New ex-players (and managers) thread

[londonfox]

Almost as bad as moving to Saudi

Derby sign defender Elder following Hull exit

Derby County have signed Australia defender Callum Elder following his Hull City departure.

www.bbc.com

 

[FOX Franks]

Unless you identify as a failed railway project, I don't see how this is relevant.

How do you fail a railway project that's going ahead?

 

[Joe_Fox]

How do you fail a railway project that's going ahead?

Look at the books. Simple.

 

[bocadillo]

How do you fail a railway project that's going ahead?

Half of it is going ahead at a rather greater cost than was projected for the whole thing.

 

[SilverFox]

 

[Thefoxinoz]

Bodgers the tosser is already copping shit from Celtic fans:
Shortly after his switch, a banner was held aloft at Celtic Park that read: “You traded immortality for mediocrity. Never a Celt, always a fraud.” On Monday, when his return to Celtic was confirmed, supporters group the Green Brigade posted an image of the banner, appearing to double down on its sentiment.

 

[fitz]

Bodgers the tosser is already copping shit from Celtic fans:
Shortly after his switch, a banner was held aloft at Celtic Park that read: “You traded immortality for mediocrity. Never a Celt, always a fraud.” On Monday, when his return to Celtic was confirmed, supporters group the Green Brigade posted an image of the banner, appearing to double down on its sentiment.

It's all so beautiful. Rodgers and their fans really do deserve eachother.

 

[Lako42]

Love it

He's ran back to the easy life because he knows deep down he's not as good as the branding suggests.

Celtic fans having to take it because they aren't as big a pull as they think.

 

[Graz]

I had to go look at how he actually followed this up.

He said unless he's sacked.

Says he planned to take a year out after leaving Leicester but felt like he wanted to make things right with the Celtic fans by going back there... And promised he wouldn't leave them like that again in the middle of a season.

So give it 2 years and he'll be back to trying to get himself sacked like he did here.

 

[londonfox]

I had to go look at how he actually followed this up.

He said unless he's sacked.

Says he planned to take a year out after leaving Leicester but felt like he wanted to make things right with the Celtic fans by going back there... And promised he wouldn't leave them like that again in the middle of a season.

So give it 2 years and he'll be back to trying to get himself sacked like he did here.

He’s full of shit.

If he told you what day tomorrow was you’d check the calendar three times.

 

[Fox Fan]

He’s full of shit.

If he told you what day tomorrow was you’d check the calendar three times.

Given that he's just had to slope off to Scotland having been unceremoniously sacked from the Premier League, I suspect he would tell you tomorrow is Groundhog day.

 

[FOX Franks]

Given that he's just had to slope off to Scotland having been unceremoniously sacked from the Premier League, I suspect he would tell you tomorrow is Groundhog day.

Isn’t that today?

 

[give_us_a_wave]

Half of it is going ahead at a rather greater cost than was projected for the whole thing.

Only if you believed that the second part was actually going to happen. It never was. The whole thing only ever had one purpose, to incorporate Brum into the London commuter belt. Thay did the same thing to bristol over a decade ago & now they're running out of houses so Brum next.
Any Brummies thinking about buying a house need to do it now before prices go through the roof & they get left pointlessly queueing up behind all those London weighted salaries

Levelling up can be filed away along with Brexit & " no rules were broken " & all the other complete shite from the Age of Bollocks (as future historians will label it)

 

[Rock Fox]

Only if you believed that the second part was actually going to happen. It never was. The whole thing only ever had one purpose, to incorporate Brum into the London commuter belt. Thay did the same thing to bristol over a decade ago & now they're running out of houses so Brum next.
Any Brummies thinking about buying a house need to do it now before prices go through the roof & they get left pointlessly queueing up behind all those London weighted salaries

Levelling up can be filed away along with Brexit & " no rules were broken " & all the other complete shite from the Age of Bollocks (as future historians will label it)

As Dickens wrote: It was the age of bollocks, it was the age of no real bollocks at all...

