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Re: End of the world

Mon Dec 25, 2017 2:28 am

maccydee wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:
maccydee wrote:
dogfound wrote:
maccydee wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:
maccydee wrote:
WelshPatriot wrote:Lose one game and it's like our season is over with some fans. We get up dust ourselves off and go again boxing day.Cheer up!!


Totally agree.

Clowns the lot of them.


The last person to say that, "dust ourselves down", look where that got us......nowhere.


Who said it?


Dave Jones.


Amazing manager Dave Jones.

Bought cheap sold expensive. His signings kept this club going for a long time.

If he had the budget Malky had he would have won the Championship with 100 points and 100 goals and built a side Premiership ready.


He was given a far better squad than Malky and bottled it.


He built that squad for a quarter of the budget and selling best player year on year.


Well I don't recall him selling our best players after we sold Chopra. Those days came to an end. In fact he was given the money to bring Chopra back and at the time a record breaking one.

Quarter of the budget and 100 points. Neil do you expect people to take you seriuosly coming out with statements like that?

Re: End of the world

Mon Dec 25, 2017 2:30 am

dogfound wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:
maccydee wrote:
WelshPatriot wrote:Lose one game and it's like our season is over with some fans. We get up dust ourselves off and go again boxing day.Cheer up!!


Totally agree.

Clowns the lot of them.


The last person to say that, "dust ourselves down", look where that got us......nowhere.



yes nowhere :lol:
just an FA cup final...3 visits to Wembley and our 3 highest league finishes in 40 years.
beyond my wildest dreams..


And still in the Championship with the best ever squad we had in 100 years.

Re: End of the world

Mon Dec 25, 2017 6:57 am

Bakedalasker wrote:
dogfound wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:
maccydee wrote:
WelshPatriot wrote:Lose one game and it's like our season is over with some fans. We get up dust ourselves off and go again boxing day.Cheer up!!


Totally agree.

Clowns the lot of them.


The last person to say that, "dust ourselves down", look where that got us......nowhere.



yes nowhere :lol:
just an FA cup final...3 visits to Wembley and our 3 highest league finishes in 40 years.
beyond my wildest dreams..


And still in the Championship with the best ever squad we had in 100 years.



We had a few really good starting 11's under DJ. I can never Remeber us having the strongest squads though, there was def always a handful of real shit players on the bench. We were very thin.

Re: END OF THE WORLD

Mon Dec 25, 2017 7:34 am

With the amount of injuries we've had, i'm more than happy with the points we have taken so far. Punched well above our weight to be honest. :bluescarf:

Re: END OF THE WORLD

Mon Dec 25, 2017 11:03 am

angelis1949 wrote:
nubbsy wrote:
angelis1949 wrote:First of all you have to give Warnock a lot of credit for saving us from possible relegation last season and putting us in a very strong position for giving us the possibility of at the very least of getting into the playoffs but like all managers he sometimes gets things wrong,I know we have had to endure a very long period of injuries but some of Warnocks team selections and tactics have been a bit bizarre to say the least,what we need now is for most of our injured players to come back and for Warnock to bring in some extra quality to our squad in January



Were you... Trying to be.... Positive!???? You almost had it for a second.

I agree though warnocks selections have been SO bizarre that we're second in the midst of an injury crisis and a shoestring budget.

Put your name forward to the club see if you can have your say in the team sheet x

Oh dear you silly boy



You'll get there one day champ x

Re: End of the world

Mon Dec 25, 2017 1:27 pm

Bakedalasker wrote:
maccydee wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:
maccydee wrote:
dogfound wrote:
maccydee wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:
maccydee wrote:
WelshPatriot wrote:Lose one game and it's like our season is over with some fans. We get up dust ourselves off and go again boxing day.Cheer up!!


Totally agree.

Clowns the lot of them.


The last person to say that, "dust ourselves down", look where that got us......nowhere.


Who said it?


Dave Jones.


Amazing manager Dave Jones.

Bought cheap sold expensive. His signings kept this club going for a long time.

If he had the budget Malky had he would have won the Championship with 100 points and 100 goals and built a side Premiership ready.


He was given a far better squad than Malky and bottled it.


He built that squad for a quarter of the budget and selling best player year on year.


Well I don't recall him selling our best players after we sold Chopra. Those days came to an end. In fact he was given the money to bring Chopra back and at the time a record breaking one.

