Port Said Red

The only thing that could make this better is if we get through and draw Liverpool in the 5th round.

Cheap hotel rooms available for anyone fancying a decent weekend in Liverpool. :0

Looks end to end on there

Bit silly to have 6 players in your squad that would be likely to be missing for a mid season competition every other year.

I am waiting to hear that the match has been abandoned because the pitch has "become frozen".

They really don't like a press do they, I fancy either of these teams at home.

There are live "clips" in your ground mate, try turning up to see them.

This came to my mind

Everything I have seen so far suggests that Forest would be in trouble with a better executed press than the one Blackpool can muster. This might be the best time to play them with 6 players at the AFCON and Gibbs-White out injured. Terrible turn out too, I appreciate the weather is bad up there but they wouldn't have known that when the tickets were on sale.

Gave us some fair praise for last nights performance and the support.

As examples of consistency? Gavin was one of my favourites but he only became more consistent once he realised that he wasn't going to out run defenders and learned to beat people at close quarters. Smudger was a great runner, but his delivery was hit and miss.

I agree to some extent, but there have been good owners that still never achieve anything. I think my point is that there is no magic formula, you might get lucky with something, for example I don't know that many people thought that Brentford doing away with their academy was a good idea, but it worked for them. Brighton did the exact opposite and that worked for them. Steve has made decisions that I thought were good for the club but never worked out (McInness/ SOD) that didn't click for numerous reasons, and others that I was dubious about that came off. I was talking to a friend last night about how some people just seem to click at some clubs, Pulis at Stoke, Ferguson at Peterborough, Howe at Bournemouth, but struggle elsewhere, why? Who knows? Do they even know themselves? What we do know with Steve is that he has always put his money in when necessary and hasn't ended up in jail or disappeared overnight at the first sign of trouble, which I find reassuring.

That's two out of 92 so far, I don't know much about owners and the clubs they own so I will take your word for those two.

No, he has to keep trying it, the one out of ten is the important one, and will become 1 in 8 - 1-6 - 1-4 with experience and confidence. His is no more inconsistent than any winger we have had, despite what people's memories tell them.

How many owners across football fall into that category?

He looks reasonably two footed as well which makes him more versatile and difficult to defend against.

Yes I factored that in, the minimum gate receipts would be about 880,000, some tickets were more than the £10 minimum, then there's hospitality, less complimentaries, to balance that out. 45% of that is £396k gross in gate receipts alone.

@Davefevs will tell you that I have been championing him for a year or so now, he has the ability to lead the line that is quite unusual in players of that age, he's big enough (6-2) but very mobile with it and has a good football brain. I thought they might keep him around the squad this season, I would have rather have had him coming off the bench than Yeboah. I was surprised that he went back to Newport after his injury. He had come off the bench and pulled up after only a couple of minutes and their Manager inferred this was due to poor preparation. Maybe that was aimed at their physio team rather than SP-H, because they got him back quick enough.

I loved his interview where he said he was there as a fan when Korey Smith scored the winner against Manchester United.

As I remember it, posters were saying that having McCrorie available would be a good thing, your reply was as above, but suggesting that posters had no idea if he was any good or not. You mention Bristol Boy (Ian Gay) and where you do compare is your revisionism.

I didn't want to post this before last night as I didn't want to tempt fate, but it's worth noting what a cup run can mean in addition to gate receipts and TV rights etc. 87k tickets @ £10 or more £42.5k in TV money and f&b spend as well. Pushes us towards £.75m gross so far.

I have the Octopus Agile tariff and at it's most expensive it costs around 18p per KWh between around 11pm and 7am. On occasions (when the wind was blowing) coming up to Xmas they were actually paying me to use electric across that period! I have never added a charger to my house as, despite already having electric in my garage, I was quoted an extra £1000 to run a dedicated line to the garage on top of the cost of install. I charge from a standard 13amp socket at around 3KWh an hour so and overnight charge adds plenty for me most of the time. I rarely charge when I am out and about these days, going up to London for the West Ham game cost me around £22 to charge at the hotel to get home again, which is OK, but would have cost me about £5 at home. The cars 2nd hand are not too bad, I am looking at the Hyundai Kona which 2nd hand I can get at around £20k, with a 300 mile range I am even less likely to have to charge away from home too.

As I said in my subsequent thread, we don't have a player of Twine's type in the squad or looking to make a breakthrough.

I am assuming that last line is in reply to the part about blocking youngsters? I don't think that is the case here, from what I have seen of the U21's we don't have a "playmaker type" coming through. Benarous if fit? Acey is still young and recovering his full fitness, will he develop, who knows? Murphy is a possibility and I did wonder if we might see him sooner rather than later, but this signing takes the pressure off for the rest of the season. But otherwise, it's good looking defenders and dynamic looking youngsters with pace and potential. This isn't a criticism of the Academy because I think "Number 10s" generally have something that can't be coached, finding youngsters with that innate ability to both see and execute a play is rare in all sports, finding them with the physical attributes required is even rarer.

How many more times? It's not dropping players, it's options. There are 16 players involved almost every game, having more quality means those players can be used more effectively and be fresher. The days of it being just "the starting 11" has been consigned to the history books a long time ago. It's not even going to block a youngster from sitting on the bench as Manning hasn't been filling all the spaces anyway.