 

[bocadillo]

Only if you believed that the second part was actually going to happen. It never was. The whole thing only ever had one purpose, to incorporate Brum into the London commuter belt. Thay did the same thing to bristol over a decade ago & now they're running out of houses so Brum next.
Any Brummies thinking about buying a house need to do it now before prices go through the roof & they get left pointlessly queueing up behind all those London weighted salaries

Levelling up can be filed away along with Brexit & " no rules were broken " & all the other complete shite from the Age of Bollocks (as future historians will label it)

Ahha! That'll be why so much work north of Birmingham has already been started.

 

[give_us_a_wave]

Ahha! That'll be why so much work north of Birmingham has already been started.

At a massively reduced level from what was stated. You can expect more rollbacks in terms of network upgrade & other promises. Slowly but surely, until it all becomes just a minor improvement when looked back upon.

A bloke I used to work with is currently creaming his pants on an almost daily basis at the prospect of selling his house in Kent & moving to Brum to buy one of the same standard for half the price & make a fortune. All at a cost of adding about 12 minutes on to his daily commute to work. He's looking at one of the luxury developments they're throwing up in Digbeth, walking distance from New St. None of this is an accident. expect to hear an awful lot of London accents in & around that part of Brum when you step off a train in the next few years. Brummies are going to be priced out.
As I said, Bristol is the model for this. The place is rammed with London workers commuting from Temple Meads to Paddington. My ex bought her house just before it all started for 280K. It was valued this year at 420K. Her street is full of people from London compared to none whatsoever 10 years ago.

All part of a plan. Outside of London & the SE the rest of the country is regarded as an inconvenience by Westminster politicians. The sooner they can make it irrelevant the better they'll like it.

 

[Fox Fan]

At a massively reduced level from what was stated. You can expect more rollbacks in terms of network upgrade & other promises. Slowly but surely, until it all becomes just a minor improvement when looked back upon.

A bloke I used to work with is currently creaming his pants on an almost daily basis at the prospect of selling his house in Kent & moving to Brum to buy one of the same standard for half the price & make a fortune. All at a cost of adding about 12 minutes on to his daily commute to work. He's looking at one of the luxury developments they're throwing up in Digbeth, walking distance from New St. None of this is an accident. expect to hear an awful lot of London accents in & around that part of Brum when you step off a train in the next few years. Brummies are going to be priced out.
As I said, Bristol is the model for this. The place is rammed with London workers commuting from Temple Meads to Paddington. My ex bought her house just before it all started for 280K. It was valued this year at 420K. Her street is full of people from London compared to none whatsoever 10 years ago.

All part of a plan. Outside of London & the SE the rest of the country is regarded as an inconvenience by Westminster politicians. The sooner they can make it irrelevant the better they'll like it.

Without wishing to get insanely off topic, the bit you're missing there is the access to the top jobs that is provided to the current 1m citizens of Birmingham and the extra 1m in the surrounding region.

There are virtually no major headquartered companies in Birmingham - yes there's a hollowed out Cadbury, notionally a HSBC head office (mostly empty) and a BBC digbeth development due in a decade or so. Which means the city loses its ambitious youth to London, where they pay ridiculous rents for tiny spaces.

In theory it's not about people moving out (which in my opinion will be limited), it's more about opening opportunities to people already in the city.

HOWEVER - if it doesn't run into central London as it sounds like it now may not, and if it costs a fortune (which it in inevitably will) then it'll fail at that ambition.

 

[Fox Fan]

Back on topic - Gray off to Saudi?

 

[Elon Bust]

Bodgers the tosser is already copping shit from Celtic fans:
Shortly after his switch, a banner was held aloft at Celtic Park that read: “You traded immortality for mediocrity. Never a Celt, always a fraud.” On Monday, when his return to Celtic was confirmed, supporters group the Green Brigade posted an image of the banner, appearing to double down on its sentiment.

Sorry, what do they mean by immortality?

 

[fitz]

Sorry, what do they mean by immortality?

Probably confusing him with Highlander or something. A diet of chips and heroin might be the cause.