Quarter of the budget and 100 points. Neil do you expect people to take you seriuosly coming out with statements like that?


Apart from Roger Johnson and Aaron Ramsey that is after Chopra

I said if he had Malky’s budget he would have got 100 points.

Do you mean seriously? And coming from the King of the Whopper posts.

Re: End of the world

Mon Dec 25, 2017 1:30 pm

nubbsy wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:
dogfound wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:
maccydee wrote:
WelshPatriot wrote:Lose one game and it's like our season is over with some fans. We get up dust ourselves off and go again boxing day.Cheer up!!


Totally agree.

Clowns the lot of them.


The last person to say that, "dust ourselves down", look where that got us......nowhere.



yes nowhere :lol:
just an FA cup final...3 visits to Wembley and our 3 highest league finishes in 40 years.
beyond my wildest dreams..


And still in the Championship with the best ever squad we had in 100 years.



We had a few really good starting 11's under DJ. I can never Remeber us having the strongest squads though, there was def always a handful of real shit players on the bench. We were very thin.


And that was our problem and was the sad thing about DJ’s limited budget and why we went through patches of struggling.

Re: End of the world

Mon Dec 25, 2017 11:18 pm

Bakedalasker wrote:
maccydee wrote:
dogfound wrote:
maccydee wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:
maccydee wrote:
WelshPatriot wrote:Lose one game and it's like our season is over with some fans. We get up dust ourselves off and go again boxing day.Cheer up!!


Totally agree.

Clowns the lot of them.


The last person to say that, "dust ourselves down", look where that got us......nowhere.


Who said it?


Dave Jones.


Amazing manager Dave Jones.

Bought cheap sold expensive. His signings kept this club going for a long time.

If he had the budget Malky had he would have won the Championship with 100 points and 100 goals and built a side Premiership ready.


He was given a far better squad than Malky and bottled it.



how on earth do you come to this conclusion.
Malky inherited very little in terms of numbers but in his words..working with a blank canvas was an advantage..and he didnt leave Watford to come here without a promise of funds to build.
Dave Jones took over a team that had just finished 16th and were broke. the players who had the most starts in order of amount of starts the previous season are as follows
Danny Gabbidon.....sold
Jobi Mcanuff...sold
Chris Barker......stayed
James Collins....sold
Kav....sold
Thorne....sold
Richard Langley...sold
Alan Lee....stayed
Tony Vidmar...sold
7 other players left the club the summer..but make no bones about it it was threadbare..no international keeper or no one of the quality of whitts, mcfail, hudson. superkev or darcy blake.and most of all no malaysian billionaire to fund a new recruits.

Re: End of the world

Tue Dec 26, 2017 12:27 am

dogfound wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:
maccydee wrote:
dogfound wrote:
maccydee wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:
maccydee wrote:
WelshPatriot wrote:Lose one game and it's like our season is over with some fans. We get up dust ourselves off and go again boxing day.Cheer up!!


Totally agree.

Clowns the lot of them.


The last person to say that, "dust ourselves down", look where that got us......nowhere.


Who said it?


Dave Jones.


Amazing manager Dave Jones.

Bought cheap sold expensive. His signings kept this club going for a long time.

If he had the budget Malky had he would have won the Championship with 100 points and 100 goals and built a side Premiership ready.


He was given a far better squad than Malky and bottled it.



how on earth do you come to this conclusion.
Malky inherited very little in terms of numbers but in his words..working with a blank canvas was an advantage..and he didnt leave Watford to come here without a promise of funds to build.
Dave Jones took over a team that had just finished 16th and were broke. the players who had the most starts in order of amount of starts the previous season are as follows
Danny Gabbidon.....sold
Jobi Mcanuff...sold
Chris Barker......stayed
James Collins....sold
Kav....sold
Thorne....sold
Richard Langley...sold
Alan Lee....stayed
Tony Vidmar...sold
7 other players left the club the summer..but make no bones about it it was threadbare..no international keeper or no one of the quality of whitts, mcfail, hudson. superkev or darcy blake.and most of all no malaysian billionaire to fund a new recruits.


Marshall, Heaton., McNaughton, Hudson, Oli, Burke, Bothroyd, Chopra, Bellamy.

That's how i came to that conclusion.

Re: End of the world

Tue Dec 26, 2017 12:42 am

Bakedalasker wrote:
dogfound wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:
maccydee wrote:
dogfound wrote:
maccydee wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:
maccydee wrote:
WelshPatriot wrote:Lose one game and it's like our season is over with some fans. We get up dust ourselves off and go again boxing day.Cheer up!!


