Port Said Red

Fair enough, no I did mean the first two years of his tenure. I appreciate what he did and I do wish the hierarchy would acknowledge it more. I do think that he manipulated the fanbase when he realised he was leaving though. I can't reveal my source, and I understand that people will look at the Rob connection (unfairly as he was always pretty discreet as far as day to day stuff is concerned), it is someone who knows the club very well though, and interestingly (to me anyway) is often very critical of the owners and the set up. So when someone like that tells you something that is more favourable to the upper management I take notice.

I was at the Gate when he ran towards a long pass and looked like he was free to run through on goal. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Norman Hunter trundling towards him and he stopped dead in his tracks. I don't think anyone in the ground blamed him either.

So. you ignored the bit where I said about all the good work he did for 2 years? Fine, just so I know there is no point posting anything because you will pick and choose what you want to see in my posts anyway. I'll leave you to whatever it is you think you will achieve by posting the same moans, over and over and over and over..........................

No it wasn't, if it was I wouldn't have put it on the public forum. Stuff about his injury being made worse by the current physio is different, because it would be provable without his direct comments.

Yes, come on back, I don't care if you only turn up for match days like you did for your last 8 weeks in charge. I don't care that you ruined 2 years of hard work creating a team spirit and a good relationship across the club, by suggesting you were being undermined by senior management, when they asked if you needed any help during your illness/injury bringing the wrath of the forum down on the senior Management. Let's just call it water under the bridge and you can pop in whenever you feel like and give the press a hard time and the fans a giggle.

Good interview with Root on 5Live earlier, very good defence of "Bazball" and his own decision making. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/68391344

Working beautifully on my Smart TV web browser.... People complain about our pitch, but Hillsborough's is shocking.

Manning Manning has asked to have him come and have a day's training with us every Tuesday for the rest of this season, which considering he's become a key player for Newport they have been pretty good by saying yes to that. Obviously this week was the first week that's happened because of their playing schedule and ours. I am not sure I agree that Manning should have much more contact than that, it's important that he focuses on Newport and doesn't have too many conflicting thoughts about it. I don't know how much direct contact Pearson had with loanees or whether he reached out to the loanees that we had when he became manager. I have often wondered what the protocol is in such cases.

As yes I remember at the time people saying we should drop him because we conceded so many goals, even after it was pointed out that he had either scored or assisted in something like 27 out the 29 goals we had scored during the same period. A season where every other bit of joy had been sucked out of the club and some people wanted to take the only bit that was left. Every now and again I go on YouTube to watch the video of his accumulated goals for us, just for the sheer joy of it. Half the time it's not just the goal, it's the ease with which he plays. Like Alex Scott last season, you just have to watch and wonder how it's possible to be so much better than anyone else with what looks like minimum effort. https://youtu.be/2JjL3zM9LLU?si=j-4TDa22ONetqwIU

Ocean Song - She Drew the Gun

Hopefully we will come back fresh and clean up the tail quickly in the morning, then crack on with the bat. Doesn't have to be a big score, from what I am reading I can't imagine they will want to chase 300/325 on days 4 and 5.

I bought Because of the Times in a shop in the Manhattan Village that looked for all the world like the one in High Fidelity. When I was back home, I was sat in traffic leaving our Nottingham office when I remembered that I still hadn't opened it. Knocked Up came on and I thought that's sounds very good, I'll listen to that again....... It was 145 miles to my home in Keynsham at the time and by the time I got back I still hadn't got to Charmer (track 2) For me it's up there with The Royal Scam as one of the great epics that tell a story that captures your imagination and has hooks and melodies galore. It's almost like the band themselves don't want to stop playing it, every time you think it's ending, it comes back again. Those drum reports in the middle of the instrumental section are incredible too, I still forget where some of them are. Such a daring thing to do to for a band like them known mainly for their short sharp shock tracks, to open with a 7 minute opus which I describe to people as a "Jerry Springer show set to music". I think you can tell that I quite like it. https://youtu.be/_Mzklb9nkXM?si=I1l6xlZLwLjHcgLO

I can't believe they think their technology is good enough to track a ball that far.

There was the Yorkshire cricketer Peter Hartley who was known for his inconsistency. He was known as Daisy, as in some days 'e does, some days 'e doesn't.

Probably only a couple of poor games before people start suggesting a League 1 loan for him though.