GrahamC

My recollection was Hutchings cost £130k. At Brentford he usually played on the right side of defence, Ward used him in centre mid, presumably for his energy & running, basically as a Carlton Palmer clone. I’m not still altering what I always thought, a terrible player who seemed a stranger to the ball, he seemingly could never control it & so just did lots of running around. He wasn’t the worst signing no, but he was very poor.

A couple have already been mentioned, I definitely got swept up in the hype that Marcus Stewart would be a big success, likewise saw Caulker as a future England player & Rose as someone who would drop through the leagues pretty quickly. Bit more obscure, but saw Andrew Jordan play for the reserves or whatever the equivalent was back then & thought he’d have a great career, clearly he had his issues but I definitely thought he’d make it. Matty Hill on the other hand I thought was too limited technically to make it, just showed what guts & total commitment can do, he had an excellent career, you don’t play for the likes of Wolves & Sheff U if you’re a mug.

If he’s up for it this would be an excellent move. He can play in a variety of positions (saw him have very decent games in centre mid), he’s a goal threat (as Man U might recall) & still in his 20s. Could be nonsense but be delighted to see him back.

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Shouldn’t that **** be concentrating on trying to work out how to get points against the likes of Accrington Stanley, who have done the double over his shower this season?

Makes sense, Haiti is going to be a very difficult place to get back from, with minimal infrastructure & after losing their opening game Bermuda are going to struggle to qualify, anyway. In the past he appears to have largely played the games that were outside our regular season, but as he’s 33 this summer it looks like he’s signalling that he won’t even be doing that in future. Bit of a strange situation for him as none of his team mates are remotely his standard so you can understand why he is thinking of calling it a day.

It’s not factually correct, for starters. Some of his 18 penalties came against the sides that he’s listed, so he’s double counted them in order to make Kane look poorer. Never trust someone (he’s a Liverpool fan) who does that. I think it is very easy to argue players of previous eras played against fewer poorer sides, because frankly when the Soviet Union & Yugoslavia existed there were fewer European countries to start with, plus the San Marino’s, Gibraltar’s, Faroe Islands etc, didn’t play international football, but you lose credibility if you use incorrect information like this.

This is one of many things I don’t get about the blue few. Geoff Bradford was the only Rovers player to play for England whilst with them, I’m also pretty sure he scored on his only appearance. Mike Barrett died tragically young whilst still a player, Stuart Taylor is their record appearance holder, others like Harold Jarman & Alfie Biggs are legends to them. None of them have any part of their ramshackle ground named after them, every club, no matter at what level, has stands or standing areas named after people associated with the club the way we do with Atyeo & Dolman. They don’t even possess the thought process to do this.

Really surprising, isn’t it? Not what we saw at all.. Comments like he just ambles about, missing tackles & passing the ball square. As I posted earlier this was his first start of 2023 & on that evidence, probably his last. Half the problem is even if he actually is, he often doesn’t look like he’s trying, which is one sure way to piss off supporters. Moving to a club of that size at a level he can easily play at, was a brilliant opportunity for him, but he’s not taking it.

Probably his last for a while, too. Just subbed off, contributed absolutely nothing.

This also shows typically incredible naïvety. I was no fan of Bakinson at all but he’s still in his early 20s (24) & played around 50 league games in the Championship for us & then went on loan to Ipswich. Who seriously thinks someone of that standard “wouldn’t have a club”? Either someone who knows little about football or is naive in the extreme.

Both Goater & Wells have missed a lot of internationals when they fell during our season & both have played in sides where none of their team mates are remotely of their standard. One of Bermuda’s squad plays in the Greek second division, another is in Finland, but many are in England at clubs of about Bath City standard. When they played Montserrat a while ago I watched the highlights, they lost 3-2 Nakhi scored both, Lyle Taylor got 2 for Montserrat, they both looked what they are, from a totally different level to everyone else who was on the pitch.

Bakinson’s first start in the league this year, he’s been very much a back up with occasional late sub appearances recently.

Absolutely & the footage of the way Cotts celebrated the Wilbraham goal with a clenched fist & “******* have some of that” is what he’s clearly saying, shows what it meant to him & those players, too. People will forget but Swindon actually started the game well but we had absolutely battered them by the final whistle.

Jody Morris isn’t exactly pulling up any trees there, won just 2 of the 10 games he’s been in charge. Not been the greatest of loans for Kadji, got on with 6 minutes to go today & has had similar very late sub appearances for them recently.

Uli Hoeneß. Pretty decent player in his time, too..

The Olympiakos match fixing case is remarkable, witnesses mysteriously dying, others changing evidence after blatant intimidation, such as the referee I mentioned whose bakery was bombed. Greek football has been dodgy as **** for years, our FA is totally spineless though, all sorts of criminals & human rights abusers have been able to sportwash & money launder by buying their way into so many teams from Chelsea to Portsmouth.

This bloke’s the chairman, but he’s not the owner. That’s the bloke who was accused of match fixing in Greece but miraculously all the charges were dropped, that bombing of the business of one of the referees who was originally going to give evidence clearly just a big coincidence.. Be delighted to see them come back down, spent an incredible amount just to be in the relegation scrap, nothing against their supporters (don’t like Cooper much, such a whinger) but how this bloke was ever considered a fit & proper owner is remarkable.

The Norwood challenge on Williams was incredibly even worse. How on earth that wasn’t a retrospective red card I have absolutely no idea.

One of the reasons I’ll be delighted to see them relegated this season is they cheated FFP in the first place to ever get to the Prem & now did this to get back up there. A club with a league one ground & (until recently) dubious Russian money. They are pretty much everything that’s wrong with modern football.

Fairly sure he was from Stroud.

Quite possibly. I suppose it must be pretty difficult to move abroad alone at 20 & to do so with an injury that means you don’t get the chance to play for a while & by then you’re down the pecking order, is rough. I will be very interested to see how all this pans out, if he’s done ok at Valenciennes (I know he’s played in every game but no real idea beyond that) then maybe it will see him get a club in Ligue 1. If he does come back then after a year with us it can only be to compete for a place in the match day 18, as we’re beyond settling in now.

Interesting, that certainly sorts out the number 3 keeper position. Really all about now whether Bajic comes back from his loan to be our back up keeper or wants to go back to France permanently, I think.

As has been pointed out Evans did, but that little shit Cunningham completely got away with raking his studs down Nakhi Wells’ leg.

Good job Bailey Wright doesn’t still play for us or he might have got banned again. Real shame but as the season doesn’t have much left to play for & we’re expecting a few back after the international break it could have come at a worse time.