Lorenzos Only Goal

I suppose a twist on this would be what grounds will you never go to as they no longer exist or the clubs defunct that you wish you had?  I'll never have gone to the Old Brighton & Hove ground for just chance, and I never went to the old Colchester ground before their new bowl.  But I did go to the old Manor Ground, the Vetch,  Bury etc, there are a few Yorkshire/East Midlands clubs where I've only ever been to the new grounds.   Only ever been to the Majaski for Reading as well.

I do like grounds where Boverille is still considered a valid halftime treat.

I've been to a.load of grounds with city, but my rovers friend we take in random neutral games so I've been to a fair few grounds that way to.  I tend to keep a list of the grounds I've not been to that I'd like to.  

10 hours ago, GrahamC said:

Tinnion played Orr as a central midfielder (& he wasn’t very good) GJ converted him to a right back.

One good enough to then get in The Championship team of the year under him.

Brooker was a good signing, he made at least half a dozen awful ones though.

I don't  know most of his signings turned out to be decent under Johnson snr.  There were only a few that were average and didn't work out and were moved on when we were promoted.

He was just terrible as a manager, much better as a coach.

That was a cracking game.

25 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

The theory is right - you can invoke “the right to be forgotten” and then start again under GDPR (in effect arguing that as you’re not partaking the data is no longer relevant - before then partaking!)

The thing for me is that if you choose to “re-partake” in the forum then your data/posts prior do become relevant - not as a stick to beat you with, but because by “re-engaging” you are in effect re-giving consent.

So, we really end up in two places (and noting again I don’t think forum posts would have to be deleted under GDPR but people who ask are effectively putting mods/volunteers in a really bad position)

- If you choose to leave under GDPR then you’re gone for good, and if you create another account, if in the mods opinion that is the same user, that also gets banned

- The alternate is that if you rejoin all your prior posts are reinstated. However I see that as a technical nightmare and open to abuse, so I err on “1”

I have been thinking on this over the last day or so, and I think what we have with the alleged “duplication” here is a relatively unique scenario and isn’t necessarily down to wilful misuse.

IIRC, the user “Ralph Milnes left foot” was trans (I can’t recall if they transitioned fully or not). Trans people, when they do transition, refer to their prior name as “deadnaming” and consider that the person they were pre transition isn’t the same person as they are post transition. This would naturally follow to wanting any prior posts under the initial ID removed, and then denying they were ever that user (as they don’t consider themself to be the same user).
 

So, I kind of “get it” on this case and I can see a valid reason for exception to the above.

GDPR what a lawyer's paradise and the ICO what a flacid waste of time.

11 hours ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

Just over 25 years as we know, Ward left and a new manager came in. Maybe a week or so more in it. Came across this.

For those who are interested, little feature on Benny ahead of and with little bits of footage from the Grimsby game April 1999.

What Davidson said was interesting about the start he might need to win fans over!

Still with us at 80 bless him loved the fact we had a little exchange program going for a while after he left.

1 minute ago, Graham76 said:

Scott Murray - Isn't it time we replaced him as well?  

That would be my redline.  

I thought he had a good game against Wednesday, very tricky at times making himself useful but he's 100% not a lone striker we're short, and he's been doing a job that's it.   I think we will see a difference in Tommy when Wells is back they seem to bring the best out of each other.

6 hours ago, Davefevs said:

How the eff did I do my ACL?

Second thoughts, don’t answer that!!

 

Re the application, totally agree, although theoretically they ought to be able to apply to men’s or women’s equally.  We both know that’s just theory.

Not your ACL you doughnut, the women's game.in general has a problem with higher frequency of ACL tares and ruptures and the severity at a lower intensity is worse.  Sports science needs to catch-up before in order for the women's game can hit it's.next notch, if that makes sense.

35 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

I’m only gonna add this….the training and qualifications for your “coaching badges” are exactly the same.

Otherwise….

….Personally, I take each on their own merits, men’s football for what it is, women’s football for what it is.  We are a still quite a way off seeing them as comparable games.  There are parts of the game which are starting to converge, or certain teams looking stylistically like men’s teams, but it’s still not close.

I think the ACL problem will curtail the women's game,  I was reading a paper on it the other week and essentially as women hit sexual maturity and their hips widen this puts extra pressure on their ACL that men simply will never experience, with less muscle mass leaves them in a bad place.  I think sports science has some catching up to do.  Because as the ladies get more intensity in their game the more ACL injuries we will see.  I get that the coaching qualifications are the same but the application day to day is completely different.

