[quote user="ricardo"][quote user="Neil Cluckcaster"] Me thinks the chickens (cheap supermarket variety of course) are coming home to roost. Happily there seems to be far more folk aware of it on here now than a few months back, but come the opening whistle of the season there will be 25,000+ happy clapping punters in the stands with the sign up "business as usual" on DS''s little train set. And so many mocked Smudger when he was prepared to do something about it........ [/quote] We''ve missed you Mr. Cluckcaster. Methinks this Forum has a different feel now, compared with your last incarnation. [/quote] I''m touched (there''s an invite [;)]) by the fondness shown to poor little Cluck in his absence by those who understood his reasoning...and who was only trying to save some of his fellow supporters yet more heartache by allowing the wood to be seen for the trees. Reading the forum these days it seems he is no longer required anyway in his earlier incarnation...with the cat being well and truly out of the bag.... 45 years of support perhaps enables some of us to see past the youthful emotion into reality...this being that under Smith we have all been taken for a ride and seen the soul of NCFC stolen for personal egotistical self promotion. If finally having come to this stage it is allowed to continue in the coming season then we/they deserve all we/they get..... [Y]