ianrobo1

is it only Brummies that call a city centre 'town' ?

I do love the way the market causes headlins in falling pound but they were the words removed who helped us get here in the first place ...

true but look at their next lot of fixtures not many wins there if we get some in our easier run then it will be a double digit lead

8 points behind ... they have to win three more than us in 16 games, not likely

100% Brummie, born at the Sorrento family from ladywood lived in Great Barr all my life

Yes please! we don't ask for much us Villa fans do we actually for me any result is good for us, Arse winning s the worse option but overall if we beat Wigan they will HAVE to win good stuff

it is snowy but better than the throy that shareholders shold squeeze every penny out isn;t it ?

boring profits do not make people loads of cash that is for sure and that is what is needed for the short and meduim term, don;t think anyone denies everyone is to blame to greater or lesser extents which is why Milbrands comments were so refreshing to read profit is bad when you chase it to excess, what is wrong with growing profits at a steady 2/3% a year, nothing but everyone wanted more now the chickens are roosting and the next few years will be solemn for those hoping the excess's of the past

Just in the last two years? I think you're being rather generous. Something about their eyes being bigger than their belly, perhaps. yep greed took over and now tax payers all over the world will have to pay for it

new set of packagaes announced including the 'printing of money to buy up some of the bad assets the banks own RBS wrote down £47bn of bad assets and annouced a £6bn loss no wonder they are now owned 70% by us some very bad descions made by banks in the past two years and biy aren't they and us paying for them now the mystery that will be debated in the forthcoming years is why banks brought millions of mortgages without checking just how secure they were and what they were buying and no doubt this week we will see the US spring into action as finally Obama gets into power this wekk will be very interesting

Thanks, explains it all. explains what ? what he said was totally correct the amount of deregulation seen i the past 20 years caused our problems all parties are to blame because all signed up to the concept of deregulated free markets and now the solution to save the banks all over the world is for nationalisation all started because shite loans were sold in packages no one understood what they were buying the cause is actually undisputed is it not Slowdown in the US Property prices falling and unemployment bad debts being called in banks did not have the assets they thought they did to loan vast amounts banks stoped lending to each other then to us and business's we stopped spending recession

yes Ian, that perfectly sums up the whole mess deregulation has failed (Lev of course totally disagrees) and it is clear new rules will be upon the banks and the city the first rule should be that no 'high street' bank should get ito 'investment' banking

Well it appears RBS will be 70% nationalised tomorrow whe preference shares are converted to ordinary shares who would have thunk that a year ago ?? so much has changed, the city and Wall street are neutered and the whole economic system is under intense scrunity

yep and because he is catala he has brought passion to the club and players Messi with passion is awesome

all of the banks ?

so the short sellers at it again ... after a break it starts again well BofA and citigroup have been bailed out and split up ... Barclays was the only bank notto take the government money and the FSA were happy with that

This is not a discussion thread. You should be careful, because you are on a yellow card

your well liked Rob !! at least on here !!

General, can I put Savman's comments another way I find it obscene to see the figures quoted for Kaka but I understand in the US sports stars are paid actually more than this. So do you feel that this will have a negative impact on football in general ? because it is OK to pay say £50m for him because Zidane was worth that and Zidane is a better player in my view but to pay over twice the current record smakes of grotesque manipulation of the market.

Rob awaiting the arrival of his monthly Fanzine (ps Rob, you can not do one for me, I posted Shrek before !!)

Hi General, Have you seen this doucmnetary about MON fantastic insight into MON and as I posted i the thread you have to relaise how lucky we were to get him and how we never want him to leave He understands peopel and how they work. If there was one word you could say abotu MON what would it be ?

**** me it's Graham Coxon. More like Christopher Reeve! she's not that bad

agree totally my and the stats so far show we are coping worse than some and better than others .... not long enough into it to judge and judgements can only be made after it has finished, whenever that is for me we are the edge of near depression

curious but how does it prove this ? it is possible that their overseas areas are struggling and they decided to cut back , however it's also just as possible that they have to cut back on headcount and can't afford to loose 2100 from one area thus they have to spread it around a bit or even that they are trying to protect it's UK workforce ... there are so many variables , but it doesn't really prove anything well doesn;t the record job losses in america prove that or the 15% fall in manufacturing in Spain ? or the 1500 reduncaies at Dell in Ireland or the £40bn pachkage just announced by Merkel and a predicted 1.5% fall in GDP in the 4th quarter ? etc. etc. etc.

for me it is the only way the RM has a future and given today;s conditions is a vote winner