Some people don't understand the woman's game is very very different from the men's game.  

Besides she's doing a great job for the ladies, cya West Ham.

18 hours ago, Zuni said:

                                MOL

          Tanner     Vyner     Dickie     Pring

                      GH    Naismith

                              Knight

                 Sykes     Conway     Yaboah

                                  

Depending on fitness that's how I'd go I think, Naismith I like a lot more in midfield, and I fancy seeing what young Ephrem has to show at the start of the game.

Will be available soon, maybe we should bide our time.  

Want: Ryan Mason

Think: Juan Keymangler

Can we attract Graham Potter?  

36 minutes ago, fisherrich said:

Until the Lansdownes **** OFF, I ain’t going down AG.
That video is quite frankly taking the piss. If ever there was a need to rally the fans and explain the decision to sack Nige P, with a bit of clarity, it is now. What an opportunity missed. 

And we get that!
 

Did you read that as "our fans are very passionate" as "I think they're ******* stupid" and will turn up and spend their money regardless of how we run the club.

36 minutes ago, fisherrich said:

Until the Lansdownes **** OFF, I ain’t going down AG.
That video is quite frankly taking the piss. If ever there was a need to rally the fans and explain the decision to sack Nige P, with a bit of clarity, it is now. What an opportunity missed. 

And we get that!
 

Did you read that as "our fans are very passionate" as "I think they're ******* stupid" and will turn up and spend their money regardless of how we run the club.

He looks very nervous thought that interview; he's shaking like a shitting dog.

20 minutes ago, The Constant Rabbit said:

I'm genuinely beginning to wonder wether SL has the onset of dementia.

 

Mood swings, erratic decisions, lashing out at criticism, contradicting himself.

 

Wouldn't surprise me at all if in 12 months he was out of the public eye altogether.

 

This isn't a dig - dementia is a terrible, terrible incurable illness, which I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy - but he is showing all the early clinical indicators (as much as you can see from afar)

 

2p

I do wonder if he's not poorly, he setup ravenscroft over in Guernsey and then retired from that last year.  He's 71 and he must want Jon to be running the day to day for him.  

That said I think he want out one way or another. For whatever reason.

I don't know Dave I'm still quite angry about it. Probably more so about Euell and Rene it's still all a bit unfathomable to me.

It's a shit show this is all.

Euell is gone too and he's a massive reason for the academy players getting better.

This is a regressive step.

What's worse is Euell had gone along with Rene as well.  Both massively positive impact on the club....

We can only assume there is a new manager announcement next week. I can't see Flemming lasting that long.

2 hours ago, Major Isewater said:

And then got injured. 

Shhh it's depressing.

4 hours ago, BCFC Rich said:

Look I'm not going to lie - no fan wants to see their team lose back-to-back games. And it hurts. However with 11 players (might actually be 12?) out, 6/7 of whom would probably be starters I find myself bizarrely optimistic. We could easily have got points out of the last two games and with a little more luck might have done. We are 5 points outside the playoffs with an awful lot of the season to go and an awful lot of players to come back in. 

I get the doom and gloom and worries around SL and lack of investment - and I agree that is something we should be concerned about. However when it comes to the football side, the staff and players. One thing is really clear they are united and playing as a team, giving everything and stepping up where and when they need to. I felt at the beginning of the season we were an upper midtable side, I still hold that with the quality of the squad we have that is our true position. However, I also feel, NP has us playing above ourselves a lot of the time. With better injury luck and/or more investment I think we'd be in with an outside shot at the playoffs this season. 

 

I think after Christmas we're in a different place, but the trick between now.and then is not to let any rot set in.  If we can string some results together while people get fit we will be a different side in January.  No need to panic right now.

Be disappointed that's ok but this has to be as bad as it gets Sykes at left back?

King was supposed to be transitioning to a coaching role but has played a few games.

24 minutes ago, MarcusX said:

Player manager in their promotion season wasn’t he?

That passed me by or I may have forgotten as it was so long ago.

2 hours ago, 2015 said:

Ex Swindon aint he. Course he is

Well **** me sideways I didn't realise he was part of their flirtation with the Premier League, my favourite joke back then was what's Swindon Town and John Majors underpants got in common? They're both at the bottom of the premier.  What an odd fact.