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Not started this half yet.

Shame Tommy hasn't got his shooting boots on, 2 very good opportunities and should have done better when he hit the side netting. Sykes proving he can get goals is a big bonus for next year and having Naismith pinging those passes to him is a real threat. Pring has been good at both ends and James has been good. Good away performance so far, but need to be clinical against sides when we dominate.

So many favs. The original T.C. as Manager at 40ish bombing down the wing ? Has Chris Garland had a mention? Gutted when he left, hero when he came back. Dave Smith, never seen anyone cross that well at full pace. Clive Whitehead , still the best winger I've seen. Daren Barnard , Dave Rennie , Ade Akinbye , Carl Shutt , Albert of course. The longer you think the more you can come up with.

I know not to make assumptions about who's on or not on the bench, so I'll just say that we are not going up to park the bus

Just watched Northampton get Promotion at Tranmere, then the table flashes up. Mansfield 2-0 away win and Salford losing t home 1-0 , meant Salford nicked the last playoff spot from Mansfield by one goal !! Over the entire season they are one goal conceded better. Both scored 72 but Mansfield let in 55 to Salfords 54. Talk about small margins. In the Championship less excitement . In reality Millwall score earl and that's that. But , If Cov & Millwall start slowly and Blackburn, Sun'land and WBA get early goals it might add some interest.

Great track & really good band (we'll ignore Wigwam bam & Little Willy , even though I bought them at the time ) . Always seemed to be peoples 2nd band, my favs were Slade and a mate's T.Rex , they never really challenged those two even if they may have deserved it.

Would have made a hell of a last day, and my money would have been on Cardiff dropping down ...... shame Huddersfield V Reading Burnley V Cardiff Wigan V Rotherham QPR V next years Champions

Milner is 37, feels like a back up signing or making up the squad, all be it a good player. Scott would be seen as one for the future and could be eased in , while Milner is ready to go, for a year at or so least. They seem in good shape financially . Looking at the posts above. TV (£100M) , Net transfers (£100m), Potter + Caicedo (£90M) . Best part of a £300M War chest without doing too much.

I was just thinking I had some great video of the pitch, all lost in the great bag of old phones purge of about 2011. That clip is superb.

First few notes, yeah, hell of a spot that. I had to Youtube the track to remind myself.

War stories - Salford Jets

Sunshine Anderson - Heard It All Before

Bit of a new convert to Jazz, never got it before and still don't get free form stuff. Just got Almost Blue by Miles Davis to go with fairly recent stuff by Mose Allison and Art Blakey. A newer album by Merton Parkas & Style Councillor Mick Talbot and Chris Bangs is great too. At the other end, got "Casual sex at the Cineplex" by Sultans of Ping. I've only ever watched the youtube stuff or listened on Spotify , meant to see them a few times over the years and not made it, my mate's a fan. I heard they were good live.

Agree. While it sometimes feels like one game defines your season, because you need 1/2/3 points and you don't get them, in their position you have to look at the 6 points and where you would be without the deduction. Sheff have nothing to play for, and while I don't think they will just turn up and roll over, I doubt you will get the fully committed side. I think even lacking that 10% could be enough and for me, it feels like a draw.

I have looked every time I've had an email, there has never been anything in my size (M/L) . I've just given up and gone in for the draws, absolutely pointless scheme. The last one, I ended up getting Birthday cards and a keyring that I didn't want. They might as well give up these ideas all together. Why not do ( and I don't want to start a "thing" ) food and drink vouchers, that can be used in the ground. One £5 shop voucher PP, I kind of get. They don't want to give away free things, but at least make it look as though you're trying.

Bloody hell , don't think I've seen that before. We were in the back of the East End, so excited with the comeback we were determined to go to the replay. Decided not to in the end, I'm glad to say, 3-0 I believe.

Took my Mrs last Friday, she hadn't heard much of her but was blown away. Check out Valerie June , might be up your street.

I wont ruin it by saying how it ends, but it's worth sticking with

I may have mentioned her before, but got to see Brooke Combe Friday, I'll be amazed if she isn't massive in the near future. Her album came out last week, well worth a look. Just been put on to a new band , to me at least, the Royston Club, really impressed with what they've done so far. No releases yet.

