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The Dolman Pragmatist

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The Dolman Pragmatist last won the day on April 8 2020

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  1. Who knows? If you’d asked me in Dicks’s first season if he could take us into the top flight, I’d have thought you were mad.
  2. If social media had existed in the sixties, a section of the fans would have been screaming for Harry Dolman to sell up as we fought off relegation from the second tier several times. At least the Lansdowns (as far as we know) haven’t resorted to some of Harry Dolman’s more - ahem - unorthodox business practices…
  3. Alan Dicks has a lot in common with Liam Manning. He was a young coach who no one had heard of when he was brought in as manager, and a very vocal section of the fans were screaming for him to be sacked in his first season at the club. Luckily Harry Dolman resisted that temptation, held his nerve, and eventually it paid off, big time.
  4. Absolutely fantastic that this post got a face palm from one poster. Says it all about the current climate on OTIB. So much easier to be negative about a situation than to look for positives.
  5. I’ve been a supporter for 60 years and there have been some difficult periods but I wouldn’t have missed it for the world. I’ll go into next season with a season ticket and with optimism, as usual.
  6. If you’ve been supporting since 1971, you will have seen a lot worse than this season.
  7. Average of 25 is a young squad. Only two squads in the Prem (Chelsea and Burnley) have an average age below 25. B*gger
  8. Why didn’t Pearson play Cornick centrally then? He appeared to also have had little use for Mehmeti once he signed him.
  9. They got about a third of the way across the pitch and realised the match hadn’t finished and looked at each other in total confusion, then turned round and tried to run away.
  10. The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway… Genesis
  11. How do you know he wouldn’t have done?
  12. But at the time, if I remember correctly, we were hugely excited by the signings of Nagy and Massengo, and few seemed heartbroken that Pack was leaving. Hindsight is a great thing…
  13. I remember Sean O’Driscoll (who for all the stick he used to get was actually a very interesting and able coach) saying something very similar. He said that however much he prepared players for matches, once the game starts it’s a question of the players making the right decision in the moment. Of course a coach can make substitutions and tactical changes, and of course these can be hugely influential on a game as we saw on Tuesday night, but it is still down to the players to make the right decisions and then execute them effectively during the game.
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