eddy melito

i cant imagine a situation where there wont be a clause saying lambert cant sign anyone from the club for at least a year. the other option of course is that the club dont have to accept any bid for a contracted player.

[quote] [quote]I have a niggling feeling he will leave. If he wanted to stay he would of said this morning. I hope he turns out to stay at our club.[/quote]   Starting to not care if he leaves anymore. This has been dragging on for way too long and its a bit disrespectful to us the fans, who Lambert is constantly banging on about, to be left in the dark. If Lambert does want to leave a club on the up then to be honest Im not sure I want him here. [/quote]   dragging on way too long? 15 years ago you would have heard nothing until it was done. the 24 hour media might make it feel like a long time, but is it even 24 hours yet since burnley approached the club?

[quote]Still can''t get my head round why he would want to go to Burnley when he has got such a good thing going here at Norwich. People can put whatever spin on it they like but if it''s true that he''s leaving us for Bunrley like I fear he is, then he''s taking a gamble. If it were a Prem club after him I could fully understand and expect him to go. [/quote] you say that now, yet when he was linked to burnley last time, a lot on here were saying the same things, like it showed no ambition etc etc. at that time norwich were in league 1 and burnley were in the prem.

burnley always said they were going to stay sustainable, afterall they didnt want to do an ipswich and sign mediocre players that would end up crippling the club. unlike a lot of clubs, they dont need the parachute payments just to survive and so can spend them improving their squad.

[quote] I cannot for the life of me understand why he would choose to go to Burnley. But stranger things have happened before. Money talks i guess. Get us promoted and he would have had the pick of half the Premeir League next year. [/quote]   the main bit would be access to his family in glasgow. he would probably commute from there too.   next up is parachute payments and a club in better financial order.   from the outside there is little difference in the relative size of the clubs.

[quote] Feel like giving up on football altogether if he goes. How many times have we had this done to us now? When we are doing well a manager ups and leaves![/quote]  karma. surely it must have been in the back of peoples minds since he was last linked heavily with the burnley job (think there was more to that than came out in the press at the time)? hes got a history of not hanging around long.

fox will get outmuscled for fun as the back of a diamond. he can get the ball and pass it, but you have as much chance of him breaking up an attack as seeing delia going teetotal.

3-2 then...

after one game? as bad as theowhatshisname?

When is Malky McKay being unveiled as the new manager?

[quote user="The gut"]While we''re reffing - I thought so at the time, and it just gets confirmed every time I see it, Tierney should have been sent off for his challenge on Hoolahan. No way was Holt offside for the pen. Now managing - how fat and useless must Solano have got if Henderson can get signed and he can''t?[/quote] hes certainly not fat. hes naturally lean. when nobby came to train with us we were resigned to losing lisbie (also freeing up a large chunk of wages money) so when that changed i dont think we could really have both. cant really compare him to henderson when nobby=5k a week and henderson probably=1k

[quote user="I.S."][quote user="eddy melito"][quote] Hasn''t anyone read my bit about the ref being MIKE DEAN? The same ref that made Frank Lampard retake the pen against West Ham WAS THE REF ON SATURDAY. Sorry but thought it was an interesting point. I should have talked about make-believe offside shouts ...would have got a bigger reaction . Or called the original poster a C***. [/quote] or perhaps you are making something out of very little. watch the replays, its not conclusive that he was onside. its nothing unexpected to have dodgy officials at this level. [/quote] Yes, but the point is that this is a Premiership referee, who made Frank Lampard retake a penalty for a similar incident recently. Or are you saying that as soon as Mike Dean referees in League One he becomes dodgy? [/quote] i think having watched the manc derby tonight that he certainly refferreed it differently.

[quote user="Askounin"]Celtic normally give managers a bit of time, they did with Strachan. Plus with their financial situation considering the compensation they payed to West brom less than a year ago, i dont think they want to be paying any more now. [/quote] thats ok, they wouldnt need to pay up for at least 6 months [;)]

[quote user="Largey"]I''d rather manage Burnley.[/quote] just for arguments sake, it could be why he wasnt interested in burnley. [:P]

[quote] Hasn''t anyone read my bit about the ref being MIKE DEAN? The same ref that made Frank Lampard retake the pen against West Ham WAS THE REF ON SATURDAY. Sorry but thought it was an interesting point. I should have talked about make-believe offside shouts ...would have got a bigger reaction . Or called the original poster a C***. [/quote] or perhaps you are making something out of very little. watch the replays, its not conclusive that he was onside. its nothing unexpected to have dodgy officials at this level.

all of this is irrelevent seeing as the player brought down (holt?) was offside anyway.  [;)] have another look at it. i thought it at the time, and the replay hasnt convinced me otherwise.

