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Wow, there are a lot of virgins in this thread.

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wivelgull wrote: ↑08 Jun 2017, 21:54 I can confirm that GILBERT has signed a ten year contract.

I am disappointed to note this was not put out for a fair tendering process.

I understand Godfrey the Gull, Gary the Gull and Geoffrey the Gull are squawkingly angry about it.

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Southampton Gull wrote: ↑18 May 2017, 22:05 I don't think Andrew will spend much time in the boardroom, Lucy. He's not been made a Director

Knowing compliance, I think 'boredroom' would be a far more apt name for his working location.

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I haven't been visiting recently, predominantly because I have lost all desire and determination to watch a club constantly make the same mistakes over and over again.

Being up in Cambridge, I'm fairly exiled at the moment and where I would make the trip down to Plainmoor when visiting family in Devon, I just don't have that urge any more. The concept of our board wanting to sell to a company such as GI was the final straw, as everyone from the outside could see them for what they are, yet our board could not comprehend it.

To put this into perspective, I tested myself and couldn't even name half of our first XI. I think that's the first time since around 1993.

Well done for continuing to fight the good fight everyone else though!

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On a slightly positive note, if we have no numbers on our backs, it'll make booking our players more difficult.

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Paul Buckle, currently residing in sunny California, has just signed Carlton Cole. They're going to be in the third tier of US football.

http://www.thesportbible.com/football/n ... s-20160810

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Does anyone know what the outcome of the council meeting was?

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Fairly unsure on the signing but I trust in the views of Nico to pick the right player for the club. My understanding was that he was fairly highly rated at the Man Utd academy, before his indiscretions. Hopefully, we'll get the talented player and not the mess that caused him to leave.

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Frankly, even if SG was just plain wrong, I'm quite glad he was. It's far more important for the lack of Harrop than SG getting something wrong.

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Jeff wrote: I don't think anyone is celebrating the fact that we finished 18th. It's the context in which it was achieved.

The club had the playing budget slashed to presumably its lowest level, we were at the bottom of the table on a rotten run of form and only heading in one direction. I for one had totally given up hope.

Nico has come in, and TBH I thought made some huge decisions and used some big talk in press conferences etc. Up until Feb I thought that he was going to look completely stupid as he failed on the minimum requirement, but look what happened in the end. I think people forgot just how dead and buried we were in February, so although finishing 18th in itself isn't an achievement the manner in which we recovered is.

When Nico was appointed, some posters (myself included) argued that look at what Eddie Howe did for Bournemouth - why couldn't that happen for us. Well so far, it has happened for us so who knows how far this can go. All indications at the moment point towards us being onto a good thing

If I may add something with the ability of hindsight too:-

When we survived relegation in the seasons under Knill and Hargreaves, in hindsight we scraped through both times. They both managed to arrest the plummeting league positions but offered little more than slightly above relegation form. Enough for safety but you felt that if the season were 10 games longer, we wouldn't have improved that much more.

In Nico's case, we pretty much had play-off form and given another 10 games we'd probably be closer to mid table.

The proof in the pudding will be this summer and the beginning of next season. If he can instill that fighting belief we've had at the back end of this season and combine it with confidence and good football, I think we'll be in for a very fun season.

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rooster wrote:As a former Police Officer of 30 years and recently retired I can assure you that to suggest its a cynical attempt to make money by the Police is total rubbish. Any charges are used to provide the additional resources required that wouldn't normally be available.........

So the fee given to TUFC will be the cost price of all the resources required and nothing extra on top?

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wivelgull wrote:Blimey! I'm a long way behind brucie! Incidentally, I noticed one contributor is listed as 'banned' Why was that? What can we be banned for?

Well the highest banned poster has made over 7000 posts, mostly involving blasphemy, often involving insults and on occasions involving bigotry.

It must be incredibly difficult in the field of Law to make a reasoned argument without including slanderous comments.

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It's good to see we've continued our pattern of signing strangely named players by signing someone with a name which sounds like a question posed by a Yorkshireman.

Go on, just read it. In a Yorkshire accent. You know you want to.

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As my wife is disabled, this is something quite close to my heart. Closer to pay day, expect to see something coming from me.

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