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To be fair There's just under a quarter of the season left Fair play to anyone who sees the bet out and win but I don't blame any of them, as these are novelty punters and it's just too much

Did the same, didn't go the match obviously We scored with the last kick to go to extra time to lose the bet then they scored within the first minute of extra time to lose the game anyway It really was a message to say don't bet against your own team dickhead

Had actually forgot about the match Thought this was the owner thread Should start Woolery next match

Am sure it was edited but he was sat in a room with an agent discussing a players contract iirc Recall was it Freedman saying he'd never known a chairman to be more about business than football? I reckon he would have had a fair bit to do with it And by the time we were back in the championship he had to take the gamble on players he thought would get us back quickly so maybe he let deals go through he wouldn't have previously That's all conjecture of course But panorama started it

Well from what we saw on panorama it seems PG was very hands on when it came to negotiating deals The point about whelan was not that he's a good example of how to run a club but as a bloke who has run a football club he was in a position more relevant than most to pass comment on it, and back then he said something wasn't right in terms of how we were ran for us to have got into the position we had Seems he was right Don't mistake this for respect on my part

Not at all Many of the dad's are probably underage as well If they've been groomed by a bloke nearly twice their age I'd like to think they've been dealt with Maybe, maybe not, we won't hear about them though as they not PL footballers on 60k a week

Point being, there's nowt wrong with a bit of contempt for those that allowed/let it get to this

And to think we used to proud of local lads done well running our club and derided clubs with foreign owners and the like questioning what would happen when they "get bored" an want to do one Well its this And it's shit

Blaming him for the mess doesn't automatically make me think he's a cunt, and I'm certain he didn't do it on purpose Not sure why there's always the suggestion you have to be supportive (or ignorant) of him or totally against him I appreciate he's making sure the next people who take on the club are in a position to run it I don't appreciate that his demands may now be holding any deal up given its his problem that the club got itself into this position that makes it hard to sell If it ends in admin I can't see how you could blame anyone else, it's certainly not the fault of the people who want to buy the club not being in a position to finance it

Well no but he's the only one still here It's him, PG and whatever other board members allowed this to happen It's not the fault of any manager or player all of whom were basically only here on their say so When Dave Whelan, who knows how to run a club, ie has experience so knows what he's talking about, was going on about there being something badly wrong at how we're being run he wasn't on about tactics or team selections It's the likes of Peter Ridsdale that ruined the likes of Leeds and Pompey, not the Redknapps and OLearys and it's the same here We used to run a tighter ship with relegation clauses, budgeting for 17th and the like to the point that alladyce fucked it off Then they stopped for whatever reason Then managers were allowed to sign the likes of Andrews, Spearing, Baptiste and Amos when someone should've been thinking about the financials And now he won't pay them or the bills and wants a cut of future tv revenue Well he can fuck off, because he presided over this mess and allowed it to happen And no I wasn't complaining when we signed the likes of Okocha, as it was well documented we had a plan But when you have a Tyrone mears (signed when in the PL) sat on his arse taking 20k a week you'd ask questions about offering the likes of Baptiste wages that PL teams couldn't match, then seeing him barely kick all ball only to then pay Amos more than he was on at Utd all whilst it's perfectly clear we're losing money every month So ED can take all the blame right now as he's the one still here whilst we seemingly heading into admin, which may have been avoided if the people he employed to help run his club had done their jobs properly

That were 2 centuries ago They all count like But Burnley have 2 Both well ahead of us in the all time table Reckon both would claim to be bigger than us though I'd disagree I hate these discussions so not sure why I'm going on about it

What's that based on though? If it's not potential crowd sizes Sheff utd ain't bigger than us

I'll invest in some African kids if they can get a trial at Arsenal

If that's based on crowds we'd be behind Bradford as well!

Is it possible to cash back in? That away end looked ace then

I'd have cashed out at £22.50

Nah

Marc Isles view from the stand made us chuckle https://twitter.com/MarcIles/status/706140874758103040

Watching Newcastle Bournemouth with a geordie mate They are a shambles That bad they're losing a game that's had no shots on target!

He's been unveiled as an ex public school boy Didn't think it was relevant, almost like it's a pop at him, not by NB like, read it elsewhere too, as though being one went against the Banksy ethos or something

is he not meant to be one?

W get hopes up L L

It does strike me as that sort of place Be like going to Sofia or Belgrade

Careful now, this is how I Am Legend begins

Yet brum are on the verge of the play offs Shows where a half decent manager can get you