No/No/No, well not a decent team anyway. They'll end up down a division or consigned to that footballing scrapheap that is Turkey.

My fav hold is 1500 futures in Sergio Cordova, the accident prone Venuzuelan striker/winger at FC Augsburg.

Scoring an unenviable 6 goals in 45 games *most as substitute" and then getting injured before the Copa America sums up this player.

Yet one day he'll get a PB above 15 and i'll rejoice. I suspect he's similar to @Advinculas-Index in that we both know our players are not going to set the world on fire.

Up 6p though...god knows how.

@LuaLua said in Dispelling the Football Index Growth Myth (research heavy):

@janner73 said in Dispelling the Football Index Growth Myth (research heavy):

The discussion has been useful but the point scoring debate kind of ruins it.

So accurate.

The points were all salient but yes, some were delivered in a point scoring way.

Yes, I think Tony Cascarino's quote about Glenn Hoddle sums one of the problems with the debate...

“If he was an ice cream, he'd lick himself,”

@Londoner said in R Sterling:

@MrWh1te said in R Sterling:

@Ellisandro andy convinced me

Good for you for listening and getting on early:

Just 1p but better late than never.

@Ellisandro said in R Sterling:

@MrWh1te ...but he's such a dick..i think that's what puts people off. Anyway i hope you make a tidy profit.

I now own a lot of Sterling. I'm such an FI whore.

Even players that have retired have kept their value if not briefly increased. Rafael Marquez and Blas Perez have both seen spikes after they've finished!

I'm going to see if i can get George Best IPO'ed not only has he retired but he's DEAD! Why stop there, they needn't be footballers maybe we could get Michael Jackson, Moses or perhaps i can get theory of relativity into the top 100!

People will truly buy anything on here.

@Robbiekeane68 said in 5k draw:

To enter the 5k thing do I just buy in for 10 pounds and I'm automatically in the draw?

No don't do it! It's a cheap proletariat trick!

Don't have emotional ties to players or ownership, there's no such thing as player favourites. There are ones that will make you money and ones that don't.

I found i was recently favouring a player (any research will tell you who that was) in spite of the facts telling me to jump out. You should reset your opinion every month or so.

So in answer to your question. You were right to dump.

@johnboywalker said in Dispelling the Football Index Growth Myth (research heavy):

@Dan-The-Man said in Dispelling the Football Index Growth Myth (research heavy):

@Ellisandro

Yeah, he's like a condescending dinner lady.

Who wants some fuckin sponge pudding with custard?? 🤣👍

Dinner Ladies = Halitosis ridden crones in their late 50's with and obsession with suet also diehard Dagenham and Redbridge fans.

@johnboywalker said in Dispelling the Football Index Growth Myth (research heavy):

@Dan-The-Man said in Dispelling the Football Index Growth Myth (research heavy):

@janner73 said in Dispelling the Football Index Growth Myth (research heavy):

@Vespasian32 I guess I read the post very differently to you.

I'd be surprised if Vesp read the thread in the first place. He spent the last two weeks giving me grief about another post that he hadn't read properly, seems to be one of those guys who reads the title and makes up the story. I don't know if it's a learning difficulty thing or what, but there seems to be a few folk who can't read around here.

Don't get me wrong, I'm certainly not the most articulate writer on the forums and my wording could always be improved but I can tell from your replies that you understood the post perfectly and judging by the responses from most people, I'd say they did too.

He probably just misunderstood the post.

Dan,

Following on from our private chat. If you cannot see any issue in the message I highlighted above, then I fear my time has been wasted and you have taken on board nothing I said.

You cannot expect to conflict bait and belittle other users and not expect a backlash.

I read your orignal post and found it informative, thought provoking, open to interpretation and most importantly, open to debate.

But it seems that if any user disagrees with you, then you believe they either 'haven't read it properly', have 'learning difficulties' or have 'a personal vendetta' against yourself.

You are not right all the time.

You cannot be right all the time.

The attitude you display towards other on the forum today, will inevitably be reciprocated in any future threads/topics/posts you create.

@Dan-The-Man Oh dear, If Johnboy has had a chat you're in the shit old boy! Try and play nicely with the other children!