[quote user="claud"][quote user="eddy melito"] i realy dont think he will anymore. he seems to love being at the helm of a football club, hes a local man (has lived in tiptree for at least a decade) and i really think he is growing to love the club itself.[/quote] Do you not feel that Cowling''s constant comments to the media helped only one team on Saturday, and that was us? Somehow I feel that your team may well have performed better in an unhyped game in front of about 6000 people. And if his rallying cries were to encourage more people to watch CUFC, hasn''t that backfired now following the result? [/quote] i dont think his comments made any difference on the pitch to be honest. that was down to sunday league defending mainly. in hindsight perhaps he wouldnt do it quite so blatently again, but hindsight is a wonderful thing. if the game had have been a hard fought 1-1 draw then i guess it would have worked. we will see in the future what effect it will have on crowds in the long run as it is. was it really constant comments to the media though? i only really read 1 or maybe 2 sets of quotes, but saw it rehashed into about 8 or 9 articles on different websites etc.  they may well have played better in front of less people, we will never know, but if you never strive to increase your fanbase or fill the stadium, then you might as well all go home really. cowlings long term plan is to make colchester into a sustainable championship club through maximising revenue streams outside of just tickets, filling the ground (more school partnerships and comunity schemes etc than ever before). hes also got the go ahead to build a training facility which we have never had before. that is a suprisingly high priority for quite a few players even though the facilities they currently use within the garrison are pretty decent.

[quote user="Graham Humphrey"]He''s only done it once - that''s not really a ''history of moving on when a bigger offer comes along''. That''s not to say he won''t do it again of course but until (if) he does I don''t think that''s a fair comment. [/quote] thats one more time than cowling has moved on.

[quote] i thought somebody had posted that they water the pitch before games. Now with the rainfall you wouldn''t need to water the pitch would you? Unless of course you wanted to make it awkward for the away team who play football rather than HOOF ball. The Football League / F.A. should investigate that Colchester pitch and its maintenance.[/quote]   i remember seeing that. its complete fabrication. the drainage in the area isnt good at all, and thats why the pitch was soggy (plus the rain and snow melt earlier in the week). why would we want to risk the state of the pitch for months to come by deliberately making it bad for one game?

[quote user="morty"][quote user="eddy melito"]up until the lambert incident, there was a bit of an undercurrent of feeling that he was only at the club as west ham werent available and that when push came to shove he may well be off. since then hes opened up a bit and shown us all how hurt he was by that incident and how much he cares about the club. hes becoming a bit of a legend really. his comments have been inflamatory at times but i think its through passion more than malice.[/quote] I still think he''s the type to fuck you over at the drop of a hat though. [/quote] i realy dont think he will anymore. he seems to love being at the helm of a football club, hes a local man (has lived in tiptree for at least a decade) and i really think he is growing to love the club itself. lambert on the other hand has a history of moving on when a bigger offer comes along [:#]

[quote user="yellow blood"] [quote user="LinkNR9"]The foul that led to the penalty wasn''t a red, but the one where Holty was hauled down on his way to goal, having bundled past their centre back, definitely was - I can''t see how Dean could say there was cover! Holt went ballistic and rightly so![/quote]   Was going to say the same...was in line with it and was definitely a sending off offence. Having seen a couple on the tv over the w-e, it was a piss-poor refereeing decision [/quote] agree with that, he was very lucky. i would have been happier if he had been sent off to be honest as we would miss him for 3 games. he gets turned by any striker with half a brain that boy. i did think there was a hint of offside on the penalty decision at the time, and i havent been convinced otherwise by the replays i have seen.

up until the lambert incident, there was a bit of an undercurrent of feeling that he was only at the club as west ham werent available and that when push came to shove he may well be off. since then hes opened up a bit and shown us all how hurt he was by that incident and how much he cares about the club. hes becoming a bit of a legend really. his comments have been inflamatory at times but i think its through passion more than malice.

[quote user="keelan for england"]While we are on the subject of your pitch etc.For a new stadium I thought it was dreadfull.The place was souless,plastic,and behind the stand looked more like B&Q than a football stadium.How anyone can pay money and go there every other week is beyond belief.Just remember we brought more fans to your joke of a stadium than you get most saturdays,and could have filled all four sides if we had to.Fifty years I have been following the yellows,and have not been to a more sad looking half finished shed in all that time.Its about time your chaiman got his cheque book out and finished the place off.If he coud build a stadium as good as he gobs off you would all have something to shout about.Now eddy melito may I suggest that you crawl back to your hovel,and only come back when you have improved or got something better to say. [/quote] i take it you never went to layer road then? the new place is a palace in comparison. it is simple and built to a formula, but it was paid for by the council so we cant really complain too much.

i think all he really means is supporting the way hes gone about things as much as him the person.

[quote user="Askounin"][quote user="eddy melito"] [quote user="a1canary"]Just with most people like that it''s all about him isn''t it! I''VE had set backs, I''VE had lows, I''VE had highs and I will rise again and RULE THE WORLD, mwah ha ha ha ha! Back in the real world, Col U are never the same after Saturday and finish just outside the play off spots![/quote]   or it could tempt  him to get his cheque book out again. [/quote] Maby he should have got is cheque book out to keep their best player Hammond at the club [/quote] he made it clear he wasnt going to sign a new deal at the club, and so we decided to cash in, getting 400k for a player who would leave in june for free and we only paid 250k for. business wise a sensible decision, and hes been replaced by john joe otoole who has championship pedigree, is still only 20/21, and only cost us 200k