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Odd that he was caught on CCTV, and like BWP it was possible to identify who he was, but the other three who were involved were also on CCTV but no-one is able to identify them. Just shows how useful CCTV really is, unless you are a (very) minor celeb, the chances of being apprehended by CCTV is nil. Its a long time since I've been to a Club, don't people have to be signed in these days? It seems to me the poice here just wanted the easy option, instead of doing some investigation. Everyone has the right to remain silent when questioned, I suspect this is what Dyer did. Still does not condone what he did, the guy is obviously a total plank, but at least he did take the rap for it and didn't try to get his sentence reduced by blaming it on someone else.

Because the share of brain cells is inversely proportional to the amount of shares held. Lapdogs do not make good decision makers.

was he packed in a brown paper bag?

was he packed in a brown paper bag?

England are playing? I really couldn't give a stuff. International football is totally irrelevant and I wish it would go back to the times when we played about 3 or 4 times a year. Football is about your football club, not country. It may be a great honour for the players to represent their country, but they don't usually show it much these days. Also watching international football (Especially England) is about as exciting as watching paint dry - agreed there were a few good games in Euro2008, but not many. Strange thing, for football, club is better standard than international, and more relevant, whereas for rugby it is the other way, club rugby is deadly dull, while international is good to watch. I think it is really only the plastics who get over excited about international football, true football supporters know that your club comes first.

England are playing? I really couldn't give a stuff. International football is totally irrelevant and I wish it would go back to the times when we played about 3 or 4 times a year. Football is about your football club, not country. It may be a great honour for the players to represent their country, but they don't usually show it much these days. Also watching international football (Especially England) is about as exciting as watching paint dry - agreed there were a few good games in Euro2008, but not many. Strange thing, for football, club is better standard than international, and more relevant, whereas for rugby it is the other way, club rugby is deadly dull, while international is good to watch. I think it is really only the plastics who get over excited about international football, true football supporters know that your club comes first.

Reckon you had a few beers too many He was responsible for nearly everything Blackpool did until he went off injured. And Blackpool had so many chances he must have been doing something right. Just showed to me how incredibly stupid Burley must have been last season to have not got more out of this guy and to have let him get into the state he did with his fitness (Fat Boy he certainly was but he isn't now). Burley has a hell of a lot to answer for as far as last season is concerned, lucky the Jocks came along and took him off our hands otherwise I doubt we would be in this division now.

So as I said, Norwich are actually in the **** even deeper than we are. Delia has bailed them out to keep them afloat, and now someone connected with Big Brother (I think thats who Jade Goody is, though not sure) is looking at taking them over. My God, I'd rather have Mike Wilde in charge than anyone connected with that slag (and I don't mean Delia)

c) we have no scouts overseas (which is odd given that we have signed 2 players from overseas in the last couple of months and thats where most clubs are gtting their cheap players) e) Crap beer for 10 years! Then we are looking at changing to Carling. Make the most of what we have got, because its clearly going to get worse, I though the question was about GOOD beer, carling, probably the worst lager in the world. I think what we are looking for is something from Ringwood brewery or the like. By the way why is a 10 year pouring contract a problem, we have broken other agreements (such as the buses) so why not renegotiate the beer as well. All in all the replies from MW were much as expected. Absolute hogwash. Please go poodle and take that nice Mr Lowe with you when you leave

How is this factual or how is a bad idea? If you are referring to walcot, restructuring the original transfer made a lot of sense, it will be many years before he has made enough competitive interntaional appearances to warrant any additional payments, if he ever does. So that was £2m which we may have never seen. If you are referring to Bale, there have been no accounts published that contain such figures, we probably won't see them until October. While I agree with a lot of what you say, much of what you try to pretend is factual is actually just nonsense you made up, still I guess given your username we should not expect anything else.

Really, sounded to me more like they were in the **** and needed £2m from Delia and Wynn-Jones to bale them out after the other directors walked out. Is there another story out there?

Great news that Mick is making a good recovery and is now back home in West Ilsley: http://www.mickchannon.tv/news.php It still really bugs me that we didn't score on Saturday, I was sat there hoping we would and eho ever scored would do a windmill celebration, we will never know now whether the players would have had a sense of the club history or not...

Except the Irish player Christian O'Ronaldo

No, but maybe they have common grandparents

Only those who have no sense of justice, and therefore largely irrelevant people. In the eyes of the law the guy is innocent. There it should rest and BWP should not be subjected to any insults related to this event. he should get as much support from the supporters as his ability and effort deserves.

