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  1. 1 hour ago, weepywall said:

    Possibly the only way to stop it would be to literally have dozens if not hundreds of properly paid and trained crowd security personnel around the pitch at high risk games and clubs foot the bill.

    Clubs foot the bill? Where do you think that cost will ultimately end up? Yep, all of us will have to pay for the idiots who act like sheep and copy the latest law breaking they see going on elsewhere. 

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  2. 17 minutes ago, billywedlock said:

    Thats what following a clear policy and strategy for many years gets you. Excellent recruitment . We could have followed the model but chose another route. 

    ‘Follow the model..’ if it was simple as that why doesn’t everyone do it and get automatic promotion?

    Apart from parachute payments there are far too many variables (including length of grass..?) that can be added to a ‘model’ which is why it’s so elusive for most teams to get into the top 6. 

  3. On 16/02/2022 at 21:42, frenchred said:

    I agree with you completely. Tapas has become hip in this country, in Spain it is still  cheap and cheerfull,  free sometimes and served as you mention above

    Years ago I worked for a long time at The Smyth Arms, every Sunday we put chunks of cheese and crisps in bowls along the bar. Good for business to get people in early before the free food was gone and the salted crisps made them drink more ?
    As an alternative to cheeses and crisps I also recall having chitterlings on offer for free at The Queens Arms (?) in Chew Magnawl), loverly jubbly ?

    Don’t know of any pubs who offer these freebies these days. 

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  4. 15 hours ago, Sleepy1968 said:

    but his new houses will be destroying wildlife habitat.

    If the need for houses wasn’t there - growing population, divorced couples needing separate homes etc etc then there wouldn’t be such a high demand to build more homes (and create jobs whilst doing so..). 
    If SL done nothing with the land he get grief for owning it and not spending his hard earners wealth on providing homes people desperately need!  
     

  5. Thanks for another great Match Day Thread. 
     

    Clarrie Bourton was involved the City draw back in the 60’s coming around ‘agents’ homes to collect the CASH…..

    Often a number of first team players, Dickie Rooks, Gordon Parr etc would also come and collect the cash, all good stuff in keeping the fans engaged with the players. Lot lore professional these days with the club involved in so many good schemes via the Community Trust etc. 

    3-1 to  City ??

  6. 13 hours ago, Bristol Oil Services said:

    Biscuit case of a club

    Is their defence Wafer thin?


    Are the management team Ginger Nuts?
    Do the players look Custard Creamed (crackered)?
    Maybe as a team they're just too Nice?

    Anyway time for new start with Paul Ince (??), maybe they will now move up the league and give 2 Chocolate Fingers to the rest of us?

  7. 59 minutes ago, Moments of Pleasure said:

    For any young people browsing on here (unlikely, but just in case) treacle is a thick, sticky, gooey sugary gooey thing your grandparents used to eat in the 1970s, and when they were wading through it it was not very easy, and exhausting.

    Treacle was ok but condensed milk was / is so much better ?

  8. 22 minutes ago, TonyTonyTony said:

    I reckon he intimidates them a bit, and they end up gibbering and asking stupid questions. 

    Nige is a spikey ****** to be fair ?

    Bit like when they had the daily Covid briefings and the journalists were desperate to ask a question - just any question, regardless of the fact the answer was already in the public domain  or worse, asked by the previous journalist!

    Apart from the standard questions any of us amateurs could ask, the ‘professional’ sports journalist really should be capable of asking something unique that has happened to the team or players that week.

    I’m glad Nige gives them short shrift, I wouldn’t even have the patience he has to perform in the media circus every week. 

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  9. 15 hours ago, Harry said:

     

    The question is, do we sell Massengo for £8m or so, or do we keep the likes of HNM & Scott and rely on the reduced wage bill and 


     

    Therefore, does Pearson say to SL - “I want to keep Han and I want to keep Scott. I want these 2 to form the basis of a promotion push in 2-3 years”. 
    Or does SL say to Pearson - “Sorry Nige, we need to sell HNM and Scott to balance the books in order to avoid FFP fine / deduction”. 
     

     

    I think we should sell Massengo but keep HNM!?

     

    In all seriousness the points you’ve raised are valid, it’s bit of of heart or head decision whilst playing poker with the EFL. 
     

    So much of the outcome  rests on what HNM wants to do himself and that’s the one thing none of us know. 
     

    I want to go with the heart decision but feel the head will rule this time as SL is a money person and tries to stay within the guidelines where possible. 

  10. On 10/12/2021 at 15:19, Offside said:

    I remember as a very young child in the late 1970s going to see Santa in Fairfax House (that massive dept store where the Galleries is now). 

    You’re lucky to have found your way out of that labyrinth - there’s rumoured to be people who were still lost in there when it was demolished and never even knew the war was over!

    The lifts were also strange as I recall, some sort of dumb waiter type lift for humans?

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  11. 1 hour ago, Numero Uno said:

    No, some of them aren't and so I would have expected a lot more to have been vaccinated and particularly for clubs to make sure they are vaccinated if they are a bit thick. These are valuable assets after all. So the question is why?

    Footballers usually have a very high belief in themselves and their abilities so some will always have a huge ego and simply  don’t like being told what to do, some (allegedly) don’t adhere to the managers tactics either when told….

  12. 1 hour ago, gl2 said:

     

    Dispite what many media outlets want us to believe I do not believe for one second mad raves or parties occurred at Downing St, in fact in reality there was probably no difference to what occurred there than anywhere else last xmas.

     

    About time this point was made. 
     

    The picture of Boris in the Zoom quiz could be any office quiz after hours.
    Getting a pass into No 10 isn’t  like a pub quiz where people just call in and decide to throw a fiver in to join! Everyone in that building had a right to be there - and security cleared for sure, so they had been mixing all day on Government matters anyway, no more breaking rules than chatting in the staff kitchen. 
    The guy who had tinsel around his neck? Could easily have finished work a bit earlier, had a drink and then got called back in to join Boris in thanking staff for their work etc?

    Obviously I’ve no hard evidence to support any of the above but no matter how much we all agree Boris is a twonk, all we’ve seen is pure conjecture. 

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