(A) a much better headline would have been "Mr Beane buys Barnsley" and (B)

Good luck playing Moneyball with footy, chaps. You could end up with a team full of Rickies.

Posted By: Old Git on September 15th 2017 at 09:37:57

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Nobody out there (NCFC) - Jim, Sep 15, 09:27:51
- How are we geographically better or the same as Barnsley ?!! (n/m) (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Sep 15, 13:34:05
  - we're not worse (n/m) (NCFC) - Jim, Sep 15, 14:27:25
- doesn't amtter how many are out there if you don't have a willing seller (NCFC) - CWC, Sep 15, 11:01:20
  - Yes, I tend to agree. This is the earliest any sale will happen (NCFC) - Yellalee, Sep 15, 11:16:46
    - even then I can't see it unless we're insolvent (NCFC) - CWC, Sep 15, 11:37:04
      - Tom will get dogs abuse once he's the owner. he doesn;t benefit from (NCFC) - Jim, Sep 15, 11:44:32
        
        if we are doing badly that is! (n/m) (NCFC) - Jim, Sep 15, 11:45:18
        
        Yep (n/m) (NCFC) - Yellalee, Sep 15, 11:45:03
      - Yeah I do agree with that. The fans factor will come in though (NCFC) - Yellalee, Sep 15, 11:41:08
  - this (n/m) (NCFC) - Jumbo1, Sep 15, 11:03:38
- Rightly or wrongly, our owners would not see them as suitable (n/m) (NCFC) - Yellalee, Sep 15, 10:44:14
  - Well, they're foreign aren't they? MWJ would not like that (n/m) (NCFC) - Old Git, Sep 15, 10:57:22
- In addition to the below points... (NCFC) - jAC, Sep 15, 09:45:40
  - Come off it. Its bl**dy Barnsley. (n/m) (NCFC) - Jim, Sep 15, 10:14:00
    - it's also cheap for a footy club (NCFC) - Jumbo1, Sep 15, 10:16:08
      - Maybe although they've always claimed they don't expect to get their money back and (NCFC) - Jim, Sep 15, 11:29:22
        
        they valued it in the prem in excess of £50m (NCFC) - Jumbo1, Sep 15, 11:30:59
        
        I think i've seen a valuation of about £60m somewhere but that was (NCFC) - Jim, Sep 15, 11:36:31
      - their owner's about to cark it too (n/m) (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, Sep 15, 10:43:01
        
        yes, I posted a link to his programme notes last game - nice that he has time to say (NCFC) - Jumbo1, Sep 15, 10:57:42
        
        you did, i thanked you at the time and i'll thank you again (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, Sep 15, 11:08:06
  - And there is *massive* local investment from China already in Not Football things (NCFC) - Arizona Bay, Sep 15, 09:58:19
    - To be fair (NCFC) - Old Git, Sep 15, 10:11:07
      - Rolf, a little harsh! (n/m) (NCFC) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Sep 15, 10:29:39
    - there's talk of us getting a Chinatown in Cambridge too (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, Sep 15, 10:10:48
- the Chinese billionaire behind that, Chien Lee, was in talks to buy Brentford earlier (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, Sep 15, 09:41:58
  - M. Chien owns Nice? (n/m) (NCFC) - Old Git, Sep 15, 10:18:42
    - New City Capital (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, Sep 15, 10:27:50
- (A) a much better headline would have been "Mr Beane buys Barnsley" and (B) (NCFC) - Old Git, Sep 15, 09:37:57

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