BS4 on Tour...

14 hours ago, GrahamC said:

Gary Rowett, Neil Harris & Mark Hughes are 3 to start off with.

Neil Harris promoted Millwall to the Championship as their manager in 2017 ... oops  

8 hours ago, Numero Uno said:

I notice you got in quick before somebody said "what about Pep?"..................

Yeh but you got in a bit too quick too ... Pep won promotion in 2008 as manager of the Barcelona B team ... 

7 hours ago, bert tann said:

Further up the pages there is some confusion about the role of the secretary which I hope I can clarify.

The company secretary deals with corporate governance and is responsible for filing relevant documents at Companies House.

The club secretary deals with football matters and is responsible for filing relevant documents with the football authorities.

The personal secretary deals with personal matters and is responsible for keeping senior management satisfied.

As an example of the latter I've inserted a 1957 vintage photograph of my own personal secretary Marjorie receiving the news that I was on my way back from Liverpool with a point in the bag.

 

 

Come, come Mr T - that Marjorie must have been a tad naive - any self-respecting student of Bristol football would know that your lot played away at Liverpool twice in 1957 - and you lost both, 4-1 and 2-0, can’t believe you fibbed to her - how do you sleep at night?!

Watford FC - from Division 4 in 1978 to finishing 2nd in the Premier League (Top Division) in 1983 ... Graham Taylor and Elton John ... bottom to top in just five seasons ... amazing achievement in my opinion ...

7 hours ago, Super said:

You would expect BBC Sport to be correct!

You sure would - apologies, I didn’t mean to ‘shoot the messenger’ - media standards couldn’t really sink any lower! 

8 hours ago, Super said:

To recap, here is the full England squad to face Ukraine and Poland....

Ukraine and Poland? Are you sure about that?! 

You posted a squad with players’ clubs out of date and now you announce the squad for games against Ukraine and Poland ... you’ve had a ‘Weston super’ there chief ...

On 21/08/2023 at 11:22, lenred said:

Off the top of my head I cannot think of any team that has the isolation we do now....

QPR, Rotherham, Sheffield Wednesday?

Ah, Maryhill! I have spent spent sooo many splendid Saturday afternoons in that delightful part of Glasgow - watching the world famous ‘Harry Wraggs’ - the ‘Maryhill Magyars’ - the ‘Red & Yellow Army’ - the ‘Great Glasgow Alternative’ - standing in the renowned ‘Jackie Husband Stand’ belting out the anthems - “I’ve followed the Thistle for Many a Day...” - “Hello, Hello, How do you do? We hate the boys in royal blue, we hate the boys in emerald green ...” - “We are coming, we are coming, we are coming down your road, when the hear the noise of the Partick Thistle boys, we are coming down your road” (that one was sung at Firhill decades before the tartan army and Liverpool fans decided to plagiarise it as their own)

... ah, Saturdays in Maryhill, just wonderful ... the chaps, the pubs (we always met at a cracking boozer - ‘The Abbotsford Inn’ in Bearsden - before snaking our way to Maryhill), the rubbish weather, the banter, the passion of the fans (way above anything I’ve seen before or since) - I still get up there whenever I can - it’s just brilliant ...

Hi all, well, obviously I’ve got to highlight the first line of the (apparent) Dover Athletic statement: “Following the news today of Ade Shokunbi we had agreed in principal” ... PRINCIPAL?! Principal? - good grief, how standards have dropped (it’s “principle”)

Lots of gen x / millennials are running digital outputs for multiple organisations and media outlets and the results are disastrous - just look at the ‘running threads’ at the bottom of the screen on channels such as Sky News, GB News, Talk TV etc - they are full of spelling and grammatical errors that can be appropriately deemed pathetic in the modern world of spell checker etc.

My dear old Dad was a much respected journalist back in the days when they were old school and actually left their desks to get out in the world to find stories on which to report. He was on first name terms with the likes of Morecambe & Wise, Norman Wisdom etc (look it up kids!) yet he left the profession in disgust in the 1980s saying “standards have dropped so far, I no longer want to be part of this” - he was ahead of his time as everything has seemed to plummet since - eg “we had agreed in principal” - Principal? Principle?

