Harry

The Falcon Steakhouse in Wotton-under-Edge. Opened again 3 weeks ago as they don’t have outdoor seating. Superb local steak, the best double-cooked chips you’ll ever have and a salivating cheesecake for dessert. I’m booked in on Friday. https://www.falconsteakhouse.com

Sorry to hear that mate. That’s a whole heap of bad luck. Have you got any other events coming up?

I wanted to do this one this year but having been injured for most of the year I hadn’t signed up. Only just making a comeback this last couple of weeks and am barely struggling to do a 5k, let alone a 10k ha ha. It’s amazing how quickly you lose fitness!

On the flip side to my earlier post of ‘hold out for £10m’, if we did sell for, let’s say £4m, we could rebuild the side in the following manner : Scott Twine - compensation fee from Swindon. Matt Jay - circa £750k from Exeter. Stephen Humphrys - circa £600k-£1m from Rochdale. You’ve then rebuilt your whole front line with 3 players for the price of 1 and still £2m left to plough into the defence or midfield.

True. @Kid in the RiotI can confirm Bristol Rob called it.

If we rate him highly we should do a Peterborough. Tell Palace the asking price is £10m. If they stump it up, great. If not, he’s stays with us and potentially increases above that value.

The delusion still exists. I’m sure Wally wants to do right by the club. Yeah, I mean he’s been a loyal, true and ‘prowed’ supporter since his early schooldays in Amman, and of course he was a regular when at university in Boston, Massachusetts. Wake up fella. He’s doing right by himself, his own pocket and his own desire to be ‘in’ football. You’ll be a long forgotten blip on his CV is 10 years time.

To be fair, the “players get whatever they want” isn’t unique to us. I was recently made aware of the Wolves players wanting the lights changed in their dressing room. They’d been to Leicester and their changing rooms had little under lights on their seats (like you’d get under a kitchen cupboard kinda thing). Coady is the appointed rep and he had to approach the board and ask for similar lights to be put on their changing room seats. They also wanted the tunnel to be made darker and for a wolf on the wall to have bright glaring eyes, to try to intimidate the opposition. Of course, the club said yes. And so it was done.

Yeah, to be fair, sources cannot be revealed and names of individual players would be unfair. But take my word for it, there have been some unsavoury scenes and Pearson will be glad to be rid of a few of these wasters. Sadly there will still be some in contract! I’d expect a few to be looking for moves.

Very true that. I’m aware of some rather stinking attitudes just prior to Holden leaving, 1 out of contract player in particular giving it the ‘big un’. Then another incident this week with the nose to nose. Plus another ooc player a couple of weeks ago was told some ‘home truths’. Not a happy environment for some down there at the moment, but hopefully some of the nobs are off shortly.

I’m aware of 1 case where something like that may have already happened (well, not a ‘filling in’, but a ‘nose to nose’ confrontation).

As one of Pack’s biggest fans, may I just say - FFS Marlon!!!!!!!

Brilliant Britton. Brilliant.

I don’t think he was expecting Bakinson to head it back to him. Ridiculous header. Just hook it clear!!

Another 50 up for Bracey. That’s 5 50’s in 5 LVCC games this season.

Good to watch Glos on the proper tele today rather than the, let’s be honest, second rate stream. It’s funny, I often think Key & Nas sound very similar, and if I’ve not been focussing 100% and they’ve changed commentator, I’m often unsure whether it’s Key or Nas. Right now, they are both commentating together, which is even better as I’ve no idea who’s talking to who ??

Gas logic. Here’s the numbers.

Mmmmmm......I wonder? My snoops have come across the following footage :

What’s your thoughts on Wilson? Clearly everyone had him as the 2nd ranked QB, but he looks doesn’t strike me as a leader. Don’t know what it is about him but he looks a bit ‘prep-schooly’ and like he’d shrink under the fierce pressure that’ll be on him. Don’t really know too much about him as yet, but he just appeared to be the least ‘alpha male’ of the 5 QB’s taken. I may be very very wrong, just struck me that way.

Oh dear. 99-1 to 103-5!! Ah, make that 121-6 as I type!!

Picked up a decent looking linebacker. Jamin Davis.

The Rodgers news was crazy. And then they pick a corner to rile him even more. Interesting to see how this plays out. As for the rest of Round 1. The 49ers pick was the intriguing one - would it be Jones, Lance or Fields. They landed on Lance. Time will tell it that was worthy of all the capital they gave up. Bears were the most likely to trade up for a QB, and picked up Fields. Patriots stood firm at 15 and got their QB too. Lions got the best value with Sewell at 7. Without the QB field this year he could’ve been 1 or 2 in another draft. In my division, I’m happy with Chase to the Bengals (he knew he was coming too - check his footwear for the night). I’m also happy with what our divisional rivals have done - they usually improve their scary defences, but the Steelers took an okayish running back, Browns took a pretty low ranked Corner at 26 (bit of a reach) and the Ravens took a Receiver that Lamar won’t throw to and an Edge rusher with no sacks in college ? Round 2 should be good tonight. Probably around 12-15 first round graded prospects available so there’ll be some good bargains.

Bengals had a huge choice. Protect Burrow with THE standout Tackle, or give him the WR he asked for from college. Getting Chase gives us a very good receiving corps. Skipping on Sewell was always gonna hand an absolute steal to someone, so Detroit are probably made-up over that. But there are 7 very good OL prospects still left and we pick number 6 tonight. So I think we did the right thing getting Chase and we’ll still get a very good lineman too.

I’ve fully acknowledged on here a number of times that I got it wrong on Cotterill and I’ve also said I really enjoyed his time here and am grateful to him for what he delivered. You’ll note however, from the quotes you found above, that I was right on one thing - I clearly said he’d do a good job in the short-term ? It was actually very interesting that Cotterill’s style, everywhere he’d previously managed, wasn’t pretty. It was a surprise to me and I’m sure many others that he adopted a totally different philosophy whilst here. So yes, I got it wrong, but only because he changed his philosophy entirely. Not many expected that. As for LJ. As I’ve said, judge him at the end of the season. Playoffs was a minimum expectation and he’s achieved that. I’m just pointing out that he’s had a huge defensive injury crisis to contend with. Surely you can acknowledge that?

Sounds excellent ?