No. It's official when the thread title is edited to include "Singed [insert date]". My fingers are poised. Providing it's not another Pritchard (dick) situation of course.
I think you may be forgetting that a mod has the ability to hard delete any post, making them entirely disappear from the record and, crucially, from the total number of posts on a thread.
That would be a clear abuse of power though. :whistle:
Perhaps I should become a ref?
Mods can delete &/or edit posts. The ‘reply with quote’ functionality makes it a real PITA to erase all record of a post (even if one were so inclined to do so) as one has to delete the OP and then manually edit every reply that quotes it (deleting the OP content while leaving the reply). This...
I note with interest the many posters who do not equate the word ‘aim’ (particularly when clarified with ‘very realistic’) with the word ‘expectation’.
I am pondering on the difference. While they are clearly not completely synonymous, there’s not a huge gap, at least in my mind.
Captain: ‘Aim...
Well, if you combine the "very realistic aim" to finish in the top 10 with his statements in the same video about reducing the losses through transfer dealings, one could be forgiven for concluding he's essentially saying "I want more for less", which is...interesting.
Dad (RIP) in about 1990: "That? Oh, I got that after we were shot down over N Vietnam". He was in the RAF.
Mum (last night): "I hate Claudia Winkleman. I could shoot her. I hate, hate, hate her". She (my mother) is the most mild-mannered person I know.
If we keep Lallana & Welbeck (as off the bench options); Potter, Sanchez, and Dunk; one of Biss and White; get the majority of the season out of March and Lamptey, and sign a striker who is modestly successful, then I think we could - though it would still be a bit of a stretch. The more we...
Prior to watching that video, I'd have agreed that Bloom would probably have settled for 12-13 next season. However, he doesn't strike me as the sort of chap who would take failure to achieve a "very realistic aim" that he has announced publicly very well.
I wonder if you've just effectively...
Apologies if I've missed this, but TB is now on record as saying that a top 10 finish is a "very realistic aim" for the upcoming season. He makes it clear that the real aim is consistently to be in the top 10, but I've never heard anyone at the club say it could be as soon as next season...