To go on holiday, but will he be back?
Yours truly will be on holiday in Spain in seven days time, I doubt Neil and Sharon Warnock and the kids will be in the same resort on an £900 all-inclusive but if he I'd be more than happy to buy him a decent pint and offer a shoulder to cry on!
it would be similar I suppose to a conversation we all have probably had, with a mate who has been frequently shit on by the biggest bastard (or bitch) that walks the earth but alas he or she still loves them despite the constant humiliation they endure.
I have thought long and hard over this before coming to this conclusion. For most of last season, I was firmly in the Bates Out camp however I admit I did grow tired of the long and clumsy LUST statements and felt that Eddie Gray was spot-in when he claimed during an Extra-Time Moan-In that the atmosphere inside ER was suffering because everybody was coming to matches "wound up" rather than looking forward to the match.
Putting aside my cynicism at the appalling way Simon Grayson's services were dispensed with, the day after the transfer-window closed. As well as hopeful punt at the cheapest option to find his replacement initially (Neil Redfearn), I was quite happy to lay-off Bates when he appointed Neil Warnock a man I'd admired if not necessarily liked from afar!
At last, Bates means business! we have appointed somebody who knows better than anybody how to navigate teams through a promotion race by not necessarily spending daft money but the expectation was that the cash that was not forthcoming to Grayson/had been squandered on over reliance on the loan-Market or bringing in short-term free transfers would be made available to the new man.
I had the shock of my life a week after Easter when Mr Bates himself, and the lovely Susannah phoned me at home after I'd written to them. It was a positive and personal call and I was reassured that maybe we would be pushing in the right direction on the field and old arguments were now bygones.
Essentially Bates is a football man. The one thing myself, LUST or anyone has been unable to answer is who has the serious financial clout to buy him out and invest the money needed to take us forward? Sugar Daddies are in a bit of a short supply during a double-dip recession and do we want a fiasco like Liverpool went through with the Yanks? What about Blackburn and those shitsticks Venky's?
However the silence has been defining come the seasons end, other than Bates claim that a wealthy Leeds supporting Saudi was put off investing £20m in Leeds because of being put off by the demo after the first home game of the season against Boro.
I find it somewhat hard to comprehend that a national from a country that executes it's citizens for adultery, sometimes by beheading or stoning to death would be so shocked by a gathering of noisy, passionate football fans demanding a change of ownership.
Sadly it appears the second summer of broken promises is in full swing. I winced when I read captain Snoddys comments earlier this week and surely he has played his last game for the club like Messers White, Clayton and McCormack have?
I seem to remember being delighted but cautious when Warnock arrived but feared that the marriage would not last and Bates would be blasting the ex-Sheffield United boss on Yorkshire Radio for "wanting to sign fucking Messi so he had to go".
Having failed to sign a Portsmouth left-back for a measly £400,000, despite myself and thousands of others renewing their season tickets as far back as January, regrettably I fear the parting of the ways with Warnock is imminent as is a return to League One!