Port Said Red

15 minutes ago, Ashtongreight said:

I read your first post as suggesting Nige undermined the previous 2 years goodwill that had been built up before he arrived, not the first 2 years of his tenure . I imagine others read it the same way as me. 

I know you well enough to know you wouldn’t betray a confidence, but for those that don’t it’s a fair question about Rob, as you seem so certain of the facts. 
 

You did state as fact, not just your opinion that Nige only turned up for matches at the end,  do you categorically know that to be true, you also state he undermined the senior management of the club when they asked if he needed help due to his illness, I’m sure that’s not Nige’s version of events, therefore how do you know it’s true ?

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.

1 minute ago, Bedred31 said:

I was at the game at the Gate when he was injured and the ambulance drove onto the pitch. Seems like yesterday. Astonishing player- sad news. Rest in peace, Stan.

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.  

12 minutes ago, Sheltons Army said:

Whether or not you, or anyone thinks  think it was time for a change

IMO Your (And anyone else’s) complete lack of even a hint appreciation or recognition of the job he did do here is simply astounding , depressing and embarrassing 

It literally puts you Below the level of the hierarchy as they at least have direct personal views , ambitions or personal glory for their decisions

You always come across as very defensive about anything at the club but the fact you go a few steps further even than them and make significant claims and character assassination is IMO incredible from a supporter 

Being blunt fans like you deserved an alternative appointment to NP , most of whom would see you defending a 2-1 loss at Fleetwood today.

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..........................

33 minutes ago, Bodiesaffer said:

Who told you that?  

31 minutes ago, Sheltons Army said:

‘ Rob ‘

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. 

1 hour ago, sglosbcfc said:

Dear Nigel

I made the mistake of thinking I knew something about football. I replaced an experienced and successful manager with a guy that had never managed above League One and had led MK Dons to the bottom 4. I then told the fans to expect the top six. 

Two of the worse three teams in the division have just comfortably beaten us and our league record is worse under him than you, despite the fact that you could barely name a team due to injuries.

Please come back and save the season

Love

Jon

P.S thanks for getting us the points early doors which mean we are not in a relegation battle now.

 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

2 minutes ago, 22A said:

Four minutes in and it's not working for me today. 

Working beautifully on my Smart TV web browser....

People complain about our pitch, but Hillsborough's is shocking.

Manning

2 hours ago, The Original OTIB said:

Good news, but I found it odd when he said that his first conversation with Manning was on Wednesday of this week. Yes Tinnion has been in regular contact, but why not our Head Coach? At least a call before the Man Utd game would have been in order. Strange for me, and something i'd say about any manager/head coach at this level. Showing direct interest in the lads coming through, particularly on loan, doing well, can only be good for all. 

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.

12 hours ago, formerly known as ivan said:

In flashes, yes. However, when he was on the pitch it was like playing with 10 men for 90% of the time. He was as much of the issue as he was the solution. We played much of our better football during the promotion season when Wilbs and Agard were on the pitch. He was a luxury to have waiting to come on.

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

44 minutes ago, Offside said:

Echo Beach - Martha and the Muffins

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.

12 hours ago, southside said:

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=3mbG9GlrLZQ&si=GWNpzDaAj4jDpX75

One of my favourite KOL songs, from Walls 2016

Put the headphones on, lay back and enjoy

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

1 hour ago, Rob k said:

Yeah it was - it’s a shocker in my opinion, 3m to travel and has hit him on the roll and he’s given out. I’m not having that.

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.

25 minutes ago, Clevedon Red said:

Ross has certainly got all the makings of being a real fans favourite. Hopefully will be here for a good few seasons.

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

24 minutes ago, lotusman said:

Probably 6 inches taller than our record appearance (both possible exaggerations) goalkeeper MIKE GIBSON.

Bit different in those days, it feels like every teen I meet these days is many inches taller than we all were in our teens in the 1970's.

53 minutes ago, Marvin said:

We nicknamed a boring bloke at work "Bomb scare", because as soon as he joined a group everyone would scarper in different directions.

The other one I know is a chap who worked on the oil rigs. This is probably something we shouldn't be laughing at in more enlightened times but..... Apparently he had found out his wife was having an affair and was planning on leaving him. After a few drinks he had decided to end it all by jumping off the rig with his bag of tools tied around his neck to take him under quickly.

