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Quote[/b] (Yoda @ Aug. 02 2005,09:36)]
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Quote[/b] (moneypit23 @ Aug. 02 2005,09:31)]I have a certain sympathy here with Wiggy (there, I've said it) as I'm in the "pro Dudfield" corner as well.
Nothing wrong with that at all.
Wiggy's opinions (although tediously predictable most of the time) play the tiniest part in his unpopularity on here. It's the way he presents opinion as fact and accuses you of being a clueless uphill gardener if you disagree.
I too would like Dudfield to stay, but c'est la vie. Tilly's not perfect (who is?), but he's in the perfect decision to make the best decisions with all the information at hand.
I was going to have my tuppen'orth, but Yoda has summed up my feelings on the matter perfectly.
In an odd way, I
half-rate wiggy's contributions here. I use the word "half" because as one of the more regular (and longstanding) contributors on this board, I can see that it can occasionally fall into a mildly self-congratulatory, self-approbatory group - a clique if you like - when things are going well; just as it can become the land of despair when things are going badly (oh, how too easily we appear to have forgotten that particular SZ trait).
So, the voice of dissention - the doom-sayer when we're cheerful, the optimist when we're in the pit of despond - is a useful one, a welcome one. Wiggy is our voice of dissention.
But, the problem is that wiggy has only half-done his or her job, and that's what the most frustrating thing is. How can you sit there and say "Tilly has let Dudfield go, shame on Tilly" without showing us how you know that fact? What is the basis for saying that, wiggy, other than plain and simple prejudice?
Hey ho, I guess we'll never find out. Wiggy has a habit of never responding to reasoned and reasonable posts.
Incidentally, on the Dudfield subject, I for one would love Lawrie to stay, but I can't see it happening now. Incidentally, scamps - the "loyalty" thing is pure bollox of the highest order. Get a grip. Few footballers are truly loyal to any club... Take Sol Campbell for example - a product of the Spurs youth system, one of the best Spurs defenders in recent years, always played with pride and heart for Tottenham... and then went to Arsenal.
Almost all footballers are mecenaries... very few are fans. We're lucky, at Roots Hall, to have been blessed with a couple of them - notably Tilly, Adam Barrett and perhaps Spinner. But they are very much the exception, not the rule.
Matt