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I would bet that the board don't have any opinion on it. They probably get told to condemn it by some combination of Police, S.P.F.L. officials and T.V.

Maybe if we keep saying what if the the roles were reversed for another twenty years people will realise it doesn't work.

Yes, and this can't be corrected easily.

He never faced the situation that the club was in ~2016 onwards.

Yeah and I disagree. That's a disagreement about a matter of fact rather than logic.

I never made it explicit but I implied that we are in a different situation to them in the post I have quoted above. Not everybody gets 8 league titles just handed to them when a rival collapses and disappears down the leagues. There is a sufficient amount of logic for those who have eyes to see it.

This is just a way to admit that you have lost the argument.

I won't bother deciphering that. European success is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for domestic success. European success, relative to our standards, has happened courtesy of our much maligned board. This should not be difficult for anybody to understand.

Go back and read the whole post. It is all in there. There is nothing cryptic about it.

And?

It's not difficult to follow my rather simple argument.

Check this out. An unambiguous attempt to misrepresent my posts.

Check this out. An unambiguous attempt to re-frame what I said as something that I never said.

Why not respond to something I posted? Admin will be after you.

I don't want to rephrase my dismissal of this unimportant question. I would just end up sounding like a vinyl disc which traps the needle in a single groove. That would be unbearable for almost everybody here.

Asking how many years is not important.

I just ignored that question because I don't think it is important enough to answer.

One area where success is required, but not achieved, is player trading. The board have been stating this for a while.

So not pointless. Glad these posts have not been an absolute failure.

Not a good question. I said European football is one of the areas we need success before we can go further. Success in the other areas will have more impact.

I think European success is a necessary condition for domestic success. This is based on where we started from when we got back to the top league. I think this explains why most of your two posts miss the mark. I'm not even talking about whether the number of trophies won is acceptable. I'm arguing that the failure has not been absolute and where there has been success it has been in one area where we need it before going any further.

No. I'm not convinced. Also if you think the European money is the decisive factor (it isn't) then you will need to play some European matches. No. Without the money we would be further from our direct rivals. No. Only three teams win an actual European trophy in any year. Supporters of other teams enjoy it regardless. Besides if you think the money is important then you don't think mere participation is pointless. No. Bad transfers will happen at every level of success. One league title is not as good as more league titles, yeah, great. Maybe we would not have won 55 without the money, and experience, of the two previous years of European football. There is an answer for each point worth responding to so perhaps a bit premature to fantasise about posting such an elite gif.

It is, without any doubt, interesting to say that the board over the last ~nine years have delivered a level of consistent success in Europe. This success is relative to our previous efforts and not absolute. Some people don't see that and describe the last nine years as an absolute failure. That's not accurate. Sadly not everyone will agonise over questions like is it best to make yet another innaccurate post or to say nothing?

No. Don't waste any time thinking about it. They do not want to do that.

Wasn't there a dedicated thread for broken records?