100% agree.
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This time of the year brings out the worst in people on here.
It is what it is. I don’t see Rice gaining a small share as anything significant or anything to worry or argue about.
As others have said l, let’s hope it keeps him motivated and interested and pushes him to achieve more.
Also secretly hoping that as midlander suggested… . Hopefully they have found a loophole that means this action leads us (well Lommy) to pump in more cash.
That’s massively light and dark blue tinted glasses though.
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You think ML is that involved? He will get into sacking people?
It makes you want to throw up, surely?
Has anyone seen any pictures of the pitch post the ‘picnic in the park’? Has it actually been dug up?
I don’t think people were that irresponsible.
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Surely nobody wants to throw up.
Just an expression, my dear boy, and of no consequence. I certainly have never wanted to. In the days when I had full blown migraines - visual flashing and zig zag patterns for 30-40 minutes followed by hours of excruciating headache and, in the late stages, extreme nausea, I used to swallow frantically to prevent vomiting - something which filled me with mortal dread.
The only way Rice would have deserved the sack is if he acted outside of the wishes of his boss - I.E. ML.
Me, you, new style of play may think the way MB was treated was a sackable offence but if, as part of the restructuring of the club, they knew or could predict it could well push out the manager and his team both Rice and ML would have gone into that situation with their eyes open.
And as it happened, that was the first domino to fall, and the potential of a collapse at the end of the season because of the change of manage would have also been a predictable scenario that could happen.
Again, neither of those are sackable offences if ML was on board with them. That’s not to say the batshit crazy conspiracy theories that went around saying they actively wanted to avoid relegation were correct - just that changing manager half way through the season could affect the run in was absolutely a predictable scenario.
Now, the hiring of Dodds. That’s also debatable. It made sense at the time. It fitted with the ethos of hiring young new managers wanting to prove themselves that we benefited from with Gaz and Bloomfield.
Had it worked, it would have been another success story. As it happened, it was probably deemed a disaster. But chairman don’t get sacked for hiring one wrong manager.
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Indeed. I can think of certain football clubs where hiring and then, soon after, sacking a manager would appear to be part of their ethos.
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Perhaps not strictly ‘want’ but it is a function of bulimia. Which is a terrible thing for those that suffer.
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No information on if this share acquisition is from the existing base or is new shares and other shareholders have balanced their ownership. I assume it’s a simple hand over of existing shares based on an award but maybe not. Adding to the share capital is an interesting option based on fair play rules.
Not familiar with the concept of the old tactical chunder?
Now, admittedly you have to be pretty inebriated to partake but it seems a good idea at the time.
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Agreed.
Just catching up on the thread and was surprised no one had yet mentioned the infamous tactical puke. Thanks @thedancingyak for making me feel less weird.
There being two weirdos in a gasroom doesn’t mean either of us are less weird as a result of my post.
Sorry 
Edit: Two weirdos in a gasroom sounds like the set up of an awful/distasteful joke.
Have we signed anyone else yet? Please. Send help.
I was so ill at the start of this year that the doctors thought I could develop a flesh eating disease. This led to a bizarre conversation with a surgeon who said ‘I’ve been asked by the doctors to check if you have a flesh eating disease. I already know you haven’t because you aren’t dead’
I found Bigred87’s comment about a flesh eating disease to be mildly erotic.
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Or a good name for a band…
Up next on Top of the Pops it’s Two Weirdos in a Gasroom and their hit “Can’t we all get along”
Two weirdos enter the Gasroom.
One asks “Need a tactical puke?”, the other replies “No thanks, can’t stand watching any more videos of the Dodds era”.
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