Red-Robbo

Perchance. TBH I haven't been that amazed by any of his appearances. I'm undecided whether second tier will be the level he ends up. A few years yet for him to show his mettle, so I'd be daft to write him off at 19!

Fair point.

Weren't Yeovil once sponsored by Preston Plucknett Post Office & Stores? I remember they won the rights in a raffle. Other odd non-league ones were Margate FC sponsored by the band Bad Manners and St Albans were sponsored by Roy of the Rovers. Edit: While fact-checking this post, I found a great pic of Roy watching St Albans from their luxurious press box:

They aren't equivalents. One is the attacker, one the aggressor. It isn't a war that just 'broke out'. It's an unjustifiable invasion. One is like wearing a Swastika in the 1930s, the other like wearing a Star of David in the 1930s.

Sounds like you had practically evacuated as well!

Be glad not to see that ugly logo after this season. Always reminded me of the sort of font used by old-school fish & chip restaurants on the front of their faux leatherbound menus.

TBH if he was paid £150 a week it still wasn't worth it - unless he undertook some maintenance jobs around the HPC on the side. However you cut it, his signing was a failure. Divisive because of his wife-beating background; didn't look very good in the 4 starts he had for us; mysteriously earned another year and then spent months sitting on his arse and not even near considered for a matchday start. The fact that Pearson would rather play a teenage U23 forward over Simpson as RB says everything. Let's just hope NP has learnt from this fiasco and next summer's incomers are more considered than this, his first signing.

This particular section of the ground needs to be stewarded and policed more tightly for the foreseeable until the "hilarious" throwing items at the corner taker behaviour ceases.

I doubt the pitch object throwers ever do much that virtuous before or after their brain-dead actions. Clubs have been fined tens of thousands of quid for fans throwing objects on the pitch. right now we are borassic, so to do so confirms you are no City fan, just a d------d.

This bloke was the original 'Gus Caesar. I think @Aizoon saw him play.

I hope you dusted yourself down with DTT and showered for a couple of hours after getting out of there.

The word depression takes many given forms and feeling exhausted and not feeling able to fight (an abusive situation in your case) is just one of them. It doesn't have to mean moping about crying, or lying in bed pulling the duvet over your head - it can bring anxiety, self-harm, apathy, blankness and sudden silly decisions. I'm a big burly bear of a bloke who never really worried about too much in life, but job loss, divorce, a sudden plummet in my income and health issues left me with a crushing anxiety. At one point, I was too worried to answer the phone or look at my mobile. I thought it was going to bring yet more bad news. Therapy helped me and now life is peachy. Well, apart from at football. It will be for you too.

Probably Nige about to self-combust when he watched that first-half performance.

He did. Trouble was he never ran back again! His defensive work was not very a-Peal-ing.

As Chelsea fans most of them would be from Hampshire, or Saffron Walden, or Cornwall...

He certainly dropped a few clangers yesterday...

Therein lies some of the problem. Playing like a wing-back when you're really supposed to be a full-back. FWIW I thought Pring did fine when he came on

Bath v Gloucester games are like football in the 70s! Moving on, I think the stewarding yesterday was pretty poor. Not just this incident, but I saw two guys bringing pints up from the bar and just sitting swigging them in full sight of a completely uninterested steward. Like another poster, I also witnessed someone smoking in the stands.

But I think the bell may have tolled for him ever playing in defence again.

I find it harder to take as Pearson was a top-flight defender and we know Kalas can be better than he's shown recently, Bentley can be better than he showed yesterday, James can be better. The less said about the Bell experiment the better. It reminded me of the "Richard Foster is a midfielder now" game under McInnes. I just wonder if Fleming isn't enough coaching help for Nige, and we need to recruit another highly able coach to help out with the First Team. Not sure if that would be fiscally achievable though.

Rewatched the first goal again, as I couldn't quite believe how bad it was yesterday. So the clearly off the pace James gets done and allows Chong to turn, Bell is just missing and Kalas just stands in an ineffective place and watches, but why was Bentley where he was? Supporting the right goal post while leaving 5/6ths of the goalmouth uncovered. It was as soft a goal, as weak a capitulation, as I've ever seen at AG.

I certainly read that on here. A Leeds fan from Plymouth! There's no helping some people.

My thoughts too. Ultimately, I want Pearson to pull us out of this bad patch and return us to the home form we showed earlier this year. To finish lower than we did in 20/21 isn't really indicative of ongoing progress.

You are never alone. Remember that. People care for you and love you. Medication can help control low mood, but ultimately you will work your way through your problems and you will emerge stronger. Remember to picture that "five year" view. Will things be as bleak in 5 years time? Will these problems be as overwhelming then? It sounds like you've already realised they won't. Because they never are. Sometimes we need to take that long-term view to get us through the short-term shit. Hang in there.

Perhaps because most supporters realise he took on the club in a shit position - players on big wages who weren't performing or had never performed - and is trying a total rebuild on absolutely no money. Splash the cash and no ifs or buts, we will face a points deduction. Those mitigating factors aside, there is no reason why we shouldn't criticise Pearson on the odd occasion when he gets things totally wrong, as he did yesterday.