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Re: Worthy's better class of transfer thread

Post by plymouth wanderer » Fri Jan 04, 2013 1:58 pm

Eagle in peace wrote:[quote="jaffka
A very protective sort these fans in the championship. I wonder if any of our lot feel the need to register on other boards?
You have on ours, yes.[/quote]


Send um this way and we'll sort um out!!

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Re: Worthy's better class of transfer thread

Post by Abdoulaye's Twin » Fri Jan 04, 2013 1:59 pm

plymouth wanderer wrote:
Eagle in peace wrote:[quote="jaffka
A very protective sort these fans in the championship. I wonder if any of our lot feel the need to register on other boards?
You have on ours, yes.

Send um this way and we'll sort um out!!

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Hang on. It could be postcode or Dan. Surely we should leave them there to make friends? :D

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Re: Worthy's better class of transfer thread

Post by plymouth wanderer » Fri Jan 04, 2013 2:01 pm

Abdoulaye's Twin wrote:
plymouth wanderer wrote:
Eagle in peace wrote:[quote="jaffka
A very protective sort these fans in the championship. I wonder if any of our lot feel the need to register on other boards?
You have on ours, yes.

Send um this way and we'll sort um out!!

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Hang on. It could be postcode or Dan. Surely we should leave them there to make friends? :D[/quote]


In that case keep the fvckers :lol:

My money is on bish nosey fvcker
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Re: Worthy's better class of transfer thread

Post by SE25_1905 » Fri Jan 04, 2013 2:01 pm

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SE25_1905 wrote: At risk of leading this away from the 'banter' that seems to be developing - the club is losing approx £4m per year (with the owners collectively picking up the slack). So far we are in their debt to about £12m. They've mentioned this on the BBS forum and have said that we operate in 2-3 year cycles. This current cycle is the final year. The aim is promotion. We do that then they've seen the return on their investment and they'll look to try and establish the club in the Prem.

Fail and we sell a player or two to re-coup the losses. Thankfully, these are nearly always academy starlets who are worth a few bob. The balance sheet restored and we attempt another cycle. This year end will culminate in a windfall from Promotion, the sale of Wilf or possibly both.
I would be careful with thoughts of windfalls from promotion. The chances are, any extra money gained through promotion will end up in player and agent pockets. Your wage bill will increase significantly and once the initial excitement is over, the pressure (self created) will be to spend will become difficult to resist.

Many seasons ago we were held up as a model for smaller clubs to follow in achieving in the Premiership. That went out of the window and Megson and Coyle pissed away millions in wages and fees. Why? Expectation changed from the earlier days. Moderate success meant we had to stay, we became desperate to do so and we spent spent spent.

You'll spend a bit on going up. If you stay you'll start to spend a lot more. Before you know it you 'have to' stay up or end up financially far worse than when you went up. It may not happen, but it seems to happen to most...
It is a fair point and I know promotion certainly comes with increased costs but I think most of us are already prepared that we'll not be looking to make lots of signings if and when we go up. We are acutely aware that will make our job of surviving all the tougher but the boards first priority is to start to re-build the stadium stand by stand with the PL bounty making up a good chunk of the cost.

I'm fairly sure that survival would be considered a remarkable achievement in that context but IH nearly did it with Blackpool with a tighter wage budget than we'd have and I'm sure that was part of the logic in his appointment.

Whilst the academy can produce us players that can fetch between £8m and £15m every now and again then it takes the immediate financial pressure off a little.

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Re: Worthy's better class of transfer thread

Post by Lord Kangana » Fri Jan 04, 2013 2:12 pm

jaffka wrote:
Lord Kangana wrote:Interesting.

Anyone know if he's any good? Because we've spent quite a lot on centre halves in the last few years, and not many have come up to scratch...
I posted about him a few pages ago that some Rochdale fans thought he was great. One even believed he will get a full England cap!
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Re: Worthy's better class of transfer thread

Post by thebish » Fri Jan 04, 2013 2:14 pm

as wrote:We might be shite, but we're a bigger club than you, and if we wanted Murray then we'd get him, end of story.
PS - your ultras are gay
BWFC Insane wrote:And lets face it, nobody any good wants to go to Palace.
Shit hole.
And the most insignificant little club, that nobody really gives two shits about either way.

We have on many occasions mocked the wanker-club-fans who tell us that they are "bigger than us" or that they are "big" clubs and we are small-time.

I had hoped that we wouldn't forget who we are and morph into Citeh fans or West Ham fans... but maybe our spell in the premiership has infected some of our fans with the billy-big-bollox virus. it's not big and it's not clever - and - tbh - it's a bit embarrassing...

so - the the visiting Palace fans (you are more than welcome) - sorry!

