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Originally Posted by lancsdave

Stating fact maybe, but how about he said " We need more people to come and support us so we can push on a bit more". Yes it's stating the obvious and will probably be ignored by a lot of people, but I can bet people will notice what he has 'allegedly' said about where the blame lies if they go down, which is a total negative and only gets peoples backs up.

The other thing to bear in mind of course is that it is a newspaper story, is it all directly quoted or 'interpreted' ?

well yeh theres always dummies that think like that, but people who can read will get it.