Totally agree.

Clowns the lot of them.


The last person to say that, "dust ourselves down", look where that got us......nowhere.


Who said it?


Dave Jones.


Amazing manager Dave Jones.

Bought cheap sold expensive. His signings kept this club going for a long time.

If he had the budget Malky had he would have won the Championship with 100 points and 100 goals and built a side Premiership ready.


He was given a far better squad than Malky and bottled it.



how on earth do you come to this conclusion.
Malky inherited very little in terms of numbers but in his words..working with a blank canvas was an advantage..and he didnt leave Watford to come here without a promise of funds to build.
Dave Jones took over a team that had just finished 16th and were broke. the players who had the most starts in order of amount of starts the previous season are as follows
Danny Gabbidon.....sold
Jobi Mcanuff...sold
Chris Barker......stayed
James Collins....sold
Kav....sold
Thorne....sold
Richard Langley...sold
Alan Lee....stayed
Tony Vidmar...sold
7 other players left the club the summer..but make no bones about it it was threadbare..no international keeper or no one of the quality of whitts, mcfail, hudson. superkev or darcy blake.and most of all no malaysian billionaire to fund a new recruits.


Marshall, Heaton., McNaughton, Hudson, Oli, Burke, Bothroyd, Chopra, Bellamy.

That's how i came to that conclusion.



so you came to a conclusion based on the notion Marshal ,Heaton,Mcnaughton and Hudson were not here when MM arrived..

Re: End of the world

Tue Dec 26, 2017 12:57 am

dogfound wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:
dogfound wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:
maccydee wrote:
dogfound wrote:
maccydee wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:
maccydee wrote:
WelshPatriot wrote:Lose one game and it's like our season is over with some fans. We get up dust ourselves off and go again boxing day.Cheer up!!


Totally agree.

Clowns the lot of them.


The last person to say that, "dust ourselves down", look where that got us......nowhere.


Who said it?


Dave Jones.


Amazing manager Dave Jones.

Bought cheap sold expensive. His signings kept this club going for a long time.

If he had the budget Malky had he would have won the Championship with 100 points and 100 goals and built a side Premiership ready.


He was given a far better squad than Malky and bottled it.



how on earth do you come to this conclusion.
Malky inherited very little in terms of numbers but in his words..working with a blank canvas was an advantage..and he didnt leave Watford to come here without a promise of funds to build.
Dave Jones took over a team that had just finished 16th and were broke. the players who had the most starts in order of amount of starts the previous season are as follows
Danny Gabbidon.....sold
Jobi Mcanuff...sold
Chris Barker......stayed
James Collins....sold
Kav....sold
Thorne....sold
Richard Langley...sold
Alan Lee....stayed
Tony Vidmar...sold
7 other players left the club the summer..but make no bones about it it was threadbare..no international keeper or no one of the quality of whitts, mcfail, hudson. superkev or darcy blake.and most of all no malaysian billionaire to fund a new recruits.


Marshall, Heaton., McNaughton, Hudson, Oli, Burke, Bothroyd, Chopra, Bellamy.

That's how i came to that conclusion.



so you came to a conclusion based on the notion Marshal ,Heaton,Mcnaughton and Hudson were not here when MM arrived..


Not sure what road you are on but my road is talking about Dave Jones last season when we had our best squad ever and he blew it.

Re: End of the world

Tue Dec 26, 2017 10:32 am

Ian Best side not squad didn’t have the finances to put a squad together. If he did it would have been awesome I’m sure as DJ had an eye for a player. Plus too many loan signings which due to the finances was all that could be afforded. Certainly couldn’t buy anyone.

Re: END OF THE WORLD

Tue Dec 26, 2017 10:36 am

the road i was on was a reply to the Squad given remark....

but this best squad ever....Bellamy apart nobody left here and went on to better or equal things....and infact only 3 Cardiff City players that were regulars left..Chops got sold..Jay and Burke left out of contract.
Malky was backed to build his own squad the first year mainly by offering contracts to out of contract players the second year with a war chest.the fact that neither of these squads was in your eyes ..the best squad ever should speak volunes about the person assembling and getting performances from it..but no...its the twisted world of if you like one thing you must dislike another.
we had an excellent chance of going up in his last season..our strengthening was he was given 100k to bring in john parkin ffs
and then a GK crisis

