Anon

I can't stand this revisionism regarding that season. It comes up all the time. Of those 3, only Mount came with a big reputation. How is it a fair assessment to look at where those players are now and retroactively base judgement on a manager that had them when they were teenagers? Do you think losing Vydra, who'd scored 21 goals the previous season, might have had an effect? You say top 5ish players, but our forward line for that season in Marriott, Waghorn, and Bennett aren't and have never been close to being top end championship players.

Yes, good enough for that league, not the league the league above and not necessarily good enough for promotion. I'm not claiming Lampard was some kind of genius, he had obvious tactical limitations. I struggle with the idea of writing off 6th place as a failure. Are you genuinely telling me that at the start of that season you would've regarded anything less than promotion as a failure?

Billy Davies has proved himself to be a serial liar and relentless self publicist, so whilst I appreciate that money was tight and he wasn't able to sign exactly who he wanted I simply don't believe that he had 0 input on transfer targets. He played Earnshaw at Forest, so he can't have thought he was that bad. He played Davis at Preston. Also, given that he once threw a tantrum because Doughty wouldn't sign Gareth Bale, I would absolutely love to see his original list of targets for our Premier League campaign. I suspect they would've been laughably ambitious.

He's a horrid little scrote, but that's nothing new. I knew people like this growing up. They'd eventually learn a harsh lesson and get filled in after picking on the wrong person. The country, and London in particular, has changed since then. The chances of a kid like this carrying a knife and being willing to use it are massively higher now. People are far less likely to properly defend themselves or step in to assist others because the risk is so high, and that's not to mention what the police would do to you if you did give this kid a deserved clip round the ear.

"Failure of the press to cover the heatwave"
Are they serious? 2 hot days in the middle of summer has received wall to wall coverage and been treated like the end of the world by the media.
Insane climate alarmists vs the corporate media. Is there a way they can both lose?

Billy Davies has proved himself to be a serial liar and relentless self publicist, so whilst I appreciate that money was tight and he wasn't able to sign exactly who he wanted I simply don't believe that he had 0 input on transfer targets. He played Earnshaw at Forest, so he can't have thought he was that bad. He played Davis at Preston. Also, given that he once threw a tantrum because Doughty wouldn't sign Gareth Bale, I would absolutely love to see his original list of targets for our Premier League campaign. I suspect they would've been laughably ambitious.

Billy Davies has proved himself to be a serial liar and relentless self publicist, so whilst I appreciate that money was tight and he wasn't able to sign exactly who he wanted I simply don't believe that he had 0 input on transfer targets. He played Earnshaw at Forest, so he can't have thought he was that bad. He played Davis at Preston. Also, given that he once threw a tantrum because Doughty wouldn't sign Gareth Bale, I would absolutely love to see his original list of targets for our Premier League campaign. I suspect they would've been laughably ambitious.

I can't believe I forgot Billy Joel. He's definitely one of my favourites.

I agree. Wages are just as, if not more important, than transfer fees when judging players in the modern game, especially when clubs are working to restricted FFP budgets. It's impossible to accurately and fairly asses how important a player is to the club without knowing what they're paid.

I can't believe I forgot Billy Joel. He's definitely one of my favourites.

Thanks to ramsreview for this.
I wish we did the same in the UK. Would save a lot of wild speculation.
Russell I can understand, senior pro and club captain at SKC. But Jozwiak? 
And as RR says, Byrne might have been better staying put.

I can't believe I forgot Billy Joel. He's definitely one of my favourites.

David Bowie
Billy Joel
Marvin Gaye
Johnny Cash
Bob Marley
 
Nina Simone
Karen Carpenter
Nina Hagen
Dusty Springfield
Linda Ronstadt
 
The Beatles
10CC
Badfinger
Pink Floyd
Blue Oyster Cult

Willie McKay booked the flight though. Willie McKay was not employed by Nantes. He was, one of a number, of intermediaries that had a stake in the deal. I don't understand how Cardiff intend to hold Nantes liable for a decision made by a third party.

Congratulations to Newcastle but the way their fans go on, you'd think they're the only club to have had hard times.
Ashley wasn't even that bad as far as owners go. When they went down to the Champo they came back up with 100+ points, they signed a £40m player under him and he sold them onto billionaires. Try having an owner who separates the club's assets from the club, does questionable accounting, withdraws funding and tries to sell the club to crypto fraudsters or fake sheikhs!
And Mel was at least acting (in his mind) in Derby's best interests. Try having an owner who literally robs the club like at Bury, the chap at Luton who tried to destroy the club and got them a 30 point deduction and the guy at Wimbledon who moved the team to another town!

I wondered what would happen if we tried to adjust transfer costs by inflation. I took the inflation figures from https://www.totallymoney.com/content/transfer-index/data/#filters?/options?order=4|asc and calculated what we paid, minus any fee we received and divided by the number of appearances we actually got out of the player. The higher the bindex number, the more relatively useless the player was to us.

Yes, I lead an incredibly exciting life.
*Jason Shackell - second spell only
*Bielik - working under the assumption he sees out his contract and leaves on a free.

Willie McKay booked the flight though. Willie McKay was not employed by Nantes. He was, one of a number, of intermediaries that had a stake in the deal. I don't understand how Cardiff intend to hold Nantes liable for a decision made by a third party.

Dream job = no job.
I think that almost anything would become mundane if you had to spend 40 hours a week doing it. Maybe some radio DJs do actually really like their jobs, but I feel that the chummy "banter" that goes on in the studio often sounds forced and not at all genuine. Also, being required to play the absolute guff that my audience of philistines wanted to hear would anger me greatly. The audience engagement too, I don't think I could read Jeff from Belper's tweet about a town bypass without falling asleep.

I wondered what would happen if we tried to adjust transfer costs by inflation. I took the inflation figures from https://www.totallymoney.com/content/transfer-index/data/#filters?/options?order=4|asc and calculated what we paid, minus any fee we received and divided by the number of appearances we actually got out of the player. The higher the bindex number, the more relatively useless the player was to us.

Yes, I lead an incredibly exciting life.
*Jason Shackell - second spell only
*Bielik - working under the assumption he sees out his contract and leaves on a free.

This is the correct best line up imo
paul mgrath desperately unlucky to miss out though 
 

I had two shifts now and on light duties and I cant put devlies away unless they light ones. And everyone missed me.

No, I don't believe in ghosts for two reasons.
There is no scientific evidence to show they exist.
If allowed myself to believe they exist, I'd be terrified all the time. I really don't understand what the draw is in believing in ghosts. The idea that there may be spirits of the dead watching me is creepy enough, but the idea that it could be possible to be trapped as some kind of ethereal, incorporeal being trapped between life and death is awful.

Dream job = no job.
I think that almost anything would become mundane if you had to spend 40 hours a week doing it. Maybe some radio DJs do actually really like their jobs, but I feel that the chummy "banter" that goes on in the studio often sounds forced and not at all genuine. Also, being required to play the absolute guff that my audience of philistines wanted to hear would anger me greatly. The audience engagement too, I don't think I could read Jeff from Belper's tweet about a town bypass without falling asleep.

Once a bluebird, always a bluebird.
Unless we have to pay any money.