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Sorry, don't know that one Dave. Ed Sheeran?

I will boo cry

What, "Everton, Everton, Everton. Everton, Everton, Everton. Everton, Everton, Everton. EVERton. ..." that one?

Bye bye happiness, Hello Championship

Who would be the referee at Goodison Park for this one last half of football?

It’s like being a volcanologist. All the data is saying: this thing's going to blow, in about 45 minutes (plus a minimum of 18 additional minutes)

My Newport mate says they'd have him back on loan, mate (but I told him: it doesn't work like that. Mate).

Unlucky his boy (something to do with Stockport, I think?)

Reckon we will be "lucky" when we do, and get, enough other stuff right first. We must do our bit first. Make our own luck, if you will.

Playing Leicester next season with our/their Big Nige will be ... good.

We are certainly ready to extract from supporters and local businesses as much money as we could possibly hope to, should we ever be hosting Pep, Klopp, Harry Kane and all. We can definitely applaud Steve for that.

And he did all this while Steve was having a nap in Guernsey, and watching afternoon repeats of the Repair Shop.

And 3rd the year before that ! ?

You wonder what hardships they would've had to endure or how many points they would have had to have had deducted, or how low in the pyramid they would have had to sunk, or how frickin awful their ground would've had to have been, for Steve Lansdown to have steered this club into the PL before Luton bleedin Town. Given the head-start he had on them.

Probably some old codgers saying the same in May/June '76 (not saying you're an old Kodjia mind, RedM) but those four years, there's old codgers on here now often getting misty eyed about that time. We need and are due another momentous (for us)/ epic era/season, to give today's young 'uns/tomorrow's old codgers something memorable to get misty-eyed about in 43 years time (Nige's epic FFP heroics and wage stripping not quite the stuff of football glory). Anyhow, once they'd had a little look in 76 and 77, the great Bristolian/West Country public decided that was quite enough and they settled back in their armchairs and followed events via the wireless and the teleprinter on Grandstand. And the Green Un. And another thing, it'll only be one season this time not four, in the unlikely event of us scaling such heights.

He wasn’t a starter and one has to say, he is not yet a finisher, neither

We could capture the "identity" and "modern" and "anthemic" elements you refer to there by perhaps considering adopting Adele's 'Someone Like You.' So that, when we sell Alex Scott/Josh Brownhill/Adam Webster we just go right back out there with our top top notch recruitment set-up and replace the bas-tards with someone like them. In fact, we don't even always wait till they clear off with some other hunkier fella and we proactively find "someone like" our best before they bugger off (Bobby Reid/Gustav Engvall). It's our "identity" selling our best then finding someone, er, like them; it's "modern" the kids will know it; it's "anthemic" even yer granny will know it.

They were - as LJ would have it - over(ly) aroused. Too emotional. Sometimes a coach needs to bring a team down a notch or two. Even LJ, mind, with all his emotional intelligence would've struggled to get Brasil's arousal at the optimum level that day.

Think it was the following season, 83/4

Our fans are (still) asleep, old chap. Both literally and metap . xzzzzzz

One of them a 58 year old, who recently had a hip replacement my weekend newspaper reliably informs me. ICF "Hip Replacement Squad" v Alkmaar Baby Squad. No contest. The ICF showing all their experience, they "set up" superbly, the Alkmaar mob tactically naive.

We ran on the pitch at Northampton one year before kick off, so you just never know.

Stevie Neville scoring at Eastville is ok, then? Good. I wasn't sure but you have put my mind at ease now.

Yes, luck must be factored in. Often forget to mention this. Thing is, we finished 14th and have bobbed around 17th - 14th most of the season. With a bit more luck, we might've finished 13th, or 12th. Not a lot of point. Hence my earlier mention of the importance of being "there or thereabouts," ie within arm's length of 6th. And the other thing about that is, being there once (2018/19) in 8 seasons lengthens the odds on being in "luck," particularly if it's a season where those with money are up together and not floundering. To be in with a shout we need (or might need; Huddersfield didn't) two, three or four seasons in and around the play-offs at the business end of the season (January and February doesn't count), April and May. Then we might get "lucky." By which I mean, finish 6th or higher, then have a chance. Sadly, 2007/8 was a bit of a one-off/fluke. 2018/19 was more by design I would say, building on 2017/18. But both saw us drop away though from where we need to be to take real advantage of "luck." 2008 in particular seemed to be built on sand. If or when this happens, and we are "lucky" enough to find ourselves in the play-offs then we will need yet more luck. Meaning we might need two, three or four cracks at the agony of the play-offs. It's SL's, and now Nige's, and the new CEO fella's, responsibility to manoeuvre us into a position where "luck" might make a big, criticao difference, give us the helping hand we need. We haven’t as yet done anything like enough to bemoan our own luck, or lack of it (other than with penalties).

I'd say "opportunity" in this division might mean seasons - and they don't always occur but they do every now and again - where the Parachute Payment clubs are in a muddle or even a mess and not going to finish top six. Like this season. Clubs like us then just need to be ready, top half, "there or thereabouts." But we were miles off, still addressing the muddle and mistakes of the Ashton nonsense.