Luckily, one of the crew found him in time, dragged him down from the rails and talked some sense into him.

For years after he was known as tank top", because he was an "incomplete jumper".. 

2 hours ago, Open End Numb Legs said:

......And one of the greatest comedy series ever seen.

Nicknames are an essential part of a sporting team. Remember one of the players in Mike Bassett's England side that complained he was the only one in the squad without a nickname?

I heard a great nickname the other day, not sport's related but it made me laugh. 

This guy in the pub told me his boss was known as "pothole", because you either wanted to avoid him or fill him in"

43 minutes ago, Bazooka Joe said:

Yeah, I remember and knew some from them long gone days.

Blackjack, Jiffy, Angus, Larry the Limp, Paddy Walsh, The Pascoes, John Feeney, Chris Saunders, Heavy Duty, Moussah, and Boner spring to mind.

Blackjack and Moussah had brothers who were well-known.

Some of those that followed City in those days, were bitter enemies “off the pitch”, who put their differences aside temporarily on match days.

 

Without wishing to belittle your memories Joe, I couldn't help read this and not think of "the Tiddlywinking Leapfroggers" as described by George in the last episode of Blackadder Goes Forth.

"George: Well, er, Jacko and the Badger bought it at the first Ypres front, unfortunately — quite a shock, that. I remember Bumfluff’s house-master wrote and told me that Sticky had been out for a duck, and the Gubber had snitched a parcel sausage-end and gone goose over-stump frogside.

Edmund: Meaning…?

George: I don’t know, sir, but I read in the Times that they’d both been killed.

Edmund: And Bumfluff himself…?

George: Copped a packet at Gallipoli with the Aussies — so had Drippy and Strangely Brown. I remember we heard on the first morning of the Somme when Titch and Mr Floppy got gassed back to Blighty.

Edmund: Which leaves…?

George: Gosh, yes, I, I suppose I’m the only one of the Trinity Tiddlers still alive. (Lummy?), there’s a thought — and not a jolly one."

I see Strangely Brown as one of the great names in British comedy.

8 minutes ago, Robbored said:

He opened with Atherton   - can’t recall who against or which venue but his batting weaknesses were cruelly exposed and he played only one test

I remember him taking a brilliant one handed diving catch against  Yorkshire at Clarence Pk in Weston during festival week. Ray Illingworth was Yorkshire captain at the time. Viv Richards played for Somerset that day and came in lower down the order 6 or 7 iirc. 

I think you may be getting mixed up. I think Popplewell may have had an MCC tour to his name, but I don't think he ever played for England. Mark Lathwell on the other hand did play two tests opening with Atherton and looked poor in a pretty poor England side.

1 minute ago, cidercity1987 said:

Not wrong is he

However I lay the blame squarely at Lansdown and Tinnion

I don't think there is anyone who is really going to be markedly better than Pearson was with the resources 

You know as well as I do that the guy was crying into his cider after the 'boro and Southampton games, and jumping for joy inside when Saturday was over.

His overarching default position, and that of this forum is negativity. Only here could two top quality wins against teams with a paper superiority, be overshadowed by one against a team that although poor were on an upturn of form and still had enough quality to go with a battling performance. Someone showed before the 'boro game that the points average required to get near the play offs was 2 points a game. Spot on after the first three games, lets see where it goes.

2 minutes ago, Gratz260689 said:

Where does it look like he’s being moved on? Pretty sure will only go out on a loan to gain experience like max did, I’ve seen him play a fair bit his size don’t make much difference his kicking and commanding of the area is better than max’s!! 

Just going by the thread in the Transfer Forum where a friends said that HWR told him he was going to be leaving to go to Bath C ity in the summer. 

16 minutes ago, spudski said:

Highlights up

https://www.bcfc.co.uk/video/highlights/highlights-bristol-city-u21-1-1-millwall-u21/

Wiles- Richards is one of the smallest goalkeepers I have ever seen at that level, no wonder it looks like he is being moved on.

3 minutes ago, Antman said:

which brands?

I can't remember the name of the one in Lidl, it was one of those "when it's gone it's gone" deals, but the one I am using right now is Flora, both as a spread and in block and it's very good. I bought Vitalite Spread in Tesco's today as it was £1.50 with the clubcard, but I haven't tried it yet.