“oh dear TonyM,Hull. what a deluded fool you really are. if i had the time i would waste mine trying to explain your folly of thought, but alas it would be wasted time. you dont have the brain power or intelligance as many on here have posted before.

one thing i will say, which even your limited intelligence should be able to comprehend is this. what duffer and brown did to this club was similar to YOU TonyM, winning the lottery, getting the cheque and then spending it very quickly and foolishly on rubbishj. then one day you find you are broke again. borrow to keep up appearances and then get found out. thats what the 2 clowns did and bartlett can also take his share of the blame for letting it all happen in the first place. there tony, even you can surely understand this ?

UTT”

“Tony........................'Wage Structure',WHAT WAGE STRUCTURE?????”

“Rocker, Just re-read your post again. The reason why we are not in the same position as Stoke and Birmingham is because we could not compete against their spending power. If you remember City went after several players, Whitehead, Faye and Lee Cattermole from Sunderland, now being tracked by Man Utd. were beaten to them because we would not break our wage structure to sign them. Stoke spent big in their first season. Birmingham did the same once David Sullivan left for West Ham. Their fans were complaining about the lack of success on the field because Sullivan would not put his hand in his pocket. All of a sudden when he left and they spent some money, voila, success! As Phil Brown said recently, had he been able to push the boat out on wages we would have ended up with a better quality squad. I seem to remember that City had a list of about eighty players who they may be interested in signing, based on ability and price. I would guess that the players we did sign were between numbers fifty and sixty on the list rather than being in the top three or four. It¿s ok having a good eye for players; it is a different thing being able to sign them. Talking of signings, I have to admit I wonder why we are trying to sign another rookie, no matter how good he is. Are we planning for this season or three or four years time? The problem is that, as City found when we beat Arsenal, a bit of experience can make a huge amount of difference against inexperienced players. I hope that when the loan signing period comes in that we manage to get hold of one or two more players with Premiership experience.”

“Rocker. You are wrong. The Premiership works differently, and if we don't learn that lesson, then assuming we ever get there again, then you can guarantee we will be straight back down again. If you think we can do it the AP way, and survive, then you are sadly mistaken.”

“Relegation again this season, no doubt at all.”