Fowllyd

Get well soon, Cabbage Face.

I may have got this wrong, but isn't it the case that if Mick Channon and Ron Davies are both nominated (as they pretty certainly will be, looking at the posts so far) and they then come first and the second in the voting, one will be in the first team and the other in the B team. This would then leave the B team player unavailable for nomination for the other position. So we could end up with either Mick or Ron not in the first team, which seems a nonsense to me.

The new Ikea won't be open for a few months though. I think you need to factor that into the equation.

However it's reworded, I reckon it's a safe bet that there'll be no quotes from our esteemed chairman!

He played Sinbad.

No, it can't be. According to the Echo piece it's 29 players used purely in league games!

Or 'bed-wetters' perhaps...

How old is Molyneux? Not mentioned on the OS.

Well, I was eligible to vote (as an eighteen-year-old) in 1978. The voting age had been eighteen for many years by then. I don't remember the Monster Raving Loony Party coming into being until the early eighties. So on that they were maybe a little behind! Oh, and it's Lord Sutch by the way - formerly David Sutch of the band Screaming Lord Sutch and the Heavy Friends. No, I'm not making any of this up.

Makes no difference to us, as Hoyte's gone to Watford for the rest of the season. Then again, if he's that bad it's pleasing to see him playing for one of our relegation rivals!

Yeah, should have put that one in my list. Saw it from the Milton too - astonishing.

Can't help but think I'd prefer someone older than 18, however promising Hoyte may be. We need experience at CB, all the more so if Perry were to get injured or suspended.

Yes. It's a barbed-wire canoe...

I think it might have to be declared if he bought additional shares, owing to the percentage he currently holds. Then again, I might be thinking of the terms when the stock was in a bid situation.

Danny Wallace vs Liverpool 1984. Nick Holmes vs Watford 1978 (or maybe 1979) - League Cup Nick Holmes vs Liverpool 1983 - winning goal in what must be the finest match I ever saw at the Dell.

I rarely remember goals scored against us, but one does stick in my mind. That was Dave Watson's thunderbolt volley for Stoke, not long after he'd signed for them - 1982 maybe. If memory serves, his goal was their second in an unlikely comeback that got them from 3-0 down to 3-3; Mark 'Albert' Whitlock got the winner for us though, a header from a corner. I don't remember the other goals at all, Stoke's or ours.

That's true - I'd totally forgotten that. But now you mention it, I remember Coventry City having shirts which incorporated the Talbot logo into their pattern, which couldn't be removed for TV. All down to Jimmy Hill, who was their chairman back then! Notes for younger forum users: Talbot was a make of car, the British arm of Chrysler. Their cars were uniformly dreadful. Jimmy Hill is the only man in the world with a chin to rival that of Brucie Forsyth. He was also reputed to know something about football, but I never quite saw that somehow.

It was definitely Rank Xerox first. It was originally possible to get that kit with no sponsor's name, as the FA started allowing sponsorship a while after we'd started using it. The kit itself was adopted at the start of the 1980/81 season, after we'd signed Keegan; it replaced the candy-stripe kit dating from 1976/77. If you look at the forum masthead you'll see Channon in the candy-stripe kit, with Keegan in its successor - with no sponsor in evidence.

Either the picture of the shirt on e-Bay is rubbish, or the dark blue stripes have turned to a sort of purple/maroon colour. Or maybe my laptop screen's not what it was!

Yep, the game's pretty basic really - the key is getting the best out of the players you have. All too often we're nowhere near doing that. On the subject of wide players, I have to say (and I'm sure plenty of others have said this since yesterday's match) that McLaggon looked like a proper winger - he clearly wanted to be out there and not cutting inside, and his instinct seems to be to take on defenders and get to that goal line. Great to see.

I'll go with that analysis. I thought McGoldrick had a great game yesterday; he looked interested, he chased and looked dangerous with the ball. Paterson played well - he looks to lack a bit of pace and time will tell how much that counts against him. But his style of playing worked well for McGoldrick. In the end, it's all about pegs and holes, not numbers. If you play someone in a role which doesn't suit him it won't work, if you play him in one that does it will. Now to me that really doesn't seem too complicated.

As things stand, that's pretty hard to argue with.

I think you should be directed to a large empty room, holding a large glass of Scotch in one hand and a loaded revolver in the other. When you enter the room, just close the door behind you and do the decent thing. Now then, didn't shooting the f*ck out of that picture of a train make you feel better? I hope so, because watching us play at the moment isn't likely to. The Scotch might though. I'll be going tomorrow, though I have to wonder why; the last thing you should be doing is feeling bad because you're not.

That's a very good point. There was a good deal of talk on the OS about Poortvliet and Wotte both being on relatively low salaries with a good deal more being available according to success. So if we do get relegated, they'll both owe Saints money. Another triumph for Rupey's phenomenal business acumen! Hurrah!! :rolleyes:

What price? Who knows. Would such a player even hit the radar of our current set-up? Can't see it.