps it would be Ok as well. Svensson illusion=too late ,everybody worth having is already fixed up. Perry is too small and too slow.

I don't think he got back until yesterday, takes a long time to row from Trinidad these days.If T+T played Wednesday night in Port of Spain, that would be at about 01hrs Thurday morning BST,time to get some rest, get back down the airport,get back home it would be well into Friday.So despite having a 2 week break clubs with player playing on Wednesday night in a different time zone will lose them again on the Saturday. If they played games on the 1st Wednesday instead of having an Easy 6, it wouldn't happen.

Perhaps it will turn out nice and you'll be able to take a dip off the Mumbles, wouldn't bother with the game though.

He doesn't have any other option, that's the problem in a nutshell. Could have played Perry at the back I suppose but I don't doubt he has some sort of niggling 40/60 ongoing injury.Should have played John,not even on the bench, that means he didn't want to or wasn't able to play.Don't even talk to me about that .... BWP. 8K a week and about as much worth as a falling leaf to us.We are being shafted by players who take a lot and give nothing. You can't say John and BWP is related to "appearance" fees, they've played before and weren't great.