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It appears that, unbeknownst to us, whilst the footballing world has been obsessing over Pep Genius Guardiola appearing to descend into public nervous breakdown territory, and Marcus "Always A Red" Rashford deciding that £325,000 a week might actually not be enough to convince him to be "Always A Red" after all, there's been some conspiracy happening behind the scenes to ensure that Preston North End and Queens Park Rangers actually morph into being...wait for it (gasps of shock horror...) THE SAME TEAM! Preston North End P 21 W4 D11 L6 F21 A 27 Queens Park Rangers P 21 W4 D10 L7 F21 A27 So let me formally announce that Saturday will now be the official unveiling of the newly merged outfit Preston Queens North Park End Rangers FC or PQNPER for short... On the plus side, since it turns out we're actually playing ourselves, could this mean there's an increased chance of us winning...?
I'm not in any way trying to suggest that Lynch was the Second Coming of Glenn Roeder, but he definitely held his own in that rag-tag of a squad, as both Ollie and Birch were very keen to stress when I asked about this.
Birch was very keen not to name names specifically, but he did say that there were others in the squad he didn't see in as positive a light.
Wasn't it you who moaned like a squealing pig last week about being unfairly scapegoated (hilarious in itself), yet you think its perfectly fine to dig out a player who - even with his various apparently unscheduled absences - played a significant role in keeping us in the Championship during his time with us?
I had a long chat with Ollie about Lynch after we'd beaten Forest 2-1 (managed btw at the time by Warbs Warburton no less) to ensure we stayed up that season, and I remember clearly marking Lynch as MoM that day. Ollie also was fulsome in his praise of him, and said that keeping us up that season was, he believed, the best achievement of his management career to date.
Spot on EL. I wrote on Saturday That I thought his interview with Tyler on the official site showed him to be humble, well balanced, confident but in no way arrogant.
Of course, that doesn't take away from the fact that his Dad might have overplayed his hand with Nourry, hence the hardball response from both him and Marti.
I strongly suspect we are getting very close to a good old British "meet you in the middle" compromise.
This has just gone up on the official site, and I have to say, I think he comes across very well. Quite balanced, quite humble but not shy - very aware that there's more work to do if he wants to get to the level of playing regulaly and that his all-round game is important.
..And to your point about your thread being " perfectly reasonable", I would counter with the viewpoint that if Gavin Mahon, or any ex-player for that matter, has worn the R's shirt and has chosen to acknowledge the support that the fans has given him by accepting an induction into the Forever R's Club, than that is enough in my book for him to be accepted as a "Forever R".
I personally don't understand your obsession with length of service as a criteria to qualify for this honour. Surely the fact that the player chooses to acknowledge his time with us as significant is enough in itself.
The fact that you choose to use the words "sanctimonious" and "patronising" in your response, whilst being entirely predictable, also say a lot more about you than you seem to realise...
Not sure its me that needs to look in the mirror, is it...
For someone who is very keen to share the benefit of his expertise and experience on a wide range of topics, you do a very good impression of being a totally clueless gimp when it comes to understanding how people work.
You ask for absolute credence and respect to be given to your opinions, but you express them in a particularly obnoxious way, and then choose to humiliate anyone who dares to say something you don't agree with.
You have truly learnt nothing from what people have been continually trying to tell you over this past year, and then you wonder why no-one takes you seriously..
"People who just want to project their own nastiness onto me", you say, whilst being, I have to say, comfortably the largest perpetrator of said nasty, dismissive comments pound for pound on this whole site over the past 12 months at least..
As a wise man, who will coincidentally be having his widely celebrated birthday in about three weeks' time, once said: "There are none so blind as those who do not wish to see..."
Talking about " dubious dichotomies", isn't this piece of yours an embodiment of one itself?
On the one hand you're irrationally criticising Clive for having the foresight to be prepared for what is a perfectly logical assumption, based on the general culture in football across all the major leagues, i.e. to make the Head Coach/ manager the scapegoat whenever all things head south, as if its a direct, personal betrayal of said Head Coach.
Then in the next breath, you criticise the Head Coach yourself and show some level of support for the Chief Scapegoater, namely the CEO.
Of all the supposedly non black and white issues that we've debated on this Forum over God knows how many years now, I would suggest this is actually one of the more straightforward and authentically black and white ones!
It's never a "mild note" from you is it, but either a paranoid, delusional sign of either an unwarranted personal attack, or an apocalyptic portent of impending doom that we'll never recover from.
Either way, you do appear to have a sense of grandiosity that is almost Trumpian in it's manifestation, which I would imagine doesn't make you particularly easy to be around on a daily level.
When the majority are saying more or less exactly the same thing, perhaps the person pointing the finger might think its worthwhile reflecting on what they are saying and adjusting his behaviour accordingly...
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