benjii

Right... just had a closer look at that picture. 2 things: 1 Look at the Helmond Polo shirt. Look at it. It's a ****ing iron-on transfer or something. They got a job-lot of plain white down ze market and then Dorish the (herbal) tea lady only went and ironed on some frigging Helmond logos. 2 Syrup?

Adam Leitch should get a Pullitzer for that. It's a beautifully crafted bit of work.

I don't understand.... Is Pearson building a team of young, British players, capable of winning many matches in the English professional leagues? How the bejeezus has he managed that without a Revolutionary New Coaching Setup, a seamless transition, a curve-ball of a formation, a throw-back to the seventies and a massive bag of.... balls?

I was going to post something similar but couldn't be bothered. Now, you have, I will pipe-up and agree to some extent. I think QPR was the tipping point in terms of performance. From then on we went downhill. We played pretty well in that game and were stitched up by a terrible piece of linesmanship (and by some ****e defending in the first half). I think that was when the players' confidence took a hit and after that we never looked like scoring much. Also, Holmes was our most important attacking player at the time. What had already become clear by that point though, was that Poortvliet was completely inflexible and had no clue how to actually influence proceedings during matches other than by hoping that "plan A" started to work. Honestly, how anyone can defend Poortvliet's appointment in the cold light of day is quite incredible. Hindsight or no hindsight, this was, managerially at least, a complete nobody. The rationale was, "he's done well on a budget" - well fook me but so has every other non-league level manager who's ever done ok. By definition, if you spend your career ****ing about in the lower leagues and at some point have some limited success then you can state you've "done well on a budget". It wasn't so much a gamble as just plain mental. I liked him to begin with and thought that if he had some better centre backs he may have done ok (would have been interesting to see where we would have been if we had JP Saiejs from day one). Even so, this would not have made his appointment any less bizare.

My mates who have been to New Zealand all went bungee jumping and white water rafting and stuff like that. How I laughed when they realised they'd overlooked the tractor museum.

I would think twice before giving one of my mates £5 to do this so the prospect of supporting an anonymous Forum Username with whom I have no personal affiliation other than that they, by some accident of birth, happen to support the same football club..... That said, I quite fancy a trip to Hvar in the summer. If anyone sends me some money I will try and take photos of clunge on the beach and you can have a look. PM me.

I went to the Lisbon derby there last season. Awesome. (Interesting fact (well, a bit) - there actually is no club called Sporting Lisbon. Their name is Sporting Clube de Portugal.)

B'ham have **** fans. They had terrible attendances in the Premier League too.

Yes, but isn't that precisely what "form" means when used in a sporting context? 3 wins out of 3 is pretty much perfect "form" over three matches and is play-off form over 5 matches. Admittely it's utterly insignificant over 1,000,000,000 games though.

Can someone please tell me what the maximum permissible thickness of a tuna carpaccio is? Thanks.

I will be there on Friday. I suspect I may get battered and waste loads of money on some mankey old nag. I will probably place some bad bets too.

TBF, the world would be much better if the sun had never set on the British Empire.

I appreciate that and fair play to him. I'm not having a pop. My understanding was that the original Fbook creator pulled out for reputational/work reasons and the young lad offered to step up. I just don't think the message is clear and as the main example of Lowe's incompetence that was sighted has arguably been his biggest success of the season, it looks a little ill-conceived.

\\:D/ Sorry, are you the bearer of tremendous news or is this some kind of typo?

You aren't.

No, don't agree. Any improvement has been negligible. As for your Now, now, now line - you've had what, 35 matches this season?

The problem I have with the protests is that whenever that figurehead chap got interviewed on the radio/tele etc. the best he could come up for as their raison d'etre was, "Lowe's done some stupid things like appointing Wotte". Now, frankly, of all the things to protest against Lowe in relation to, appointing Wotte is near the bottom of the list. If the protests are to remain valid, they need to have a more thought out purpose and justification which needs to be put forward.

When was he found guilty the first time?

There are still people who don't appreciate that NatWest is a subsidiary of RBS...!!!???

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Not sure where/when it was on the OS or anything but the consensus, as I understood it, until recently was that he would be unlikely to play this season. If he gets fit it will be a big bonus as we are still threadbare at the back in the event of injuries.

TBF it does have "Lowe is a **** who slaps grannies" emblazoned across it.

I think he actually has a lot of potential. Unfortunately he, like Lloyd James, has suffered as a result of Lowe / JP's policy, in as much as they have been relied upon to single-handedly carry a position all season *****il recently in DMcG's case). However, James has improved over the last few months IMO and it's not surprising at all to me that McG is playing better now he is not a lone striker or stuck on the wing.

This sort of post makes me laugh. Do you honestly believe there are no competent chief execs capable of running a fairly small company that would jump at the opportunity? Here's an idea: all 3 major shareholders take a non-executive position. "Continutity" Jones continues as FD, an executive chairman, maybe someone with a decent track record in entertainment/sports/marketing is appointed. Obviously that would involve Lowe and Wilde acting without vendetta or ego, so I concede it is extremely unlikely.

If there's any doubt at all, and it's something that could be aggravated then rest him and bring him back against Derby.