Saint Mikey

It's a double-edged sword - if this ruck didn't involve Gerrard, it never would have got to Court in the first place...

As were Sidwell, Harper and Little... The nucleus of that successful Reading side in the P'ship seems to have been bought in by Pardew. Hope he can do it again. Above all it'll be good to see a settled side!

The Daily Sport, although I do think they are still living off of great old headlines like: 'double-decker bus found on the moon' and 'I gave birth to a radiator'.

I would take Coppell in a flash, but I suspect he'll waiting for an early-season managerial casualty in the Prem. Likewise with WGS (which was always unrealistic anyway). All the noises coming out are that Wotte is staying. I'm a little concerned about his ability to get decent players in. Maybe I'm being pessimistic, but the 'Ryan Smith is world-class' quote is niggling me somewhat. I'm also concerned that we need to learn our lesson from last season and not rely on youngsters too much. Mills, Lancashire, White, Thomson, Patterson need to be bit part players next season to aid their development. We can't rely on a team with too much emphasis on Youth to get to the Playoffs - which should still be our ambition.

Paul Rideout played nearly 90 times for the first team! Scott McDonald also made 2 sub appearances.

Rupert Lowe ate my hamster.

I heard Mike Osman nicked cash out of a collection bucket to buy Rupert a pint.

Not sure if anyone's mentioned Lancashire either, who'll be decent in Lge 1 (hopefully).

To be fair, our success in the transfer market has been abysmal since we went down. Actually, the last season in the Prem wasn't much better either. Whilst in this league we have had a succession of pony and disappointing signings. IMO at least all of these were failures: Hajto Ostlund Powell Brennan Kosowski (Loan) Pele Sarmiento (Loan) Viafara Licka Hammil (Loan) Pericard (Loan) Plus the ones this season. How can a club sign so many dump players?!

Will be interesting to see where BWP ends up next season. I can't see us offering him a new contract and he has hardly played this season. He'll probably get a lower level club in the C'ship, on the strength of his name.

E's have been cheaper than a pint for ages, cos they're unfashionable. Everyone is into MDMA powder which is about £35 a g (I think) and Coke (god knows why). Same thing happened to acid, in the mid-90's it was cheap as chips, whilst E's were £15 a go. Allegedly.

I dunno, I seem to remember a cracking free-kick attempt from Beatts in a 1nil loss there. 45 yards out, 20 yard run up, ended up about 45 yards wide.

I thought of another old place: Burbanks (or Spermbanks as usually known). Now Junk and formerly FYEO.

The Wall, behind Pizza Hut is another. Was also called the City of Sound and Club Paradise (I think). Oh, the (sketchy!) memories!

The Penguin Club (used to be Jolies), also with the Penguin Bar next door. Top place. Cert 18 did gigs there and I remember seeing Fabio & Grooverider, Doc Scott & Andy C, Danny Rampling, Tony De Vitt. Real shame when it closed, even more when someone burned it to the ground! Anyone remember Bar Cuba, underground, not far from the Joiners? As for Thursdays/Dog & Duck - I'm glad they blew that place up! No-ones mentioned Schooners either. LOL, saw plenty of fights in there, ruffage!

Filed with Scott MacDonald, Brian Howard, Garry Monk etc etc.

It says alot about this site, that this ****** has 5 pages of posts. The thread should have been deleted long ago...what a load of ****e.

So, first we boo our own players and now we cheer the opposition? Outstanding.

I have to admit, I knew nothing of Steorn/Orbo before it was mentioned on this thread. Just done some quick research and am sceptical. I've seen this on Wikipedia and I'm even more sceptical:

Either that, or the BBC also recorded over a load of stuff around that time - including some Dr Who episodes that are completely lost. Ridiculous short-sighted decision making.

This is what has bothered them the most?

Agreed. Also, what exactly does he mean? What did Watford do, offer him more cash? Promised him a bevvie of beauties?

Errr. I would think you'll find that we do... I will happily be corrected, but can't believe we don't.

These days the undersoil heating would have been on for at least the last 24 hours - not even a slender chance the game will be called off.