Tinmans Love Child

The glory years!

Used to go to Ritzy’s (as it was then) in Baldwin Street mid 90’s, Thursday night was 80’s night, 80p to get in, 80’s music and drinks were 80p! Can’t go wrong

Is that a euphemism? ?

I agree in the most part, although this season Arsenal have improved a lot and have some great young players coming through, I can see them being close to 4th along with Spurs, West Ham and Man U. Arsenal are my 2nd team I guess, my first football shirt was an Arsenal one for some reason, have a picture of me in it when I’m about 8 circa 86 when they weren’t even very good!

How do you know they don’t? But even if they don’t, why should some footballers and an actor pay for it, lots of rich people in London could foot the bill if that’s how you want it to work.

My band did a big gig at the Bierkeller around 2005. great to play on the same stage as the likes of Nirvana graced, watched some great gigs there too, a sweaty place!

I missed your sarcasm, though you were being serious!

I’m confused, how is that team under strength?

Found this vid of an Ipswich Town fan who attends games as a neutral and does a blog. Anyway he did the Millwall game, looked like he had a good time!

That would have been brilliant if she was giving it the big one, chanting Cov songs and flicking the V’s at the City fans, brilliant

I’m sure that extra £30 will boost the coffers

You know it’s just for fun right? ?

I didn’t realise another team in Red came in for him before Utd! #nospoilers Enjoy!

Alex: The Man Behind The Legend https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1739855205/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_FAVHHSTZQJPYCRH6PW6C

No not a Man U fan at all, my wife got it for me for Xmas! It’s a good read, interesting stuff on pre Man Utd era as well

You can see our problems, we are light of good players in the prime 23-28 age, and have too many under 23 players

Great work!! Actually in the book Fergie said he chose Moyes to takeover as he knew he would continue this process, and has gone on record as saying Moyes was the only person he trusted to continue the long term thinking, so was gutted when Utd sacked him, after that it was all about short term thinking

Bare in mind when he first joined Utd in 87 the squad was ageing and they had next to no academy to speak of so this system would have highlighted the gaps. He put more scouts in place at Utd in his first week, and knew it was a 5 year plan really to get into a position where they could not only win the league, but keep winning it, which they obviously did with multiple squads. In the book he mentions that the likes of Jose and Kloop never took/take a long term view of the squad, and this means after the 3/4 glory years the squad is aged and it takes too long or too much £££ to replace what you’ve lost, and that’s when those managers move on.

Is it another version of cricket? ?

I’m reading the Alex Ferguson biography called ‘Alex’ at the moment, and apparently he would split his squad into 3 age categories: - under 23’s; - 23-28; and - over 28. His aim was to have 3 players for each outfield position, and those 3 would be from each age category, the under 23 to keep the older player on his toes, the player in their prime aged 23-28 to be the main man, and then the old head in the over 28 category for experience. The next important part to ensure longevity of success and keep the squad rolling forward with consistency was to ensure the contracts of players in the 3 age categories, or equally 1 position are not elapsing at the same time, I.e. you don’t want all your 23-28 players ending contracts at the same time, or you don’t want your 3 left back contracts running out at the same time for example. This relatively simple process ensures that you know exactly where you are in terms of squad experience, what gaps might be coming up, helps to identify what types of players you might need and when you might need them. If another club snaps up your under 23 left back then you know you want to bring in another under 23 left back, not one whose over 28. I don’t know what City do or if we follow anything like this process, but it would be quite a good way of measuring where our current squad sits on the ‘Alex Ferguson experience scale’. Anyone got the time to do this? ?

Really? I’ve not seen much about it to be honest, I guess the bottle throwing incidents arnt going to help

I see Chelsea had 12,000 safe standing spaces being trialled v Liverpool, great to see. Any news on how many potential standing areas we could have if trial successful? https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/59848850.amp

Surely if he was making a point then it didn’t work as we won!

The kids are alright….again