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Wow, a response-with-questions to a post that contains the answers.. Get back late with the DeLorean, or is this site getting more ridiculous with each passing day ?

nickh prefers the second piece - what a shocker....

I believe Stuart Gray too..

Amazing that its taken so long for this particular penny to drop... The club is massively worse off than under Pearson and Crouch. A lot of the cost-cutting plans were already planned by Crouch, and although the squad would have faced some trimming, I reckon Pearson would have been left with more quality players than JP - and would have had the man-managerial skills over the summer to re-motivate and envigorate them for the upcoming season. The reason that Pearson would have been left with more quality players is not a question of finance - I am convinced that the personnel changes that have taken place are only partially explainable by finance issues. The other two factors are : 1. Lowe's bankrupt mad-cap youth strategy, and those quality experienced players got in the way of it. 2. Those quality experienced players we had were left motivationally broken by Burley, Dodd and Gorman, and Pearson had only started the rehabillitation by the end of the season. Neither Rupert Lowe or Jan Poortvillet have the man-management skills necessary to complete that work. So they were viewed as lost causes.

I dread to think what will happen to us without KD, and I wonder what the reaction will be.......

So let's get this straight : not conceeding 5 goals or not losing by 4 goals will be viewed as progress ? Even though this was deffo one of Burley's regular "off days" ?????????

Sad that Killer has been wheeled out like this. Let's not forget that it currently appears his battel has been unsuccessful, so let's not stretch the parallels too much, Michael...

Sounds like a good move.

A.A. Woodford ?

A.A. Woodford ?

I can imagine that Wilde's main business interest (housing) is doing really badly at the moment, and speculation is rife that because they havent published any accounts in ages, that it wasnt doing so well before. He may well be slashing and burning on a personal level - and part of this being the sale of his shares - but I doubt its because Lowe is picking a team that cant his a cow's arse with a banjo.... If he is selling his shares, this is great news. Lowe may or may not have designs on buying the club dirt cheap in administration, but this would represent our last, and possibly most golden chance of gettnig rid of him forever. So, I have a simple message - PLEASE STEP FORWARD MR. CROUCH...

I can imagine that Wilde's main business interest (housing) is doing really badly at the moment, and speculation is rife that because they havent published any accounts in ages, that it wasnt doing so well before. He may well be slashing and burning on a personal level - and part of this being the sale of his shares - but I doubt its because Lowe is picking a team that cant his a cow's arse with a banjo.... If he is selling his shares, this is great news. Lowe may or may not have designs on buying the club dirt cheap in administration, but this would represent our last, and possibly most golden chance of gettnig rid of him forever. So, I have a simple message - PLEASE STEP FORWARD MR. CROUCH...

Jesus, talk about broken record. Try to make an example of me as much as you want, the fact is there are 18,000 fans missing - meaning more of me than you. If that gives you some special warm "belonging" feeling, very good... You deny it, but of course you think your opinion is superior to mine - look how you refer to us as "subversives". Sounds uncannily like "lunatic fringe" to me.... Anyway, back to my question : What's the master plan when in 6 months times the money from flogging any decent players we had has gone and we are relegated to League 1 with 5000 ST holders ? Come on Mr. Einstein, I'm waiting.........

In bold.

Au contraire. It is you that has the intelligence problem, since you consistently fail to see that it is idiots like you that take anything that the club throws at them or serves up in the name of "football", that have led to this situation. Lowe relies and exploits your "loyalty" knowing he can offer up any old shiit and half-baked strategy and people like you who have a colossal vanity problem will claim to be the Über Fan and stick with it. When the results get so bad and the progress so non-existent that even the least fanatical of your ilk stop going and the attendance drops to really dangerous levels, then maye that idiot chairman will realise the footballing product is as important as short-term cost cutting. Yes, my latest bugbear is Rudi Skacel, just as he is your latest crusade. So f**king what ? Saga and Rasiak are gone, we can only moan about them, there is still time to integrate Rudi into the team and use him to help build an stronger and more balanced team. Lest you conveniently forget, two of my biggest gripes with drunken Jock was the way he dropped Skacel and Rasiak during our play-off season. I have pointed out to you time and again that short-term cost cutting is going to achieve absolutely nothing except prolong the inevitable where this club is concerned due to the impact of demotivated, unimpressed and falling attendances. You say I have no plan, but what about yours ? What's your masterplan when all the family silver like Lallana, Skacel, Davis and Euell have gone, and the club are trying to survive on sub-10,000 attendances with 5000 ST holders next season in League 1 ? Yep, you have none. So dont lecture me sonny jim.

heheheheh. You reckon Crouch is going to hand money over to Lowe ????:rolleyes::rolleyes:

You wrote Keira Knightley, not Matt Le Tissier. I never denied tossing off to Matty.... Got a bit of a chip on your shoulder about ex-pats, have you ? Lost lots of money in the credit crunch and business not going too well, no doubt... Never mind, you can do planty of this tossing off you refer to with all that spare time you will have on your hands following going bust...

Dear oh dear. In a desperate attempt to distract attention from yourself for being a smart-arse self-appointed know-it-all with an unhealthy interest in sniffing seats that Rupert Lowe has sat on, who states facts about Rudi Skacel without having a clue and who then dares to criticise the expression of an opposing opinion, you take a scatter-gun approach making loads of really stupid and eminently disprovable accusations. Can I suggest you gently e-mail an administrator who can put you embarassingly straight on which country the two IP addresses I regularly login in from are registered to ? The non-attendance defence is running embarassingly thin, nicky... As I have said before, we are shiit whether I or the other 18,000-odd fans that have decided not to go are sitting there or not. You are the one with an obsession about Skacel. You tried to pick holes in his performance last night, with deliberate reference to his pay in support of your Messiah's position. You will not rest until he is out of the club. I, and many of the other saner people who follow this clubs fortunes, of couse recognise that he is one our few quality or near-quality players left that can do a job, and should be playing if we are paying him. You carry on with your pathetic defence of the club direction, whilst the situation gets more and more desperate and you get proved more and more wrong, why dont you ?

Sweet. Let's get him back then.

Is this sort of unprovoked hostility really necessary, John ? Btw, she's not my type, and I have no idea what she is like in bed, though I doubt she is much cop - she's too thin. Now tell me, what subconscious Freudian motive made YOU think of her ???

Do you follow Rapid Vienna on the radio, in the news reports and on internet chat sites ? Thought not.

Whatever. You've made a fool of yourself.

Yep, I wrote the other day that with the Quisling's track record, this is the most likely scenario for removing Lowe again.

He's better than Rudi, eh nicky ??

Statement ? It was clearly marked as an opinion. I "reckoned" You "pointed out" Get off your high-horse, hypocrite.