F.A.O DELIA`S BIT## ....

Mick Dennis....As i tried to answer your questions you raised about Mr Cullum, this morning while nursing a hangover,i have now tried again...i no you are probably too busy pampering to your mistress to read this anyway, but just incase you come up for air..
Answers to Mick Dennis

1,Dennis question...Why did Cullum make his move when City were at their lowest ebb for 40 years? His initial approach was during the dark days after that shocking defeat at Queen's Park Rangers on 8 October. Peter Grant had walked the plank. The team was stocked with losers. Relegation to League One looked a nailed on certainty. Why bid then?

Poss Answer...as in october there was still a chance that we could change things round!!!So mr Cullum thought an injection of cash for jan, and the knowledge that the current players would have to start to perform or they can be replaced,would be a good time to act!...So oct was a good time to offer in my opinion,thou apprantly according to dennis,there was a very slim chance of survival,his exact words"nailed on cert to go down"so as he used the term "nailed on cert" we must now be in league 1!And using Mick Dennis`s logic, as mr Cullum had now offererd again, are we to assume that we are nailed on certs again,as acording to Dennis he only offers when we face league 1!

2,Dennis then questions the timing in terms of previous years...saying why didnt he invest when we were in prem fighting for survival(hang on dennis, you questionend in question 1, his timing of offering to buy a team when "nailed on certs to go down",yet here you are now asking why didnt he invest when we were not only nailed down certs, but this time DID go down!!...and for the other times he couldve invested, how are we to know what business transactions,takeovers or neg takeovers he was busy with at the time?

3,no hang on lets just visit 2 again as just spotted something that smacks og hyprocosy(okay i cant spell!:) He asks this....
"Why wait until the club was at the perilous nadir last October before making one?

A cynic might wonder whether Cullum thought he could buy City for a knock-down, panic price."
Then he states this in another part...

"Why, for instance, didn't he offer to stump up after the calamitous crash of ITV Digital? "
Well Mr M Denis,If he had,wouldnt you have berated him for doing it,saying he was trying to get the club on the cheap? like you did, when he tried in october when we were facing league 1,as you put it "nailed on cert"

anyway onto...
3,This is just pure supersition(i know my spellin), Dennis questions why only offer 5 mill in oct with a further 15 later, why not 20 at once,Dennis then pressumes that if we got relegated, mr Cullum wouldve not given 15 milol and asked for his 5 mill back? Dennis thats just pure guess work, and poor journalism

And then Denis states that 20 mill is poor and forget what skipper said about 5 mill, and that 56 mill is a proper price, i aint got a possible answer to that. :(

4, love this 1, Dennis quotes mr Cullum"Once you get to the Premiership you start to get serious money and have a chance of staying up if you spend the money wisely.? Denni then says So his strategy was identical to that of the current board. In the Premiership, Norwich would try to live within their means and hope that was sufficient.
No No No Dennis, that is your toung up your btc a## interpretation!
Mr Cullum said "wisely" NOT "miserly"!!!
Dennis then goes on to quote teams who have failed in prem, watford,derby, reading etc
okay mate what about Bolton? what about Blackburn? and prob others who have gone up and stayed..
And talking of blackburn,
Dennis then quotes jack hayward and said that for all his 17 years and 60 mill he gave wolves they only got 1 season in prem...
what about hall at newcastle and the guy at chelsea matthew harding,who pumped mills in to establish them near top of prem, winning cups,way before the russian got on board!

Posted By: barclayspirit, Jul 13, 18:38:03