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Is there anything that’s gone on, or will go on with the current incumbents that make you feel that they’ve got any more of a clue than you (or me, for that matter)? In reality, we may have done a bit better on the football side - Because we’ve got the first clue of how to build a team. At the time the UK’s politicians sold us down the river with their holier than thou sanctions and demand that a new owner be found, I said that these owners were not going to be in the clubs best interests. No one makes substantive profit from football clubs, certainly not the ROI that these ***** would want to cover the outlay. After thinking about it for a while yesterday, I’d think that there are investors behind the two main protagonists who are getting twitchy and demanding action to protect their investments. They’re as bad as each other, one has got better public facing characteristics - that’s all there is to see and neither are fit and proper owners.

👍 I assume that was the original version - Yul Brynner etc!!!! Same vintage, watched Kelly’s Hero’s again recently, after Donald Sutherland’s passing. Don’t make with them negative waves man. Woof, woof that’s my other dog impression!

Good solid citizens - no, balls to that let the wanderlust take over!! If only I wasn’t too old and not a multimillionaire to take advantage 😂

Thanks, peace and nature are my mantras. Must try and get to visit. Maldives next year, got hundreds of thousands of Virgin air miles and a companion voucher burning a hole in my pocket. Virgin fly to the Maldives, so can go in comfort, reward flights to the Caribbean have been rare since Covid, do we go East. If you’ve not been, I’d recommend them. Sri Lankan and Maldivians are just wonderful people.

I’d have loved to have lived half the life you’ve clearly done. To have ventured to those places and had the strength of character to work, live and learn says volumes (to me) about your resilience and love of life. Fire coral, seen a number of ‘brushes’ with that in the tropics - shorty wetsuits etc. Looks painful.

Lion and Stone Fish, far more of a hazard these days than the bigger stuff. Lion Fish being quite the invasive species and unbalancing the natural status quo. So much so, that bounties are being paid to spear fishermen for removals in some places.

What’s Nevis like? I’ve been to a few of the Caribbean islands but not Nevis or St Kitts and they look great. St Lucia has been my favourite, so pretty.

I think you may be right, caught the one I ate using a hand line and wooden spool off a Maldivian dhoni type boat on a night fishing trip. It was a small one, round about the size you mention. Caught and ate within a couple of hours. When we were diving once a small school of them hung around in the water quite close, mouth full of razor sharp looking teeth and so quick in the water.

Should have ate him, they’re delicious!!

Some 'out there' rule changes, which I think would make the game far more entertaining and faster. 1. Ban passing back to the goalkeeper completely, free kick to opposing team taken from where the player who passed back stood. No penalty if in box, direct free-kick 2. Goalkeeper only takes goalkicks and ball must travel outside of penalty area (old rule) 3. Apply the six-second rule, whether the ball is in the keepers hands or at his feet and have it timed by VAR

A real concern, that's true. They've already been seen to be shuffling the company silver from one drawer to another, the devil will be in the detail which would have to declared at a point within a sale process. In a parallel universe where these types of investors have morals and and a sense of 'We made a pig's ear of that, so we'll stand the loss ' then ignore wouldn’t matter. But meanwhile in the real world, I can't see them realising what they said and have paid-out for it now. However, I don't think they have the ability to get us back to a successful football club again and will ruin us eventually anyway. So better it happens sooner, rather than later.

If it was from cold water, might well have been a conger, although there’s some other beasty that resides in cold water that looks like one of them. Scary thing nevertheless. That fish smell though, yuk.

First paragraph - Success on the pitch is the measure. You might have the foresight and luck with a Xabi Alonso type appointment, but even that coincided with a Munich downgrade or in their terms a crisis. No difference in how I measure our success, it's on the pitch. Get that right and if you're a decent businessman/woman the rest can follow I.e. sustainability and profit. Second paragraph - There's a whole headhunting industry out there, that will tell you differently. Third paragraph - Tell that to Man City, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich (for the last 20 years, except last season). Last paragraph - Far less space would be used saying what they've got right as opposed to what they've got wrong. If we don't change soon then ruination will be a closer reality. Edit: Just seen your last post. I can cope with a 'forming, norming & storming' process, as long as you see actual progress. We're back beyond of where we were when they took over and every season start again. They have been an unmitigated disaster. Where we might agree is that the single-owner club being successful might be a rarity now, but if you look at Man City and scratch below the surface that's what they are. It's also true that they used a model of getting the best and supporting them with with what they wanted and needed. In my opinion Arsenal may be on their way there, I hope not but it's looking a distinct possibility.

What I dislike is what they've done, how they've done it and what it's turning us into. They got the same level of patience and optimism as every other owner of our football club did/has. Actions speak louder than words and all that. The Glaziers spent plenty of money, just like Clearlake have done, and please don't think it's for any different reason than the Glaziers did - Namely personal gain. There's no guarantees, but there are higher likelihoods of success. But they're even ballsing those ones up, as well. I understand that you're not UK based, so you are probably going to have to take my word on this but you go into the ground and listen to the STH's, the pubs after games - the majority have turned. But I do agree, you can't please all the people all the time. There were people that used to moan about Roman, wonder how they're feeling now?

See my post below, they appointed people who made a mid-table PL club, but made money. The owner's are quoted as saying that's the model they're trying to follow. You want to be the best, appoint the best. That's been the way in top level football for donkeys years, with the occasional breakthrough, and they don't last long because if you get an exceptional talent emerge, the best gobble them up. We gobbled up Maresca and we've no real idea how that's going to end up. We're playing a game of chance already but sitting in the lower percentiles of success or not. Others play the same game but they're playing at the higher end of that percentile scale. The latter comes with a higher price, but that old adage of buy cheap, buy twice/thrice couldn’t be more appropriate. Even when they've have thrown large transfer money at individuals, say £60m+ we are still waiting to see if they did it right. Fernandez will never fit, Mudryk??, Fofana ??, Caicedo - bedt of the lot but that's a low bar to judge him against.