THE EFL HEARING THREAD

[casbahowl]

1 minute ago, sonofbert2 said:

I hate it when my posts get deleted with a very polite message but I can’t remember what I said.....

 

Reyt wind up.....

 

Just had same mesen!

[room0035]

9 minutes ago, StudentOwl said:

Sorry, haven't kept up with the thread for the last few days... can someone summarise in a sentence or two?

 

Prize for the best explanation  

There is jack and sh I t and Jack just left town.

[Manwë]

14 minutes ago, StudentOwl said:

Sorry, haven't kept up with the thread for the last few days... can someone summarise in a sentence or two?

 

Prize for the best explanation  

Nick de Marco has ran out of cherries.

 

 

[sonofbert2]

4 minutes ago, Manwë said:

Nick de Marco has ran out of cherries.

 

 

 

If we win I can't wait to lick his plums!

[Guest Grandad]

5 hours ago, Grandad said:

400 pages of complete b*****cks

 

23 minutes ago, StudentOwl said:

Sorry, haven't kept up with the thread for the last few days... can someone summarise in a sentence or two?

 

Prize for the best explanation  

see above for more details

[Guest Mr Tom]

Breaking News.

The EFL have announced a record points deduction and revolutionary way of administering them.

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[Ante's Bubbly]

DC his mate Paixo, who Bruce told us was still heavily involved in player transfers at the club, and whatever other advisers DC has used, have wasted more than £160M on players, their wages and all the associated fees, cuts and backhanders, just to add 6 paid transfers into our ranks. 

 

All 3 of our playing goalies (including Westwood), Palmer, Lees, Lee and Nuhiu were already here when DC arrived and all of them have played regularly under every manager that has come along since Stuart Gray was sacked by DC (apart from Westwood), after taking us to 13th in the table. We managed those two top six finishes before the rot truly set in with us finishing 15th, 12th and curently holding 15th spot now.  

 

Of our 21 first team available regulars:- The seven mentioned above were already here, as was Hunt, so that leaves 13 players, of whom four are on loan, which gives us just 9 players that have been added to our playing squad since DC took over and splashed £160M on players. Wow what an awesome 9 players we must have got for that staggering amount of money you would think, but Harris and Bannan came on free contracts, Pelupessy on a minimal sum, Luongo said to be £900K, Odubajo and Borner on free contracts and Iorfa on a small sum, so maybe £2M max to sign those 7 players, with Reach costing between £3M & up to £5M maximum, depending on appearances bonus payments etc, Rhodes allegedly costing £8M, so in total our 9 newer players cost no more than £15M for all 9 of them. OK we also have Penney and Van Acken, although Penney was already here, Van Acken cost around £3M, so let's add another £2M on to that, to round up our total new players transfer cost to around £20M maximum. Now we have not spent that kind of money on 10 players for a long long time before DC came and more than a few old cynics like myself have argued quite fairly, that given a budget of £20M, we reckon Stuart Gray, for all his flaws, as such, would have been expected to and probably would have achieved a steady increase in results and our our standards of play with that kind of money at his disposal. If ant half decent manager had been given 8 x that amount over 5 years, you would have expected that by now it would be us pushing for a place in the Champions League next season and not our cross city neighbours. As it is more than £140M have just disappeared down the toilet, going to anybody that could grab as much as they could and run away, limp away (in Abdi's case), waddle away (in the unfit Forestieri's case), or drive away in your Bentley (in the £8M richer Fletchers case).

 

Sorry, these figures are never going to be exact due to non-disclosure of transfer fees and wages, which does very little to aid so called transparency, but even so they are a pretty good indication of how badly we have invested in the transfer market and how little our club has got to show for it when compared to the players, agents, advisers etc that have benefited greatly during this period.  The club however is much worse off, both on and off the pitch with possible relegation on the cards now. I seriously do not understand why people cannot see these problems and just pretend they are not there!

[S36 OWL]

WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR THE CLUB  ? 

[Hedwig]

31 minutes ago, StudentOwl said:

Sorry, haven't kept up with the thread for the last few days... can someone summarise in a sentence or two?

 

Prize for the best explanation  

It's all a load of Masterb8

[Guest Mr Tom]

3 minutes ago, Ante's Bubbly said:

DC his mate Paixo, who Bruce told us was still heavily involved in player transfers at the club, and whatever other advisers DC has used, have wasted more than £160M on players, their wages and all the associated fees, cuts and backhanders, just to add 6 paid transfers into our ranks. 

 

All 3 of our playing goalies (including Westwood), Palmer, Lees, Lee and Nuhiu were already here when DC arrived and all of them have played regularly under every manager that has come along since Stuart Gray was sacked by DC (apart from Westwood), after taking us to 13th in the table. We managed those two top six finishes before the rot truly set in with us finishing 15th, 12th and curently holding 15th spot now.  

