Correspondence with Broughton (from Anfield Road)

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Haha, it has got to be Broughton indeed.

Edited you pedantic.......

Split this while your here...

[5europeancups]

If that is real, it is absolutely dumbfounding.

eh?

He's totally right. Rafa left anyway because he had a job offer from Inter. Lets not get on our high horses about some conspiracy theory.

Where does all this anti Purslow stuff come from? Is it just because he is a part of the board? Now Broughton is a dirtbag for providing a a rather terse response and for not telling us all who the new manager will be and who the new owners will be.

Some people need to calm down and grow up and not get wound up about things they dont understand...

[IN_RAFA_WE_TRUST]

I think I better get started on that email to QIA.
We have one month to try and stop our best players being sold.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who has felt quite low over the last week or
Two.
Do u want to feel a whole lot worse or are you going to do something about it?

[JHP]

I don't believe the email was from Broughton. Someone with his experience and communications skills would not write such a crass response.

When he's been interviewed on tv he's always provided considered rounded replies not dismissive one liners like the email.

[Vermilion]

Regardless of whether it's Broughton or not, i don't trust any of the people running the club at present, not him, not Purslow, and the owners...well, go's without saying, none of them have the clubs best interests at heart imo.

[Shaggy]

Broughton doesn't even know the difference between principle and principal.

[Vermilion]

Broughton doesn't even know the difference between principle and principal.

Is'nt Principle correct ? If it's not i too have been using the wrong one for many many years.

[Shaggy]

'Principle' refers to a standard or a rule of thumb, as it were. You know, principles. Principal is first in rank or importance.

[Vermilion]

'Principle' refers to a standard or a rule of thumb, as it were. You know, principles. Principal is first in rank or importance.

Ahhh , you could see why i'd be confused reading this..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle

When thinking about someone being brought in with a remit to do a certain job, actually, could'nt both apply ?

But i do see now, 'Prinipal' would mean 'main', when talking about why Broughton was saying he was brought in. ie.' main reason'.

Hope the e-mail i legit now, would show Broughton is as daft as me when it comes to 'principles', or is that 'principals' ?

[merlboo]

reading through the thread it occured to me that dannyman's standpoint is somewhat different to the majority

will that mean by your outlook that your views should be discarded and we'll go with the masses

in a nutshell for my part , and this is my view for what its worth

Broughton and Purslow are/were both bankers being employed by erm .... the banks

the banks charge ludicrous amounts of interest to prop their respective business's up ...

Liverpool FC is currently a source of such revenue ...

they were or are here primarily on the remit of their employers RBS (a failed venture, or was it ? ) and Barclays

and couple that with the 'custodians' ....

we now have 4 men who have been at the club around an average of 2 years between them and to my knowledge have never made a footballing decision between them in their lifetimes
(though i may be corrected with Tom Hicks ill fated affiliation with Corinthians)

and this comment unfortunately doesn't startle me now as much as it did as it jumps off the page at me

He wrote: “I’m sorry you think like that but you are entitled to your opinion. I note your opinion doesn’t seem to be shared by the media.”

so if you can forgive me my cynicsm to bankers

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/business/25bernie.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2

thats why i think its imperative we unite and fight back

i'll make no apologies for posting this again

http://www.spiritofshankly.com/join-online.html

if we don't make a stand ... who will ?

[DannyMan2006]

My stand point is that I want the two American owners to sell up. I have also said on enough occasions that the main reason for LFC going backwards last year are the current owners.

Anyone who lays the full blame at the door of Beintez clearly does not understand anything with regards to what is happening at the club and must have been living underground for the past 2-3 years.

It goes without saying that given the choice of who I would rather see leave between Rafa and the Yanks, it would have been the latter two prats everytime. But that was never an option. I see two seperate threads, in one we discuss the merits of the owners and in the other we discuss the merits of the manager.

I agree that Rafa was not given enough to have a proper crack at the title. He did very well given the circumstances to build a team to finish 2nd. But he had enough in the squad last year to at least finish 4th, and indeed get through the group stage of the CL. The fact that he failed on both accounts, is why it was right IMO that he was given the boot.

Had Rafa over achieved on a concistant basis prior to last season then I would have been inclined to argue that he deserved the benefit of the doubt. But two major trophies in 6 years and one 2nd place finish in the league is not in my eyes a sign of a concistant over achiever.

[Pippo]

thats why i think its imperative we unite and fight back

i'll make no apologies for posting this again

http://www.spiritofshankly.com/join-online.html

if we don't make a stand ... who will ?

Just joined, don't know what took me so long to be honest

[fred_plasticine]

i think it was unrealistic to expect us to challenge for the title given the financial constraint we're under.
however, given the squad and the undoubted talent we've got, we should have fought it out with arsenal for that third place.
we didn't. we finished an abysmal 7th. we totally underachieved.
and imho rafa has to take responsibility for that. yes the owner didn't back him. but instead of knuckling down, accepting the situation and getting on with it he chose to moan right from the start. he let the situation get to his players and he probably made things worse himself with all the public spats he started.

sacking rafa after that season is probably the right thing to do. loads of people on here said at the beginning of last season that would want him gone if he failed to finish fourth. he didn't. and he's gone.

[Gerrard]

is this confirmed as being from Broughton - whilst he is a Chelsea man you don't get to be where he is from being daft??

[Nicey]

eh?

He's totally right. Rafa left anyway because he had a job offer from Inter. Lets not get on our high horses about some conspiracy theory.

Where does all this anti Purslow stuff come from? Is it just because he is a part of the board? Now Broughton is a dirtbag for providing a a rather terse response and for not telling us all who the new manager will be and who the new owners will be.

Some people need to calm down and grow up and not get wound up about things they dont understand...

You do condescending with such effortless ease