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The sun will shine and the birds will sing when the day comes that footballing success is not wholly determined by the owner's wallet.

No-one is saying that he is the problem. People are saying that they'd like to see as much sweat and potential extracted from the players as possible, for the sake of the badge, their personal expenditure, their pride in the city, etc. To rally behind a manager we acknowledge as being out of his...

The very fact that he was the one to make that quote lines up with what I was saying - he's traditionally been the PR man. The voice of the club. The bridge between the fans and the club. I have no clue what his character or intentions are...I doubt anyone does. But I would be surprised if he...

No fear, the debate is not being confused. It is evident to all that the squad is poorer than it was last season and that maintaining Championship status would be a struggle. But the "we've lost 13 players" line has gone without examination for too long, and is too readily used as a panacea for...

I think you're overestimating Joe's influence. He was the guy that CWR would call at 6.30p on a Friday night to get matchday information. He never seemed to be much of a player; just a PR man. True though, wasn't it?

That claim is a tough sell considering that AT recently said that the players need to be mentally stronger.

Nobody is saying they don't count. The absence of King and Westwood are keenly felt. However, it is unfair to use them as a stick with which to beat SISU and/or back up Thorn. You can't find a Kieren Westwood every three years. You're not going to get a Prem striker every year on a...

Gregor Rioch. He's a winning manager at the academy, he's on the club payroll, and he has developed all of the academy graduates in the squad.

That's doing AT a service. We were effectively relegated by the end of November!

Yes. I'm sure he'd have preferred Rooney if he could have afforded it, but every team has a budget. 400k or so is actually not an unreasonable amount to go fishing for a striker who could do the business in the Championship. If AT was the super-hot scout that he supposedly is, then it oughtn't...

Why didn't you paste the sentence that followed? I'll do it for you: "I'm not going to say that the replacements are on a par, but that would be hard to do for any Championship club." Replace is not the same thing as replicate. You can't do that. King is Premiership quality; it was only...

You can make an argument for a higher level of quality throughout the side, certainly. I'm just tired of hearing the guff about how we're putting a youth team out there when it's clearly not true.

A bit disingenuous, that. I keep hearing this '13 players v 3 players' argument, which makes for good anti-SISU PR. The reality, however, is that five of them were youth players (replenished by the new class); two were non-contributing crocks; one retired; one was rubbish; and one was sold...

Wonder how he'd have done if he didn't have Jim fuckin' Smith foisted on him. A cautionary tale for those wanting an 'experienced head' alongside a young manager.

The average age of the CCFC side was older than that of Southampton's.

Hoffman could pay a pound for the club too...

Tell that to the CCFC fans who booed Stern John out of the club.

Bewildering thing to say. Who was defending SISU?

But a global recession coming? Lehman Bros took everybody by surprise.

Surely if the club's losses are on the books and have been covered by SISU then that is precisely evidence of money being spent.