Great bloke , great player, chit manager! imho

I think we should also be grateful to Thaksin, he took us over and splashed a substantial amount of cash then realised he was out of his depth.
He then found a buyer for the club, the rest is history.

Even if he was a dodgy character.

Erm...read the headline ......

The good bloke would have had us go to the wall and kept swp....

comment by BluePhoenix (U1189)
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Great bloke , great player, chit manager! imho
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Very chit manager....Remember the beenie toy he brought to the games for good luck We have Hart and Richards to thank him for though and Sturridge owes him a lot for bringing him thorugh to the first team.

Keep hearing from people about what a 'good bloke' Pearce is, and I'm wondering how many of those people ever actually met him. Because I have on a few occasions, and each time he was moody, miserable and always seemed to carry a sort of 'thousand yard stare'. Gave the impression he had a screw loose.

Keegan, on the other hand - what a gem!

Both pretty crap managers/coaches (well, Pearce is terrible, let's face it), but I know which one I'd have any kind of empathy for.

We owe Garry Cook and John Wardle a lot, not thaksin.

We at least owe Thaksin for being smart enough to hire Cook x

John Wardle certainly.

Wardle absolutely.

Cook did a lot wrong, Mansour would never have bought us without him though, that's why I said him.

Possibly melton though I seem to remember Frank was a friend of the sheik.

Frank is a crook, the fact he was the catylist for the ADUG takeover was more down to outrageous fortune than anything else.

I used to work in Thailand for an insurance company. The corruption charges against Thaksin were politically motivated. Not to say he had some dodgy dealings, but in Thailand that's the norm. Do you remember when someone from the Adv group attended a cup tie we lost against Spurs? Thaksin set up the sale to Adg and made a bundle from it. As a politician I have a lot of sympathy for him - he has done a lot for ordinary Thai people.

I remember reading not long after that we were literally hours away from folding, I'll try and find the excerpt again.

Was that the one with Gary Cook a bit after he left the club?

Pretty interesting that one, although I never liked the guy (for obvious reasons) he fecking nailed that sails pitch to AGUG, no matter what anyone else says we were not lucky lottery winners, other clubs were on the table and Cook got them to select us.

One of the main complaints against Thaksin was that he bought votes from poor people by giving them bags of rice... if that is all it takes to buy votes in Thailand the other parties need to take a long hard look at themselves x

We were a better prospect than other clubs.