Dolman_Stand

Everyone else got Preston commentary?

4 minutes ago, Supersonic Robin said:

Would it be tough for us to justify though?

It's one thing Pearson moving to a DoF role at the end of his managerial contract, but it feels a bit different if he moves part way through his contract.

Supposedly the "early" move would be some sort of admission of failure in the manager's role. Would it look like Pearson "failing upwards"? Would Pearson be appropriate for the DoF role if he's been unable to turn us around as a manager?

 

Would never happen, he's not a long term supporter or associate of the club nor does he live in the area other than for work

1 hour ago, Superjack said:

I have a bad feeling that it may be imminent.

Yeah I agree, a couple of defeats next week would see real pressure on him. Lansdown may hold off until the World Cup to give himself more time to decide but the thought will be in his head now

3 minutes ago, Taz said:

Yes it was.

Was it?! Well that's annoying!

Wasn't even on the red button last night, sign of the times with cost of living also coupled with poor form o think.

8 hours ago, 2015 said:

From 1996 until WC in 1998 I think that was probably the strongest England side in my life time. Unfortunately Hoddle went off the rails after the World cup and started talking crap to the press and was done.
I think at that time he was in the middle of evolving the old guard (Shearer, Sheringham, Seaman, Adams, Pearce, Ince) into the so called 'Golden Generation' which unfortunately was not headed by him. We then made some awful Managerial decisions.

Yeah was a strange way to get sacked to say the least! I would argue your point on subsequent managers though Sven did a decent job (5-1 in Germany) following Keegans trainwreck and the 2004 Euro's in Portugal where if Portugal hadn't knobbled Rooney early I still think we would have won the whole thing.

It all went to shit after that for over a decade once the Wag culture and press hounding went into overdrive.

Reckon Scott Parker will be nailed on for that one

Shame I was hoping they would stick with him until we played them

32 minutes ago, Lanterne Rouge said:

That was Andy Davies I think. The one that didn`t give the blatant foul on Alex Scott?

And got roughed up in the car park afterwards

Why would any governing body sanction this fight? Reputationally its a disaster for them isn't it? The Luxembourg route was used for Haye Chisora due to disciplinary reasons following the brawl in Munich which is a lot more justifiable than this particular event at the moment. The more likely route is that Matchroom win their legal discussions with BBBoC or hold it as an exhibition fight instead (in name only obviously).

When the news broke yesterday my initial thoughts were Benn wouldn't be the sort to do that but when you think about how sudden his improvement has been over the last few years it does raise a lot of suspicion, particularly when you look at the masking capabilities it has for steroid use.

I hope Eddie see's sense and pulls the fight as it isn't worth whatever money is on the line as the measures he's going to have to take will be damaging to Matchroom, he's done a lot of good for British boxing over the last decade but this would stink and would always be held against him. If the DAZN move was going better for him and AJ was still on top I think his judgement would be better and not so financially driven, maybe because he hasn't failed a UKAD test it opens up a lot of legal liabilities for them if the fight doesn't happen as CEJr could sue them directly so he has to show mitigation measures to ensure he isn't liable?

2 minutes ago, The turtle said:

Noble ? (came from Barnet , though granted a bit dif )

Came from Boston who at the time were League Two and we were League One

Matty Taylor came from a local club with a history of non-league didn't he?

Bolasie came from League Two although arguably he never really made it with us before going on to much better things

22 minutes ago, Bouncearoundtheground said:

‘Eubank Jr still wants the fight to go ahead’. Since when did the opposing fighter get to make a decision like that? Of course they’re going to want to fight but it’s ******* dangerous! 

Why is it only ever Matchroom opponents that get pulled out if they fail a test, and never their own fighters? Any money they might have been getting from me for this one they can forget.

Btw, this is a PED that allows for post cycle recovery, stops you from growing man boobs and means tests shouldn’t detect anything adversary. Essentially meaning he’s been juiced up to the gills on god knows what else. *** shouldn’t be allowed near a ring ever again let alone a drastically weight drained fighter. 

My guess is that his Mrs was taking them and its got into his system somehow, both sides have confirmed it was a trace finding so could have been cross contamination rather than him taking it directly. All other samples have been clear as well.

As for discussing with Eubank having a say I can only assume Conor wanted to explain how it happened with him which if my theory is close then it would be a reasonable conversation to have with someone....maybe Eubank negotiated a bit of leeway in the rehydration clause as a result?

Yeah, it was odd because I saw the complaints but my feed was fine.

1 minute ago, Lew-T said:

I’m with Virgin and it wasn’t acceptable really. Commentary from a different game the whole game, and most of the time the cameraman was zooming on one player with the ball.

It was painful.

I usually get this problem ( if the game is actually even available on Virgin) but surprisingly it was OK last time

6 minutes ago, Kibs said:

Any one of the 18 defenders in the squad! 

A fair point, still  only gets as far as the bench though. Trouble with Southgate is he can't get the best out of Foden or Grealish so it wouldn't matter if Maddison was there or not

4 minutes ago, Alex_BCFC said:

I bet Southgate overlooks Maddison again. 

Agree he is a great player but of the current England squad who's place would he take?

2 hours ago, GrahamC said:

Bit misleading though, isn’t it?

Peterborough still owed us £500k from the original fee, so this isn’t anything unforeseen or that we wouldn’t have already budgeted for.

The sell on profit was just a further £160k, better than nothing but hardly a game changer in terms of our finances.

It's 500k up front that wouldn't have been allowed in this years accounts, not earth shattering but would help any immediate cash flow / FFP issues I suppose

49 minutes ago, glynriley said:

If I was Wally, I'd sack Barton and get him in quick smart.

Would think Cardiff may be interested

7 minutes ago, Robbored said:

No option of ‘for discussion’. 
 

 

1 minute ago, Robbored said:

Not at all - I’m just stating my opinion. This is a forum after all…………

What’s the point of posting such a question with only two possible option? 

If other posters disagree with my view then say so.

What other options are available?

5 minutes ago, Robbored said:

What a ridiculous post……….jeez……..,.

Thank you for your valued input

As its International week just to gauge everyone's positivity do you think Next time we leave the Championship it will be up or down?

3 minutes ago, ScottishRed said:

Never happening in a million years. Gareth will be on the plane without question.

Your almost certainly right but if something doesn't change we'll be coming home very early from the World Cup

Feels like like the right time at the wrong time unfortunately, if Germany beat us on Monday then the FA have a decision to make especially with Pochettino and Tuchel available