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1 hour ago, Gazred said:

Totally bonkers game.

There is nothing quite like AFCON.

Too emotional 

48 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

As you know, wrong band! With that reference - down down, you bring me down. Your face, it has no place in this conversation…

Woops, sorry; slap me on the patio. All the same, them Manc bands, mind

22 minutes ago, Merrick's Marvels said:

Nowt in there worth nicking!

No, get them to run the joint. Poacher turnt goalkeeper

Shop lifters of the West Country: unite, and take over the club shop.

55 minutes ago, joe jordans teeth said:

Let’s not start trying to cram songs of the smiths because Dave is a stats man as charming as he is 

Been calling Maidstone "Made of Stone" lately, so expect that one to pop up somewhere on here during the 5th round (keeps me amused)

1 minute ago, joe jordans teeth said:

Dave thought I’m miserable so why not make everyone else 

Yeah, he was happy in a drunken haze of football stats, analysis and video clips but he's miserable now

18 hours ago, 97Robin said:

28, ST since 6yrs old. Never felt this dis-engaged. "Manning ball" is awful anyone who disagrees is kidding themselves. Pearson should never have been sacked maybe not always pretty but played to our strengths and was effective. Thanks for the good times and the infrastructure but time to go Lansdown.

Stick with it, kidder. The week where it's us in the Prem scoring 8 in two games gets ever closer, by the decade. 

2 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

They're pretty different in fairness.

Twine central, creative- perhaps even to some degree along the front ie leftish of the 3 behind the striker.

Bird deeper, can occasionally drop to CB, creative but defensively sound but definitely deeper and more central.

Twine central (occasionally leftish) .... Bird more central?

3 hours ago, One Team said:

I can’t stand either of these clubs but what a game last night especially the second half.

Wolves 1 - 3 down until the 85th minute grab a second, score a sublime goal in the 95th to get the draw only for a Man Utd teenager to grab a winner in the 97th!

Whoever you support you live for games like that. 

It's like that every other home game at Plymouth this season ...

Enid Blyton wrote "Mr Meddle's Muddles" in 2009/10 about Steve Lansdown and the Coppell/David James years ....

21 hours ago, handsofclay said:

Jane Austen also predicted one of our loan signings 200 years before it occurred in the title of one of her novels Nathan Abbey*

*The publishers weren't keen on the title as they wanted it also included that he would also play for Northampton and he was also a goalkeeper so Jane compromised with the first word which became mashed. So we now know it as Northanger Abbey. Good local girl was Miss Austen. Mixed in the elite circles and picked up all the gossip on City's potential signings way ahead of even Ian Gay.

Goal-hanger Abbey?

2 hours ago, Full nelson said:

This made me laugh, insert Derby view........ now.

"A nothing player gone to a nothing club".

Cheers  

Tbf, until we actually do or achieve something then to clubs like yer Derbys we will always be a bit of a nothing club. It's not the most outlandish slur that could be laid at our door.

In Jane Austen's Prowed & Prejudice, Mr Bennet, facing the ignominy of his youngest daughter's disgrace with the cad Whickham, says to his favourite child Elizabeth: "For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?" which is pretty much Bristol football and this forum in a nutshell.

On 31/01/2024 at 08:21, Merrick's Marvels said:

Jürgen Klopp is right: man-management skills are being lost in a rush of data | Jürgen Klopp | The Guardian

 

Good read, that. Thanks. "Data is not predestination." I like football to be, still, about the intangibles, the art as well as science of coaching or management. "Are you up for the fight, Liam?"

As we are quite probably neither going up or down this season, getting all het up about results now is daft, we will get a better idea about LM after he's had a summer window and a pre-season, before the Saturday-Tuesday-Saturday-Tuesday kicks in and the recovery-meetings-play-recovery-meetings Klopp refers to.

14 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

Here you go, 21:40 on this. Thing of beauty, doesn’t show the crossfield 1-2 with Walshie before but does show the finish:

 

What stays with me watching that is the sound of the crowd anticipating a certain goal that does not materialise: "Yeaaa-hhh .... ohhh! " Sums up 87/88, sums up the 1980s, the last 40 years ..... proper ball boys back then mind, City ski hats, kicking the ball out of the back of the net, celebrating with the players 

3 hours ago, Monkeh said:

People still buy newspapers?

Aye. Last time I bought the local Sunday Independent for example was 4 May 2014, I still have it in fact. And no, @Never to the dark side, you can't have it.

15 minutes ago, TomThumb84 said:

I was in the East End, to the right of the goal by about 10 feet (our normal spot) and remember the cushioned volley Ralph Milne scored (pretty sure on debut) like it was yesterday. Could see straight down the line of it into the top corner. Was a hero to me as a boy from that moment on. Spent hours trying to replicate that.

Sad story, but he bought a lot of joy on the pitch.

 

 

That was a thing of beauty, but an impossible standard to maintain. 

15 minutes ago, Port Said Red said:

Yes, for those who bemoan our recruitment team, that list of failures that Fergie bought should be a bit of an eye opener.

Now, now Port Said. That's for other threads. Let's keep the focus on Ralphie ....

Outrageously gifted on the pitch, poor lad struggled off it. In his short time here he left us with a couple of memorable moments

1 hour ago, Galley is our king said:

Gone in the summer,

He will be gone in the summer,

Gone in the summer,

He will be gone.......

To the tune of "sacked in the morning"

Indeed. Another one bites the d signs for Bournemouth, and another signs and another one signs, another one's off to 'muff; hey!

(Steve walks warily down the street, with the brim pulled way down low; get a few mill in for Pring, and the next one ready to go .....)

Hey!

Oh, bite .... sign fer 'muff, baby .....,

1 hour ago, Cowshed said:

Emotion will also feed poor decision making. 

It depends, which emotion are you referring to? There's more than one you know (not that you'd know it, taking in a Liam Manning interview).

Would the emotion of curiosity or disgust feed poor decision making? What about prowed? 

I thought we played quite emotionally v West Ham, not that we'd get away with ruffling the opposition's emotions like that every week in the Championship, not at Elland Road.

Not forgetting there will be Coventry fans in Coventry, too. And Liverpool "fans," wherever you go.

7 minutes ago, ChrisJ said:

I think we are a handful of signings away from being a very very good side. 

We often are

7 minutes ago, ExiledAjax said:

I'm all for taking the piss about attendances, booking hotels in Liverpool, Row M, fake Fanta, flouting planning rules etc. All for that.

But.

I can't laugh at or find any joy in an owner running a club, any club, into the ground and out of existence. Whatever the history or banter is, we should not make light of this kind of thing.

Our own club will undergo a change of ownership in the near future and I would hope we don't find ourselves in a similar position.

Football is about laughs, rivalry, and banter, and for that to happen we need clubs to laugh at, to rival, and to banter with.

That's my piece on it.

Now. 7,500 fans. ******* hell boys sell some tickets already!

Count yourself blessed to feel that way, and young enough never to have encountered theseirritating little "look at us!" ***** in any real or meaningful way (ie playing them).

1 hour ago, Oh Louie louie said:

No fresh milk, wouldn't have happened under dunford ..

To paraphrase Ms Kelis: his milk floats brought all the milk, and many a Fewer, to the Mem (la la la la warm it up)