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Posted August 30, 2011 02:19 · last edited March 18, 2021 07:33

Doloras wrote:
I still want to know the evidence all you guys have for "the reason we haven't recruited any superstars is because they've been reading bad things about our owner's finances". You talk like it's obvious, but it's not, unless you can actually read Maceo Ritgers' mind. Perhaps some of you who still live in Welly might not realise it, but if a classy European player was going to come and play in the A-League for lifestyle reasons, a small town of 400,000 people with limited shopping and notoriously awful weather is not a great drawcard. (We should really be grateful for what we have - Iffy, Sanchez, Warner, etc.)

No, what's really happened is that you guys have lost all faith in the Nix because of the negative stories in the Doom Post and the NBR, and you assume that everyone else in the world has as well. That's what child psychologists call "absence of theory of mind".

I'm with T-X. I think we've got a good squad and we'll probably make the finals again and I'm going to appreciate my team while we still have them. Terry selling up at this point would only disrupt things worse. I think it's absolutely borderline intellectually disabled to be discussing ownership changes between now and the end of the season. (At that point, all bets are off.)
Blackpool, Bolton, blackburn, Wigan, Burnley,

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Doloras wrote:
I still want to know the evidence all you guys have for "the reason we haven't recruited any superstars is because they've been reading bad things about our owner's finances". You talk like it's obvious, but it's not, unless you can actually read Maceo Ritgers' mind. Perhaps some of you who still live in Welly might not realise it, but if a classy European player was going to come and play in the A-League for lifestyle reasons, a small town of 400,000 people with limited shopping and notoriously awful weather is not a great drawcard. (We should really be grateful for what we have - Iffy, Sanchez, Warner, etc.)

No, what's really happened is that you guys have lost all faith in the Nix because of the negative stories in the Doom Post and the NBR, and you assume that everyone else in the world has as well. That's what child psychologists call "absence of theory of mind".

I'm with T-X. I think we've got a good squad and we'll probably make the finals again and I'm going to appreciate my team while we still have them. Terry selling up at this point would only disrupt things worse. I think it's absolutely borderline intellectually disabled to be discussing ownership changes between now and the end of the season. (At that point, all bets are off.)
Blackpool, Bolton, blackburn, Wigan, Burnley,