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Tony Dining. Lansbury had very little impact here - but was part of a pretty dreadful period here. I don't think anyone would have come in & looked great.

Are you deliberately being dense...?

Seriously..?! Look at the league 1 table for a start...

Booking fees are annoying, no doubt - but everything has them. Concert, theatre, cinema aswell I think... It's not just something we have made up. Why booking fees can't just be swallowed up in the actual vostok is annoying. I'd rather pay £35 for a ticket than £30 plus £5 booking fee - for some reason..!

I think the "these things take time" probably referred to their temporary new stand...!

I get the frustration, of course! Many clubs seem to find that magic formula, which we seem to never quite nail at this level. Having said that - we are in the right position to be 1 excellent season away from getting to the top flight - after a ridiculous length of period away from it. Every year we fail to achieve it, the harder it gets as other go up & come back with added financial clout to compete with. 23 other teams probably have similar aspirations at the start of each season - so it's not easy! Plenty of other clubs would swap with our position in a heartbeat- but yes, we absolutely need to have that golden period ourselves, soon.

Reading, Derby, Charlton, Portsmouth, Blackpool, Wigan (Ipswich a bit longer ago) ......

Yes, exactly & we have over taken them, for now....

You rubbished those who stood up against it - so yes.!

No need, thanks. Several people stood up against his vlaims of moronic bullying of a dad out with his kids & you said that grown men were crying about it. I hope, if you have young kids & are ever out in a public place & some moronic yob starts hurling "dogs abuse" at you in front of them - you get people standing up for you - and I doubt if they do, that you'd tell them to "stop crying about it". Some things cross a line & hurling abuse (not a little bit of banter, but "dogs abuse") the way of a dad out with his kids for a day out, is pretty classless, scummy, idiotic & bullying behaviour.

You can't just have an over entitled whinge about clubs overtaking us & not balance it with looking at clubs that we have over taken. We have no more devine right to success than any other club. Of course it can be frustrating - but how do you think the likes of Derby, Wigan, Ipswich, Portsmouth etc feel..?.

On the Rovers thread you are literally backing the bloke who said he hurled Dogs abuse at a bloke at Paddington who was with his kids wearing Rovers shirts & claiming that those who are shooting him down for it are "grown men crying about it"..!!

Plenty have over taken us.... we have over taken plenty of others... That's football..!

You gave a bloke who was at a train station with his kids "dogs abuse"..?

Especially as we all knew it was happening - it's not like we've been taken by surprise with an unexpected deadline day offer we can't refuse.... He's been gone in my mind since the end of last season & it's been inevitable since then. Good luck to him & all we can hope for now is that he does well & gets a massive money move again to net us some extra sell on clause money. Been a pleasure to watch but that's football & we have new players who can hopefully fill the void left.

5..!

Does GN's opinion "blow a hole" in any manageras ideas/theories..? I wouldn't have thought his record stood up well enough to make his opinion mean alot & his one real role model & inspiration (SAF) was the absolute master of marginal gains & mind games -. Stating that top class coaching is more important is hardly an earth shattering view point. Marginal gains are just that - marginal..!

I bet they are prowed of that flag.....

Yes that would make sense - it was probably a pre-internet thing. In reality, exact league positions don't matter until the end of games 46 & should anything be that tight between 2 meaningful placings - then the coverage & awareness of the deeper rules would well known before kick off. I was aware of it tracking back to games against each other, but didn't know that it then took disciplinary records into account.

Interesting to know! Is just my failing memory, or is it the case that when I was younger they didn't even produce league table until 3.? Games into the season.? I could be imagining that - but I'm sure they never used to bother...

Half their team were going down with cramp in the second half. We were poor today, but out fitness levels looked better than theirs.

I'd disagree. I found the decision to start Cornick ahead of Sykes baffling - hence the descriptive of "baffling" You may not agree with it & that's you perogative. For me, it was baffling & to those who sit around me.

The ones who think singing "I can't read & I can't write....." is either clever, funny or ironic.... rather than cringing embarrassing..?! It should be great having a singing section in that area - but it is just embarrassing.

You stood in the queue for a pie to have a wee.? Or did they not have any pies available at the urinals.?!

I never understand going to a football match & then missing nearly 10 mins of the match to go & stand in a queue. It's like people who start heading for the exits on 80/85 mins... Always makes me wonder why they bother going in the first place. In fairness, I was at the Mansfield match - so would never leave a game early.!