Re: END OF THE WORLD

Tue Dec 26, 2017 10:53 am

dogfound wrote:the road i was on was a reply to the Squad given remark....

but this best squad ever....Bellamy apart nobody left here and went on to better or equal things....and infact only 3 Cardiff City players that were regulars left..Chops got sold..Jay and Burke left out of contract.
Malky was backed to build his own squad the first year mainly by offering contracts to out of contract players the second year with a war chest.the fact that neither of these squads was in your eyes ..the best squad ever should speak volunes about the person assembling and getting performances from it..but no...its the twisted world of if you like one thing you must dislike another.
we had an excellent chance of going up in his last season..our strengthening was he was given 100k to bring in john parkin ffs
and then a GK crisis


He as in DJ, was given the best player in the country Craig Bellamy. He also got Aaron Ramsey on loan. The backbone of that team had been together for quite a while. The days of selling our best players were gone. It was the best chance we had of going up and I will say if we did we would have got established although I believe Dave Jones would have got sacked the same time as Malky did.

Malky inherited a few of Jones players but lost some of the important ones. He brought is lesser players but got us to a major cup final and a playoff spot. He deserved the investment and ended up delivering.

Anyway I'm out of this thread. we will just have to beg to differ. I will finish on the subject that if DJ had Malkys money to invest he would not have got us up and certainly not with over 100 points. Anyone thinking that I'm going ot make them the King of Fantasy Island.

Re: END OF THE WORLD

Tue Dec 26, 2017 11:26 am

Bakedalasker wrote:
dogfound wrote:the road i was on was a reply to the Squad given remark....

but this best squad ever....Bellamy apart nobody left here and went on to better or equal things....and infact only 3 Cardiff City players that were regulars left..Chops got sold..Jay and Burke left out of contract.
Malky was backed to build his own squad the first year mainly by offering contracts to out of contract players the second year with a war chest.the fact that neither of these squads was in your eyes ..the best squad ever should speak volunes about the person assembling and getting performances from it..but no...its the twisted world of if you like one thing you must dislike another.
we had an excellent chance of going up in his last season..our strengthening was he was given 100k to bring in john parkin ffs
and then a GK crisis


He as in DJ, was given the best player in the country Craig Bellamy. He also got Aaron Ramsey on loan. The backbone of that team had been together for quite a while. The days of selling our best players were gone. It was the best chance we had of going up and I will say if we did we would have got established although I believe Dave Jones would have got sacked the same time as Malky did.

Malky inherited a few of Jones players but lost some of the important ones. He brought is lesser players but got us to a major cup final and a playoff spot. He deserved the investment and ended up delivering.

Anyway I'm out of this thread. we will just have to beg to differ. I will finish on the subject that if DJ had Malkys money to invest he would not have got us up and certainly not with over 100 points. Anyone thinking that I'm going ot make them the King of Fantasy Island.



brought in lesser ones who earned more..
oh come on....

Re: END OF THE WORLD

Tue Dec 26, 2017 11:34 am

dogfound wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:
dogfound wrote:the road i was on was a reply to the Squad given remark....

but this best squad ever....Bellamy apart nobody left here and went on to better or equal things....and infact only 3 Cardiff City players that were regulars left..Chops got sold..Jay and Burke left out of contract.
Malky was backed to build his own squad the first year mainly by offering contracts to out of contract players the second year with a war chest.the fact that neither of these squads was in your eyes ..the best squad ever should speak volunes about the person assembling and getting performances from it..but no...its the twisted world of if you like one thing you must dislike another.
we had an excellent chance of going up in his last season..our strengthening was he was given 100k to bring in john parkin ffs
and then a GK crisis


He as in DJ, was given the best player in the country Craig Bellamy. He also got Aaron Ramsey on loan. The backbone of that team had been together for quite a while. The days of selling our best players were gone. It was the best chance we had of going up and I will say if we did we would have got established although I believe Dave Jones would have got sacked the same time as Malky did.

Malky inherited a few of Jones players but lost some of the important ones. He brought is lesser players but got us to a major cup final and a playoff spot. He deserved the investment and ended up delivering.

Anyway I'm out of this thread. we will just have to beg to differ. I will finish on the subject that if DJ had Malkys money to invest he would not have got us up and certainly not with over 100 points. Anyone thinking that I'm going ot make them the King of Fantasy Island.



brought in lesser ones who earned more..
oh come on....


