Good to see old Dave throwing around the insults out of sheer desperation! 
Don't worry boys, I'm off to watch the Cricket now

Don't worry boys, I'm off to watch the Cricket now



2012 season Aston Villa had the 7th highest wage bill, how did that turn out.
Blows a certain theory out the water.
Plus every club bar Norwich and Swansea have debt, but its funny how when we have debt that means we are going to go bust within a week according to one person (cough, supers). yet the teams who finish above them have a bigger debt than us yet they are untouchable financially! wierd isn't it!
Still acting the thicko country yokel Guru! Not much point really, Supers has you on his ignore list, the rest of us already know you're a tosser and ignore you anyway!
Still acting the thicko country yokel Guru! Not much point really, Supers has you on his ignore list, the rest of us already know you're a tosser and ignore you anyway!

Now there isn't any need for name calling David. I'm just pointing out glaring holes in supers theory, I'm not doing anything wrong!
I was actually hoping for an answer....
As although Guru has clearly taken a very over sized ladle to stir things up. I find it quite an interesting point he has raised and I'm interested to see how you (as NCFC fans) see it.
Obviously no obligation to answer, just thought an opinion would suffice to cure my curiosity![]()
You are doing so much wrong it's unbelievable, the rest of us can't believe that you're really that thick youy cannot see what has been pointed out to you in words of one syllable
2012 season Aston Villa had the 7th highest wage bill, how did that turn out.
Blows a certain theory out the water.
Plus every club bar Norwich and Swansea have debt, but its funny how when we have debt that means we are going to go bust within a week according to one person (cough, supers). yet the teams who finish above them have a bigger debt than us yet they are untouchable financially! wierd isn't it!
KoPR, if you care to trawl through all the ****e that Guru has stirred you will find, every time he gets an answer, he gently nudges one of the goalposts! He does it all the time, even you must see that!
OK, so I appreciate that a company being in debt is not something that everyone understands, so I'll do my best to explain to you in as simple terms as possible and hope it isn't too patronising.
Basically, all companies will have some sort of debt - whether it is in the form of a bank overdraft or a big loan, this is normal. Norwich have debts - to Delia as well as, technically, for their day-to-day business.
The problem relates to how easy those debts are to service. Norwich, for example, has no problem servicing its small debts. Likewise, Utd has no problem servicing its massive debts. Servicing the debts relates not only to how much revenue coming in, but also to how cheap your debt is (and the more reliable the company is, the cheaper the debt is) and how willing lenders are to prop a company up and keep it going.
This last point is where the problem arises for Ipswich and other Championship clubs. Their debt is very expensive (I understand Ipswich pays a very high interest rate). This tells you how risky the debt is. Currently, Ipswich are fine, because their debtors are happy to be returned a very good rate of interest. The problem will arise if debtors decide that they are seriously at risk of losing the principal. This is actually a rare occurrence - most banks would rather take a small loss and keep a company going in the hope that the company can turn itself around in a couple of years. This is also the reason why HMRC are the most likely debtors to call in their debt in one chunk - HMRC do not act commercially. However, there is also, in the oddly warped commercial world of football, always the risk that, where there is heavy debt and an individual owner, that, broadly speaking, they may cut their losses and run. This is the risk for Ipswich and QPR, as it was for Portsmouth.
I actually don't think Ipswich are at too much risk of going under because it sounds like your owner has a very good deal. The problem is that the fans suffer because he has no incentive to get the club to improve on the pitch.
This argument is pointless because Guru is using a straw man argument. Superman has generalised, therefore it is easy to pick out the exceptions as Guru is doing and is broadly unchallengeable. It doesn't alter the fact that, undeniably, Supers generalisation stands the test of time.
I would go so far as to argue there are three leagues:
1. The Top Three
2. The Champions League/Europa League battlers
3. The Relegation Contenders
There being three leagues doesn't preclude teams moving up or down a league (as they do in the official leagues!) and this can happen quickly. For example, City were only in league 2 for about three seasons, now they're in league 1. There is also a vague blur between league 2 and 3 in the form of Swansea. Another tricky one is Newcastle. Interestingly, teams that have broken into league 2 surprisingly, have tended to really suffer the next season (e.g. Stoke, Newcastle, etc.)
This is not a pointless exercise - the reason it is interesting is that you can broadly predict which teams will be in which leagues at the beginning of each season. This highlights how low the mobility is in the Premier League. By contrast, mobility is very high in the Championship, with it being difficult to predict where teams will be at all, other than saying, e.g., Leicester will probably be top half and may well be promotion candidates.
Straw manning is what you have done repeatedly, that's why everyone has accused you of wumming, which you appear to be continuing to do.
Guru, you are moving the goal posts because you keep on bringing new and irrelevant details into this.
Let me repeat what I said last nightt, which I think actually reflects Spuers argument, rather than your deliberate distortions:
Straw manning is what you have done repeatedly, that's why everyone has accused you of wumming, which you appear to be continuing to do.
So let's clarify - drop your point about this expenditure thing. That's not what Supers was arguing about. Forego this rubbish about him completely ignoring the "top seven" teams, that's not the point of the generalisation. In sum, I suggest you give up.
realistically, when you take everything into consideration, last season norwich city effectively finished 4th. you may as well exclude manchester united, manchester city, arsenal, chelsea, tottenham, liverpool and even everton, simply because their wage structures are so much more than anyone else's it's not a level playing field
I appriciate your post Rob, as it doesn't resort to the usual name calling.
I can understand that, I don't agree with all of it but i can see where you are coming from.
So what was supers going on about?
Please see below supers quote a few weeks back that started this off.