Tonight’s games

[WTF11]

Dunno but your mate Pat found something to laugh about on Saturday. Maybe he was remembering that pt he got us at Brighton that you kept on about.

So you are in the camp that suggest I am a Bamford "fan"?

Look at my comments about the guy, and for once, just once, try to apply a degree of balance when reading my posts. He is a spent force, he is burnt out, he isn't the player he was in the last season of the Championship and the first season in the PL, how many times do I have to agree that that is the case?

He was left to hold the line, when the club sold the only other out and out striker, and made no effort to provide any kind of support/succession, THAT is fact

He provided more goals on his own than any other player in the two seasons I refer to, THAT is fact

He has continued, up to and including the game against Barcodes last Saturday, to provide assist that have led to crucial goals that may just save us

He has played whilst injured, to his own detriment as a player, fact.

He's not Kane, or Salah, or Vardy (although Vardy isn't the player he used to be, for similar reasons), he never was, and never will be. But the responsibility for the club not having a striker who might be isn't his (although you would think from the comments made that it was). it lies elsewhere, at the heart of this clubs malaise over many, many years, and not just since Radrizzani appeared.

The owner and his entourage, be it Bates, GFH, Cellino or the current wide boy, have seen LUFC through the lens of the Revie years and those that immediately followed them, and the fan base that such "in memoriam" views generate, as cash cows to be milked for as long, and as aggressively, as was possible, until as much has been produced as could be in the time taken before their limitations in terms of business acumen, financial clout and/or footballing competence have been exposed.

The disgraceful treatment of Bielsa, the lack of support for his vision of what LUFC could be, is why we are where we are, and the next asset stripper waits in the wings, promising everything that desperate LUFC fans would want, and as likely to deliver as any of those that have preceded them over the last three decades. Be careful what you wish for, it might come true.

"Doom and gloom" you say, I say someone who speaks from bitter experience of just how LUFC has been raped and pillaged over decades by those who would pick over our bones if they got the chance.

[whitestomper45]

We have the most lop sided squad, no defensive midfielders and no Bambi/Firpo improvements thanks Orta ya cnut

[WTF11]

Wtf,

You were correct on your take this year. We are really bad for the amount of money we spent. Especially when we have a good bit of academy product we could be using

Gnonto and Adams are get only 2 we have that are successes this year

Appreciate the comment Spaldy, but it's not just this last year that funds beyond measure have been pi55ed away on diabolically bad transfer deals, salaries for players who never once appeared for the 1st team and subsequent losses when those appallingly bad transfers have led to players leaving the club, never having featured for the team they were brought in to supposedly "strengthen".

Fed up of being proved right having suggested certain decisions were bad. Would very much have preferred to be proved catastrophically wrong, the club would be better off were that the case.

[whitestomper45]

And when you’re wrong you just let it fly, but hey I’ll hang my hat

[whitestomper45]

… in a pub… I’ll hang my hat on your considered evaluation

[WTF11]

And when you’re wrong you just let it fly, but hey I’ll hang my hat

Actually no, I was wrong (thanks to my good friend HO) about the date of Bamfords introduction to the LUFC fold, I was wrong about Bielsa, and have said as much on both matters, and I was wrong about............not much f00king else, certainly nothing of consequence or of import when it comes to where we are now (please do advise on matters of consequence where I may have been incorrect in terms of my views on said matter?).

[whitestomper45]

Actually no, I was wrong (thanks to my good friend HO) about the date of Bamfords introduction to the LUFC fold, I was wrong about Bielsa, and have said as much on both matters, and I was wrong about............not much f00king else, certainly nothing of consequence or of import when it comes to where we are now (please do advise on matters of consequence where I may have been incorrect in terms of my views on said matter?).

What about when I suggested we get Gerard Bowen from Hull and you said something to the effect of buying a player from a crap club…. I can drag up if needed … you definitely only remember selective stuff

[WTF11]

What about when I suggested we get Gerard Bowen from Hull and you said something to the effect of buying a player from a crap club…. I can drag up if needed … you definitely only remember selective stuff

Please do, if I'm wrong (as already indicated) I am quite content to acknowledge as such (I would however suggest that we could trade different views on different players ad nauseam (Olise, Toni, Trossard were all players I suggested the club should be seeking to acquire, others (not necessarily you) disagreed with).

However, my focus, such as it is, is on the things the club actually does, and my view of whether such actions are good, bad or indifferent. In such matters, I would respectfully suggest I have been right (and in most cases "before a player has kicked a ball") a hell of a lot more than any of those who have been paid a gazillion to f00k the club over, and had my view held sway, the club would be tens, if not hundreds of millions to the good.

But all that is stuff and nonsense now, as those who actually hold the purse strings are still there, mores the pity.

[spaldy]

What about when I suggested we get Gerard Bowen from Hull and you said something to the effect of buying a player from a crap club…. I can drag up if needed … you definitely only remember selective stuff

I prefer rutter or KJA over Bowen.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

I prefer rutter or KJA over Bowen.

Knowing us we would have signed Jim Bowen (RIP) without realising he had passed away.