Those who ridicule and think this is all trivial are merely contributing to the massive downturn in basic standards. It ain’t important to many, but it is to me ... cheers

2 hours ago, Silvio Dante said:

They’ll be in for Greenwood next.

Just a small point I guess, but are you aware Mason Greenwood had all charges against him dropped by the CPS? Yet you chose to associate him with certain activities to make a case as to why Rovers may employ him?

It’s always dangerous to call out people online when you have no evidence of their alleged misdemeanours, especially when they subsequently have all charges against them dropped.

A work colleague of mine got into serious bother when he re-tweeted a false allegation against an MP - the politician concerned instructed his legal team to go after everyone who had defamed him online - on every social media platform ... it’s the way of the world just now ... it’s a minefield out there ... 

On 14/06/2023 at 00:13, W-S-M Seagull said:

A quick Internet search gave plenty of 290k a week as his wages. 

Also footballers in the UK are subject to the 45% higher tax. Where as in Italy top footballers are afforded tax breaks so with that considered his take home pay was probably similar. 

Cool, ok, thanks - so you’ve confirmed Pogba was never on £300k a week at Old Trafford, just like I said ...

On 11/06/2023 at 23:25, W-S-M Seagull said:

Pogba was on 300k a week at United. Ronaldo about 400k. Sterling around 300k at Chelsea. Salah 350k at Liverpool. 

 

Pogba was never on £300k a week at United and when he went back to Juve he was apparently on £170k a week, surely he wouldn't have entertained a £130k per week reduction to move to Juve?  Perhaps your figures seem questionable - what was your source? 

On 02/06/2023 at 14:56, bcfcredandwhite said:

I’ve said before on various threads that I love Cotts and will always be grateful to him for dragging us out of the pus-filled mire that is League 1. 
However, I think League 1 is probably his management level. That’s only my opinion and plenty would disagree, but it seems likely to be true as he’s not done well in the second tier either with us or Notts Forest and no other club at our level seem to have been interested in him to-date. 
 

Notts Forest ... shiver! You obviously don’t know any Nottm County fans ...

23 hours ago, Ron W said:

It's near enough a fact that he worked - look at where the club was before and where it's gone since compared to what he achieved consistently. The rebuild he had pleaded for included Davinson Sanchez, Giovani Lo Celso and Tanguy Ndombele... Two of them have left, the other one is so bad he got substituted on and off within 23 minutes in the same game last season. You won't find many reasonable Spurs fans who think he didn't work, they know whose fault it was that things fell apart.

I think Spurs may have ended up with a better manager than they would've gone for otherwise because their hands have been forced by the state they're in. Postecoglou was a laughing stock when he was appointed Celtic manager... Look what their fans are saying now. Yes, there's recency bias involved but he's thought of higher than Brendan Rodgers who led them to an unbeaten domestic season. He's been dealt a tough hand working with that mess but he's got the ability to succeed.

Fair points, but Ndombele hasn’t left has he? I thought he was just out on loan? 

55 minutes ago, TomF said:

Plays pretty attractive football too.   It’s a gamble but what has actually worked for spurs over the years? Potch yes but other than that? 

You think Poch ‘worked for Spurs’ Tom? Many Spurs fans think they bottled the premier league title under Poch when they were well in it but allowed Leicester City to take the trophy. And the last Spurs manager to win a trophy? Wasn’t it Juande Ramos? So you could argue it ‘worked for Spurs’ under Ramos but not so much under Poch? Just an opinion, but the lack of recent success for a club the size of Spurs opens up a very interesting debate ...

10 hours ago, Miah Dennehy said:

Great to watch, gut wrenching for the Partick Thistle fans, I think there was a guy on OTIB who used to follow them, I cant remember the name, but we had a few spats over my support for Celtic.

I love Scottish football, lots condemn it as 'pub league' stuff, but ffs, a good game is a good game and over the years I have often enjoyed games more in a local park than I have at Wembley.

I have been to a fair few Scottish grounds and managed to tick off Ross and ICT a few years back while holidaying on the Black Isle.

