Claire's Chitchat

[GHA EFM]

Interesting comments from Cookie that it was the prize money and a place in the next round that was more important than the performance yesterday. Surely a game against a team 14th in a 'parallel' league should be treated like a league game?

[SAINTS64MAD]

hope we play Grantham!

[HelenC]

Well thats what he said!

 

[GHA EFM]

I'm not doubting what he said, I'm simply questioning the reasoning behind it.

[Laz]

So, GHA, you would rather see a game full of flair, but lose. Is that what you are saying?

[HelenC]

Exactly. I remember reading somewhere after the last game that really the FA cup is about the money for teams like us. Of course, its great to perform well but lets just get a bit further first!

 

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[Claire!]

Exactly! Yes the performance should be good, but you have mis-read what Cookie was saying GHA. At the moment, shouldn't we care about the fact that we win each match in the FA Cup competition?

[Colin Zeal EFM]

I think you just made it all up, Claire.

[Webbo MFI]

ME TOO!!! (joke!!)

[GHA EFM]

Laz, you would rather see us play poorly for the next 8 to 10 games and slip down the league then?

[Claire!]

For God's sake! I haven't made this stuff up, I am only writing what was said, and if you have a problem, don't blame me! I am doing this as a favour to the website, and to give you a report of what the managers want you to know, and how they feel about the games.

 

I am only going to write what they say, and I am not going to mis-quote anything they say, and I can't control what they say.

 

If anyone should have a problem with this, then I suggest that you speak to me in private, or speak to either Gary Roberts or Steve Cook if you don't like their answers.

 

Just do me a favour - don't mock me on the internet.

[HelenC]

Claire, he winding you up. Dont fall for it.

 

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[Colin Zeal EFM]

I reckon you and Claire concocted the whole thing between the two of you. I'm not going to fall for this ridiculous propaganda.

[Laz]

Zealster, I agree.

 

I think we should get all females banned from the website. They have little to offer, apart from the rubbish published above.

[AFF]

Hi Clare.

 

Don't listen to them Clare. I think that it's great that you give up your time in order to, as you put it "..give [us] a report of what the managers want [us] to know...".

 

A couple of points, Superscoop:

 

a). Are you getting more than the £1500 per match that Webbo pays those match reporters?

 

. Would you ask Cookie "How many pages in a Pre-Contract Agreement"?

 

c). Practice saying "Do you really mean that?" before your next interview. Then when one of The Duo say "The performance doesn't matter", you say "Do you really mean that?".

 

Keep up the good work, Clare. [And the post match interviews!]

 

 

 

 

[SAINTS64MAD]

I would like to know that as well please!

[G Angel]

After a long absence from posting (the board used to be so different - how far the club has come since the dark days of earlier this year), I have returned.

 

AFF / MAD/ C Hart - I can answer ( above, being qualified to do so, in spite of the rhetorical nature of the query. I would advise you not to pose the question to the Cookie half of the dynamic duo as any response you receive is highly likely to be misleading. The answer is 12 pages (presuming only limited warranty protection is to be sought).

[AFF]

Welcome back, O Wise One. You have been sorely missed.

 

The nature of a Pre Contract Agreement is an issue with which I have mentally wrestled for many months. You see, a number of players have "committed their future to the Saints" by signing a 'Pre Contract Agreement', according to the local rags.

 

12 pages, eh? With limited warranty protection? Right-oh. That's cleared that up. Thanks.

 

Just one more small thing on this subject. Where is Richard Goddard, then? [And don't say Harrow Borough F.C.]

 

While we have you, so to speak, there is another matter upon which your guidance may be required. Have you any knowledge of the Law of Misrepresentation? [is it a tort, by the way?] A certain Ryman League, Premier Division club who should remain nameless have a banner on the front of their matchday programme indicating "Ryman League Programme of the Season 01/02" or some such. This will astound you. It's a totally false claim! It's a jolly good programme, mind you, but that honour belongs to us. And now it's on our programme, too!

 

Now. No financial loss has been suffered, nor, I suspect, have we suffered any real damage to our reputation by this outrageous and unfounded claim. However, I feel that there ought to be a right of redress available to us. Litigation is the last resort, of course, but we should be able to do something, surely?

 

 

 

 

[Rob_the_Saint]

Back to the plot.

 

Has anyone else thought that 'Claire's Chitchat' would make a great subject for inclusion in the programme? We could read all the insider gossip on what really goes on behind the tea-bar etc, surely more interesting than reading about Eamsie's lawnmower?

[AFF]

Hmmn.

 

A page in the programme where we get 'a report of what the Managers want us to know' and 'how they feel about games'.

 

That is a novel idea.

 

Hi Clare

 

Now that the Pre Contract Agreement issue has been resolved, would you pose the following question in your next interview with The Duo:

 

As things stand towards the end of October we are top of the League and 90 minutes away from banking £37500 and a place in the money-spinning first round proper of the F.A.Cup. In your managerial careers in the future, you may never be closer to managing a side that can win promotion into the Conference. How do you cope with the pressure that brings?