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56 minutes ago, BigTone said:

I had his phone number as a kid and would call on the odd occasion for a chat.  Think he worked as a delivery man also whilst playing also.

When I met the legend in Nottingham he told me the thing that ruined his time at City was some flipping kid ringing him up every five minutes. 

Gentleman John. Happy birthday . 

https://youtu.be/tPv63byLoNk?si=9Qj3rTe6ok1aRR2Q 

No one knows . I sing this with my group . 

20 hours ago, Calculus said:

So, why didn't he achieve here and why did he prefer to go to League One Ipswich?

24 minutes ago, Robbored said:

Every Championship club that doesn’t receive them all see them as unfair and a huge financial benefit to the relegated clubs.

I posted awhile back about every PL club should have relegation clauses in their players contracts that apply the average Championship wages.That way these relegated clubs would have no financial bonus over other Championship clubs.

That way there’d be not need to have the PP system in place.

This policy wouldn’t affect the majority on the PL clubs.

So why not?

In theory I agree however Players would have to sign the contract. If you were a newly promoted club or a smaller Prem club you may have even more problems in signing the quality players needed. 
Concerning parachute payments of course it is grossly unfair to the clubs in the Championship who don’t have them but football, like life ,  has never been fair. 
The bigger question is why clubs need so much money to operate and why they can’t, at least , break even. The sport is completely unsustainable as it stands. 
 

15 hours ago, BrizzleRed said:

So where do you think the problem is at City then

8 hours ago, BristolGit said:

We all remember our first ( and only) Carling 

2 minutes ago, Numero Uno said:

Agreed, it’s above Manning where we are total fifth and that needs to change.

I’d settle for that. 

Just now, formerly known as ivan said:

Special mention to Alex Pritchard, refused to play for Sunderland to force his “dream move” to Birmingham City, only to be playing league one football next season.

 

Shit products that Chemists sell like , fat burners, tea that helps you sleep , lollipops that aren’t sugar, slimming aids etc that absolutely don’t work . 
 

No wonder they lost , according to the , ever reliable, BBC. They were playing Arsenal at the same time. Selection issues I would have thought. 
 

Although to everyone’s surprise Bournemouth came out in the second half. Which was nice. 

Just now, frenchred said:

Birmingham relegated

I will still say, they will be in the prem.before us with their new owners if we don't change

You just know it . They will go down , come back up next year stronger and do a flipping Ipswich. 
 

25 minutes ago, The Original OTIB said:

Probably time to get hammered . in Stoke.

Manning out . 

1 minute ago, And Its Smith said:

If we win, a certain seagull will say it’s irrelevant as it’s a meaningless game.  However, if we lose there will be meaning 

Let it go . 

Just now, Rocking Red Cyril said:

Are we sure it's his last game ?

He’s retiring. Unless it’s a Warnock retirement. 

1 minute ago, pillred said:

Talking of Havanatopia who we all miss so much I was wondering about Septic Peg who used to post all the time, does anyone know what happened to them?

And Aizoon with his prickly friend. 

1 hour ago, 1960maaan said:

Shame we didn't get some his best years, he was good enough at the tail end of his career. 
I thought he might have been a coach long term, I think that changed with the change of Manager. I don't think it will take him long to find a job if he wants one. Top man.

Is that him with Lee Johnson in the last photo ? 

2 hours ago, ExiledAjax said:

To be read in your best John Cooper Clarke voice.

I will Will Still to move to Pill, then to the Gate to instill a will, to win, and thrill.

if not,

we'll still stand still, and lose.

to nil.

But will Will Still come climb this hill, with us?

Or will Will Still yet take his fill at Reims,

or Lille?

Still sat in the hôtel de ville with the will to kill,

our dreams.

Are you an ‘ealth fanatic ? 

15 hours ago, Shauntaylor85 said:

This whole two attacking players is all we need thing is worrying me. We certainly need more to bridge the 10 point gap to top six, still think we need a Semenyo/Ogbene type wide player who can destroy teams with pace and power/direct running in behind, we have nobody who can do that, a powerful physical pacy striker, ACM minimum plus I would consider the Rotherham keeper Johansen.  

Isn’t Palmer Houlden likely to be in the first team squad next season ? 
He seems like the type of player that the club say they want. 
They could pay 5 million for Twine , blood Seb and still bring in a cheap foreign player to look as though we’ve spent big . 

1 hour ago, Sir Geoff said:

Pedant alert..... Rugby is the Premiership.

The Premier League changed it's name in 2007.

 

What to ? 

14 hours ago, pillred said:

Is it just me or are Ipswich not really that good?

4 minutes ago, richwwtk said:

All well and good, but a simple announcement letting us know the end of season awards were being done following the usual players walking round acknowledging the fans after the final whistle would have sufficed. Why take the players off the pitch straight away to come out later on and call it a celebration? I am all for a simple thankyou, but to big it up was really over the top.

I agree with you. They take us for mugs but this is a general ‘ dumbing down ‘ of our society. It’s only a matter of time before matches can only be drawn so as not to upset any fans. 

4 minutes ago, Kid in the Riot said:

Did Chris Hogg headbutt another member of staff?

Emotions. 

3 minutes ago, richwwtk said:

It was Downsy's constant talk of a 'celebration' that prompted myself and the people I was with to leave almost straight away when it became clear the players weren't going to do their usual appreciation of the fans after the final whistle, which I stay for every match to show my appreciation for their efforts (win or lose), and instead went straight down the tunnel to prepare themselves for the big emotional walk around with the fans thanking them for giving us another mediocre season.

I'm not anti anyone at the club, had no massive issue with Pearson going (timing aside) and quite like us under Manning, but to big this season up as something special just stinks to me.

We heard the awards being announced as we were walking down the back of the Lansdown.

I suppose the alternative is to chuck away all the effort of everyone at the club and say ‘well that was not worth celebrating ‘. 
We have had our moments this season even if overall we haven’t troubled the top six. It has been a season of transition and recuperation from a disastrous handling of the end of the Pearson era . The success is that we have stayed up despite huge pressure on the new coaching staff and the apparent progress now manifesting itself on the pitch. 
Let’s hope that next season we don’t have any questions raised about ‘ success ‘. 
 

As an aside. The other day in the city I saw a little arrow on which was written , ‘ the way to success ‘ . I followed the directions until I came to another green arrow with ‘ the road to success ‘. I was curious and continued on the way . Until I spotted another arrow pointing to the right where it was written ‘ the path to success ‘ . I duly followed. I few metres on I saw yet another sign on the door of a block of flats , it said ‘ the door to success ‘ . I opened the door and climbed the stairs. As I arrived on the third floor I saw a wooden door , ajar. I tapped on it and a man came to meet me , ‘ hi, I’m Cec’ .