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OldNick

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  1. I understand your dislike of the burocrats and this will obviously rumble for sometime,
  2. Is Arry their manager again
  3. Brave visionaries lol. Gamblers most like. Perhaps in 5 years you will be able to look my grandchildren in the eye and tell them why you gambled with their future on a whim.
  4. I really hope you are proved wrong. The last thing we need is somebody we know little about and already seems to have questions about her truthfulness. Like me I doubt you knew little about her until a few weeks ago. I did notice though God is a major part of her life
  5. I do find how the leaves are showing great confidence that our future is going to be bright encouraging. I would abhor it if we went back on the referendum and that would be a national disgrace to even contemplate it. I'm not sure how the other counties in the EU would take it either, as we have cost their economies fortunes due to the uncertainty we have caused. If you are on an index linked pension or have assets based in dollars or export to the USA, I suggest you can sit and enjoy the ride but sadly the majority of business and the people of the UK are likely to have a grim 5 years. If you had a business that was doing well and somebody came to you and said that you should cut away 40% of your business ( it was a difficult customer but there to stay) and look to markets elsewhere where you may find new business although not as wealthy a customer, at the same time potentially losing a major part of your core business to your rivals,you would laugh at them. I think that is what we have done. I will be so delighted if my concerns prove to be unfounded
  6. a clever bit of business if they get him, I would be very happy if we signed him
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    Euro 2016

    Laugh by all means to celebrate like that no way. A Welsh colleague of mine was ashamed of their conduct.
  8. Surely the Chancellor should point out the dire consequences as hr saw it of our leaving. At this moment in time I think the Brexit is the most devastating event that has happened to our economy. I remember my father deriding Healy and co when we had the embarrassment of considering the IMF to bale us out in the 70's. We are either 5th or 6 th in the world regarding our economy, it would be interesting to know what we were when we first went in. Of course we didn't have the new major economies of China India and Russia at that time
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    Euro 2016

    well why do we show such love and enthusiasm back then? The players were celebrating the humiliation of many of their team-mates
  10. Personally I think Osbourne has done a decent job as well as Carney. They have tried to steady the ship in the face of quite some turbulent winds.
  11. OldNick

    Chilcot

    I suppose a lot depends if you are buying or selling. The big oil companies would have made plenty
  12. the thread asks would he improve us. IMO he would and is a box to box midfielder.
  13. OldNick

    Euro 2016

    After watching the Welsh teams celebrations after Englands defeat against Iceland I couldn't give a toss how they do tonight, a good hammering might do them so good. I understand them being quietly pleased, but that was pretty distasteful.
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    Claude Puel

    as in all things there is no silver bullet but as far as I can see the club is set up to provide others for success. Our fans will be paying high season ticket prices and buy merchandise to pay a lot of the overheads and then the club develops players to sell on at massive profits, which disappear into the ether. I agree we don't want ot be a bankrupt club and also high transfer fees don't guarantee success, but do you not envy clubs even smaller than us who have won trophies in the last 10 years or so? It seems to me our fans are happy to live with bragging that we finished 6th /7th or 14th. I feel we are being cynically used and have been brainwashed that there is some kind of moral high ground to find and develop players who then go onto play at bigger clubs. IMO if the club really want to develop the club as a worldwide brand they actually need to win stuff as the people in China USA and Japan etc are not prepared to o follow also rans. A difficult thing to balance but IMO we need to show a but more ambition.
  15. OldNick

    Claude Puel

    Why have our fans got such a low expectations? It seems to me so many feel we have only been in the top division for only for a few years in our history, how many years were we out of the top division 5or6? We were in the top league for over 25 years before that. It is not a recent phenomena that we wee in the top parts of the league. Proudly being part of a stepping stone club may be great but I dont see many trophy cabinets needed finishing 6th and below. Lets be greedy and demand proper success not be the breeders and feeders to others to have the real success.
  16. Could you change title and show some respect to the great lady. It is Caroline Aherne not Mre Merton RIP Caroline a real star
  17. where have all the great facillities come from all of a sudden. Did they take him to a David Lloyd centre and let him think it was theirs? The pitches were like bowling greens!! where the hell was he, is he thck and was looking at astro turf
  18. As I read it if after the 2 years an agreement on trade cannot be agreed we are cut away and then you use WTO tariffs. Not a good thing. At the moment I wonder if we are in a Phoney war and are in denial. It seems to me people are taking a deep breath and think we have pushed the problem down the road for 2 years. I have a mixed view from some very wealthy clients, some are going to relocate their business best as they can into Europe and the USA while i spoke to another who sells yachts to people like Roman Ambramovich and he tells me we are going to be fine and that Europe needs our business. I think most really dont know what is in store
  19. OldNick

    Claude Puel

    there are a few players at those clubs that would be fine for us Im sure
  20. OldNick

    Claude Puel

    True, but to be fair a surely a squad should improve with good coaching. I think that if he had been at clubs where they had real success as him as a coach you may well be heralding how good he is because of that. He hardly is a good luck charm
  21. I cant recall Stek making a match winning save. It seemed that a shot away from his body and it was a goal
  22. its not going to be Boris
  23. Yep that'll do the job. Make the products dearer for our own people and at the same time all the Jags, Bentleys, Range Rovers, Hondas, etc etc will be taxed to the hilt so that many of the companies relocate into Europe
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