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I enjoy nostalgia too, but but not when it is being used as part of a further agenda. You know what I mean, look what we had, look what we have now...all down to one man. I have to admit my rant the other night was fuelled by two bottles of Shiraz anf a heavy dose of frustration. I just find it incredibly sad and unfathomable that people will refuse to go and see a football team just because they do not like the CEO. I can't understand why some posters actually hate people they have never met and actually want to perorm acts of physical violence on them. Just because they make professional decsions that don't work out. What is that all about? So I don't go to many matches...I still feel sick when we lose and elated when we win against the odds. If I didn't care deeply about SFC I would not spend hours on sites like these over the years. But there has to be a limit. I get called arrogant yet those same people come on here daily and tell anyone that disagrees with them that they are wrong, isn't that arrogance also? Try and get a balanced debate going and the vultures are on your straight away called you a "Lowe Luvvie". Isn't that arrogance? Come on and slate the board and you have friends for life. For some people it seems that their whole lives revolve around the hatred they have for one man. Sorry, I just don't get it.

Good for you. Loved the "old days" as much as anyone, but that is what they are, old. Like it or not, we live in the here and now. We no longer have players like Davies, Channon and Williams (sadly). If you live in the past and constantly compare today with the past you are never going to move on are you? My salary in now half what it was nine years ago. I could moan and ***** about it and go and camp outside the offices of the people who made me redunant nine years ago, but who does this affect? Me. Life is random. Football is random. But you have to learn to go with it. Without the genious of MLT we would probably have been in this situation years ago. Enjoy the good and deal with the bad. Otherwise you are going end up bitter and twisted. What is the point of waking up in the morning and getting bent out of shape over one man who is running a football club? Really? Lowe will not be here for ever. Someone else will come along and guess what, we will still lose football matches, we we stil sell our better players and sign the occasional donkey. Managers will come and go. Some good, some not so good. And the same old people will be on here moaning and *****ing about it.

The perceived wisdom at the time was that the SISU deal was not a good one. Are Coventry realy setting the world alight nowdays? You have to make the right deal, not the only one on the table at the time. As for Crouch, I think he is too emotionally charged and shoots from the lip without engaging his brain. It is like someone from here running the club. But that is only my opinion of course.

LOL, you guys kill me. 1. I don't believe that I can run the club better than the pros (unlike you cyber jockeys) and 2. Crouch did such a great job last time didn't he?

I don't think that being a fan and running the club are always a good thing. Crouch had a chance to do this before and under we we were nearly went down. Surely we can do much better than that. We have gone down the anyone but Lowe road before and it hasn't worked. The next change is crucial and it has to be right.

But surely Stanley, a man with your principles will be up to protest against the hated Lowe even if we win??? Or are you going to tell me all that changes with one football result???

Why would you want Crouch back in? If there is to be another change I hope to God it is someone else with a bit of nous.

As if it matters in the great scheme of things Stanley. But if it matters to you, well done.

Sorry Alpine I just can't let this pass. How long I have been calling you Victor Meldrew? Look at your last sentence! LOL

Yep a Yank, Ellison according to 606 Collect your pinch of salt here...

Nobody picked up on the latest takeover gossip???

Yeah nostalgia is great but to be fair it doesn't pay the bills in 2009. The glory days are well behind us and the trouble with this site is that somehow it thinks that we are owed success and a decent living now. People need to grow up and look at the real world as it is now, not 30 years ago It is not just SFC that are down in the dumps. Others like Norwich and Charlton are suffering too. This is reality. Not fantasy. Not the past. Of course people want to remeber and wallow in ther good times, trouble with small clubs like us we don't have much to wallow in. Apart from the mid 80's and a brief spell under Strachan we have been cannon fodder. As my old sparing partner (Alpine) would say, deal with it.

Alpine, you really set youself up don't you?

I don't think Stanley quit understands all of this but nice try.

Since when has money ever bought success??? If £7m was the price of promotion don't you think that better placed clubs would have "bought" promotion? Chelsea are a case in point. Huge amount of money spent to make make them the best, wher have they ended up? £9m wouldn't have guaranteed promotion. £6m million spent elsewhere might have done it. It is a gamble. Most gambles fail that is why bookies are richer than punters. When we Scarpped in to 6th place we were one of the better CCC teams but we were not consistant. Why? Who knows. If it waas a scientific formula I am sure ever club would have cracked it. Think back. Lawrie mcMenemy had players like Channon and Osgood but took three years to get out of the second division. Burley had none of that class. With the money at his disposal he was NEVER going to get it. In his second full season he lost Jones Bale and Baird with no hard cash to replace like for like. Burley said, fairly I think, that our plan was to get to the play offs. We did. If he had said we will get promoted he would have fallen short, but we reached our goal. What is your problem with that?

We have recently had a respected old fan post a nostaligic thread. No harm in that you might think...... Trouble is, we are not living in the 60's or 70's or 80's. The glory days are WELL behind us. Our squad is the weakest in many decades. Finacially we are screwed. We need to a) avoid administration and b) avoid relegation. For all of the pontification on here the only way of avoiding a) is to run the club prudently and b) for everyone to get behind SFC. The Alpines, Fitzhugh Fellas, the Stanleys have their followers, but it is the Nicks and the Frank's Cousins who talk common sense and whose opions are better palced to take SFC forward. Knee jerk reactionaries have always been 5 minute wonders. What we need is common sense and pragmatism. I have spent hours on here (with others) trying to get the debate back to some middle ground only to be labelled a Lowe Lovvie by the blinkered and by Um Pahars a "fool". What people have to realise is that they are disappearing up their own backsides with all of this reactionary rubbish. The "good old days" are well behind us. We need to live in the real world. There are, thank God, a few posters who can see that. The others need to get their head out of their rectums and deal with what is, not with what was. So......what are the reactionaries going to do? Carry on boring the sh*t out of people or come into the real world?

No he is not. I think he is a decent pro and obviously knows the game but with money so tight, if he feels he is is better off eslewhere he should go. We need people here who want to be her come what may. In the side or out.

Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Alpine has said something I agree with F*ck

I see them more times at St Marys than you do don't I Stanley? And if, like Alpine you think that 1.54 points per game is rubbish, perhaps you are better off at all of the other grounds where you chose to spend your money.

Yes Alpine, but after taking us down and spending three years to get us back up with a squad not far off 1st division standard, you would have been on the web every then calling for his head. Burley never had players like Channon and Osgood to call on yet you slate him for not getting promotion in only one season. Now run along (in your parlance) and go and think about what you actually say on here, there's a good chap.

Didn't Snodin go to Charlton???

No Alpine we don't. Which is another reason why you come across as a blinkered bigot. If you think that a manager with a win ratio of 43% is rubbish so be it. But is speaks more about what you have going on than anything else. Someone on here once called you a characture of a fan, I can see why. You are so eaten up with bigotry you can't even look at the facts and make sense of them. I am not sure what is the saddest, the fact that you actualy seem to believe what you say or the fact that there are some people on here who actually agree with you. Irrespective of what division they have managed us in, only three managers have managed to average 1.5 points per game or more for us. The one with the highest average is, according to you, rubbish. What points ratio does a manager have to achieve in your eyes that makes him acceptable Alpine? 3 a game???

I can't believe that people stil attack him. He had a decent win per games ratio and we have had far worse managers. Did you ever see Burley give Mandaric a thumbs up after a drubbing at Portsmouth? The last decent season we had for years was under Burley. Why slate him for that? It was like the Birmingham fans slating Bruce when they were top of the table.

Agreed.