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Apart from the standard policy of looking out of the window and not speaking on the train back after winning there it’s not a big deal really. Always a certain element of tension on the platform but in truth there are loads of coppers around and cameras everywhere, it’s more about them enjoying knowing that they are making you a triffle uneasy than that you are actually going to get kicked in. Let’s face it, they are NEVER going to be more pissed off at us than they were after Hughes destroyed them and we got out alive from that one... Pubs round Borough High Steet and the short train journey down are definitely the way to go, I will be travelling in to go back out again rather than potentially joining the trains or underground bringing them in from the outlying chav towns in Kent where they all live now.

I'm suggesting the Southwark Tavern on Borough High Steet/Southwark Street as a potential meeting venue. I'm there straight after work.

"I'll Be There..."

/Four Tops

Parking near London Bridge station isn't particularly easy. There is an NCP, I think, but it's fairly pricey.

I did the same on my John Thomas. Only managed to get half of it on but the principle still applies.

Hasn't stopped you trying repeatedly to get it off, though, eh?

So I will see you in the Doric on saturday then

I wish. Gotta look after the nippers on Saturday.

Will definitely be going to Brentford, though.

There we are. Beat that!

Eureka!

I've found a winning formula.

All you need to do before reading one of CJ's posts is to prefix it with the words: "I think." Doesn't half make it easier and puts everything beautifully into context.

Bingo.

E2a: So CJ, are you actually going out for dinner or is that just an opinion?

Say something once, why say it again?

Well, you started the conversation, you can't even finish it.

Does your questioning attitude mean that you think Hannibal Lector would be fa fa fa fa fa fa far better?

No, but it's highly likely it would make me run run run run run run away.

What would you say to us signing Jeffrey Dahmer up to play centreback for us?

Qu'est-ce que c'est?

To be honest I'd send him to the swamp that is Blackpool with our love

People like us can do without that sort anyway.

If you were him you'd stay up late and not be thinking about putting pen to paper

You reckon he'd change his mind? He'd have to be on drugs to reconsider.

I thought he was at least a communicator in a back 5 lacking in enough talking heads. For the same reason of course I'd like to see Will Haining back too - nothing to do with the fact that his girlfriend is better than most!

I wish you wouldn't say that. Besides which, I think he's found a job elsewhere.

I'd have thought we were making more of a go of it if we'd signed that left back from Wolves to a permanent deal, what was his name again?

Mr Jones? Well, in a perfect world, we would have done.

No. Although, of course, the decline over the last fifteen years results in shifting perceptions of 'happy days.'

True enough. And I have to admit I'm impatient for a bit more of the success I remember from all those years ago. In fact, those memories can't wait.

I haven't pretended to present evidence, just opinion and observation based on what I see and the limited information available to ordinary fans.

And clearly you don't see any happy day coming in the near future?

So for fans born after 1990, the opportunity represented by Moore was truly once in a lifetime?

Those little creatures sure have had a wild, wild life, eh?

God only knows.

As long as there are stars above you...

True.

 

But it's alright.

Yeah, it's alright.

many hard core fans have come to see the likes of Blackpool and Barnsley as clubs we can't really hope to compete with

I just don't believe that.

Squeeze a few extra seats in Main Stand to cope with capacity issues, 16,000 and all that...obvious.

BUT DP does like a big bugger option...

Could have sworn I was on another messageboard then...

Wasn't it your clients and their colleagues at international investment banks that got us into this f*cking mess in the first place?

Not my clients. But I see what you're saying.

And don't get me wrong, we're not out of this mess for a few years. But decades is way wide of the mark. Course, it won't stop doom-mongers repeating the hyperbole.

Tell us why.

 

(The statement doesn't originate with me; there are many, many voices in the media, politics, economics, etc etc, of differing political viewpoints, saying so. Many of them are from the heart of the financial system.)

Because 'decades' implies more than one period of 10 years. So in effect, the statement you're repeating purports that it will be at least 20 years before we recover from the financial crisis.

My clients at an international investment bank beg to differ. As do the many, many voices in the media/politics/economics etc. Most point to a longer-than-expected recovery period, but nothing quite so dramatic as 20 years. In fact, much if not all of the hullaballoo about how long it'll take to pay off the debt built up by the bail-out of the banks fails to take into account the almost nailed-on likelihood that those banks will pay the money back (as Northern Rock is doing at an encouraging rate).

It is going to take decades to recover from what happened to the financial system.

I'm sorry, but that's utter cocksnot.