He’s all over the shop. Massive hypocrite who decides what suits him at the time. Much like his posts about Tan and the rebrand.

I’ve enjoyed seeing you school him pal.

Re: END OF THE WORLD

Tue Dec 26, 2017 11:56 am

maccydee wrote:
dogfound wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:
dogfound wrote:the road i was on was a reply to the Squad given remark....

but this best squad ever....Bellamy apart nobody left here and went on to better or equal things....and infact only 3 Cardiff City players that were regulars left..Chops got sold..Jay and Burke left out of contract.
Malky was backed to build his own squad the first year mainly by offering contracts to out of contract players the second year with a war chest.the fact that neither of these squads was in your eyes ..the best squad ever should speak volunes about the person assembling and getting performances from it..but no...its the twisted world of if you like one thing you must dislike another.
we had an excellent chance of going up in his last season..our strengthening was he was given 100k to bring in john parkin ffs
and then a GK crisis


He as in DJ, was given the best player in the country Craig Bellamy. He also got Aaron Ramsey on loan. The backbone of that team had been together for quite a while. The days of selling our best players were gone. It was the best chance we had of going up and I will say if we did we would have got established although I believe Dave Jones would have got sacked the same time as Malky did.

Malky inherited a few of Jones players but lost some of the important ones. He brought is lesser players but got us to a major cup final and a playoff spot. He deserved the investment and ended up delivering.

Anyway I'm out of this thread. we will just have to beg to differ. I will finish on the subject that if DJ had Malkys money to invest he would not have got us up and certainly not with over 100 points. Anyone thinking that I'm going ot make them the King of Fantasy Island.



brought in lesser ones who earned more..
oh come on....


He’s all over the shop. Massive hypocrite who decides what suits him at the time. Much like his posts about Tan and the rebrand.

I’ve enjoyed seeing you school him pal.


Was going to stay out of this but that deserves a recall.

Malky got us promoted DJ didn't. End of argument

Neil you really is the King of Fantasy Island.

Re: END OF THE WORLD

Tue Dec 26, 2017 12:00 pm

Bakedalasker wrote:
maccydee wrote:
dogfound wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:
dogfound wrote:the road i was on was a reply to the Squad given remark....

but this best squad ever....Bellamy apart nobody left here and went on to better or equal things....and infact only 3 Cardiff City players that were regulars left..Chops got sold..Jay and Burke left out of contract.
Malky was backed to build his own squad the first year mainly by offering contracts to out of contract players the second year with a war chest.the fact that neither of these squads was in your eyes ..the best squad ever should speak volunes about the person assembling and getting performances from it..but no...its the twisted world of if you like one thing you must dislike another.
we had an excellent chance of going up in his last season..our strengthening was he was given 100k to bring in john parkin ffs
and then a GK crisis


He as in DJ, was given the best player in the country Craig Bellamy. He also got Aaron Ramsey on loan. The backbone of that team had been together for quite a while. The days of selling our best players were gone. It was the best chance we had of going up and I will say if we did we would have got established although I believe Dave Jones would have got sacked the same time as Malky did.

Malky inherited a few of Jones players but lost some of the important ones. He brought is lesser players but got us to a major cup final and a playoff spot. He deserved the investment and ended up delivering.

Anyway I'm out of this thread. we will just have to beg to differ. I will finish on the subject that if DJ had Malkys money to invest he would not have got us up and certainly not with over 100 points. Anyone thinking that I'm going ot make them the King of Fantasy Island.



brought in lesser ones who earned more..
oh come on....


He’s all over the shop. Massive hypocrite who decides what suits him at the time. Much like his posts about Tan and the rebrand.

I’ve enjoyed seeing you school him pal.


Was going to stay out of this but that deserves a recall.

Malky got us promoted DJ didn't. End of argument

Neil you really is the King of Fantasy Island.


Couldn’t resist could you?

DJ sold over 30 million pounds worth of players including two for over 5 million after Chopra was sold (despite your fantasy post that he was the last player sold of note.

Malky spent 12 million and how best players were still DJ’s signings.

