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Do we have faith in the board?

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  1. SaintinNZ

    SaintinNZ Well-Known Member

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    I’d suggest that you could relegate 6-8 teams this season and see little difference or perhaps an improvement in the PL football next year. Big buckets of money don’t achieve much in the wrong hands. Now about that board of ours...
     
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  2. San Tejón

    San Tejón Well-Known Member

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    Didn’t Nigel Pearson keep us up, many moons ago, when relegation threatened?
    He also, after having had a torrid time at Leicester, turned their form around and got them winning, a mentality they carried into the following, title winning season.
    Or have I got the timings wrong?
    I’d settle for him turning our form around. Winning the title next season would be a bonus.
     
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  3. st_brendy

    st_brendy Well-Known Member
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    Some people out there will agree with that version. Not everyone.

    He came in around February time, after we decided against leaving Dodd and Gorman in caretaker charge until the end of the season afterall (Burley having left for Scotland in December/January time). And duly left after our last day escape at home to Sheff Utd.
     
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  4. ImpSaint

    ImpSaint Well-Known Member

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    The only detail I can find is for the 14/15 season and it is/was someone called Khali Parsons.
     
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  5. fatletiss

    fatletiss Well-Known Member

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    Just read this. Sound like you know something here... is there more to tell @st_brendy ?? Be interesting to hear.
     
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  6. st_brendy

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    Nothing more to tell. Just that for some, we avoided relegation because of Pearson. For others, we avoided relegation in spite of Pearson.
     
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  7. fatletiss

    fatletiss Well-Known Member

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    Ah ok, I understand. I thought there was some juicy gossip I had missed out on. Rumours and gossip wasn’t quite as readily available then, as it is now.
     
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  8. Saintmagic

    Saintmagic Well-Known Member

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    Saw this on Saintsweb but made me smile. Krueger and Reed creating a new formula for the BlackBox

    please log in to view this image
     
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  9. ----HistoryRepeating----

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    Crumbs, that really is Les isn't it!! <laugh>
     
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  10. Saintmagic

    Saintmagic Well-Known Member

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    It doesn't take too much of an imagination to see Krueger in the other one as well
     
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    ----HistoryRepeating---- Well-Known Member

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    As a child of the 80's, Krueger will always be a blade glove wearing burnt thing of nightmares to me. Whereas Les has become a bit of a muppet.
     
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  12. fatletiss

    fatletiss Well-Known Member

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    MP2 and Les

    My thunder is stolen :(
     
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  13. Cowtownred

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    I am starting to lose faith in our board. I was hoping we would have an impact signing in, for the must win at Watford, but I seem to think, our club would rather not pay what the transfer market dictates now, and penny pinch! I say, to Les and Co, "Wake the **** up! we are seriously in danger of going down" Spend the money required to keep us up!
     
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  14. Dark Lord SFC

    Dark Lord SFC Well-Known Member

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    The decision to keep MP for me is the main issue. Spending huge transfer fees on players and then trusting him to bed them down into our demoralised squad and then blend them into our constantly rotating first team seems a little daft.
    Probably better to keep the £75m back and see if we will need it to plug the gaps in our finances if/when we get relegated
     
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  15. Libby

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    Probably better to just sack him <whistle>
     
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  16. st_brendy

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    I'd suggest that a year to 18 months ago was the time to start to lose faith.

    In any event, I'm sadly not hopeful of your request being placated.
     
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  17. St. Luigi Scrosoppi

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    We are going to be the richest club ever in the Championship.
     
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  18. Schad

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    I don't think that they are taking the possibility of relegation seriously. That's a consequence that visits badly-run clubs, and everyone knows that we're an innovative club that is the envy of the footballing world, so it stands to reason that this is a mere blip. To admit that we're serious candidates for relegation would be to first admit that we have rather badly mismanaged over the past couple seasons.
     
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    And because of this, even if we do stay up, I don't think anyone should get ahead of themselves in thinking that we'll spend this summer finally putting things right.

    I will (almost) always take staying up over going down, if for no other reason than you never know when/if you'll return. But nonetheless, right now I can't say that I'd be particularly looking forward to next season if we are still in the PL.
     
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  20. Osvaldorama

    Osvaldorama Well-Known Member

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    We have put the feelers out and spoken to Fulham manager Jokanovic’s agent to find out if he would be interested...

    I’m not normally ITK, but that’s come from a pretty reliable source. So it seems MP isnt as safe as they are making out in the press..
     
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