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It would be a positive. We save up all our staff effluent, and use it as fertiliser. Cost saving at it's most basic.

That's not bizarre. Signing two players with broken feet, that's bizarre.

So basically we have a manager who can't motivate people? That would explain why performances have tailed off so much I suppose.

I did. It wasn't very interesting.

I thought they were going back to a knockout format for the UEFA cup? Oh well, another money-grabbing move by UEFA.

Yes but those deals were only available to existing season ticket holders. It was a good price for those people, but there was little incentive for people to become new season ticket holders.

We seem to have no bargaining power at all. Other teams just seem to tell us who we can have, and we say ok.

Here: Those two people weren't there, just a soldier marching back and forth with a gun.

He was good enough to play for Hertha Berlin last season, a club who are an awful lot better than us. Just another example of us failing to get the most out of players.

That's true, it has developed over time. However I don't remember it ever being as low as 480, 720p was the lowest resolution for 'HD Ready' I think.

Here's an idea. Why don't we actually start managing our players? If a player has an attitude problem, work with them to improve it. That's what a decent manager would do. Even Burley managed to get Dyer playing well last season, he was our best player before he got injured. Saints seem far too keen to offload players rather than putting some effort into gettiing the best from them. There were stories when Jan came here that he wasn't good at dealing with egos, hence why he played lots of kids. Now it seems that he can't even get the respect of young players who have barely achieved anything in the game.

This club gets more stupid every day.

What a bloody stupid thing to do. I think Jan is starting to lose the plot.

No I go into shops and chew them.

I do six of your list.

I'm sure their plunging share price is keeping him very busy, however you'd think he could make the short drive from Manchester to Sheffield.

That's a lot of clothes from George.

As I've pointed out in this thread, there are a number of areas where to seem to be spending money and getting nothing in return. If this cash was used better, perhaps we could afford a couple of experinced pro's. http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=2167

Are we winning?

I agree with that. It would have been better for us to go out against Exeter. I bet this 'cup run' has actually cost us money.

Is the idea that Merrington would be chief exec then?

Ideally you do what SISU did with Coventry. Wait until the club are about five minutes from going into administration. That way you get the club cheaply, with none of those nasty points deductions.

The article is written in a very strange way. Why is the official site putting things like: 'Poortvliet sighed'????? What is this, a creative writing course?

Ok, so we are continually being told how skint we are, and I readily accept that. But does that not make some of these decisions seem a little odd? Signing Forecast, a third choice goalie. Signing Pulis, a player in his mid twenties who has yet to make the grade anywhere, and who was injured when we bought him. Signing Gasmi, who was injured when we bought him. Employing Wotte, who doesn't appear to be doing much of anything. Giving Dyer a new contract. Giving McGoldrick a new contract. Sidelining several players who we are paying plenty of wages to (Skacel, Euell, Thomas etc - I know injuries come into play here but does anyone think we'd be playing them if they were all fit?). Do some/all of these decisions not strike people as more than a little wasteful?

Read this thread: http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=2141