Re: END OF THE WORLD

Tue Dec 26, 2017 12:11 pm

maccydee wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:
maccydee wrote:
dogfound wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:
dogfound wrote:the road i was on was a reply to the Squad given remark....

but this best squad ever....Bellamy apart nobody left here and went on to better or equal things....and infact only 3 Cardiff City players that were regulars left..Chops got sold..Jay and Burke left out of contract.
Malky was backed to build his own squad the first year mainly by offering contracts to out of contract players the second year with a war chest.the fact that neither of these squads was in your eyes ..the best squad ever should speak volunes about the person assembling and getting performances from it..but no...its the twisted world of if you like one thing you must dislike another.
we had an excellent chance of going up in his last season..our strengthening was he was given 100k to bring in john parkin ffs
and then a GK crisis


He as in DJ, was given the best player in the country Craig Bellamy. He also got Aaron Ramsey on loan. The backbone of that team had been together for quite a while. The days of selling our best players were gone. It was the best chance we had of going up and I will say if we did we would have got established although I believe Dave Jones would have got sacked the same time as Malky did.

Malky inherited a few of Jones players but lost some of the important ones. He brought is lesser players but got us to a major cup final and a playoff spot. He deserved the investment and ended up delivering.

Anyway I'm out of this thread. we will just have to beg to differ. I will finish on the subject that if DJ had Malkys money to invest he would not have got us up and certainly not with over 100 points. Anyone thinking that I'm going ot make them the King of Fantasy Island.



brought in lesser ones who earned more..
oh come on....


He’s all over the shop. Massive hypocrite who decides what suits him at the time. Much like his posts about Tan and the rebrand.

I’ve enjoyed seeing you school him pal.


Was going to stay out of this but that deserves a recall.

Malky got us promoted DJ didn't. End of argument

Neil you really is the King of Fantasy Island.


Couldn’t resist could you?

DJ sold over 30 million pounds worth of players including two for over 5 million after Chopra was sold (despite your fantasy post that he was the last player sold of note.

Malky spent 12 million and how best players were still DJ’s signings.


Yes I got the Johnson and Ramsey bit wrong. Oh how bad and they both went for £5m and not over. In fact there is a great argument Ramsey should have gone for a lot more.

My point is DJ had not had to sell for a few seasons before he got the sack. In fact he had every chance of being allowed to invest but he never proved himself. So if you want to blame someone for him not being allowed to invest then look no further than Tan.

Re: END OF THE WORLD

Tue Dec 26, 2017 12:23 pm

Bakedalasker wrote:
maccydee wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:
maccydee wrote:
dogfound wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:
dogfound wrote:the road i was on was a reply to the Squad given remark....

but this best squad ever....Bellamy apart nobody left here and went on to better or equal things....and infact only 3 Cardiff City players that were regulars left..Chops got sold..Jay and Burke left out of contract.
Malky was backed to build his own squad the first year mainly by offering contracts to out of contract players the second year with a war chest.the fact that neither of these squads was in your eyes ..the best squad ever should speak volunes about the person assembling and getting performances from it..but no...its the twisted world of if you like one thing you must dislike another.
we had an excellent chance of going up in his last season..our strengthening was he was given 100k to bring in john parkin ffs
and then a GK crisis


He as in DJ, was given the best player in the country Craig Bellamy. He also got Aaron Ramsey on loan. The backbone of that team had been together for quite a while. The days of selling our best players were gone. It was the best chance we had of going up and I will say if we did we would have got established although I believe Dave Jones would have got sacked the same time as Malky did.

Malky inherited a few of Jones players but lost some of the important ones. He brought is lesser players but got us to a major cup final and a playoff spot. He deserved the investment and ended up delivering.

Anyway I'm out of this thread. we will just have to beg to differ. I will finish on the subject that if DJ had Malkys money to invest he would not have got us up and certainly not with over 100 points. Anyone thinking that I'm going ot make them the King of Fantasy Island.



brought in lesser ones who earned more..
oh come on....


He’s all over the shop. Massive hypocrite who decides what suits him at the time. Much like his posts about Tan and the rebrand.

I’ve enjoyed seeing you school him pal.


Was going to stay out of this but that deserves a recall.

Malky got us promoted DJ didn't. End of argument

Neil you really is the King of Fantasy Island.


Couldn’t resist could you?

DJ sold over 30 million pounds worth of players including two for over 5 million after Chopra was sold (despite your fantasy post that he was the last player sold of note.

Malky spent 12 million and how best players were still DJ’s signings.


Yes I got the Johnson and Ramsey bit wrong. Oh how bad and they both went for £5m and not over. In fact there is a great argument Ramsey should have gone for a lot more.

