Steve Watts

The comments are just as bizarre on there as on Sagchat....

So Collins gets to number 4 for being a pissed up full kit manual manipulator sitting on some traffic lights? What a bizarre set of criteria that is!

Well that's bollocks (pardon the pun)....their balls are drained every night by their sisters!

Landed awkwardly and looked to have possibly rolled his ankle.

Don't spout such utter drivel man. You can't play Williams and James at the same time.... . Apparently...

More likely horse shit isn't it?!?

Don't even joke....because you just know we bloody would!?

It's obvious, isn't it? You put it on and won't want to go out in public and risk being seen.....Ergo it protects you from being stuck in a storm!

No pill's gonna cure our ill, we've got bad case of nothing new.

Like I said on the other thread, the referee saw the scuffle as it was still going on when he got there. He obviously didn't see what caused it, but two players grabbing, pushing and jostling each other is always going to be a card apiece. Subsequently giving them a free kick was bizarre, though!

I think the bookings were will have been for the scuffle itself, which the ref obviously saw, however didn't see the full incident. The two were still going at it when the referee eventually saw it and got over to them. So although he didn't see the cause he did see them engaging in "ungentlemanly conduct" and can only imagine that's why they were booked. Quite why they received a free kick though I have absolutely no idea. That was just bizarre considering the ball was on the opposite side of the pitch at the time! But apparently the standard of officials has improved, so we've been told....!

Not sure what good £3.50 would do us really....!

As per the Bristol Post story here, we're due to receive $9000 a day while Semenyo is in Qatar as part of the CBP announced by FIFA. What they don't seem to have realised though is that it looks like we're actually in line to received more than this as payment is made to all clubs the player has been registered at in the previous two years. This would open up the option of also making a claim for Jojo Wollacotts participation as well given that he was registered with us until 2021. The payment would be shared between ourselves, Charlton and Swindle judging by the text in their leaflet issued before the 2018 World Cup (The scheme was guaranteed for 2018 & 2022). Distribution of amounts In order to establish a scheme that does not favour a particular continental transfer period, FIFA drew up the following blocks to compile a list of the clubs with which the representative teams’ players were registered throughout the given two-year period: July until September 2016 October until December 2016 January until March 2017 April until June 2017 ¹/ ³ of Total per Player July until September 2017 October until December 2017 January until March 2018 April until May 2018 ¹/ ³ of Total per Player June until July 2018 ¹/ ³ of Total per Player Indicative example: Player X is selected to play for representative team A in the final competition of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia. Player X is registered with club Y at the time of the final competition of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia. Player X was transferred from club Z to club Y on 1 July 2017. Representative team A is eliminated in the quarterfinals of the final competition, which results in a Total per Player for player X of approximately USD 324,140 (38 days x USD 8,530). The amount of USD 324,140 is shared between clubs Y and Z, based on the time player X was registered with the two clubs Y and Z in the previous two years. In this indicative example, club Y would receive 2/ ³ of the amount and club Z ¹/ ³ . Here's hoping for a glorious world cup for Ghana! Not huge sums of money, but obviously every extra penny we can get at the moment will be very welcome.

Steve McLaren....? (The question wasn't "won it as a player..." but he was assistant to Fergie when they won it wasn't he?

If Shelts wording of the question is correct then Danny Simpson and Andy King aren't them. The question was which players have gone on to win the Premier league, suggesting that they did it after leaving us.... And actually if it's worded incorrectly then and you're right, then it's 4, with Matty James added to the list.

I've looked on the official website and can see no mention of this, so I will choose not to believe a word until it's on there........

Utter rubbish.... We were repeatedly very, very unlucky...... ....Very, very unlucky that his team were a bunch of underachieving total piss heads!

Toby Osborne is unrealistically optimistic.... I think we had one game where we were 3 down in the last 10 minutes and he was talking about us scoring to get back in the game..... I mean there's optimism and there's delusion. Mansfield away was a long time ago and rarely happens! Co-Commentary, I can listen to Tins talk all day. Lots of them have been really good, but Tins and Rene "Foinal turd" Gilmartin the best of the bunch so far.

I mean, I know some topics get a little side-tracked sometimes, but I think this is possibly a new one!

From the list: Jackie JET Loan Tomlin Trundle Missing from the list - Tinman. He regularly got people out of his seat just by putting the ball on a sixpence to anyone (usually Murray) who wanted to get on the end of it. Made his artistry look effortless. Also Missing from the list: Tiny Penis frequently made me get out of my seat wanting to go home.... The I can't believe he hasn't been mentioned on the list: Super Bas!

He was loans manager at the time Scott & Semenyo joined us. I'm sure I remember reading that they both came from contacts and relationships that Tins had built though. I don't think he sees his future in football management and I struggle to see how a director of football role at a club who, lets be honest, are not going to progress that much would be appealing to him. He speaks with real passion and genuine excitement about the players coming through that he knows will make it, and as evidenced by his football academies in Spain around 10-15 years ago, has a genuine desire to progress young players. He loves the club, irrespective of where he comes from and he can make a real difference here. I would be surprised to see him go anywhere else. Sometimes a job and a person just marry up beautifully and that seems to be what's happening here with the academy. Of course, this time tomorrow I could be eating my words and being shown up for having zero ability to read the situation! ?

Over a million more than we paid only 6 months before, back in the days when a million wasn't the chicken feed it's considered today. Again, with the shadow of 82 looking over us it's an understandable decision. I just had never heard the story before and could've sworn that a board member had said that they'd never let it happen again. Of course there's a strong chance that both mine and Dave's recollection are both accurate with the earlier incident promoting the latter policy.

The fixture might be printed on the ball.... If it ever re-enters orbit we can check! A very costly Dinning of a transfer that proved to be!

That would've been a bold and arguably foolish strategy to adopt a mere 9 years after almost ceasing to exist.

Great post. What I would say as a small input is that I don't think it would matter if Ashton was a fan of it. I don't think a player has been transferred out of the club without a sell-on clause since January 1995 when the board realised what a monumental cock up occurred in the lack of a clause when selling Andy Cole to Newcastle 2 years before.