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If a public figure (which even a youth player is in football these days - as ludicrous as that may be) gets arrested it reflects on their employer. That's not to associate guilt, complicity or anything else. It's just a reflection - the same as it reflects badly on his family, not to say any of those poor bastards have raised him this way! You can't detach him from society and place the bad feeling on him alone, even if that's where the (accused!!) guilt lies. This board (and The Board, indeed) are both full of :censored:. So is life. I tend to just smile and carry on, no point worrying about things you can't control.

Officially lacking in grammar! They're breaking my head these posts.

We are the club, the community - the association they're making, to my mind, is that in addition to the Shez stuff, no players, no money, etc. this is just one more thing for the club to endure. No one is remotely saying the club are at fault (:censored: at this point we can't even say he is - it's an accusation about which we know literally nothing!) but it's fair to say this compounds that 'feel bad factor' given one of our players has been arrested for being a nonce...!

Also; when it rains it pours. And for us right now it's pouring literal :censored:. What a time to be alive.

Not sure anyone has said it is, to be honest?

Where's that come from?

Is that where we all get a week each in charge? Can't imagine we're any less qualified than the previous lot...?

New contract!? He's had the current 3-year one for :censored: all time! Christ, his agent would pissing himself with glee if you were in charge!

FTFY

Exactly that level of input will be had, I expect (hence why we sometimes end up with the "wrong" blue)... gone are the days of Umbro coming out with 20 different designs to pick from (god love the Green Mountains!). Now it'll be selected just like any of us could buy a Sunday League kit.

Not that I know of. I hope he's OK if he has, but he's been seen saying "lady" since the GMR :censored:show of 12ish months ago, so had at least once chance to correct it.

Will they offer them to us for the same price? Will they offer a buy-back guarantee? Will they sell them in their chain stores around the UK? Example (very simple numbers, ignoring kids sizes, taxes, etc. etc.): Units 5,000 Sale Price £50 Revenue = £250,000 LOCAL Cost £15 a shirt = £75,000 Profit = £175,000 Break Even = 1500 units sold BRANDED Cost £8 a shirt = £40,000 Profit = £210,000 Break Even = 800 units sold Now I fully accept the numbers are speculative at best, but I believe they're a fair indication and I am confident that the club have done at least some research in to this. Can we afford to gamble £35,000 in profit? Will sales from a local firm be sufficient to increase the number sold by 700 (again, for simplicity I'm ignoring the fact those 700 would come with additional costs too). I would love a unique kit like everyone else but economically it would be reckless of the club. We'd all sit here in 18 months bemoaning it! Well yes, I've been saying that about the Trust for 5 years but I get what you mean. Of course they can/should talk to the club about it - indeed I would hope that they could share a "this is why we can't" example (not with commercially sensitive numbers, of course) akin to mine above. But like you say, that's not going to happen and personally I think there's more important things they've got to be doing (where's the stand money going, etc.) than worrying about the kit style/shade of blue. But then this could be a copy and paste from any summer of the last few years when this comes up so what's the point worrying?

Only took him 12 months... In which time he had a large part in creating the Ched Evans saga. I can't argue a lot is said on here which is just misplaced anger and/or keyboard warrior type behaviour. But Barry's silence on crucial matters whilst head of the Trust coupled with the foot-in-mouth activities (who can forget "lady", after all) make much of the stick he gets very fair.

Because it will make no difference? Like every year; we do not have the finances to influence the design. Man United, as one of the richest clubs in the world, have to concede on design choices - how in the :censored: can we expect to influence them?

That's usually because he doesn't present the context in the quote. No one really believes Barry thinks we should deliberately try and rot between 15-17th in League One - but that's what he said, because at times he's painfully inarticulate and short-sighted. Mercifully through luck or good judgement he seems to have got this one right. Which is nice to see.

I don't disagree with the sentiment, however it's not all bollocks in so much as managing a team of £5-£10k a week players who expect to be playing at a higher level is not easier than managing £1-£3k a week players who accept that a playoff run would be a reasonable outcome. Indeed several of the most "elite" managers have come unstuck when it comes to transitioning from making do with what you have to managing the expectations, temperaments, etc. of the more talented players. As I say, you've a fair point to some extent I just don't believe it to be as black and white as your conclusion.

It sounds like a crock of :censored:e!

As has been said above, and a million times elsewhere - chuck £20 on any lower-league appointment and the odds will dart one way or the other, it's just the way it is.

And he's still picking up work on Sky, which would be unlikely with us given we play most days they'd need him (he does the lower-leagues obviously).

Corney's ideal scenario isn't it... Shez gets tapped up by Leeds and the fine we seem destined to get, from when we tapped him up at Newport, is paid by the one Leeds then owe us! Genius!

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"...the West Ham score is flashed up on the electronic scoreboard..." What's one of them, then?

I'm OK with that - are you suggesting that I should see them as needing my protection? How terribly sexist of you.

Yes. I should add I've only been when working (and I got abuse from the family stand during that) so don't know - this came from those on the email thread.

At the request of those who've been to Millwall before I've removed the pub name. It is a sensible precaution, if likely a little OTT.