alpine_saint

So the OP was not a clearly implied criticism of NC, since he is the one who did the banning ?

Because I do object to it being used to beat our chairman over the head with. That, I am bothered about. Methinks you are letting your personal opinion about this shine through a little bit, Steve.

Sorry, once again. Has there been a complete black-out of Saints-related articles from the Echo or not ? I missed NCs court injunction against the Echo.

Well ? I am not bothered about the Echo ban. Its not sarcasm, it is my opinion. Am I going to be infracted for economy of word usage ?

Why are you still banging on about that? You know perfectly well it has been taken out of context.

+1. Spot on. Been apparent for weeks, and those of us who said so were villified for it.

Oh, come off it. The Echo goes ahead and prints Saints news anyway, it just doesnt get anything in advance or any exclusives. It just copies it from the official site, TV and radio reports or from here. So the computer illiterate and old codgers get it 24 hrs later. So what ?

How do you figure that one out ? It has a website, and focuses on local issues from my home city a lot more than the national rags. The only time I thought it was petty and went too far is when they banned the Echo from the childrens Christmas hospital visit.

Bothered.

I personally have no problem with that. I do have a problem with being called a skate tw*t or a WUM or a troll because I wont give an emotional blank cheque to the club that I have supported my entire life and agree with the ****amamie theory that everything is just peachy when it clearly isnt. Also the concept that you should not be able to express an opinion on a result or performance unless you went to the game is also the machinations of a limited intellect.

Wow, another a dig at Cortese. Thats a surprise.

Yep, thank f**k for that, eh ? Where does this news come from ?

I know, its bizarre how some on this site have difficulty with complex concepts. Its like explaining colour to a blind man on here sometimes.

Yeah, I wont give in because his point was complete garbage. He was arguing that we dont need to cover our injuries, because other teams havent taken on large humbers of players to cover injuries that havent happened to them. One of the most ridiculous arguments Ive heard in a long time.

This is real life, not an episode of Star Trek.

Can we sue the Prison Service for not letting the other inmates full access to him to finish him off ? Think of all the taxpayers money that would have been saved. A cremation is a lot cheaper than 20 years bird.

Probably both. Yes sometimes its just a rant, but not always.

Is he as good as we could attract now though ?

Yep, lets make the site only welcome to people who write "COYS" or "In AP we trust", sod any attempt at sensible debate or constructive criticism. Ridiculous.

Erm, because it could be indicative of something else going on ? Here we have a long-serving player of the club and it seems impossible to get a contract drafted and signed, even with both sides making noises that they want to. For me that stinks.

If the lack of transfer activity is really purely down to waiting for the right players to become available, rather than ineptitude and / or half-heartedness, can anyone explain to me why Bart Bialkowski's services for next season have STILL not been secured with a contract ?

If NC has already made his mind up, I wonder if he is dragging his feet on transfers, planning to use poor results in August to sack AP, and is keeping the money for the new manager ? So that a new manager would have transfer time, it seems to me this might come to a head in the next 2 weeks.

Apparently we are waiting until the best midfielder in the world begs us for a contract.

hehehehe. COYS.

Yeah, so we lost to them. You tried to make out we beat the whole top 6 in every encounter. Care to give a few words about Swindon ? Or maybe Colchester ?