vidal for name-checking a fine song in your riposte

all said and done, I think I'd rather have Billy's championship pedigree than Nigel's...

It's such a spectacularly mental decision it will either be the making or the breaking of them...but make no mistake, that chairman is a clueless nutter, if he gets it right it will be by blind luck rather than judgement. 'Will of Allah*, and all that malarkey'

* Rev - feel free to insert 'God' here mate!

Moj

Never had you down as a Japan fan!!!!

"Brilliant Trees" was a cracking album.

I bet Nigel would like any of King Billys budgets as well Mostyn. But u know Billy Krankie..when the money runs out..he engineers his and his servants pay offs.

Thing is Backo..... your GCSE owners do have the money .....in their back pockets

Billy will be rubbing his hands with glee. 3 and a half years. That's 6 months to fall out with Farwaz and 3 years severance pay. £££ Millions.

Does anyone think he's paid back any of Doughty's severance?

Per game managed - Billy must be the highest paid manager of all time.

As to his prospects - he may succeed for a while but any set-back will be clearly down to Farwaz - and then the fun will start.

I'd actually rather have Clough than Davies.

I'd also rather have anybody else than Clough, but that's how much I think of the Janet Krankie-ogram.

Mostyn. Now's your chance. Go and support Forest and Billy.

comment by Bushwacker (U2690)


posted 46 minutes ago

Davies was available when Mcliesh was appointed so its obvious that BD wasnt Fawaz's first choice.

Mcliesh got a contract till the end of the season and Davies has a 3 and a half year deal?!? Strange

Cluless chairman springs to mind

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For the sake of repeating...

SoD had a 3 year contract
AmC had a 3.5 year contract.

Facts are essential in an argument to maintain ANY credibility

So, that's 3 + 3.5 + 3.5 years of money ALREADY spent or committed to this season on "managers" alone, Strett, not counting their cronies.

Or about a quarter of year if you add them all up.

I know, it's cost 'em. So what?

So what?



They are making a pig's ear of everything they do. So what? Forest are a laughing stock. So what? It's just about to get much, much worse and eventually they will pull the plug and down the hole you will go. So what?

I admire your sang froid, Strett. It don't half do you credit, under the circs.

They can't really do much other than smile sweetly whilst sweating profusely, Vidals.. the club's a shambles, they can't do anything but pretend it's all just as they'd like it because they have finally realised that their club has gone from being in the hands of a Kuwaiti madman to being in the hands of a Kuwaiti madman and a Scottish madman.

Mentalsballz.

Wonder if Mrs al-Hasawi has heard about Billy's penchant for adult-themed triangular soirees?

Making a pig's ear of everything?

The only issue is the managerial changes. Everything else seems great.

Pig's ear is a more appropriate parlance for matters at Derby County, as this is the only foodstuff they can afford.

comment by Ramdini (U6565) posted 1 hour, 13 minutes ago

Mostyn. Now's your chance. Go and support Forest and Billy.
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Don't be so fµcking ignorant!

As I have the integrity to think for myself, and I also have a spine, I'm far less likely to change my allegiance over something so temporary as a manager (or players).

You don't rate Davies then 666?

"The only issue is the managerial changes. Everything else seems great."



Yeah Strett, the transfer side of things seems all tickety-boo, and it's not as if the owner is interfering in the playing side, or forcing Kuwaitis into the club instead of proper players, is it?

PADDLE FASTER

Don't believe everything the Posh owner spouts...

Peterborough United manager Darren Ferguson has hit out at Crystal Palace boss Ian Holloway for pursuing Posh winger George Boyd.

Ferguson told BBC Cambridgeshire that Holloway had been "discourteous".

"The one thing that's annoyed me is the Palace manager constantly ringing him [Boyd]," Ferguson said.

"Why ring him? Either buy him or don't. Or take him on loan. I'm not having that, when he's not even had the courtesy to ring me."

But Palace co-chairman Steve Parish said Holloway had not done anything wrong, instead accusing Peterborough of trying to force Boyd's sale.

"Why would Ian speak to a player we don't want anymore? It's all a bit laughable, Boro been touting player [Boyd] for ages," he said on Twitter.

"They virtually 'door stepped' Ian at a game selling the player, now they want everyone to believe he's being torn away."

But Ferguson said Holloway held double standards, adding: "It's different when it's one of his players that's up for sale, like [Wilfried] Zaha, and he's moaning about it. All of a sudden he's ringing George constantly.

"I don't want other managers ringing my players, he's a Peterborough player. There's a very, very good chance he'll be a player for another club next week, but at the moment he's a Peterborough player, simple as that."

Ferguson also claimed tests had shown Boyd's eyesight, which was cited by Nottingham Forest as the reason for calling off a transfer agreed by the clubs last week, was "fine".

"We've had a professional consultant to look at George and give us a report on his eyes, and his actual right eye had a better report than his left eye - but his right eye was the one there is supposed to be something wrong with.

"The report is there in black and white. Obviously George may have to use it again, because I imagine he will have another medical, but it shows 100% his eye is fine."


Ferguson also confirmed Peterborough need to reduce their wage bill. Boyd, who earns an estimated £10,000 a week, is the club's best-paid player.

"Everyone is fully aware of the financial situation. We've gone ahead and brought young Alex Pritchard in, we've kept [Manchester United loanee] Davide Petrucci until the end of the season on the back of assuming George had gone, so it had ramifications for us as well.

"To fall down the way it did, we've got on with it. George played against Burnley and did fine, but I'm not having managers phone him up as if he's one of his players - he's one of our players, and if people want to do business they should do it properly.

"There were talks [between Boyd and Crystal Palace], there were talks with Forest which went further, and there are other clubs interested, but we knew there would be, he's a good player."

Yeah Strett, the transfer side of things seems all tickety-boo, and it's not as if the owner is interfering in the playing side, or forcing Kuwaitis into the club instead of proper players, is it?

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How many Kuwaiti players do we have?
Stop looking for a story when there plainly isn't one. I thought you were above that

Strett

Erm, your manager at the time said he "needed" an experienced goalkeeper and lined up a couple. King Tweet vetoed it and insisted on getting the fabled "Kuwaiti Peter Shilton" instead, of whom your then manager said "we will have a look at him in training and take it from there" never having previously seen him play. Presumably this is part of the "development strategy disagreement" alluded to by the beleagured McLeish, a man who has had his share of nutty owners but who couldn't cope with more than 7 games of the Emperor.

The only reason more haven't yet come in, as you well know, is because of the work permit issues. Fawaz The Benevolent has had hired minions compiling hilariously egged-up "scouting reports" on various Kuwaitis which he can present as "evidence" for getting permits agreed, one of which is apparently "the fastest player in the world" THE WORLD.

Nobody needs to look for a story when it comes to Forest, and truth is sometimes stranger than fiction.

OK. You know.

What about Derby's moribund bank balance? Which, after the biggest cost cutting in football history, debts are still increasing?
At least your 30,000 average home support and a long serving manager will help

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Everything's fine at Forest - there are no knee-jerk decisions being taken by the chairman - it's all a problem of the differences in culture.

Strett, taking the p1ss out of Derby's financial situation is a bit rich when you think about HOW Forest's debts came to be expunged (assuming they all were, of course).