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Listed below are comments made by brightonsteve between Friday, 31st October 2008 and Tuesday, 24th February 2009.

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Was Fred really 'the shred'? 2:11pm on 24 Feb 2009 Its very hard not to agree with RP on this, RBS is (as are a lot of Scottish corporates) a very conservative business adopting the presbitarian stance of money is not for show - and never to be discussed. Additionally Scottish businesses consider which school you went to as more important than ability and if you came from south of Carlisle, you felt the heat.

I was once a CEO of an RBS joint venture where the board consisted on Fred and the CEO of the partner business. Fred was alwasy on the attack towards my team and the partner!! Nothing personal I was told just his style.
His reputation as someone who was obviously bullied at school and later got his own back, is very obvious. Hopefully the world of banking has seen the last of him...and no doubt has understood nothing.

Trust me Fred, greed is not good.
Stanford parade raises serious concerns 2:15pm on 31 Oct 2008 OK Some KEY points here Aggers and believe me they are very relevant.

1. Mr Stanford is a business man and is running the series to promote his altroism and business.
2. If he up-sets the MCC and the ECB he really does not care a toss, he will have acheived what he set out to do and the world will be aware of it
3. Test cricket WILL suffer from 20/20 but then all of the boards including the ICC have done very little to try and combat that - they too are running businesses.
4. The point of the IPL and the other 20/20 leagues will sort themseves out as there is only a finite level of talent worth watching and eventually there will be one GLOBAL yearly event.
5. I can remember back in the mid 90's when test cricket was both poor and not supported by the public. That has changed and as a result the likes of the ECB and the ICC need to recognise this and redefine the structure of cricket and what matters to the public that puts its hand into its pocket each year for membership, tickets or SKYTV

Wake up Cricket and smell the coffee, there is a revolution going on!!

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