Mashed Potatoes

According to the Transfermarket website Dennis' contract at Nottingham Forest still has a year to run so it looks doubtful he will be with us.

I'm not sure that's correct. When this story was flying around at the time I think somebody came on here and said that players pay in to an insurance policy which pays for their first six months if they are injured and out of contract. The club did let Gladwin use their facilities whilst he was recovering but that won't have cost anything.

That's terrible news. I think years ago Gary Lineker used to refuse to practice heading in training for precisely the reasons outlined in your post.

I don't really understand why anybody would begrudge Newcastle fans winning a trophy again after all this time - but there you go, it was your choice

Why is either of those things so important to you ?

Spurs have not won anything for donkeys years but United have won trophies in each of the last two seasons

With the best will in the world I don't think Jack Walker - he was never knighted - did not put all his money into the club.

I've no idea about season ticket sales, which is why I didn't address the point in my post. What I do know is that the statement in Penwortham Blue's post that our average attendance is down when they are up everywhere else is factually incorrect.

Per the Football web pages website the average attendance this season was 16,161 which is the highest since we were relegated from the Premier League. Maybe we stand alone as having supporters who delight in making inaccurate statements designed to show their club in a bad light.

Source ?

By whose accounts exactly ?

But didn't the club open negotiations for a new contract early last year ?

Correct. It was 1-1. I haven't checked but I think Bobby Hoy got the goal.

You're out of your depth, my friend

For somebody who told us that you had never had less interest in one of our games you have made a remarkable number of posts about it.

Quite an achievement to get so much wrong in one post.

They are coming back down but would expect to recoup a lot of their transfer expenditure if they move on Delap,Hutchison and Greaves.

The £38.9m figure you quote is misleading. Per Note 7 of the accounts it includes £15.6m of bonus costs payable on the club's promotion to the Premier League. Deduct that from the £38.9m and you get a number not hugely different from our wage bill.

Obviously he's a decent, principled guy who, unlike some, shows respect to supporters who don't share his views. I've felt for years now that the owners will leave as a result of some kind of pressure or events within India and with the best will in the world I don't think Glen's campaign will work to achieve it.

No - simply stating the facts. I've no idea why some posters are so determined to take the most pessimistic view of absolutely everything. As I recall this time last year some posters thought there was no chance of Tygon staying - but he did.

He hasn't gone yet.

Whilst I agree with the last line of your post it shouldn't be overlooked that 2 of those promotions occurred under the previous ownership and currently they have Burnley one division lower than when they acquired the club.

I wasn't there but the thing I will always remember is that it was only a few seconds after Liverpool scored their winning goal that the news came through that Man United had only drawn and so we were champions.

That is correct. I suspect that if we had won our last three games, rather than losing them, this "story" would never have seen the light of day.

It is several months now since Wharton played 90 minutes in the Premier League and I did hear a radio commentator say that he was blowing very hard when he came off in his last game against Ipswich so perhaps Palace have had a quiet word with Tutchel to say that it might be best for him to stay with them to work on his fitness.