Looking at it as dispassionately as possible. 29 , possibly older than I thought our incomers would be. ? Has the strength and aerial ability to cope in the Championship with bags of experience. ? According to Transfermarkt hasn't played a lot this season. ? Style is more suited to challenge/alternate with Cam Pring than JD ? Could add needed goals to MF ? OOC in June so should be no fee ? While seemingly not money motivated, would surely be more expensive than JD. ? I liked him , I thought he could easily play in CM when he was here so would fit the versatile player role needed with a small squad. We know his delivery should be a step up from Jay, plus he is more 2 footed. If the finances are right, could be a good move for both parties .

It does , without knowing the ins and outs , look strange. But allowing for the fact it's his first proper season of games I think it's down to youth and experience. He played 17 games in L2, most of those he seemed to get praise, I follow a Wimbledon fan on Twitter and he was constantly questioning why he wasn't playing for us. For Portsmouth played 14 full 90's before that PV game, then not in squad , back on the bench twice , then not in squad again. Since played 90 & 84 minutes, so I'm sticking with blip, though I've not watched him other than the odd highlights . Not saying he's Championship standard, at least not yet, but I think he's doing more than ok ATM.

I don't think this is true. JL had said when the link with Hummel was extended. "The partnership allows us to make a more technically advanced kit while still retaining a uniqueness that is symbolic of us and our supporters." It wasn't even Hummel that was the problem, the UK suppliers went into admin. We couldn't get stocks and had already ran out of shirts for the shop and there were doubts over supply for the first team. The extension to the contract was only agreed a year ago. This has been covered a couple of times, but easily missed as the forum moves on. Everton had a non UK supply chain and Cov seemingly had stocks and signed with a new UK supplier, SportsPro in Feb. That was around the time our ONeil deal was announced, I guess that was done a could have been done as far back as the end of November or December when the administration happened. They would have had to make a decision to either get a new shirt supplier or just wait and run the risk of not having new shirts available for the summer, or even running out of kit before the end of the season. I don't know why we didn't try the Everton route, we may have, we may have looked into how long it would take for Hummel to find a new UK partner, who knows. We have signed a multi year deal , maybe it was a rushed decision, certainly the quality of the new shirt doesn't appear the best quality and I think the Yellow was possibly Jon trying too hard. I was hoping that the quality was because of the quick (ish) turn around needed to get the first team shirts, as they are on sale in the shop , this isn't true. While I have some sympathy with City with the problems not of thier making, the amateurish running of the shop and the previous supply chain problems do point to a deeper Club based problem. You may have something. The Club could have used the up coming Man City game as a bargaining chip for the new deal. Lack of supplies, new design due at the end of the season anyway, wanting to get shirts available for sale in the summer (for a change), might all have lead to us moving quickly, but maybe not wisely

I think Pearson is ambitious, but there is context . We were in a position that, however ambitious the top of the Club were, we needed consolidation. We are now in a position where Nige can start to build properly, this is where I agree with @Davefevs. This feels like his first proper chance to form his squad. He's got rid of around 20 players, added a few here and there, but now he is in a position to add the little bits of important quality pieces to the jigsaw. I think everyone feels we should be able to push on and challenge for that 6th spot. I've just seen the post Dave did earlier and totally agree. Many games around those Boom or Bust seasons , we would walk out of a game saying, how did we win that ? Performances were (being kind) average and we nicked a fair few games, which is great. But come those runs where we struggled in front of goal we went on those winless runs which we couldn't see our next win coming. I think we are in a much healthier position, we have a team willing to work, with an idea of what they are trying to do. I think performances have been improving through the season, most of the problems have come from individual errors. With more regular performance levels , we can achieve more consistency . Before we sign anyone I am optimistic for next year. If we get our main targets , or most of them I hope to be having a season to enjoy.

Not been there for years, how did it go ?

Just got some new/old music. I don't do Record Store Day, I refuse to queue for hours. A mate went down to Rough Trade early and there were hundreds there before him. I walked past on the way to meet mates for football. 12:30 and the queue stretched around the corner and down to the main road. I waited until the left overs went online Monday and managed to get what I wanted. Rich Kids 1978 album, that I didn't realise they'd done at the time. The 2 singles still sound brilliant. Rich Kids and Ghosts of Princes in Towers. Great stuff from (Post Pistols) Glen Matlock and (Pre Ultravox) Midge Ure .