My point is DJ had not had to sell for a few seasons before he got the sack. In fact he had every chance of being allowed to invest but he never proved himself. So if you want to blame someone for him not being allowed to invest then look no further than Tan.


It wasn’t a few seasons it was one season we didn’t sell any players of note. Not for want of trying. Adam Matthews would have been sold had Man U followed through. We didn’t have any other true assets to sell.

Tan sacked DJ months after he took over (Through his representative).

DJ turned multiple 250k, 300k or 500k signings into players worth millions. How did he not prove himself? f*cking whopper central here.

I’ll just list some of his signings.

Chopra
Marshall
Whittingham
Johnson
Hudson
Bothroyd
McCormack
McNaughton
Loovens

Each and every one of them would strengthen even Our current side considerably.

Re: END OF THE WORLD

Tue Dec 26, 2017 2:02 pm

You have just answered your own question.

If they were his signing why did he not get us promoted then?

Re: END OF THE WORLD

Tue Dec 26, 2017 2:30 pm

Bakedalasker wrote:You have just answered your own question.

If they were his signing why did he not get us promoted then?


Yes I did. The squad wasn’t strong enough as he didn’t have a budget that could build a squad just a team.

Re: END OF THE WORLD

Tue Dec 26, 2017 2:32 pm

maccydee wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:You have just answered your own question.

If they were his signing why did he not get us promoted then?


Yes I did. The squad wasn’t strong enough as he didn’t have a budget that could build a squad just a team.


DJ model was to have a quality 11. He never took serious a deep squad.

Without his quality 11 he is useless. Go and ask Hartlepool fans that.

Re: END OF THE WORLD

Tue Dec 26, 2017 3:27 pm

Bakedalasker wrote:
maccydee wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:You have just answered your own question.

If they were his signing why did he not get us promoted then?


Yes I did. The squad wasn’t strong enough as he didn’t have a budget that could build a squad just a team.


DJ model was to have a quality 11. He never took serious a deep squad.

Without his quality 11 he is useless. Go and ask Hartlepool fans that.


Ffs going round in circles with you talking shite.

Of course he couldn’t have a quality squad. He didn’t have the money to buy a quality squad. If he did he would have.

Re: END OF THE WORLD

Tue Dec 26, 2017 3:35 pm

maccydee wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:
maccydee wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:You have just answered your own question.

If they were his signing why did he not get us promoted then?


Yes I did. The squad wasn’t strong enough as he didn’t have a budget that could build a squad just a team.


DJ model was to have a quality 11. He never took serious a deep squad.

Without his quality 11 he is useless. Go and ask Hartlepool fans that.


Ffs going round in circles with you talking shite.

Of course he couldn’t have a quality squad. He didn’t have the money to buy a quality squad. If he did he would have.


he was given enough like the £4m to bring back Chopra, The fact he was willing to spend it on one guy instead of more than one is down to his model which basically failed.

Even under Tan he was allowed to bring in others. Although on loan they still did not come cheap. The reason he was not allowed to buy permanently is because he never proved himself enough.

Re: END OF THE WORLD

Tue Dec 26, 2017 3:37 pm

Bakedalasker wrote:
maccydee wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:
maccydee wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:You have just answered your own question.

If they were his signing why did he not get us promoted then?


Yes I did. The squad wasn’t strong enough as he didn’t have a budget that could build a squad just a team.


DJ model was to have a quality 11. He never took serious a deep squad.

Without his quality 11 he is useless. Go and ask Hartlepool fans that.


Ffs going round in circles with you talking shite.

Of course he couldn’t have a quality squad. He didn’t have the money to buy a quality squad. If he did he would have.


he was given enough like the £4m to bring back Chopra, The fact he was willing to spend it on one guy instead of more than one is down to his model which basically failed.

Even under Tan he was allowed to bring in others. Although on loan they still did not come cheap. The reason he was not allowed to buy permanently is because he never proved himself enough.


Who did he bring in under Tan?

Chopra was only signed as they still owed us money for him. It was nothing like 4 million.

Re: END OF THE WORLD

Tue Dec 26, 2017 3:40 pm

maccydee wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:
maccydee wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:
maccydee wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:You have just answered your own question.

If they were his signing why did he not get us promoted then?


Yes I did. The squad wasn’t strong enough as he didn’t have a budget that could build a squad just a team.


DJ model was to have a quality 11. He never took serious a deep squad.

Without his quality 11 he is useless. Go and ask Hartlepool fans that.


