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GrahamC

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  1. Just a few observations; Firstly fair play @headhunter for your commitment to this podcast even on your birthday weekend. Secondly did Ian seriously say about Mebude that he was someone we could bring in “on a free”? Westerlo paid a million for him, they might have realised their error already but no way are they suddenly giving him away. Also he was disingenuous on the injury issue, the Cardiff game aside it was significantly better over time during Pearson’s spell, especially once you exclude the 2 players understandably missing through ACL injuries. He was spot on re Naismith though. There are a significant number of squad players with very decent availability records, our greater problem here is running 2 senior players light.
  2. Also, the counter factual is to release ST promotional material without the current head coach featuring, no club does that.
  3. Did an amazing job at Aberdeen.. Would be futile to bring in a 75 year old who buggers off every few months.
  4. Reckon Plymouth is the more likely barometer. Most expect Leicester to beat us, the way we set up we look to stay in games rather than win them, so a 2-0 defeat say, is nothing. Argyle haven’t won at home since January & have failed to score in their last 4 home games, a defeat there will have far greater impact.
  5. That’s Randy Crawford (what a voice), I think we’re getting our Randys mixed up, which is definitely a Carry On sketch..
  6. Reckon he gets the next two, whether we like that or not. However to quote Randy Newman “I’ve been wrong before”..
  7. Peak Fans Forum activity to rush to tell the club that you’ve renewed. Like they really care, apart from having your money.
  8. Fair play to him for stepping up & making a side that made the playoffs two years running then finish 7th, eh? Real progress. Ward, GJ & Cotterill all got us automatically promoted in their first full season.
  9. Really quite emotional to hear AD as he approaches his 90th year. Tinnion however can **** right off.
  10. We saw on SotC he’s capable of Trump level lying.
  11. You actually think he lives there? Gary O’Neil lives in Wolverhampton? Michael Carrick In Middlesbrough?
  12. Word of advice, ignore anything Wilkins says. Makes Jon Lansdown look like Albert Einstein.
  13. Nope you haven’t dreamt it, he was. That was in 2011 by the way, but some fantasists on here think the fact he applied 13 years ago means he would be interested now. Don’t get me started on the “Robins loves the area” horseshit, he was on loan here for 5 weeks in 2003!
  14. Haven’t there been numerous posts pointing out Gary Probert did the legwork & was then poached by Mark Ashton for Ipswich? I’m not saying he didn’t play a part, but do get the impression he massively overstated it. He needs to go, I’d get rid of him before Manning personally.
  15. Trust me, it is. The cup games were massive outliers. The other decent performances you can count on the fingers of one hand. I haven’t been as bored since Pulis, even O’Driscoll’s team had JET to watch, this is awful fare.
  16. Just looked at the squad, one plays for Northampton Town & bizarrely 3 of them play in Austria. Not exactly a roll call of big clubs..
  17. Probably due to the fact Manning took over when we were 11 points above the drop zone. As others have said if every team started level I’d have no confidence in him at all.
  18. Sykes & Knight are on international duty anyway so they won’t get any time off at all.
  19. Gilmartin, Wollacott & various youngsters who had briefly featured like Opi Edwards, Louis Britton as well.
  20. Don’t know what you mean. There are literally hundreds of teenagers out there that Prem sides are desperate to loan out to us who would score 23 goals in 40 starts in their first season of league football at Championship level. I expect the list of suggested names of them must have taken up about half of the show.
  21. @Mr Popodopolous Mawson had his loan spell cancelled early on in Pearson’s time to allow him to accommodate Danny Simpson in the squad (April ‘21) & Steven Sessegnon saw that season out before his loan spell ended. Like you I don’t think overall our recent recruitment prior to January has been too bad. There seems to be a lot of revisionism over McCrorie & Mehmeti in particular of late following our poor run.
  22. Swansea also managed to get theirs virtually for free, not a corrupt use of EU funding at all, oh no. https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/european-commission-asks-swansea-council-6457757.amp
  23. Me too, though I’m definitely going to leave it as late as humanly possible before I do so & in the highly unlikely scenario that I am asked why, will say I have no confidence whatsoever in anyone in a senior position at the club.
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