Winnersaint

Will Still, the Keir Starmer of football management.

If not Still, then who? Any managers out there available?

Like many I wanted this to work. Its not! Now there is a manager who is currently without a job.

Friday 9:30am Sky Sports some kind of Fantasy Football Show. What a load of unadulterated Millenial/GenX bollocks.

That's the definitive summary to be fair.

Hmmm, you maybe correct, but who?

Not the greatest evening watching that. Saw my first game nearly 62 years ago sitting on my dad's shoulders. Never been more detached from the club as now.

About as much chance as Blackadder, Baldrick et al coming out unscathed from the final episode of Blackadder Goes Forth.

Felt nothing last time we were in the Championship, feel the same now.

Those calling 3-1 may not be wide of the mark.

We do fuck all here, always have.

Yeah he would have probably Cained it.

No.

Wtf

xG

My first away game in the FA Cup 1967. Lost that as well. I was 9 and struggled to understand why the crowd was full of people who sounded like pirates!

Damned by faint praise? 😂

Not watched it ever, suppose I should as our niece works on it.

Hopefully pinch it but suspect more justified post game vitriol.

Watford maybe!

Always seemed a slightly odd man.

Certainly not the oldest, but first game was in October 1963 v Don Revie’s dirty Leeds. Collins, Bremner, Giles etc. Was 5, sat on my dad’s shoulders on Archer’s Rd. Saints team was Reynolds, Williams, Traynor, Wimshurst, Knapp, Huxford, Paine, O'Brien, Burnside Sydenham.

That compilation made me smile.

Midfield need a reset. Downes and Charles doesn't work. They get a foot in as they should and recycle, but but the next bit is where it comes unstuck. Our back four sitting so deep didn't help them and it stifled or capacity to bring Azaz and Fellows into the game particularly in the first half hence the long ball shit to a midget. It seemed like we were playing a double pivot against inferior opposition when we were crying out for more creativity and with both pretty much doing the same thing in similar spaces everything coming through midfield was turgid to say the least. I thought Charles was the better of the two, Flynn Downes? He can fuck off, doesn't seemingly want to be here

So it was better than the fare served at SMS this lunchtime. Seriously though, I would recommend the UKPFE. It was a real mixed bag of a set which was great. Starting off with Money and followed by Take it Back from The Division Bell, the rest of the opening was taken up with most of side 1 of DSotM. First impressions were very favourable. I was wondering particularly how Great Gig in the Sky would go but the female vocalist pretty much nailed the Claire Torry bit which isn’t easy. If I had a criticism she was ever so, ever so slightly screechy at very highest notes. From there it came forward a decade with Yet Another Movie and Sorrow and then High Hopes from The Division Bell before they delved into Wish you Here stuff either side of the interval doing them all justice including the eponymous song. The second half opened with Shine on you Crazy Diamond 1-9 and here the second backing singer deserves absolute kudos with baritone and tenor sax on board at the same time switching between the two almost seamlessly. Then there was a tribute to Syd Barrett with Lucifer Sam before they went full on The Wall. I thought this was excellent from Thin Ice to pt 1 and 2. It was capped off by an excellent version of Comfortably Numb. All in all well Worth it. The venue was surprising. A proper Georgian Corn Exchange reflecting Newbury’s agricultural heritage and its importance in the agricultural revolution with the intro of poor relief through the Speenhamland System. IMG_4229.mov