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Soup or Gruel? Soup seems rather a luxury ;-) C'mon Bicks Doug called it soup but after amortization it became gruel

What do you mean "not taking questions" A pasty is a pasty BUT Caramel Shortbread is also known as MILLIONAIRES SHORTBREAD Comment must be made Mr. Mooney or gossip will start

Quality sir, quality :notworthy:

Yet they never eat humble pie when proved wrong! Where is Stan when you want him? Unwittingly B6 you've let the cat out of the bag Stan will triumphantly return to B6 as manager and these boards and everything else will go into meltdown Simples :winkold:

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Stu, Behave, Do you honestly believe we'd write to Wigan 2 weeks ago and only after being given permission invite Martinez to an interview, meanwhile we're going behind that lots back to sneakily steal their manager Come on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! edit for atrocious spelling

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ well said sir, This "lack of ambition" - in who's opinion - oh the meejah and the keyboard warriors on here As if that matters

I can't find where he said they'd done that in his post, aren't we all agreed it's just more media bullshit (noting that McLarens people have said there had been no contact whatsoever, far less a cancelled interview) Please don't do what the red tops do and mix and match someones statement and your opinion As for looking slow and undecisive, they only look that way to those who want them to. On one thing I disagree with Gen Krulak, getting a new manager is as easy as getting a balti pie from M & S (if they stock them), getting the right manager for what you want for the club is the difficult part

Thank you Sir, for an oasis of sanity in the turbulent sea of media driven madness and conjecture On one thing I disagree - Getting a new manager is as easy as getting a Balti pie, it's getting the right manager that the hard part

Yup

OK

You as well That makes 2 of us who got phone calls at the same tiem Must be something in it

Not that he'd come but hypothetically is there anyone who wouldn't sell Young and Downing if it meant funding the buy out of his release cause and giving him a mega salary? I might if I knew who the hell he was

He's also been quoted as saying he'd like the opportunity to work somewhere he doesn't have to sell a player every year to balance the books. Our wage bill's already been trimmed and there is and always has been money when needed. How many years has he put up with his current strained situation, he's done the loyalty bit. I'm not saying he's nailed on to want it but I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand

Given everything else posted by him we can safely assume he's talking out of where he gets sexual gratification from root vegetables

I'm worrying about the appointment. We know martinez was high on our shortlist and we know martinez had no interest talking to us, that worries me and I worry how our public image at the moment will effect us in terms of attracting a manager. You shouldn't John Managers all know how this shit works and know the bollox the press print (and talk) Those on the shortlist know they're on the list and it seems the sensible ones and the properly straight chairmen who've given permission to talk to them are keeping schtum - as it should be Remember, we're talking about Randy Lerner here, not Redknob media whore

It's great that you didn't mind a shit season last year and it's great you don't mind the club looking foolish in the national press but some of us do. Randy is not untouchable, I'm not going to let expectations slip just because I'm supposed to be extremely happy with everything randy does. We don't look foolish at all. Even if we did, would it really matter if we got the managerial appointment right? I wish people would start worrying about the managerial appointment and not what they think the press think of us. Well said Mantis The spewings of journos are irrelevant in the grander scheme of Finding the best Manager for the VILLA - that's all thats important

Yup AVFC are in debt, somewhere around £200 million I believe. The debt is owed to "The Lerner Familly Trust Fund" I wonder who sits on the board of that then?

So basically, Whelan had met with RM and made him an improved contract offer earlier this week, RM ask for a night to sleep on it and so Whelan holds press conferences about Villas proper way of doing things in the full knowledge we hadn't even spoken to RM. Snide shark

Totally believeable due to the sufeit of quotes from the parties concerned. I don't and won't believe he was actually offer the job until I see him talking directly to the camera and saying he was offered it and blanked it but somehow I don't expect that to happen

Totally believeable due to the sufeit of quotes from the parties concerned. I don't and won't believe he was actually offer the job until I see him talking directly to the camera and saying he was offered it and blanked it but somehow I don't expect that to happen

On Martinez, Can we all just wait and look carefully at what's said as up to now there are no direct quotes from anyone that he was actually interviewed far less offered the job.

That my friend makes sense, believing as I do that Randy is that kind of guy.

This. I really dont get the instant negativity and excuse for having a go at the board. As said if he stays at Wigan who are we to know we even offered him the job! No, he turned us down we have failed etc etc! Ridiculous. And again This. I asked "VillaMatt" whether Martinez had actually been offered the job as they were reporting he "wouldn't take" it and surprise surprise - no answer. It's simple, outside of Randy, the leading candidate and probably Falconer no-one knows anything and that's the way it should be

I think you're all underestimating page numbers in a big way, I'd guess over 500