The Cat's Whiskers - Cold Introduction

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A look at the possible wage cap and the sudden morality outbreak from fans of a certain team!

May cause some debate!

The hypocrisy of the Morally Outraged

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The Cat's Whiskers view as Lepine re-signs

Keep Ya Head Up Son

[StolenAngelSlice]

May 17, 2011 22:22:09 GMT Jono Bullard said:

The Cat's Whiskers view as Lepine re-signs

Keep Ya Head Up Son

Love that picture, looks like he's dropped Domish with a kick to the chin!

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The Cat's Whiskers view as Jeff Heerema re-signs and also some views on the Jeff Legue rumour.

Jeff Heerema is back!

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The Cat's Whiskers view as David Alexandre Beauregard re-signs for season 2011/12

DAB re-signs

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The Cat's Whiskers view of new import signing Jordan Fox.

Jordan Fox Signs For Panthers

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Greg Mitchell's first article of the summer and it's Bob phillips who feels his wrath!

Getting Angry With Greg Mitchell 27th May

[Mark]

May 27, 2011 17:59:44 GMT Jono Bullard said:

Greg Mitchell's first article of the summer and it's Bob phillips who feels his wrath!

Getting Angry With Greg Mitchell 27th May

Corey "Wonderbra" Neilson. ;D

[gcmandrake]

Wonderbra is inspired.

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My view on the return of Bob Phillips to the British Hockey spotlight.

A Load of Bob

[seedy]

time for him to put up or shut up.

[oneillthegiant]

Monday 5pm is said to be the date he will post his next article.. I'm actual interested in what he has to say on certain things, as there's always two sides to a story and so far it's been mostly anti Phillips stuff posted on forums..

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The Cat's Whiskers view as Matt Francis signs for 2011/12

Panthers sign Matt Francis from ECHL's Gwinnett Gladiators

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The Cat's Whiskers reaction as Brandon Benedict and Scott Champagne sign for 2011/12.

Benedict & Champagne sign up

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The Cat's Whiskers pays tribute to Jade Galbraith

Farewell Jade Galbraith

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Greg Mitchell's 2nd article of the summer.

Getting Angry With Greg Mitchell 13th June

[Shaggy]

Hmmm... well-reasoned article there, but I have to disagree with Greg on the whole signing-the-roster-too-early thing for one main reason:-

We’re showing our hand too early, we’re basically saying to the whole league “look what we’ve got” and they must all be rubbing their hands with glee knowing what calibre of players they need to sign to beat us

Yeah... that might apply if we were the only opposition they had to face... but let's face it - we're not, and we're often regarded as not being the most potent threat anyway. Take Coventry for example... if Paul Thompson builds his team to counter Corey Neilson's roster choices, then he's a moron. He's got 7 other teams to think about as well... including Belfast, Cardiff and Sheffield - all three of which he will no doubt regard as being at least as much of a threat as we are, if not more.

Plus... as the Panthers have proven time and time again... you can have the best roster on paper and still get nowhere. What's most important - more important than the individual players - is the team. Which we finally seemed to get right in the latter stages of last season. So... with a strong core from that team and exactly the same leadership group... the chances of building a team like that are (I would hope!) fairly good. And if signing up virtually the entire roster by this time adds even one or two percentage points to the chances of building that kind of team... I'll take it.

[rach09]

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, let's judge Corey at the seasons end (if he survives that long!) before complaining at his signings, timings or judgement!!

[Doughnut]

Jun 13, 2011 17:52:20 GMT rach09 said:

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, let's judge Corey at the seasons end (if he survives that long!) before complaining at his signings, timings or judgement!!

OK then, can we judge him on league performance this time?

[rach09]

Jun 13, 2011 21:06:09 GMT Doughnut said:

Jun 13, 2011 17:52:20 GMT rach09 said:

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, let's judge Corey at the seasons end (if he survives that long!) before complaining at his signings, timings or judgement!!

OK then, can we judge him on league performance this time?

I've been waiting 28 seasons, believe me I hope this is the year!!

[GuinnessMan]

I can feel it in my bones, this is our year - is there a surer message to be had anywhere!?

[Paul]

Jun 13, 2011 17:46:19 GMT Shaggy said:

Hmmm... well-reasoned article there, but I have to disagree with Greg on the whole signing-the-roster-too-early thing for one main reason:-

We’re showing our hand too early, we’re basically saying to the whole league “look what we’ve got” and they must all be rubbing their hands with glee knowing what calibre of players they need to sign to beat us

Yeah... that might apply if we were the only opposition they had to face... but let's face it - we're not, and we're often regarded as not being the most potent threat anyway. Take Coventry for example... if Paul Thompson builds his team to counter Corey Neilson's roster choices, then he's a moron. He's got 7 other teams to think about as well... including Belfast, Cardiff and Sheffield - all three of which he will no doubt regard as being at least as much of a threat as we are, if not more.

Plus... as the Panthers have proven time and time again... you can have the best roster on paper and still get nowhere. What's most important - more important than the individual players - is the team. Which we finally seemed to get right in the latter stages of last season. So... with a strong core from that team and exactly the same leadership group... the chances of building a team like that are (I would hope!) fairly good. And if signing up virtually the entire roster by this time adds even one or two percentage points to the chances of building that kind of team... I'll take it.

The way I read it is that the Thompson reference is just an example and he's trying to write about us setting a benchmark that others have too much time to surpass. I could be wrong though.

I'm not sure about well-reasoned, it just looks like another rant for rantings sake to me. It was fairly amusing for a while but now there's not much happening I'm not sure why he bothers or why Jono publishes (?) it.

[Rob Scott]

Don't like it = Don't read it

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Jun 14, 2011 12:28:05 GMT Paul said:

I'm not sure about well-reasoned, it just looks like another rant for rantings sake to me. It was fairly amusing for a while but now there's not much happening I'm not sure why he bothers or why Jono publishes (?) it.

I can't speak for Greg but I publish it because I enjoy it and looking at the Blog stats and awful lot of other people do too.

[Shaggy]

I don't always agree with Greg (in fact, sometimes I violently disagree with him)... but apart from the odd occasion where it truly is little more than a foaming-at-the-mouth rant (and let's be honest, how many of us haven't done that at one time or another?) he usually puts forward a coherent and well-reasoned argument. Like this last one - I disagree with his conclusions, but I respect the way he's reached them. Which is why I read the column.