Yep, it is me - I followed The Jags all over in the 80s and 90s - including a memorable () 0-0 at Parkhead when the crowd was a paltry 26k - your club hasn’t always been ‘big’ - I still get up to Firhill when I can, The Jackie Husband Stand still makes an impressive racket - I was gutted for the lads in the play off defeat - that was Thistle’s 6th game in the play offs - they’d already thrashed Queen’s Park and Ayr Utd (both over two legs) and then they just came up short vs Ross County - I felt so sorry for the chap who missed the decisive pen for The Jags - he’s been with the club for 13 years and is Thistle to the core - heartbreaking for him ...

3 hours ago, spudski said:

...it's pretty grim when you see it in black and white. Tick Luton off now. 

 

You can tick off Wimbledon too - they were in the premier league for eight seasons from 1992 to 2000 - your graphic seems a bit flawed ...

2 hours ago, Port Said Red said:

... Reynolds in particular grew up in a proper working class area of the USA and understands those people. 

Didn’t Reynolds grow up in Canada, in Vancouver?

26 minutes ago, Kid in the Riot said:

... you implied that you'd achieved something significant in your life, which was equal to - or greater than - what Thunberg has achieved...

Yet despite being asked repeatedly you can’t say what Thunberg has actually achieved - no worries - I’m out of here ...

10 minutes ago, TonyTonyTony said:

The very fact you don’t think Greta is a hero says a lot.

On this thread you’ve called me ‘stupid’ and a ‘simpleton’ just because I disagree with your views - so you can’t have a grown up debate without resorting to abuse?! When I joined this forum over 18 years ago it was a place where you could have vigorous debate around a range of issues  without being abused - you’ve shown that no longer exists as far as you are concerned - and I’ve asked you repeatedly on this thread what you mean by your post that said ‘our grandkids are going to roast’ - yet you’ve decided to refrain from answering - probably because you cannot justify that statement - anyhow, I’ve had enough, I’m going away from this now ...

1 minute ago, TonyTonyTony said:

More than you buddy. She is a hero. I’m afraid you are a pedantic simpleton. 

If only you knew ... and you think Greta is a ‘hero’ - good grief ... and I am not a ‘simpleton’ - pedantic, yes! But not a simpleton - pathetic that you’d dismiss a fellow poster like that ...

2 minutes ago, TonyTonyTony said:

You are clearly stupid. Can you not interpret simple datasets? It’s very obvious the trend we are on. FFS so frustrating. 

I am not stupid Tony x3 - you said our ‘grandkids are going to roast’ - can you justify that statement?

3 minutes ago, Kid in the Riot said:

Erm...yes. Thing is, despite the populist shite you hear from many Tory MPs, in the real world, large companies, civil institutions, and even national army's are doing lots to address climate change. The British Army, for example, recognise man-made climate change as a threat to the citizens of the United Kingdom. Climate change is already displacing millions in Africa and causing conflicts in regions on the continent. Climate change even played its part in both the Syrian and Afghan conflicts. 

Achieved more than Greta Thunberg, have you?! 

David Attenborough, the greatest living Briton in many people's eyes, has acknowledged that Greta Thunberg has advanced recognition of climate change far more than he has. Yet, old boy "BS4 on Tour" has apparently far greater achievements 

Tell us what you have achieved in life, the floor is yours......

What I have achieved is none of your business - but what has Greta achieved?

4 minutes ago, TonyTonyTony said:

Newsflash: It needs to be rammed down your throat or you grandkids are going to roast. So, nothing out of the ordinary is frankly not good enough

“Your grandkids are going to roast” - surely you can see that is overreacting?! The planet has survived countless climate cycles ... yet we are still here ... I thought most intelligent people have realised that the scaremongering recent media messaging is just tripe ...

25 minutes ago, Kid in the Riot said:

Another middle-aged (or could be much older?) male struggling to come to terms with the fact an autistic 19 year old girl has already achieved far more in their life than you ever will... 

Why post stuff like this when you don’t know anything about the person you are attacking and you don’t know anything about what they have achieved? Incidentally, what has Greta “achieved” ?