Port Said Red

If you have an interest in this sort of drama may I suggest the film The Zone of Interest, it's currently available on Amazon (free with Prime) it won the best International Film Oscar along with best sound. The significance of the best sound Oscar will become apparent when you watch it.

12 minutes ago, Glen hump said:

I worked in Southampton for a couple of months’ there’s no way that’s correct’’ Bristol is a couple of times bigger at least.

Are you able to tell where Southampton finishes and Portsmouth starts? I have never been able to work it out.

As far as Bristol is concerned, those figures look low, but usually the ones quoted are for the Greater Bristol Area, including places like Kingswood which aren't officially Bristol.

1 minute ago, formerly known as ivan said:

Where does this leave the Sags in terms of the worlds richest clubs???

I don't know but £4.5bn only just gets you in the top 600 richest men.... Wow..

18 minutes ago, Robbored said:

Every Championship club that doesn’t receive them all see them as unfair and a huge financial benefit to the relegated clubs.

I posted awhile back about every PL club should have relegation clauses in their players contracts that apply the average Championship wages.That way these relegated clubs would have no financial bonus over other Championship clubs.

That way there’d be not need to have the PP system in place.

This policy wouldn’t affect the majority on the PL clubs.

So why not?

I am not sure if employment law would be involved with a reduction of an individuals wages based on a teams performance? A player could easily argue that relegation was not down to them as an individual with a variety of statistics.

36 minutes ago, aa_bcfc said:

IMO there is no such thing as a dead rubber with nothing to play for in professional football. 
Getting on for 2000 fans travelled for good distance and paid good money to support the team wanting them to play well and win the football match and get 3 points. 
Back in the day of 2 up and 2 down with no play offs many more games could have been termed as nothing to play for. 
 

It could have been worse, it could have been an important step in the season at home and we could have lost 3-2 after being 2 nil up. I don't know what the reaction to the manager would have been then.

3 hours ago, JAWS said:

Nothing will change under the Lansdown family. They've had 22 years to realise our potential and still we hear the same rhetoric  

Genuinely, if it depresses you that much, why bother us with it?

2 hours ago, Sir Geoff said:

Not as shocked as I am of your assertion in January that Scott Twine would be an exciting addition to the team.

..........Still waiting ( oh yes, I remember now, he had one decent game against League one Rotherham)

I don't think I was alone in that.

Judging by the fact it has taken him until the last couple of games to find his feet, he may well have been far more exciting without his injury, especially since he scored in his first and last home games. 

I did think it was sort of ironic that, having rid ourselves of the penalty hoodoo, we hardly seemed to get a free kick on the edge of the box when Twine was playing. When we finally did, he showed something we have been missing for a long time. 

I do agree though, having seen him first hand, that he would have to be available at a very cut price for him to be a viable option in my opinion. 

I can't see that being the case with Burnley seemingly dropping back into the Championship.

I see Hull City have failed to make the play offs despite the reassurances of several posters in the January transfer window that, spending loads of money on strikers was a guarantee of making the play offs at the very least. 

I am shocked, shocked I tell you.

1 minute ago, wendyredredrobin said:

The BCFC board have only themselves to blame for this debacle.  They were 6th and playing well when they replaced Eustace with Useless.  Their fans must be spitting blood.

I wonder what the Sunderland fans feel too. They sacked Beale in February after the shortest reign in their history when they were still on the edge of the play offs, and then finished the season in relegation form.

1 minute ago, Ivorguy said:

So Wes Burns is potentially the man who fires Ipswich’s promotion to Prem

Well wh would ever have guessed 

Yeah, it's only taken him 8 years to get any good, if only we had the patience..........

That's his mum? 

12 hours ago, ExiledAjax said:

I wonder the same.

Whether he wanted one or not, I hope it was his decision. It wouldn't be good if we'd willingly let him leave the building without checking whether he might want to stay.

Whatever he does in his second career I'm sure he'll do it very well. 

I don't know if he would be interested, what I do know is that up Christmas despite his title, he hadn't actually taken any coaching sessions, certainly not from U18 or above anyway.

That might have changed in the last 4 months of course, but he seems to have been involved with the first team squad just as much if not more, so I don't think it's likely.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b007mwcf/new-york-rock-at-the-bbc

15 minutes ago, Ashtongreight said:

I read your first post as suggesting Nige undermined the previous 2 years goodwill that had been built up before he arrived, not the first 2 years of his tenure . I imagine others read it the same way as me. 

I know you well enough to know you wouldn’t betray a confidence, but for those that don’t it’s a fair question about Rob, as you seem so certain of the facts. 
 

You did state as fact, not just your opinion that Nige only turned up for matches at the end,  do you categorically know that to be true, you also state he undermined the senior management of the club when they asked if he needed help due to his illness, I’m sure that’s not Nige’s version of events, therefore how do you know it’s true ?

Fair enough, no I did mean the first two years of his tenure. I appreciate what he did and I do wish the hierarchy would acknowledge it more. I do think that he manipulated the fanbase when he realised he was leaving though. 

I can't reveal my source, and I understand that people will look at the Rob connection (unfairly as he was always pretty discreet as far as day to day stuff is concerned), it is someone who knows the club very well though, and interestingly (to me anyway) is often very critical of the owners and the set up. 

So when someone like that tells you something that is more favourable to the upper management I take notice.

1 minute ago, Bedred31 said:

I was at the game at the Gate when he was injured and the ambulance drove onto the pitch. Seems like yesterday. Astonishing player- sad news. Rest in peace, Stan.

I was at the Gate when he ran towards a long pass and looked like he was free to run through on goal. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Norman Hunter trundling towards him and he stopped dead in his tracks. I don't think anyone in the ground blamed him either.  