 

Of our 21 first team available regulars:- The seven mentioned above were already here, as was Hunt, so that leaves 13 players, of whom four are on loan, which gives us just 9 players that have been added to our playing squad since DC took over and splashed £160M on players. Wow what an awesome 9 players we must have got for that staggering amount of money you would think, but Harris and Bannan came on free contracts, Pelupessy on a minimal sum, Luongo said to be £900K, Odubajo and Borner on free contracts and Iorfa on a small sum, so maybe £2M max to sign those 7 players, with Reach costing between £3M & up to £5M maximum, depending on appearances bonus payments etc, Rhodes allegedly costing £8M, so in total our 9 newer players cost no more than £15M for all 9 of them. OK we also have Penney and Van Acken, although Penney was already here, Van Acken cost around £3M, so let's add another £2M on to that, to round up our total new players transfer cost to around £20M maximum. Now we have not spent that kind of money on 10 players for a long long time before DC came and more than a few old cynics like myself have argued quite fairly, that given a budget of £20M, we reckon Stuart Gray, for all his flaws, as such, would have been expected to and probably would have achieved a steady increase in results and our our standards of play with that kind of money at his disposal. If ant half decent manager had been given 8 x that amount over 5 years, you would have expected that by now it would be us pushing for a place in the Champions League next season and not our cross city neighbours. As it is more than £140M have just disappeared down the toilet, going to anybody that could grab as much as they could and run away, limp away (in Abdi's case), waddle away (in the unfit Forestieri's case), or drive away in your Bentley (in the £8M richer Fletchers case).

 

Sorry, these figures are never going to be exact due to non-disclosure of transfer fees and wages, which does very little to aid so called transparency, but even so they are a pretty good indication of how badly we have invested in the transfer market and how little our club has got to show for it when compared to the players, agents, advisers etc that have benefited greatly during this period.  The club however is much worse off, both on and off the pitch with possible relegation on the cards now. I seriously do not understand why people cannot see these problems and just pretend they are not there!

 

How much was cakeball?

[sherlyegg]

Long and bottom, our chairman was hoodwinked by football experts and spivs..and now it seems extremely difficult to foook them off.

[Hedwig]

15 mins to go to be let down by no further news !!

 

 

[asteener1867]

Surely there is a "sackable" offence in there somewhere...even if its just gross incompetence....If those figures are anywhere near true....The case for the defence would have to be a corker!

[OWLERTON GHOST]

1 hour ago, mrbluesky said:

Is it today, Dad?

No Son .....

[G-Reg]

Is anyone else grasping at straws, like me, trying to find comfort in the fact that the team aren't playing like they are desperate for points and weren't gutted with a draw last night?

[owls-swfc]

5 minutes ago, Hedwig said:

15 mins to go to be let down by no further news !!

 

 

This one after next 5pm

 

[Guest Mr Tom]

2 minutes ago, G-Reg said:

Is anyone else grasping at straws, like me, trying to find comfort in the fact that the team aren't playing like they are desperate for points and weren't gutted with a draw last night?

 

Why accept 3 points when you can get 1?

[sonofbert2]

15 minutes ago, Ante's Bubbly said:

DC his mate Paixo, who Bruce told us was still heavily involved in player transfers at the club, and whatever other advisers DC has used, have wasted more than £160M on players, their wages and all the associated fees, cuts and backhanders, just to add 6 paid transfers into our ranks. 

 

All 3 of our playing goalies (including Westwood), Palmer, Lees, Lee and Nuhiu were already here when DC arrived and all of them have played regularly under every manager that has come along since Stuart Gray was sacked by DC (apart from Westwood), after taking us to 13th in the table. We managed those two top six finishes before the rot truly set in with us finishing 15th, 12th and curently holding 15th spot now.  

 

Of our 21 first team available regulars:- The seven mentioned above were already here, as was Hunt, so that leaves 13 players, of whom four are on loan, which gives us just 9 players that have been added to our playing squad since DC took over and splashed £160M on players. Wow what an awesome 9 players we must have got for that staggering amount of money you would think, but Harris and Bannan came on free contracts, Pelupessy on a minimal sum, Luongo said to be £900K, Odubajo and Borner on free contracts and Iorfa on a small sum, so maybe £2M max to sign those 7 players, with Reach costing between £3M & up to £5M maximum, depending on appearances bonus payments etc, Rhodes allegedly costing £8M, so in total our 9 newer players cost no more than £15M for all 9 of them. OK we also have Penney and Van Acken, although Penney was already here, Van Acken cost around £3M, so let's add another £2M on to that, to round up our total new players transfer cost to around £20M maximum. Now we have not spent that kind of money on 10 players for a long long time before DC came and more than a few old cynics like myself have argued quite fairly, that given a budget of £20M, we reckon Stuart Gray, for all his flaws, as such, would have been expected to and probably would have achieved a steady increase in results and our our standards of play with that kind of money at his disposal. If ant half decent manager had been given 8 x that amount over 5 years, you would have expected that by now it would be us pushing for a place in the Champions League next season and not our cross city neighbours. As it is more than £140M have just disappeared down the toilet, going to anybody that could grab as much as they could and run away, limp away (in Abdi's case), waddle away (in the unfit Forestieri's case), or drive away in your Bentley (in the £8M richer Fletchers case).

 

Sorry, these figures are never going to be exact due to non-disclosure of transfer fees and wages, which does very little to aid so called transparency, but even so they are a pretty good indication of how badly we have invested in the transfer market and how little our club has got to show for it when compared to the players, agents, advisers etc that have benefited greatly during this period.  The club however is much worse off, both on and off the pitch with possible relegation on the cards now. I seriously do not understand why people cannot see these problems and just pretend they are not there!

 

Nobody is denying the problems but you are simply making stuff up.

 

We are no better or worse than any other club in this "arena" , some get lucky and some don't but most do it by spending loads of dough.

 

Football is broken and whatever you think of him it is NOT our Chairman's fault.

[Guest mrbluesky]

7 minutes ago, OWLERTON GHOST said:

No Son .....

You’re the ba stard then!!!

[sonofbert2]

Just had a text.

 

Get ready!!!