Wes Tender

Why do pubs and clubs where there are incidents of this nature continue to serve alcohol in glasses? Surely the solution is simplicity itself; all they have to do is to make it obligatory to sell drinks in a plastic receptacle. I seem to recall a radio debate on this very point just last week, but don't know what the outcome was. But it appears that in situations like this one, the repercussions would have been much less serious.

He's gone, Phil. Get over it.

Yes, they were making those gestures and it aggravated the hell out of them when most of us laughed at them or blew them kisses back.

You seem to have overlooked the possibility that the Howe situation could have potentially messed up the appointment of Adkins as has already been explained earlier, much in the same way that the Pinnacle debacle almost put paid to the Liebherr ownership. Although you would have just shrugged your shoulders and laughed it off, it could have had more serious repercussions, so if others did not find it a laughing matter, they have good reason. As for the possibility of a potential signing of a Bournemouth player being screwed up because the two chairmen are not on speaking terms, get real. Are you saying that they wouldn't do business with us? They are a small club with financial worries. They might bargain hard to get the best price, but then so they would otherwise. Do you think for one moment that they might be prepared to accept a lower price because the two chairmen are bosom buddies? OK, if two clubs offered the same for that player, they might take the other offer rather than ours. But if one of their players wanted to play for us, again there is little they could do about it. You only need to look at the Kenwyn-Jones case to see that.

Perhaps we should play him up front then... http://vodpod.com/watch/2980175-butterfield-hat-trick-vs-wolves

Correct. And it isn't on some route between boozers that might have been used by students returning to their halls of residents either. If I had to guess whether it was the act of students or some local chavs with a lower IQ, my money would be on the local yobs, the same ones who break all of the newly planted trees on the Common.

Surely now that there are far more posts regarding our trip to Wembley and whether boos were directed at Cortese, than there are posts about the Chairman of Bournemouth not being welcome in the Directors' Box, the time is long overdue to close the thread. That other matter has already been discussed ad nauseum previously and some are in danger of going round and round in circles over it and eventually disappearing up their posterior orifices.

I suspect that partly the reason for him singling us out, is that we had the smallest ground in the Premiership, therefore the most intimidating atmosphere. I very much doubt that our fans were particularly more petty or niggly than other clubs' fans, but the players were much closer to hearing the individual comments. I recall an incident involving Les Ferdinand where somebody hurled a massively abusive tirade at him from near the dugout, West Stand at the Dell. He just turned around and laughed and the tension just melted away and most just laughed with him. Players who react and give it back, just stoke it up further. Those who respond with a tirade of foul-mouthed swearing, risk being reported, not necessarily by those who also dished it out, but by those nearby with young children. Easy to identify the player f'ing and blinding, but less easy to identify somebody in the crowd, so if the players get into trouble through it, then they must accept that they have been stupid to respond.

Well, surely groups of fans who sit together at St Mary's would have made arrangements to have sat together at Wembley. That being the case and in the same way that it happens at St Mary's, a group of fans start a chant or prearrange a reaction to either something that happens, or something that is going to happen and then there are loads of fans who follow the chant like sheep, reacting before they have had time to engage their brain. Take the example of the prostitute serial killer from Ipswich. It seems probable that a group of lads decided in the pub before the match probably, that they would begin this chant about us having all of our local prostitutes alive. Sick, but at least topical and taken up by quite a few others in the Northam. Now, whether loud enough to be heard in the Chapel or other parts of the ground is debateable. Where that particular chant became ridiculous is when much later in the season, or was it the following season, some moron started it again when we played Norwich, but again, other idiots, presumably mates of the spotty juvenile who started the chant, joined in. Now it is not beyond the realms of possibility that some group/s with an agenda against Cortese, decided on the coaches up to Wembley to boo Cortese whenever his face featured on the big screen. I'm pretty sure that I read somewhere on here that it was planned to boo that tw*t Mawhinney at Wembley because of the 10 point deduction we suffered. So nothing is very clear cut, as Joensuu points out.

