Dave_Og

I claimed no such thing. Most of the article is factual. This really isn;t complex. They tried, they made mistakes and they failed on the five year plan but suggesting they should just pass it on to next in line makes no sense because there ain't no queue. Re bricks through windows - we know that sort of thing happens. If I was a Director of a club and it happened to me once, just once, I would walk.

I never said or implied there was any abuse in the post. I implied there was madness in the suggestion that they should abdicate because when someone abdicates there is always an obvious successor. There isn't one here.

You wouldn't need to search too hard to find examples of directors who have decided that they have had enough abuse and walk away and it's a small step form internet warrioring t to one numpty who puts a brick through a window or whatever. I just find it astonishing that people question their motives and integrity and that certainly doesn't mean that they are immune from criticism.

Absolutely bonkers. Does anybody seriously think there is a buyer waiting in the wings? Why not just cut to the chase and piss them off so much that they just walk away? Most people would have done so by now.

Anyone who seriously thought about it and failed to see the crash coming is, IMHO, an idiot whose views should be disregarded in peprpetuity.

Clearly too technical for me. That started with a poll asking are you: a) a happy clapper a doom and gloom merchant or c) a wait and seeer

Just curious.

Like many the loan system has been a factor in dimming my interest. What's the best XI made up from loaness of, say, the last 5 seasons? Maybe Grant, Jones, Bertrand, Croft, Kilkenny and Clarke warrant a mention? Others?

Twice in my life I've taken jobs where I knew within the first week that I'd madde a big mistake...

If anyone knocks on my door asking for ground rent they'll get a short answer.

Eh? Bringging him through teh youth team and selling him for £1m(?). Where's the mistake there?

London Standard tonight says he prefers Spurs over Liverpool & Villa. The Standard doubles as a Spurs fanzine.

Go on, let's. It's wholly unrealistic to expect TTA to fund teh club's losses indefinitely or to stretch themselves beyond breaking point as per Moore so let's accept that as a given. If Failsworth goes ahead at, for the sake of argument, a 12,000 capacity it clearly places limitations on the club but it might just provide some stability. At at time when it is obvious that many clubs, not just ours, are struggling financially as never before then stability in the short term will do, won't it? Who knows whch clubs will come out of the recession (and I am hugely pessimistic about if or when that will actually happen) in good shape but if we, at that time, are stable then there is a base to build on and a far more attractive option for any potential future investors. I really cannpt understand why TTA get such a slagging from some people.. Their saving of the club from the scrapheap certainly doesn;t make them immune from valid criticism and they may well have made some bad calls - who hasn't? - but their are plenty of owners who would have called it quits before now. Whether you agree with their plan or not they can't be blamed for what has happened in the world, albeit that it wasn't hard to see it coming to a significant degree, and I don;t find it at all hard to belive that the Boundary Park sums simply don't add up anymore.

Crowd? 2,500?

Chelsea posted a loss of £44.4m last year. Having someone prepared to convert that into equity as Abramovich has done is not the same as being self sustaining. That was the year by the way in which Kenyon claimed they would break even

You tell me - I've already said that banging on about it on here won't change anything and there is enough evidence to suggest I'm right on that one.

So seven pages on and no-one has answered the question of whether there is anyone actually prepared to do something in the affirmative.

Not to the same degree as now when clubs sign up players much younger than was once the case and run much bigger academies, many more youth sides etc. I get the impression that if a kid has two legs and shows an interest then a big club will have first bite

No idea but it has to be doubtful looking at how many players the youth system have produced over the last ten years or so that have gone on to have good league careers. Not hard to work out why when Man Utd soccer scholls in Oldham are advertised on live TV.

Best goal I ever saw was a Alan Mullery for Fulham against Rochdale at Spotland. Screamer of a volley then the fog came down and the game was abandoned at half time.

It wasa bit like watching Germany v Argentina though

More than 43 I think. That was horrible

South Shields?

Almost exactly like that - but with something on it.

Maybe they are not the riight questions. Personally I don't believe that forums are the right, well, forum. Can;t expect anyone to give full and accurate answers to questions thrown at them on the hoof. Submitted, thoughtful questions answered in a considered way would, I think, be more productive.