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100% agree. If Stevenson goes for 1.5 million just to cover the losses and bring in a couple of lower-league journeymen, maybe I have to accept it but I find it impossible to enthuse about it. Yet people on this thread are cheerfully debating how much we should ask for, and we’ve even got the...

Yes, but I recall that Gordon Milne's adventurous tactic (especially if the other team only had one winger) was to push one of the full backs into midfield, effectively making it 3-3-4? So we scored tons of goals but were wide open at the back. It was a crazy couple of seasons, because if we...

By a bit of cheating, I’ve looked up the No. 7 for that day and it was indeed Ray Graydon – if you got that from the photo alone it’s a great call. What a fantastic combination of wingers that was – Hutch on on side and Graydon on the other, one tricky the other much more direct. With the...

Already a candidate for understatement of the year :)

Just to recap - after talks early on New Year’s day, more details are emerging about the policy positions of Northern Wisdom and Hill83 regarding Jordan. Northern has positioned himself firmly on the centre ground, whilst Hill’s views were said to be slightly further to the right. Sources...

I wouldn’t refuse to buy tickets as a way of trying to get rid of SISU, because I agree with Grendel (and others) that it is not going to work, and harms the football club. However, I go less and less often, simply because it’s not a good way to spend an afternoon or an evening. I know young...

Yes, what financial expertise he demonstrated there :( But the fact that he said this at all suggests they had thought about the risks, and dismissed them. They knowingly gambled with the future of CCFC and lost.

It’s great that people are looking for sites, and nobody would be happier than me if one could be found and for CCFC to invest in a brilliant new home (especially if it was near the city centre). There’s nothing to stop the club putting in an application anywhere it fancies, but why would...

Thanks to the OP for the links. Sounds like Slade has an old-fashioned approach to many aspects of football management – will to win, commitment, big guys, fitness, hitting people on the break, team spirit, often 4-4-2. It might not be for the purists, but we’ve watched so much ineffective...

It’s never a good idea. I tried it once and was limping for a month afterwards until the GP gave me some special ointment.

Wonderfully well put - this explains their whole disastrous tenure, which has wrecked every relationship and ruined our club.

So what you are saying is that the money CCFC have available for the playing side is actually higher than Fisher claims. He understates it to boost his case that we have to own a stadium. Is that it? It’s a genuine question – I’m finding it hard to follow your argument when you keep releasing...

Mr. Grendel, I haven’t done my homework properly so I don’t know what you mean. Speaking as one of the thickos at the back of the class, it would be great if you could just tell me the answer. And put a gold star in my exercise book. Then we’ll both feel good.

But the Telegraph gave him the opportunity to confirm what Fisher said, and he could easily have done that. He could have said something along the lines of “It was disappointing to see that pitch invasion”, and I’d have taken that as a hint that Fisher could be right. As it is, Sharp said they...

I agree with Torch about Phillips, but even more so about Martin. Typical CCFC - we nurtured him through a lot of bad performances, then once he started to look like a really commanding player in our league we disposed of him :( I must admit that when he went, I thought TM must have some...

The (apparent) lack of honesty in communications over several years is worth mentioning: http://www.skybluestalk.co.uk/threads/shock-horror-tim-found-out-again.54325/ Seppala and Fisher appear to stand side by side on the stadium plans, and they’ve done little or nothing to counter the...

LOL - just once in a while a post makes my day. Many happy returns, I’d give anything to be 49. I’m a Sagittarian too, glad we are finally getting some much needed publicity. Any chance of a sub-forum for us Nick? We could discuss archery and stuff.

Despite the cynicism on the this thread, the noises coming out of both CCFC and CCC about this seem positive to me – it might just be a great opportunity. Isn’t a new road (effectively a western bypass) intended to link the A46 near Stoneleigh with the A45 or A452? I imagine that would open up...

The quiz is a nice idea, and If they'd had something like this in the 70's, 80's or 90's I'd have scored a minimum of 95. 10 years ago I might have got 60. But I haven't even attempted this one, because I know I'd struggle to get 10 - my unhealthy obsession with CCFC has been cured by Dr...

Not bothering to tell anybody :)