It is NOT totally untrue. You have stated what happened all around you and fair enough. I am not altogether totally amazed that people who might have gone with you, or people who were sat together might have been of a similar mind, much as sections of people in the Northam take up chants which are often cringeworthy. But what you are not entitled to suggest is that just because you heard one thing in a particular part of a massive stadium, that either it was universal, or indeed widespread. I must have been in a different part of the stadium to you and perhaps in a similar area to Nick, because I can categorically state that the booing where I was, happened because some didn't take up the mexican wave.

And will this set a precedent whereby the thread originator or the mod who makes alterations to the title feels some obligation to add something in brackets after it to hint at their own feelings on the matter? I look forward to various assorted other commentary along the lines of (boo hoo), (snarl), (Awww), (pity), (get in there!) etc.

Finally the thread title has been altered to more accurately reflect the correct situation. But what's with the (sigh)? Does it express the feeling that some Mods tire of their duties to ensure some small degree of accuracy, or was it there to express some disappointment that the Bournemouth Chairman is not welcome in the Directors' box?

I asked some time ago that the title of this thread be altered to better reflect something more accurate, as the Chairman of Bournemouth Football Club has NOT been banned from the Director's box. Others have also asked for the same. A moderator has contributed to the thread and no doubt others have looked in. And yet none of them has made that small adjustment, meaning on the face of it, that many have just read the title and posted their thoughts without reading that it is all tosh.

No it's not. For a start, the May statement contains the word speculation, which is not exactly something concrete usually, is it? That also applies to conjecture and surmising, all similar things and all meaning that there is some element of doubt attached to them. As for the second part, the only two persons who could have corroborated whether Cortese had to pursuade Liebherr that Pardew ought to stay are Cortese or Liebherr themselves, unless others were present. If you had said that Cortese had not been entirely truthful about the reasons for Pardew's departure, then you might have a case, but whether that is construed as lying or being circumspect in the interests of both parties to avoid unecessary press intrusion, is a different matter. But even then, there is no evidence to support your contention that Cortese lied about anything and you have certainly not produced any.

Why, we have even appointed a manager from a much smaller club with far more limited resources. How small-time can we possibly get?

Or how much bad grace we are prepared to give Mitchell. I had not heard of the guy before, but a little digging on Google has unearthed several articles on him and his former connections as chairman of Dorchester (where he received death threats) and his property development company. He managed to inveigle himself onto that programme by Piers Morgan about Sandbanks, although properties featured as being developed by his company were not on Sandbanks. That leads me to believe that the guy is a self-publicist with an ego that needs to be stroked. Comments under that article describe him as a cowboy and a crook. But if you're prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt over our chairman, good luck to you.

But not worthy of having their actions judged equally. Do you detect the difference?

MODS. Time that the thread title is altered, surely. Apparently the Bournemouth Chairman is NOT banned from the Directors' Box. Perhaps it ought to read instead "Bournemouth Chairman not welcome in Directors' Box". Some on here have read the title and got hold of the wrong end of the stick through not reading what has ensued.

Well, of course they want to get rid of their owners, who have saddled them with hundreds of millions of £s in leveraged debt.

No it didn't. I had already jumped on s mears at post 28. Pay attention.

Lowe left us with little to be grateful to him for, which is not the same case with Cortese, in view of the fact that without him we wouldn't have had Liebherr and without him we would be in a much worse situation than now. But if you wish to bracket the two of them together as equally worthy of derision, then fine.

...And then have all the resident idiots only too happy to castigate Cortese without foundation? You only need to look at this thread to see the delight that some take in that. Frankly, we must have the worst fans of any club in the country.

It took you 36 posts, presumably most of which you haven't read, to jump to the incorrect conclusion on a story of breaking news, where nothing much is factual. Congratulations. You're embarrassing yourself.

Good tactics. What should we tell Mitchell though? Money up front?