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Has gone a bit quiet, could it either be Hayes staying or the deals changed and Christie on a permanent contract? Might have been a bit of extra cash coming in for something like that, which has resulted in McInnes staying. Maybe I'm just getting carried away...

Fucking NICE ONE!!

I understand Adams is an AFC fan, but unsure why getting the biggest club out of the worst League Two I can remember (the easiest English League to get out of), and I've been watching it for 20 years, would lead to them thinking we might be after him. They weren't even Champions. Last I saw Argyle was back in February and CTFC played them off the park. A team that was almost relegated back to the conference. Only the outstanding (murderer) McCormick and the blundering Scott Brown stopped them losing by 3 or 4. I suppose the only positive thing you could say about him is he could be considered a cup specialist. Edited to add LOL at this What does that even mean? Do they think County are our rivals? But fair play to this guy

I'm not so sure it's actual ignorance, merely feigned in an attempt to ease their ego's into accepting their lack of moral fibre.

Especially, as was pointed out to me earlier, in this case it's a council doing the tendering. I have dealings with a few local authorities and completed a number of tenders and no matter which way it is dressed up it is always a race to the bottom. I won't profess to know what the solution is because everyone is always looking to gain "best value" and there will always be cowboys willing cut corners to make a quick £.

Apologies. Still it's semantics the Council are the slum landlord in this case, arguably worse. Uultimately there will be no accountability. The buck will be passed until a couple resign with a big pay off to accept partial responsibility.

Quote off the BBC about 'local containment' of fires in buildings like this. "One method is sprinkler system, but that's expensive". Fuck sake there's likely going to be around a hundred folk dead. In a block of 120 flats. How much money are the landlords making on that? I think I'd actually go as far as suggesting possible death penalty for those responsible for the race to the bottom cost cutting profit maximising slum landlords? There has quite obviously been cheep flammable cladding used and that's what's spread the fire so quickly. You can see stuff dropping off the outside and flames falling.

I'd still be tempted to move McLean on, unless he signs an extension. We know he'll go to pretendy Huns on a free if given a choice next summer. If McInnes goes the least he can do is give us a couple of million for him.

As you said makes a change losing a manager because we've been decent. I'ts been over 30 years since that happened. Oh........ I think that fact some unknown and likely no mark talent-less fool is going to be allowed to waste hard worked for cash on probably shite signings that will see us drop back to bottom six mediocrity, is the most worrying thing about it. I'd be OK with McInnes going if someone was coming in and being able to carry on with McInnes' team for a season. At least then we'd have an idea whether he should be allowed to "improve" the squad. I read recently that Southampton are keeping detailed folios on loads of managers and coaches so if they lose their one they have a ready made list of who best to step in. Imagine Milne will be lucky to get an ad in the Wanted section of the P&J a week on Friday.

Read it the same way, min. It's CEO speak for "Cough up you tight hun mink".

I was wanting McInnes when Calderwood was binned. There would have been evidence of this had AFCHAT not conveniently lost all their "expert" fan opinions from around that time and McGhee's league winning return. Black has done nothing to warrant the job and is a big step back into the bad old days of "might be crap but the fans will give him time because of his past". Plus we don't have any French players, last I checked, so have no need of an interpreter. MMS

Thats it Cummings not Cruikshank. Didn't he think Cormack would back him in his attempts to oust Milne as Chairman and it turned out Cormack was Milnes man and he left in the subsequent aftermath?

Did he not replace Bennett (he was the one who liked the views down by the harbour right?)? I thought he was Milne's guy around the time and, was it Cruikshank?, tried to oust Milne. The names maybe not right but he was something to do with the fans or the fans backed him, the one who when he walked away said he wouldn't invest any money in the club till Milne was gone.

I hope that bits a joke albeit not a very funny one.

From what I read on twitter this morning he was a senior executive or manager (or something) in a company called brightree who recently were bought out for $800 million. The management owned 30% of the company so presume he has his share of that and has or will invest some of it into the club.

That has got to be... I'm not even sure? Is it a joke? Or are they trying to explain to their 5 year old (max) fans in the simplest terms possible that the only thing they know about fitba is within walking distance of heir offices. You want more we look to the same thing you do, computer games. Are the weegie press running next season with these players in the hun team as we speak???

Surprised at that, wonder what compromises are being made? I understand the DUP are essentially NI Tories but they want a separate NI within the UK, as their main political agenda. How does that fit with Tory "hard brexit"? and the resulting shit that will created in Ireland as a whole. Are they needing Teresa to build a wall???

Biggest down turn in the local NE economy since the last time the Tory's were in power, and the people of the North East save the Tory scum by keeping them in power??? I think there may be a new analogy to replace the Turkey/Christmas one.

Would be good if this whole carry on has just been McInnes getting a bigger budget out of Milne et al. Might explain Yule's piece in the papers about fan's contributing more...

The ridiculous thing is. If they built a training facility with however many 3G pitches it would pay for itself within 5 - 10 years, through facility hire. Gym (sell membership for this also). Meeting rooms. offices etc. Two local town councils where I am have managed it and no local football league teams, you're not telling me the council don't make money out of it. http://www.chippenham.gov.uk/stanley-park/ http://www.beversbrooksportsfacility.co.uk/ Here's a community sports club that have managed it. http://www.rwbsa.org.uk/ If they built one indoor pitch too, or even an air dome thing. They could charge what they liked for hire of that, at times the club weren't using it, and it would be full all year round. I'd be harassing my club to hire us an indoor 3G for training over the winter if there was one locally. Surely there is enough money on the board to front the initial outlay... Bonkers that both my grass roots teams train on 3G September to March and AFC a professional club don't.

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DELIA DEILA COINCIDENCE>>>CONSPIRACY>>>ETC

Supposedly in for a mexican "international" who didn't make their 23 (TWENTY THREE) man match day squad playing a Celtic D side (I mean) an ROI B side. WATCH OUT AFC...

The issue will be how happy he is. I cant see why a player would sign an extension on the basis the club he plays for gets more of a fee 6 months down the line. Why would he do that? I think him and his family are happy here. He's the main man at AFC. The new contract in Feb was a bit of extra security, and he's now the highest paid player at the club and has no intention of going anywhere. Maybe there was some kind of "if an interesting offer comes in I should be allowed to consider it" clause, similarly in our favour some kind of minimum release. Hope he stays anyway.

Should't this thread be in "Football Chat", "Off Topic" or better still a new purpose created section for this (and other) "Irrelevant Shite"?