Should we be worried that JVP has not seen him play? Who is JVP anyway?

Does the "reduced coaching costs" item cover the replacement of NP, Dodd and Gorman with JP and Wotte? If so, surely we must expect this to have been a much bigger sum, after all JP and MW were a much cheaper option that NP on his own according to some. Not sure I actually believe that but that is the spin.

Perhaps JP just knows that specialised FBs are of no use to teams playing total football, as Archie Gemmill demonstrated with his nutmeg of JP in the World Cup As a specialised FB himself I guess JP may think he can judge this situation. Not saying I agree with him (I don't) but it is one area he can be said to be knowledgeable. By the way the petty bickering at the start of this thread actually showed everyone to be technically inaccurate, as neither JP nor RL were really involved in signing Holmes or Perry, both of those moves were already being done before His Satanic Majesty was reinstated and while JP was still coaching a lower league team in Holland. Not that it matters, Jan has 10 new signings in his squad, and I'm sure thats what he meant. Some people need to remember not to nit-pick what JP says, once you can speak Dutch as fluently as JP can speak English then you may have grounds to criticise.

Looks like Euell is not only staying but helping to keep the medical staff busy

You are quite correct, bigger than Highbury for sure. The pitch itself was not that small, just that we used to stand almost on it and so it seemed small and intimidating. I think there are several points in making the pitch narrower. It restricts the opposition so that they find it more difficult to get around our defenders (meant Fat Boy had to come inside more). Also makes it slightly easier for us to put in deeper crosses (crosses to the back post). Also means that our 2 defensive midfielders have less width to worry about, and so they can effectively cover the opposition attacking options more effectively.

I grew up with Dan Dare, what has reading comic books got to do with anything

Actually Wes, I have to disagree, it was actually very good entertainment, although sadly from our biased pov much of the entertainment came from the opposition. As a long time supporter I have never gone to games to be entertained, I have gone to games to see us win. If we win playing pretty football I will enjoy it slightly more, but the bottom line is that winning is pretty much everything at home. One of the main reasons crowds at SMS are dropping off is because over the last couple of seasons we have forgotten how to win at home. It is actually much more entertaining to go to away games these days. I used to really not care if we lost away, as long as we won at home. I could go to nearly every home game in a season and see my team beat most of the best teams in the country (or even the best teams in Division Two last time we were at this level). It felt good, and so I went more. I get depressed enough knowing we have lost at home, if I've gone to the game as well, I might as well stick the Leonard Cohen album on Crowds will start to come back not when the team starts playing attractive football but when the team starts playing well enough at home to win or at least draw most of the time. The sooner the people that run this Club understand that the better.

Amazing really that we got to post 49 before anyone realised that changing the system doesn't have anything to do with playing the passing game or playing hoofball. Yes, in the game yesterday one of the problems was that our players could not work out that they were supposed to pass to players in stripes not players in orange (perhaps they have watched too many videos of Holland or something). The problem was that like several coaches before JP, he does not seem able to get players to change their formation during a game. He seems to have drummed in the 4-2-1-2-1 formation really well, and the players understand it well and can play it, but they don't seem to be able to change to something different if it doesn't work. Yesterday, the simple change that may have been effective, would have been for McG to play alongside John when he came on. But instead, McG dropped back into the hole behind John, so that we were playing exactly the same formation. We were not playing total football, we were playing a rigid formation (one that encourages total football but is not total football in itself). We were crying out for two in the box with crosses from Holmes and Dyer. Blackpool's defence was very suspect, but we never tested them when we were attacking with 1 v 4. If you play 2v4 it gives them something to think about that is different. To be fair to JP, even WGS, and Burley especially had the same problem, an inability to be able to effectively change tactics during a game. I'm sure it will come, perhaps this is what we need during the 2 week break.

I guess you didn't see the game yesterday. Until the last few minutes it was us that had 4 bookings. Not saying we were kicking the **** out of them either, most of ours were for ill-timed tackles, not malicious stuff. Blackpool did not kick the **** out of anyone, they actually played decent football.

I guess the fact that Blackpool only brought 2 men and a dog didn't help either. This is always one of the worst weekends of the season for attendances, and with the game being on TV, the opponents being Blackpool, the credit crunch and the general falling off of football atendances, I'm surprised we managed 15k. If we continue to lose at home we will be looking back on this game and remembering with delight when we had 15k supporters turning up.