Jimmy, I pretty much agree with you, but threatening to leave the forum isn't the right way to go about it tbh. typical has at least tried to explain why he thinks your opinions are tosh. Please stick around.
Jimmy don't get me wrong but I don't buy into this Chris Powell saviour bit. I have taken a lot of care in explaining previously that I don't think the cafc world stops turning without CP I don't use the words rose tinted I used the word starry eyed. I once sat next to Sir Andrew lloyd webber at a concert once and ignored him all nite dispite him being desperate to talk to me, just mugged him off and evenrefused to move my feet in when he wanted a pee. Such is my contempt for the 'celebrity' The board deserve your support too, you know. I find it very dissapointing that they who after all are taking huge personal risks here are being treated so shamefully. Nobody has any right to tell them how to spend their money and we should be grateful that they are. Quite frankly, Without their investments we are in trouble I am up myself though immensely.
Lets just remember to keep posts on topic. I think there's been some intelligent debate on this from both sides and hope it continues
Lord Webber is no mere celebrity. He is a genius - a behemoth of the theatrical arts - and should be afforded the respect he deserves. Which reminds me of a school trip I attended in 1993. It was a production of An Inspector Calls at Drury Lane, with Kenneth Cranham in the lead role. Sitting next to me was the eminent Sir John Gielgud, so you can imagine my surprise and excitement at such an experience. However, Sir John wittered on at me throughout the performance, and he was rather smelly, yet I simply listened in to the great man's rambling yarns for the best part of two hours. As I stood up to leave, he grasped my hand and shook it firmly and surely, before placing a ten pound note in the pocket of my blazer. He said: 'Thank you for listening to me, young man. Nobody seems to do so anymore.' True story.
Well, if he tried to strike up conversations in cinemas and theatres where people are trying to watch a show, it's not a big surprise no one listened to him. I don't know if I'd have been as polite as you Ponders.
Typical i can cope with you disagreeing with me, i quite enjoy a debate as you may have noticed. However saying my post was "tosh" when what i said was very far from that has irked me. Powelly, Brown, Kinsella, Stuart, Mendonca, Seed, Bartram and of course Curbs are not just former employees, but the foundations of the club we have today. Club legends such as these do not grow on trees, and especially in todays game, with money being thrown around left right and centre, someone like Powell staying with us when he could easily find a job somewhere else with a longer deal really says something about his feelings for the club. As for the board, i had the utmost respect for them to start with. They came in and put some real effort into supplying funds for a squad, and together with Powell did a great job in their first full season. However, since the money man left, i am very angry with the way they have handled things. Even if behind the scenes they are doing all they can, the rumours flying about have hardly made us look good to potential investors. They should be doing all they can to clear up what is going on if it is not as bad as it has been reported, and on the flipside, if it is as bad as has been reported, they are doing a rather bad job at running a successful business. The one thing that is for sure, is that all of us fans want the club to prosper. The only way we will have a good season is if we can get some momentum going, and changing the manager would hamper that. I also genuinely do not think any manager past or present could do a better job with this set of players. I personally feel Powell has an issue with substitutions, and some of his tactics can be questionable at times. But he is still relatively new to the management game and has shown me more than enough in his tenure to show he is keen to learn and improve. Powell has never been the sort of bloke to take home a payslip without earning it, and i have nothing but respect for him. I do not want to argue with anyone, i just did not like the way you worded some of that post as it seemed quite diggy. Although i should have expected that from a man who openly likes tomatoes
@Jimmy I don't understand that when the team overachieves you claim it is credit to Powell's management, and yet when the team under performs you claim it is not his fault. You can't have it both ways. And it can't be the owners fault,he has had the same owners since he has been our manager. @ FHB As an Emiritus Professor of all things Killie, I am shocked at your assertion that Powell is our best full back since 1975. Were you guzzling the iron bru or quaffing a deep fried MarsBar when you wrote it . John Humphery was in a different parish as a player to Powell. He should have got 30-40 caps for England, and only failed to because of Bobby Robson's inexplicable love affair with Gary Stevens, plus the fact that he played for a club that was more unfashionable than a jumper from Primark. P.S Good result last night v Macedonia ...thank God for the collapse of Iron Curtain eh
I watched the Scotland game last night. Anya made his debut, was MOM and scored a great goal. Solly will have to be at his best to contain him on Saturday.
I'm racking my brains to think of another black player. We've got a black kid playing for I think the under-19's but he's at Chelsea now so he will probably disappear. Never heard of him before, but was told that he was born in Scotland and spent his first 11 years there. All I know is that he really can play, and let's hope Solly's new contract means he is back to his best.
I was just going to say that, but I thought FHB wouldn't want reminding about that miss against Norway