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Re: Worthy's better class of transfer thread

Post by Dave Sutton's barnet » Fri Jan 04, 2013 2:15 pm

On Craig Dawson:
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Lord Kangana wrote:Interesting. Anyone know if he's any good? Because we've spent quite a lot on centre halves in the last few years, and not many have come up to scratch...
I posted about him a few pages ago that some Rochdale fans thought he was great. One even believed he will get a full England cap!
You have to say, five goals in 10 U21 caps ain't bad... but there's a major gulf between U21 and full internationals, as 33-cap Fabrice Muamba discovered.
BWFC_Insane wrote:Surely we won't have 3M to spend on him? I thought it was a loan deal we were after?
I'd expect so, even if it was Iles (rather than a Fleet Streeter) who seemed to think that sum wasn't out of the question.

Some more background. League Two Player of the Year in 2010, scoring 10 as as Dale were promoted, he was signed by West Brom and loaned back to Dale, his 11 (!) goals helping them finish 9th in League One. In February 2012 Roy Hodgson gave him a contract until summer 2015 with "the option for a further 12 months in the club’s favour". This was after a run of games in the first team, but he only played twice after January, when the Baggies had an injury crisis. Still, he impressed one blogger very much in their 4-0 battering at City...

He's also been linked with Swansea (them again!) and Everton, but in all impartiality he'd do better to come here on loan - providing he gets in the team (which you have to imagine he will, given our defensive ineptitude).

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Re: Worthy's better class of transfer thread

Post by thebish » Fri Jan 04, 2013 2:17 pm

plymouth wanderer wrote:
In that case keep the fvckers :lol:

My money is on bish nosey fvcker
8) not this time... not since TWSpy retired through chronic depression...

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Re: Worthy's better class of transfer thread

Post by jaffka » Fri Jan 04, 2013 2:23 pm

Eagle in peace wrote:[quote="jaffka
A very protective sort these fans in the championship. I wonder if any of our lot feel the need to register on other boards?
You have on ours, yes.[/quote]

Sensible ones like yourself are always welcome

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Re: Worthy's better class of transfer thread

Post by Beefheart » Fri Jan 04, 2013 2:28 pm

This kid sounds like the next Fernando Hierro with a goal tally like that!

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Re: Worthy's better class of transfer thread

Post by thebish » Fri Jan 04, 2013 2:30 pm

so - update time - have we signed anyone yet? I thought Nixon said we were assembling an entire new squad before tomorrow?

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Re: Worthy's better class of transfer thread

Post by PC1978 » Fri Jan 04, 2013 2:33 pm

thebish wrote:so - update time - have we signed anyone yet? I thought Nixon said we were assembling an entire new squad before tomorrow?
I am surprised the club haven't announced a grand unveiling of mystery players at half time tomorrow in a bid to boost attendance figures for the non-event.

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Re: Worthy's better class of transfer thread

Post by as » Fri Jan 04, 2013 2:37 pm

BWFC_Insane wrote:
football247 wrote:If Glenn Murray and Zaha leave it will only be for absolutely silly money and we will have 15 million plus to spend on new players.
If your owners let you.

And lets face it, nobody any good wants to go to Palace.

Shit hole.

And the most insignificant little club, that nobody really gives two shits about either way.
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Re: Worthy's better class of transfer thread

Post by Lord Kangana » Fri Jan 04, 2013 2:38 pm

You know the rules bish, there'll be some smallprint on some obscure facebook/twatter/linkedin/whateverothershitepage where he'll make it perfectly clear that he didn't actually say that at all.

Luckily, BWFCi will do all the leg work for you, so sit back, relax, and just wait to be wrong.
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Re: Worthy's better class of transfer thread

Post by thebish » Fri Jan 04, 2013 2:40 pm

Lord Kangana wrote:You know the rules bish, there'll be some smallprint on some obscure facebook/twatter/linkedin/whateverothershitepage where he'll make it perfectly clear that he didn't actually say that at all.

Luckily, BWFCi will do all the leg work for you, so sit back, relax, and just wait to be wrong.

nahhh - BWFCi has no access to Nixon's twatter anymore - those days are gone!!

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Post by BWFC_Insane » Fri Jan 04, 2013 2:40 pm

thebish wrote:
as wrote:We might be shite, but we're a bigger club than you, and if we wanted Murray then we'd get him, end of story.
PS - your ultras are gay
BWFC Insane wrote:And lets face it, nobody any good wants to go to Palace.
Shit hole.
And the most insignificant little club, that nobody really gives two shits about either way.

