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All good points. In addition I'm really fed up with those posters who continually claim that Thorn invented penicillin, set out the theory of relativity and was the first man on the moon. Can't these people make postings that are even vaguely sensible?????????

The implication here is that a good manager will be "poached". You've also stated (frequently) that Thorn is "the worst manager in our history". It is therefore logical that all his predecessors were better than him. So from that abundance of riches, how many of our managers in say the...

Nothing like a close season to polarise opinion :D OK then - "worst manager in our history"...... I'm pretty shaky on managers from 1883 to 1961, but look forward to your reasoned debate on their pros and cons. As for more recent years, off the top of my head I'd look at: Peter Reid -...

Personally, I've always thought that there were fixed term contracts and rolling contracts. Fixed term contracts ran for a fixed term and then stopped (although they could obviously be extended or renewed by mutual agreement), whilst rolling contracts "rolled on" until either party served the...

I completely agree with the general point that you're making, but I have different memories of the specifics of the cup run tickets. It's true that there weren't many of us at the Bolton game (bloody freezing!), but as I recall the away end was pretty full at Old Trafford. For the Stoke game I...

Seems a bit odd to say that AT "seems to get off scot free of any responsibility at all" when half the posts on a thread like this seem to characterise him as "the worst manager of all time in the known universe" (OK, maybe mild exaggeration) :D

I'd always assumed that "a rolling 12 month contract", simply referred to the notive period required. So at any point either party would have to give 12 months notice of termination.

Interesting comment Lord. My understanding was that when SISU/Ranson took the club over, RR put Prozone in as his investment. As I recall this was valued at one time at several million pounds - which given that Prozone was sold last year (?), he lost. On that basis he would have had to...

Careful VOR - some of us are only clinging on to sanity through the hope that a takeover may happen. If GH says it can't be done, we could be pushed over the edge :o:o

Torchy - I started going to watch City in the late 60's and would have agreed with your comments in every close season since, up to now. We've had some great Boards (the years of DR) , some poor ones and some very poor ones - but I'm concerned that for the first time we have a Board/Owner that...

Case proven m'lud :D:D

I originally posted against your comment because I thought your response to Jan was more than a little disrespectful to someone who's actually trying to do some good for the club (in addition to being arrogant, poorly argued and of course inaccurate). I suppose it would probably have been...

You just took a guess - and got it so wrong as to be embarressing for most people :D And then you miss the point - by miles..... The crowds in 67/68 were way above your "guess", because the club was successful then. The crowds have fallen since because we have been unusually unsuccessful...

Where do you start to answer this? Let's just note that the one fact you quote is nonsense - 18k average attendance in 1967/68 - I have to assume that the whole thing is a wind-up.

Do we hear banging in the distance??

But season ticket sales are up on last year :D:D

Which rather begs the question - what do you consider a "realistic bid" for a business whose liabilities exceed its assets, that is losing money every month (£500k according to TF recently) and has just had a massive decrease in revenue following its relegation?

Except that some people like cats :D

I think that they need to file their stat accounts for the year to June '11 to get the embargo lifted. The article is based on the fact that they've delayed releasing an interim statement on the 6 months results to December '11, which as interim (Half year) results are not subject to Football...

You'd think so, but can't you just see Joy saying - "How many players in a soccerball team? - So why do you need any more???"