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Well that's interesting. No love lost there.

I missed that, what was the subtext?

Toko? Gardener? McCourt? Rodriguez - wasn't he more to do with Oscar. Chicksen - I still wouldn't class him as a failure. Monakana - A cheap punt on KLL II, no problem with that. Saving the best till last Agustien - For 18 months we have been crying out of a forward thinking, ball playing...

But what if after Ince 2 other development players come through to first team football, and beyond, that were signed by the Burker? I think completely and abusively (as some are) writing off Burke's tenure is somewhat hasty. For all we know he could end up the Albion's most profitable...

Nicely put. I've said before if the Ward deal were to fall through at the 11th hour I have no confidence in a comparable replacement taking his place. Which in itself alludes to your points. But we have no idea what or who has blocked our signings so I won't be reading anything into Tony's...

If you take out all the speculation, innuendo, doom, gloom, misery, and down right lies, all you're left with is an understanding of the calendar.

and so the circle begins again. How do you know David Burke and his team are not doing a good job? You, me, everybody ... have no idea what constraints DB is working under. For all we know it is equally likely David Burke is doing a fantastic job working within Tony's remit. I don't know, so...

I can see this going in an infamous 'NSC misquote' direction, so I'll nail my colours to the mast here. To me Tony Bloom is untouchable. But then again I'm not bemoaning money, ambition, player recruitment, executive personal etc. I don't see how people can seriously lose their pooh over David...

All the while refusing to 'blame' the only person who is responsible for their perceived incompetence, that being Mr Tony Bloom.

Because back in the day manager A said to his chairman 'I want player x'. Chairman A spoke to chairman B and a deal either was or wasn't sorted. The worst it ever got was if manager A really really wanted player x, he'd have to start handing envelopes of cash around, until player x signed, when...

I meant on the actual playing front. Ince was going off the boil and Andrews stepped up. Quite what he was doing between the 10th of August and April the blah is anyone guess. But it does go someway to explain why Andrews doesn't get the recognition he deserves for getting us into the playoffs.

From the outside looking in there does seem to be a lack of a fail safe signings. If the Ward deal were to fall through I wouldn't have any confidence in us signing another left back, this month. Bearing in mind we've not have a permanent LB for 2 full seasons you'd think we'd have more than...

You talk as if there's no dialog between Tony and David. Then every Sept/Feb Tony looks at the squad and says 'what the ****'. Whereas it would seem the 3 (not sure about the manager) have weekly meetings to thrash this out. If player x has been scouted and 'groomed' but wants £5k a week more...

It just would be nice if you used you right correctly and actually attacked the person who is responsible. That'll be the organ grinder, not the monkey.

What gives you the right to say that? Surely you have mentioned this in the numerous board meetings you've attended. Have you been forth coming with extra money to spend? Or are you just being fast and loose with someone else's cash. David Burke is accountable and until such time as he leaves...

Hard to argue with, but the same point still stands. We don't know what constraints Tony puts on Burke. Dobbie - We got our money back, it's wasn't an obvious 'turkey' signing, unlike Lita & Obika. Andrews - Solidified our midfield at the exact point in the season it was needed to get us in...

David Burke had an extensive scouting CV from his time with Fulham, Citeh, Southampton. If Tony wasn't thrilled with the last few windows, Tony would have sacked him. Come on this isn't difficult, Tony is the employer David is the employee. DB works within a contract and job description as...

But Tony is even less likely to suffer fools lightly. All the time David Burke is pulling a wage directly out of Tony's pocket, we can safely say Tony is happy with his performance.

You'll not be listening to the forum then.

We're all a little jaded, we all want more, we all want a team we can really enthusiastically get behind. We've been spoiled over the last 2 seasons. I have a little nagging back of brain mantra saying 'we overachieved last year, we overachieved last year'. So clearly not pulling in decent...