12 minutes ago, Sheltons Army said:

Whether or not you, or anyone thinks  think it was time for a change

IMO Your (And anyone else’s) complete lack of even a hint appreciation or recognition of the job he did do here is simply astounding , depressing and embarrassing 

It literally puts you Below the level of the hierarchy as they at least have direct personal views , ambitions or personal glory for their decisions

You always come across as very defensive about anything at the club but the fact you go a few steps further even than them and make significant claims and character assassination is IMO incredible from a supporter 

Being blunt fans like you deserved an alternative appointment to NP , most of whom would see you defending a 2-1 loss at Fleetwood today.

So. you ignored the bit where I said about all the good work he did for 2 years? Fine, just so I know there is no point posting anything because you will pick and choose what you want to see in my posts anyway. I'll leave you to whatever it is you think you will achieve by posting the same moans, over and over and over and over..........................

33 minutes ago, Bodiesaffer said:

Who told you that?  

31 minutes ago, Sheltons Army said:

‘ Rob ‘

No it wasn't, if it was I wouldn't have put it on the public forum. Stuff about his injury being made worse by the current physio is different, because it would be provable without his direct comments. 

1 hour ago, sglosbcfc said:

Dear Nigel

I made the mistake of thinking I knew something about football. I replaced an experienced and successful manager with a guy that had never managed above League One and had led MK Dons to the bottom 4. I then told the fans to expect the top six. 

Two of the worse three teams in the division have just comfortably beaten us and our league record is worse under him than you, despite the fact that you could barely name a team due to injuries.

Please come back and save the season

Love

Jon

P.S thanks for getting us the points early doors which mean we are not in a relegation battle now.

 Yes, come on back, I don't care if you only turn up for match days like you did for your last 8 weeks in charge. I don't care that you ruined 2 years of hard work creating a team spirit and a good relationship across the club, by suggesting you were being undermined by senior management, when they asked if you needed any help during your illness/injury bringing the wrath of the forum down on the senior Management. 

Let's just call it water under the bridge and you can pop in whenever you feel like and give the press a hard time and the fans a giggle.

Good interview with Root on 5Live earlier, very good defence of "Bazball" and his own decision making.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/68391344

2 minutes ago, 22A said:

Four minutes in and it's not working for me today. 

Working beautifully on my Smart TV web browser....

People complain about our pitch, but Hillsborough's is shocking.

Manning

2 hours ago, The Original OTIB said:

Good news, but I found it odd when he said that his first conversation with Manning was on Wednesday of this week. Yes Tinnion has been in regular contact, but why not our Head Coach? At least a call before the Man Utd game would have been in order. Strange for me, and something i'd say about any manager/head coach at this level. Showing direct interest in the lads coming through, particularly on loan, doing well, can only be good for all. 

Manning has asked to have him come and have a day's training with us every Tuesday for the rest of this season, which considering he's become a key player for Newport they have been pretty good by saying yes to that. Obviously this week was the first week that's happened because of their playing schedule and ours. 

I am not sure I agree that Manning should have much more contact than that, it's important that he focuses on Newport and doesn't have too many conflicting thoughts about it.

I don't know how much direct contact Pearson had with loanees or whether he reached out to the loanees that we had when he became manager. I have often wondered what the protocol is in such cases.

12 hours ago, formerly known as ivan said:

In flashes, yes. However, when he was on the pitch it was like playing with 10 men for 90% of the time. He was as much of the issue as he was the solution. We played much of our better football during the promotion season when Wilbs and Agard were on the pitch. He was a luxury to have waiting to come on.

As yes I remember at the time people saying we should drop him because we conceded so many goals, even after it was pointed out that he had either scored or assisted in something like 27 out the 29 goals we had scored during the same period. A season where every other bit of joy had been sucked out of the club and some people wanted to take the only bit that was left.

Every now and again I go on YouTube to watch the video of his accumulated goals for us, just for the sheer joy of it. Half the time it's not just the goal, it's the ease with which he plays. Like Alex Scott last season, you just have to watch and wonder how it's possible to be so much better than anyone else with what looks like minimum effort.

https://youtu.be/2JjL3zM9LLU?si=j-4TDa22ONetqwIU

44 minutes ago, Offside said:

Echo Beach - Martha and the Muffins

Ocean Song - She Drew the Gun

Hopefully we will come back fresh and clean up the tail quickly in the morning, then crack on with the bat. Doesn't have to be a big score, from what I am reading I can't imagine they will want to chase 300/325 on days 4 and 5.

12 hours ago, southside said:

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=3mbG9GlrLZQ&si=GWNpzDaAj4jDpX75

One of my favourite KOL songs, from Walls 2016

Put the headphones on, lay back and enjoy

I bought Because of the Times in a shop in the Manhattan Village that looked for all the world like the one in High Fidelity. 

When I was back home, I was sat in traffic leaving our Nottingham office when I remembered that I still hadn't opened it. 

Knocked Up came on and I thought that's sounds very good, I'll listen to that again....... It was 145 miles to my home in Keynsham at the time and by the time I got back I still hadn't got to Charmer (track 2) 

For me it's up there with The Royal Scam as one of the great epics that tell a story that captures your imagination and has hooks and melodies galore. It's almost like the band themselves don't want to stop playing it, every time you think it's ending, it comes back again. 

Those drum reports in the middle of the instrumental section are incredible too, I still forget where some of them are. 

Such a daring thing to do to for a band like them known mainly for their short sharp shock tracks, to open with a 7 minute opus which I describe to people as a "Jerry Springer show set to music".

I think you can tell that I quite like it.

https://youtu.be/_Mzklb9nkXM?si=I1l6xlZLwLjHcgLO