italian dave

Couldn’t have put it better. ?

By the time we face Preston is irrelevant; the milestone is 100 pages! ?

Pay a premium….? Its a dump of a ground. And don’t they realise it also means they pay a premium to visit their own ground?

OTIB at its finest!

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap……AC/DC

I have a theory…..and I’m afraid it puts West Ham at a significant disadvantage. Look at where our outgoing £10m plus transfers have ended up. Aston Villa, Bournemouth, Burnley, Brighton, Cardiff. We clearly invite bids, put them on a table in alphabetical order, and pick the top one.

Not the first or the last time we’ve done that, is it? Benny Lennartson was a decent coach (and in his own way tried to some significant and much needed changes to the clubs culture) … but we stick him in the manager/DoF role. I guess the old square pegs round holes adage applies off the pitch as well as on it.

Something tells me you’d probably take Joey Barton assisted by Ian Holloway over SOD ?

We actually played quite well, and it was a decent game, as I recall. But I think you’re right. Nothing more than a win was going to be good enough. As I mentioned earlier, we’d put together a couple of wins and a draw which probably did just enough to put off his demise after a dreadful start. But we followed that up with the awful Sheff U game, and I think that at least one win from the Sheff U and Orient games was the absolute bottom line.

Will we get to 100 pages before he goes……?

yes, but both were in the last six of those games….. Thats turning things round isn’t it? (Im only half serious! The penultimate game was that home defeat to Sheff U which I still rate one of the worst games I’ve ever seen)

I think he did. I’ve found a link to a BBC (??) article which says (June 2013) that ‘SOD has overhauled his back room staff and Brian Tinnion was announced as….’ But the link to the whole article isn’t working! One massively positive legacy of his time here.

Very sad news. He was one of the reasons I fell in love with football and Bristol City. RIP.

Yep! Unlike the doughnut - which is probably pissed off at the prospect of being eaten either way!

Ha ha!! As I said earlier in the thread, I'm sure the club check this thread out hourly for a steer on how best to handle any negotiations!!!

Mmmmm. Isn't the difference though that in the football scenario the player really can decide? Clearly the doughnut deciding is not going to happen, and in the world of basic economics, yes, the party prepared to pay more gets the doughnut. But Alex Scott can decide. So if I offer £25m for him, and you then offer £30m, the club may decide to accept your offer, but if Alex wants to come with me then the club get either £25m from me, or nothing.

I’ve often wondered whether something similar happened when either Ralph Milne or Dave Cotterill departed?!

??? Much as I love a good argument about grammar and punctuation, you can tell it’s the depths of the close season, can’t you? (Or should that be “……..can’t you”)

So Much Things to Say…….Bob Marley & The Wailers

Agree. And I think this is a massive season for Conway. Like you, I see signs of that real strikers instinct. He can be playing well, badly, indifferently, but he just seems to have the knack of finding a goal, whatever. That’s gold dust. And if he can really step on and prove that this coming season then he’ll be worth as much as Scott next summer. Depends on the players around him too, as you say. But I also wonder how much it depends on the formation and style of play. Others on here have much more knowledge that me on that, but it seems to me that he perhaps relishes playing in a two up front rather than a 3 or a 1. (And has a definite understanding with Nakhi). If he is the genuine 25 goal a season striker that he looks like he could be then we have to build the formation around giving him what he needs.

Yes, had mine too. Also the 4th. Sounds like you might need to get onto them.

A fiver, I believe.

I’m not saying you need or have to. I’m just saying it would be a factor. Yes, if you’re a smoker then whether or not there’s an ashtray probably would be something you’d consider. If you’re not a smoker, it won’t be.

I suppose that if you've already got NFC and are using it then that becomes one of the factors that you consider when buying a new phone.

It all started after the Stade de France incident, didn’t it? And I get that big sporting events are a potential target for terrorism. But it’s all pretty half hearted and ineffective, isn’t it? It evidently fails to stop people getting flares into the ground, so I doubt it would actually stop anything more sinister.