We have on many occasions mocked the wanker-club-fans who tell us that they are "bigger than us" or that they are "big" clubs and we are small-time.

I had hoped that we wouldn't forget who we are and morph into Citeh fans or West Ham fans... but maybe our spell in the premiership has infected some of our fans with the billy-big-bollox virus. it's not big and it's not clever - and - tbh - it's a bit embarrassing...

so - the the visiting Palace fans (you are more than welcome) - sorry!
My reply was specifically directed at a Palace fan who had come onto our board, into the transfer thread giving it the "large" telling us all how he was taking "delight" in our moaning.

In all honesty it was a bit of a fishing trip, and I've reeled in a real whopper there.

:pissed:

I like fans that come on, but I'm not really sure why we have several Palace fans in our transfer window thread, one of whom seems not to be here for reasonable debate, when we're not seriously linked with any of their players nor them with ours???????????????

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Re: Worthy's better class of transfer thread

Post by thebish » Fri Jan 04, 2013 2:42 pm

BWFC_Insane wrote:
thebish wrote:
as wrote:We might be shite, but we're a bigger club than you, and if we wanted Murray then we'd get him, end of story.
PS - your ultras are gay
BWFC Insane wrote:And lets face it, nobody any good wants to go to Palace.
Shit hole.
And the most insignificant little club, that nobody really gives two shits about either way.

We have on many occasions mocked the wanker-club-fans who tell us that they are "bigger than us" or that they are "big" clubs and we are small-time.

I had hoped that we wouldn't forget who we are and morph into Citeh fans or West Ham fans... but maybe our spell in the premiership has infected some of our fans with the billy-big-bollox virus. it's not big and it's not clever - and - tbh - it's a bit embarrassing...

so - the the visiting Palace fans (you are more than welcome) - sorry!
My reply was specifically directed at a Palace fan who had come onto our board, into the transfer thread giving it the "large" telling us all how he was taking "delight" in our moaning.

In all honesty it was a bit of a fishing trip, and I've reeled in a real whopper there.
or....... you were being a bit of a billy-big-bollox..

the old "I was just fishing" ruse is getting a bit tired... what does it even mean?? "I said the opposite of what I think in order to provoke a reaction??" - in which case - equally embarrassing...

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Re: Worthy's better class of transfer thread

Post by as » Fri Jan 04, 2013 2:44 pm

We're signing Florent Laville to sort our defence out.

Palace are signing the ghost of Jimmy Saville, he's very interested in that youth academy they keep bragging about.

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Re: Worthy's better class of transfer thread

Post by jaffka » Fri Jan 04, 2013 2:46 pm

Those Bury fans who came on at the start of the season, the day when the internet was trialled and rejected in Bury were total nobs.

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Re: Worthy's better class of transfer thread

Post by as » Fri Jan 04, 2013 2:50 pm

thebish wrote:
BWFC_Insane wrote:
thebish wrote:
as wrote:We might be shite, but we're a bigger club than you, and if we wanted Murray then we'd get him, end of story.
PS - your ultras are gay
BWFC Insane wrote:And lets face it, nobody any good wants to go to Palace.
Shit hole.
And the most insignificant little club, that nobody really gives two shits about either way.

We have on many occasions mocked the wanker-club-fans who tell us that they are "bigger than us" or that they are "big" clubs and we are small-time.

I had hoped that we wouldn't forget who we are and morph into Citeh fans or West Ham fans... but maybe our spell in the premiership has infected some of our fans with the billy-big-bollox virus. it's not big and it's not clever - and - tbh - it's a bit embarrassing...

so - the the visiting Palace fans (you are more than welcome) - sorry!
My reply was specifically directed at a Palace fan who had come onto our board, into the transfer thread giving it the "large" telling us all how he was taking "delight" in our moaning.

In all honesty it was a bit of a fishing trip, and I've reeled in a real whopper there.
or....... you were being a bit of a billy-big-bollox..

the old "I was just fishing" ruse is getting a bit tired... what does it even mean?? "I said the opposite of what I think in order to provoke a reaction??" - in which case - equally embarrassing...
It's a bit like trolling - post whatever you can to get a rise, and if they do kick off then it's a result. THIS IS WHAT THE INTERNET WAS INVENTED FOR!

Being nice to people is gay.

It'd be a shite board if all people did was get along, like the West Stand (where they kick out fans for creating an atmosphere - they were singing 'Willie Morgan on the wing' before they got chucked out t'other day).

Anyway - Palace are shite and evolution is the only way.....
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