Ffs going round in circles with you talking shite.

Of course he couldn’t have a quality squad. He didn’t have the money to buy a quality squad. If he did he would have.


he was given enough like the £4m to bring back Chopra, The fact he was willing to spend it on one guy instead of more than one is down to his model which basically failed.

Even under Tan he was allowed to bring in others. Although on loan they still did not come cheap. The reason he was not allowed to buy permanently is because he never proved himself enough.


Who did he bring in under Tan?

Chopra was only signed as they still owed us money for him. It was nothing like 4 million.


Bellamy

Re: END OF THE WORLD

Tue Dec 26, 2017 4:44 pm

Bakedalasker wrote:
maccydee wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:
maccydee wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:
maccydee wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:You have just answered your own question.

If they were his signing why did he not get us promoted then?


Yes I did. The squad wasn’t strong enough as he didn’t have a budget that could build a squad just a team.


DJ model was to have a quality 11. He never took serious a deep squad.

Without his quality 11 he is useless. Go and ask Hartlepool fans that.


Ffs going round in circles with you talking shite.

Of course he couldn’t have a quality squad. He didn’t have the money to buy a quality squad. If he did he would have.


he was given enough like the £4m to bring back Chopra, The fact he was willing to spend it on one guy instead of more than one is down to his model which basically failed.

Even under Tan he was allowed to bring in others. Although on loan they still did not come cheap. The reason he was not allowed to buy permanently is because he never proved himself enough.


Who did he bring in under Tan?

Chopra was only signed as they still owed us money for him. It was nothing like 4 million.


Bellamy


No he didn’t. That was start of the season on a year loan long before any Malaysian flags got flown.

Re: END OF THE WORLD

Tue Dec 26, 2017 4:49 pm

maccydee wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:
maccydee wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:
maccydee wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:
maccydee wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:You have just answered your own question.

If they were his signing why did he not get us promoted then?


Yes I did. The squad wasn’t strong enough as he didn’t have a budget that could build a squad just a team.


DJ model was to have a quality 11. He never took serious a deep squad.

Without his quality 11 he is useless. Go and ask Hartlepool fans that.


Ffs going round in circles with you talking shite.

Of course he couldn’t have a quality squad. He didn’t have the money to buy a quality squad. If he did he would have.


he was given enough like the £4m to bring back Chopra, The fact he was willing to spend it on one guy instead of more than one is down to his model which basically failed.

Even under Tan he was allowed to bring in others. Although on loan they still did not come cheap. The reason he was not allowed to buy permanently is because he never proved himself enough.


Who did he bring in under Tan?

Chopra was only signed as they still owed us money for him. It was nothing like 4 million.


Bellamy


No he didn’t. That was start of the season on a year loan long before any Malaysian flags got flown.


The thing is Jones was allowed to bring in players be in on lone or not. He has a damn good starting 11 and not too bad a squad. Bellamy was the icing on the cake. All pundits were saying if we do not go up as champions it would be a total disaster.

Re: END OF THE WORLD

Tue Dec 26, 2017 4:53 pm

Bakedalasker wrote:
maccydee wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:
maccydee wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:
maccydee wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:
maccydee wrote:
Bakedalasker wrote:You have just answered your own question.

If they were his signing why did he not get us promoted then?


Yes I did. The squad wasn’t strong enough as he didn’t have a budget that could build a squad just a team.


DJ model was to have a quality 11. He never took serious a deep squad.

Without his quality 11 he is useless. Go and ask Hartlepool fans that.


Ffs going round in circles with you talking shite.

Of course he couldn’t have a quality squad. He didn’t have the money to buy a quality squad. If he did he would have.


he was given enough like the £4m to bring back Chopra, The fact he was willing to spend it on one guy instead of more than one is down to his model which basically failed.

Even under Tan he was allowed to bring in others. Although on loan they still did not come cheap. The reason he was not allowed to buy permanently is because he never proved himself enough.


Who did he bring in under Tan?

Chopra was only signed as they still owed us money for him. It was nothing like 4 million.


Bellamy


No he didn’t. That was start of the season on a year loan long before any Malaysian flags got flown.


The thing is Jones was allowed to bring in players be in on lone or not. He has a damn good starting 11 and not too bad a squad. Bellamy was the icing on the cake. All pundits were saying if we do not go up as champions it would be a total disaster.


Too many loan players I think that final year. That Middlesborough game was horrendous. Players couldn’t care.