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The entire stand only holds 6,000! The ones that care would not seek to undermine their team. As I said above, the club would be better off without those that do undermine it.

I don't think it is 5,000 Jim. The 20% figure for "boo boys" was always an exaggeration. Many times this season, since the minority shareholders ill-considered statement, a small section of fans in the Snakepit have tried to rally the troops with attempts at "20% you're having a laugh" but with very little response - a couple of hundred if that. The truth is that the last few seasons have tested the patience of 100% of fans, we have had to endure some dispiriting stuff, but the small hardcore of "boo boys," who boo everything that goes wrong is a far smaller community. If this group of non fans were to stay away, it would, in my opinion, be the best thing that could happen for the club.

Agree - definitely better than any press reports! Thanks Ricardo

Wretched?? Err, previous three games were two wins and a draw?

You've said it for me! Nothing spoils a game more than a team "running down the clock" from the second they take the lead.

Brainwashed!

Trying to find any stick possible to beat them with...

Thanks, I'd wondered where I left it!

Thanks Ricardo, great report as ever - I'm glad that you are feeling better!

My preference would be neither - switch to 4-3-3, with a sitting midfielder and Sara, Nunez both playing box-to-box. The pressing system would need some reorganisation as would plans for transitions.

Apparently there were some unsavoury and unacceptable disability chants.

I like Ben Lee's analysis, if I wished to challenge his analysis, which I don't really, I would point to the fact that we won quite comfortably on xG (0.97 to 1.4).* *I haven't read tne full article, just what was on Twitter

10p is a big bet for me! And seeing you didn't take me, I assume that my bluff was successful 😁

I bet you 10p that MA does pass the owner's test! Assuming he does, the ex-owners can dig in their heels as much as they like, it would be down to the minority owners like the caries Trust, myself and you (?) to side with Smith and Jones, against MA to stop him getting his own way in the full knowledge that this could plunge us into financial crisis. I suspect that this is highly unlikely and that de factor control now rests with MA.

I agree, but the figures show that even in 1997 there was 9% shift to the Tories!. Just something to worry about.

Don't want to undermine the general optimism but remember... https://kellnerpolitics.com/2024/01/03/how-to-make-sense-of-election-year/

But no doubt everyone will learn the lesson and criticise the board on spending too much in the future...?

I'm assuming the EFL is just a formality. Given MA's background compared to some of those that they have approved, it is unimaginable that they will veto it? In the meantime, given the concordat, and especially the fact that we owe MA tens of millions, means that, de facto, nothing will happen if MA doesn't want it to. A couple of aphorisms spring to mind, "He who pays the piper, calls the tune" or my favourite, "When you've got the by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow."

Well, yes, it has, hasn't it? MA has the same amount of shares as Smith and Jones put together, so at least twice as many as any individual shareholder. The only way he could be "defeated" in a clash of wills, is if a majority of independent shareholders, sided with both Smith and Jones against him. Of course, this also leaves the issue that the club owes him tens of millions of pounds which he could use as leverage to get his own way if he needs to. He who pays the piper calls the tune. As I said, I don't think the 20% will ever be happy - that is why they are "the 20%." When in time, they realise the situation, I'm sure that they will turn their opposition onto the new owner.

So, as we discussed yesterday, are you in effect saying that the fans do like the new owner? (i.e. Attenasio - biggest shareholder + the biggest creditor as well) He has only just taken over - this could go on for years!

The reality is that any important decision will have to have MA's approval. For example, he was involved in Knapper's recruitment process and interview. If he doesn't want something (or somebody) , it won't happen. The club is totally dependant on his money and he can't be outvoted unless a majority of the smaller shareholders, like the Canary Trust, vote against him, and even then he could let it be known that he would recall his loans if the club takes a direction of which he disapproves. De facto, he already has control of decision making.

Especially as she is no longer the biggest shareholder - MA is (her holding is shared with her husband). Assuming a 50-50 split between Smith and Jones, he has twice as many shares? Even more importantly, the club is tens of millions in debt to MA as well. People who think that Delia could win in any disagreement with MA are deluded. He who pays the piper, calls the tune! But some of these display their "understanding" by calls to "sack the board!" 🤣

If you cared about it that much, you could!

The facts suggest that Wagner is a very long way from being our worst manager. In fact he seems pretty average. I guess that it's symptomatic of raised levels of expectation? Win rate of managers... Or, perhaps a better comparison, just in the second tier. Thanks to CJS on Twitter

I have heard that he has been kidnapped by woke communist and Greenpeace activists. It was on twitter and the Daily Mail