Adams Resignation

[bladesadviser]

Could you imagine Cloughie, Shankly or even Ferguson not having players in from Saturday night until Monday afternoon after such an inept performance?

 

[Sirius]

Could you imagine Cloughie, Shankly or even Ferguson not having players in from Saturday night until Monday afternoon after such an inept performance?

Cloughie might have told McCabe to shove the job where the sun don't shine. Remember his short stay at Leeds before moving onto better times? Bruce left us after a short stay. Stand up to McCabe Micky, and if you are pushed we all know where the fault lies.
Like many long time Blades, I am well and truly peed off.

 

[Rattly Noise]

And yet another rumour turns out to be a load of tosh. Next time someone comes up with rubbish that turns out to be untrue, they should be banned from the site for a week and then made to apologise.

 

[grafikhaus]

Hear, hear ^^^ and precisely why I don't bother with this section. It's usually tosh, but if you post elsewhere, as I did about Ward, you get smart-ass comments like:

Keep up, this has been discussed on the Rumours section for days

 

[Bergen Blade]

Hear, hear ^^^ and precisely why I don't bother with this section. It's usually tosh, but if you post elsewhere, as I did about Ward, you get smart-ass comments like:

The inside info was that the players had been called in for a morning meeting. This was true.

 

[SwissBlade]

Hear, hear ^^^ and precisely why I don't bother with this section. It's usually tosh, but if you post elsewhere, as I did about Ward, you get smart-ass comments like:

Oh come come now grafikhaus, lets not get all precious on this. Don't look at it as a criticism - this time see it as me pointing you in the direction of a discussion that you're obviously not aware of

 

[Grecian2000]

And yet another rumour turns out to be a load of tosh. Next time someone comes up with rubbish that turns out to be untrue, they should be banned from the site for a week and then made to apologise.

rumour
noun UK (US rumor) /ˈruː.mər//-mɚ/ n [C or U]
Definition
an unofficial interesting story or piece of news that might be true or invented, which quickly spreads from person to person

If you have a "rumour" forum, what makes you think everything you read in there will be correct?

 

[Ollessendro]

And yet another rumour turns out to be a load of tosh. Next time someone comes up with rubbish that turns out to be untrue, they should be banned from the site for a week and then made to apologise.

You should be banned from the forum for the idiocy of that comment.

rumour - Definition:

"an unofficial interesting story or piece of news that might be true or invented, which quickly spreads from person to person"

They were discussing this rumour on Radio 5 last night which suggest it carried some weight. Birch was quoted playing down the rumour and Mark Chapman, John Motson, Steve Clarridge and crew discussed Adams and the situation. It is very rare we are discussed on national radio (albeit for the wrong reason).

What an idiot the person who started this thread is!? Fancy starting debate on something that was in the national newsapers, local radio and then later on national radio. Deary me. The rumour was obviously 'tosh', even if the CEO had to come out and quell the rumour on local and national radio!?

 

[Crazyblade]

Were they Olle? Jesus Christ, to me that sounds more and more like the rumours are true...

 

[Cheshire Cat]

They were discussing this rumour on Radio 5 last night which suggest it carried some weight. Birch was quoted playing down the rumour and Mark Chapman, John Motson, Steve Clarridge and crew discussed Adams and the situation. It is very rare we are discussed on national radio (albeit for the wrong reason).

What an idiot the person who started this thread is!? Fancy starting debate on something that was in the national newsapers, local radio and then later on national radio. Deary me. The rumour was obviously 'tosh', even if the CEO had to come out and quell the rumour on local and national radio!?

That's what happens with rumours though isn't it - some are so interesting that they nearly become fact, even if there was nothing really behind it in the first place. The whole PR industry has been built on this - quashing some rumours early, ensuring rumours are heard by the right people, starting counter-rumours.

I remember a few of us talking at school one morning that Jan Molby was due back from injury for Liverpool but wasn't getting a game and saying he'd be a great signing for United. As a laugh and a way of pissing a few Wednesdayites off we decided we'd start a rumour that he was coming to the Lane - it was the season we got promoted and they were odds-on for relegation and before Big Ron was signing Waddle et al. Two weeks later and Dalglish was denying it in the press. (Of course, we didn't know at the time that a tabloid sports journalist drank locally, overheard it and then with nothing else to go on turned it into a story).

The web, and fans forums in particular, just make it so much quicker to turn a point of view into almost undeniable fact. Talk radio thrives on it and myths are perpetuated. If you're at the centre of the rumour, you have to deny or confirm it - and the lack of any comment sometimes only adds weight to a rumour.

Somebody must know what happened yesterday morning but noone seems to be saying anything probably suggesting that it was not much more than a "clear the air" session.

 

[Toronto Blade]

The press ,RS seem to line up to find a negative rumour and beat the Blabes with it.Next one please!

 

[shorehamview]

I remember a few of us talking at school one morning that Jan Molby was due back from injury for Liverpool but wasn't getting a game and saying he'd be a great signing for United. As a laugh and a way of pissing a few Wednesdayites off we decided we'd start a rumour that he was coming to the Lane - it was the season we got promoted and they were odds-on for relegation and before Big Ron was signing Waddle et al. Two weeks later and Dalglish was denying it in the press. (Of course, we didn't know at the time that a tabloid sports journalist drank locally, overheard it and then with nothing else to go on turned it into a story).

See the old Theo Walcott on loan thread that Robbie started. It soon snowballed.

 

[Rattly Noise]

Nothing wrong with a rumour that has some basis in fact, but often they are just someone making something up just to cause trouble. Unsettles the fans and unsettles the players. No good will come of it I tell you.

 

[Robbie]

See the old Theo Walcott on loan thread that Robbie started. It soon snowballed.

I had it on good authority he was coming the voices in my head told me so