sadoldgit

Bloody hell, where do I start? You spent at least the whole of one summer at least saying that we should keep hold of our players like they did and run the club like they did. Why do you think CB Fry keeps going on about I wish we could be like Everton (Stoke, West Ham, Crystal Palace etc)? It is because of your posts!

And what I am trying to say to you is that terrorist threats are possible from many quarters and it isn't very bright to worry about one particular area when threats still exist from elsewehere.

I would have thought you would be impressed with their ambition, afterall, didn't you wish we could be like them?

So usual internet b*ll*cks then.

I don't know. He managed to **** his sister in law for years without being found out.

So why mention them then?

So are you saying that we should discount and not prepare for any other terrorists threats from any other than Islamic sources then? Thanks for the advice but I shall continue to worry about any possible terrorist attack rather than just from one possible source.

Have Everton approached Mourinho, Koeman or Giggs then?

So is it more important to worry about Muslim terrorists or Irish terrorists? Or perhaps we should just be worried about terrorists in general and be wary of threats where ever or from whoever they may come from? Frankly I'd rather not be blown up by an Islamic terrorists or an IRA fanatic.

Perhaps they need a refresher about his successful activities since he left?

Perhaps we are supposed to be more upset if it is Muslims trying to kill us rather than Catholics?

Sadly I think you are right. They will all crawl out of the woodwork the minute it looks like we are going to sell a player too. Gotta love the close season and the wrist slitters!

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How often do IS use "suspect packages" in their operations? How often do the IRA use "suspect packages" in their operations? Wouldn't the more logical guess be the IRA out of the 2?

I will say again, think about how the IRA operate and think about how IS operate. Do IS leave "suspect" packages around? I think most people wouldn't stand around wondering who was threatening to blow them up they would just get the hell out of there. The first you know about a bomb threat by IS is when it goes off. The IRA threat is still active and they plant explosive devices rather than use suicide bombers but once again, I really don't think that people stop to worry about where the threat is coming from do they?

Do people stop to think who the terrorists are when there is a bomb scare? I would think the first thought would be to get away safely then worry about who might have done it later. You don't get many bomb scares with suicide bombers as it just happens. Bomb scares tend to come with organisations like the IRA.

Or maybe they just heard that from his presser when he said exactly the same thing?

Apparently my actual transgression was to mention "plane crash" on a football forum. I used the expression for the same reason. Players and managers leaving a club do not constitute a disaster. A plane crash does. But moving on....given that we have faced several "disasters" since our days in Division 1 - 4 managers and goodness knows how many players have come and gone, we haven't done too badly have we?

cop out

You really need to get a sense of perspective. The definition of a disaster is "a sudden accident or natural catastrophe that causes great damage of loss of life." I gave an example earlier citing a plane crash which you took exception to and asked for an apology in a pm. A few people leaving a football club is not a disaster. A plane crash is.

But at least he wont make comments about his state of mental health like calling him a dinlow or something because he is not a hypocrite and doesn't do things like that. Oh wait.......

I worked at The Telegraph for a while and they used to believe this. They used to think that people started out reading The Guardian when they were younger but changed to The Telegraph as they "matured." There were two problems with this assumption. No 1, if true they were inheriting a dying readership and No 2 no one who grew up reading The Guardian would be seen dead reading The Telegraph. I think many people become less tolerant and more liable to speak their true mind but I don't think people go from being left wing to right wing just down to age. As a side note, I spent 22 years at The Guardian and we never gave The Telegraph a second thought. We were looking to take sales from The Times but mostly sought to convert new readers from the new intake of University students each year. Until The Independent was launched we really didn't feel that we had any direct competition as the Broadsheet market was pretty much well determined. That was in Circulation. Where we were competing was for advertising and when a very clever lady called Caroline Marland (later to become our CEO) discovered that The Telegraph's readership were mostly too old for the jobs they were advertising, we cleaned up - mainly because we had a younger readership profile. I spent a few months with The Telegraph before moving on to The Spectator and every sales conference involved talking about The Guardian and how they were planning to take older readership from them. Didn't happen.

This is the Daily Mail were are talking about. They often "imply" a lot. I will leave it at that.

elton

This all comes down to contract length. If we sign a contract for a job for three years it means we work for that company for three years. Why should three years mean two years in football? I get it when it comes to players because it effects their value in the transfer market but why should it make a difference to a manager? We know that the job is precarious and that they can be sacked at any point determined by results. You can even be sacked after winning the FA Cup. Seems odd that there is so much consternation if a manager says he is happy to work out his contract if he is doing a good job. If the club knows that Ron is going next year they can make plans well in advance and hopefully he will continue to build the club up and leave it in a better shape than he found it. That is his job. That is what we pay him for. He still has 33.3% of his time with is left to run. Why get rid when things are going well just because he might not sign an extension to his contract?