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 Midlands Eagle  17 Jul 18 8.49am |
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Originally posted by Eaglecoops
If having our longest stay in the premier league is not progress then I fail to see what is. We have been dicing with death every season and I don't really call it progress to escape relegation every year by the skin of our teeth coupled with our serendipity management style.
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| silvertop Portishead 17 Jul 18 9.17am |
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Originally posted by Midlands Eagle
We have been dicing with death every season and I don't really call it progress to escape relegation every year by the skin of our teeth coupled with our serendipity management style. What else would you expect from a club of our size, with our infrastructure and with our recent history?
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| manwitheagletattoo Somewhere in England 17 Jul 18 9.24am |
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Originally posted by bexleydave
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| Rudi Hedman Caterham 17 Jul 18 9.24am |
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Originally posted by silvertop
What else would you expect from a club of our size, with our infrastructure and with our recent history? To not chuck the first handful of games and points away because we’re not prepared, start the season at the bottom after a promising finish, and find ourselves in desperate mode with regards to the single player available in a specialist position being unavailable after condescending tweets to fans with a good understanding of football.
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| Rudi Hedman Caterham 17 Jul 18 9.27am |
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Originally posted by bexleydave
And the Americans and sir Steve Parish’s profit goal is when they sell their shares, not withdrawing a profit to halt progress getting to the sale of the club after bringing the ground into this century.
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| bexleydave Barnehurst 17 Jul 18 9.29am |
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Originally posted by silvertop
What else would you expect from a club of our size, with our infrastructure and with our recent history? There are PL clubs of a similar size (and smaller) that are able to maintain a steadier ship than us. What "recent history"? If that's a reference to administration, it's time we moved on from using it as an excuse for anything.
Bexley Dave Can you hear the Brighton sing? I can't hear a ******* thing! "The most arrogant, obnoxious bunch of deluded little sun tanned, loafer wearing mummy's boys I've ever had the misfortune of having to listen to" (Burnley forum) |
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| Rudi Hedman Caterham 17 Jul 18 9.29am |
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23 days to replace Cabaye or it’s a red or black roulette season for us. And that’s the bare minimum as well.
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| bexleydave Barnehurst 17 Jul 18 9.50am |
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Originally posted by manwitheagletattoo
Yes and this is what the Glaziers have done to Utd The discussion was about transfer activity, if you recall, and Man U have already made a net spend approaching £60m, so the answer to the question "can we expect a lack of tranfer activity at Man U as well" was 'no', and not a rant about the club's finances.
Bexley Dave Can you hear the Brighton sing? I can't hear a ******* thing! "The most arrogant, obnoxious bunch of deluded little sun tanned, loafer wearing mummy's boys I've ever had the misfortune of having to listen to" (Burnley forum) |
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| silvertop Portishead 17 Jul 18 10.11am |
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Originally posted by bexleydave
There are PL clubs of a similar size (and smaller) that are able to maintain a steadier ship than us. What "recent history"? If that's a reference to administration, it's time we moved on from using it as an excuse for anything. I meant our history where we have overwhelmingly played in lower divisions but I'm glad you mentioned the fact that we were almost liquidated only 8 years ago. It might be premature to think that the impact of such a devastating event has no impact now particularly when we are having to compete with other teams with established modern infrastructure. And which teams do you mean? Are Watford, Burnley, Brighton, Huddersfield and Bournemouth really so better run than us? And if you think they are, please say how they are.
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| silvertop Portishead 17 Jul 18 10.18am |
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Originally posted by Rudi Hedman
To not chuck the first handful of games and points away because we’re not prepared, start the season at the bottom after a promising finish, and find ourselves in desperate mode with regards to the single player available in a specialist position being unavailable after condescending tweets to fans with a good understanding of football. FdB was a disaster. Failing to have enough cover hurt us badly. But it was the extraordinary level of injuries that really stuffed us. The tweets... grasping straws there. Roy H was a success. A modern ground will be a success. Zaha, Tomkins and Luca are all successes. £14M profit in last accounts is a success...
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| Rudi Hedman Caterham 17 Jul 18 10.55am |
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Originally posted by silvertop
FdB was a disaster. Failing to have enough cover hurt us badly. But it was the extraordinary level of injuries that really stuffed us. The tweets... grasping straws there. Roy H was a success. A modern ground will be a success. Zaha, Tomkins and Luca are all successes. £14M profit in last accounts is a success... Extraordinary levels of injuries goes under the heading ‘Can and does happen.’ Having one striker and the only ever Prem team to have one striker with the chairman trying to put people in their place over it only for the said only striker to get injured a week or so after goes under the heading ‘Are you for real/fvcking kidding me?’ You minimise the strains on a team, not add or maximise them. The tweets were treating people like fools.
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| Midlands Eagle 17 Jul 18 11.20am |
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Originally posted by Rudi Hedman
Extraordinary levels of injuries goes under the heading ‘Can and does happen.’ Having one striker and the only ever Prem team to have one striker..... If I remember correctly we were all excreting hot bricks in February when having failed to sign a keeper in January our two first team keepers both suffered injuries and there was a very real possibility of having to play a rookie from the development side in goal
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