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  1. nwgull

    Woeful season, but potentially invaluable lessons learned for the future?

    What a load of crap. If someone wanted to build a hotel, they'd just buy a hotel sized plot of land and build it, without the hassle and expense of building a high spec 30K stadium and funding the 10m a year losses that it costs to run the team. £200M and counting. I'm sure Tony Bloom didn't...
  2. nwgull

    Woeful season, but potentially invaluable lessons learned for the future?

    August is definitely still summer in my book.
  3. nwgull

    Woeful season, but potentially invaluable lessons learned for the future?

    Mistakes were definitely made on the recruitment front - nobody would deny this. TB has effectively admitted it and held himself accountable by sacking the man in charge of recruitment. For me, the key thing is that we have a manager in place before the summer transfer shenanigans begin this...
  4. nwgull

    Woeful season, but potentially invaluable lessons learned for the future?

    I'd imagine that out of all 24 clubs in the Championship, about 19-20 of the respective Chairman would've had similar aspirations for the season of a top 6 finish. It's arguably the most competitive league in the world, so it's a bit unfair to hold someone to am optimistic prediction as if it...
  5. nwgull

    Woeful season, but potentially invaluable lessons learned for the future?

    Yes. That's not the Premier League Ready phrase though, is it? I'm sure he's very disappointed with the way things have turned out.
  6. nwgull

    Woeful season, but potentially invaluable lessons learned for the future?

    It was a phrase quoted in one single Argus article about one of Paul Barber's internal staff edicts back in October 2013. Nothing to do with the playing side of things. The only place where people keep spouting the Premier League Ready stuff is on this message board.
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