alpine_saint

I have a much better response to that analogy, but it is not appropriate on this site currently due to another thread......

You reckon ?

Yep, and it means Lowe has no influence, and Crouch could have done as good a job........ No wonder Lowe can afford to go fishing in Canada as the season starts..........

I have no grasp of the fundamental economics ? All your mate Lowe has done is buy the club 3 months by getting rid of its decent players. He is praying on someone like McGoldrick being the next goose that lays the golden egg. Then what ???? One could argue that this 3 month delay has delayed finding an owner really interested in the club's long-term future. The arguments being bandied about on TSF last year against administration, were that "we'd have to get rid of all our decent players" Woah ! Guess what.....................

How many of them are servicing debt on a £25m stadium that nowadays is only half-full ?

This club is finished if it is relegated. And I am wondering, seeing as I know you have contacts and this is the first time I have heard relegation referred to like that, if we are being prepared for a "soft landing" into relegation....

Fair comment, but I certainly dont like the way things are shaping up.

lol

Erm, how do you know that they cant play along the youngsters ? For that matter, how does Poortvillet considering his lack of knowledge of the English game and the fact he's not allowed to use any of them to try it out ? Poortvillet is considered to be a much more inspiring manager than the drunk we had before. How do we know he couldnt get those players firing on all cylinders ?

On what is this utterly misguided assumption that "Rasiak going means Stern is staying" based ?

Rob, a few weeks ago as JPs views started to emerge, I took the comments of "balance" at face value, meaning that I knew deep down a couple of players would leave, but genuinely disbelieving (despite how negative I am accused of being) that we would not lose all our "big guns". What's happening ? The average age of the squad is plummetting....... I am genuinely annoyed at the prospect of having lost Saga and Rasiak within a few days - I expected Saga to stay with John, then when Saga left I believed Rasiak would be staying. But no, and meantime Thomas, Skacel and Euell are frozen out and in the shop window with tags round their necks. Also in the meantime, no actual f**king money is coming in from the disposal of Saga and Rasiak, except some piddling loan fee, so actually the cash position of the club hasnt improved that much. My current and previous companies are public listed, and I see how much damage is done by taking a ridiculously short-term view of the finances - it is often massively detrimental to the mid-term fortunes.

Sorry, but I am f**king livid that we are going into this season depending on David McGoldrick.

Come on, I'd like to know from those of you who unequivocally endorse every single action Lowe and Wilde takes, and sneer at those of us who dont, what the Plan "B" is if it turns out that the level of competition in the CCC is totally incompatible with 32%...errr..."total football" - but that in the meantime we've sold every player with any nous about them that may be able to help turn such a nosediving situation around ? What happens if attendances fall due to dire results and performances as strong, physical teams pick off SFC due to good reading of the single tactic, badly executed due to players of insufficient talent ? Come on, I'd like to know what we do next, except ask Messrs Barclays and Norwich Union to call in the administrators ? You havent got a clue, have you ?

Wow, one player whose balls have dropped that isnt transfer-listed...

You dont have to read it.

And the balance is getting even more lopsided as news of Rasiak's impending departure breaks. We have NO Plan B...

No, I dont - how many times was it posted last season "dont care about the football anymore, I go to drink with me mates" or suchlike ?

A style of play that will change 180degrees again in 3 months when Lowe realises his latest experiment has failed and changes the management.

FFS, when are some of the fans going to take the issue of the complete mismanagement of players out of the equation ? We had enough talent to get promoted in 2006-2007 and if we had addressed the CB issue last summer properly, we could have got promoted last season as well. We have well and truly ****ed it up against the wall thanks to Burley, Dodd, Gorman and crap board-room behaviour. Anyone who claims the likes of Rasiak and Saga have no further contribution to make to this club are talking complete ********.

Two points : What are you and your mate Lowe going to do when all the high-earners are gone and the club is still losing shiitloads per month, especially as attendances have dropped due to poor results ? Regards to point 1, are you really trying to claim that any young player that has clubs sniffing around him will not be sold at the most opportune moment, and that if McGoldrick scores 10 more times between now and Xmas, this will not especially be the case for him ? Do you know what I dont get ? The complete dishonesty with which certain posters argue a point on here, just to get up the nose of a fellow poster who they have taken a dislike to. In my opinion, anyone who does not receive news of our best players being sold with a wave of anger is no fan of SFC - SMS is just a "scene" for them where they must go each match in order to feel socially adequate and connected.

Great, let's give all our decent strikers away for nothing, especially as McG will be flogged at xmas if he keeps up his goal run. F**king joke. Lowe isnt the slightest bit interested in keeping the team going, just so long as the figures balance. T**t.

Because trolling and baiting is in contravention of the site rules. But seeing as you are another who speciallises in baiting people who dont like Lowe, its hardly surprising you dont see the reason

Oh well, we got one round further than last year. Progress of a sort...

My god, what is this drivel ? Those fans lost their lives because of West Yorkshire Police, not because of SWFC. I used to consider you an eloquent, if somewhat disagreeable poster. Not any more.

I reckon we have it in the squad already, only its all earmarked "For Sale", so isnt being used.