Sergei Gotsmanov

I would still argue that Koeman is a gentleman but you cannot really turn down that sort of money. Football is a fickle business and he could be out of a job in an instance as he knows from experience. He is a good manager but it will be difficult for him at Everton, there will be higher expectations. Losing a striker who delivers potential 20 plus goals a season will be very hard to replace as will a good young defender. Part of his success with us was centred around the fact that he could cherry pick the Dutch league for the best players because he knew the league. He also found Mane through his Dutch management days. He cannot do that now so effectively and although he will try and poach some of our players historically we are reluctant to sell to former managers.

Although nothing has happened as yet but I really am not impressed that it looks like we could lose Koeman to Everton. Surely the board could have built up some sort of relationship with him that made him show a degree of loyalty? Everton are hardly Arsenal or Barcelona. It makes financial sense to do everything to keep him because losing him will cost considerably more.

I would argue that should tragedy strike and Koeman leaves, we should not be looking for an up and coming manager but one who has already been lured to a top club and failed. They will then be determined to make it work and will be less likely to leave when they succeed.

I like that.

The Germans never tried to take us on again and the blockade continued to the end of the war. Not sure I would have called that a draw.

Thanks

when is the draw?

I think we could actually make this work in our favour. We let him manage Holland as well as us. Not ideal but none of the big clubs would allow him to do this.

Sorry I just cannot support United. I will console myself if they win by the fact that it helps us.

Christ I finally agree with you on something!

should be a good thing as more team to go to play offs and enjoy promotions

I would think you are about right but take him to a competitive game and one that we might win!. My son was 4 but that I did that more for me than him. Now he is fanatical and we sometimes travel away from home.

Thanks JRM. Franny and Doddy got less than a full house at their in the Dell. Sounded quite cheery.

What was the crowd? Hopefully 20K+

I think you miss the spirit of the occasion. The idea is to salute a loyal servant.

How many tickets have been sold? It is a night game and that would rule out taking my son - how many others would fall into that boat?

As somebody who votes mainly right of centre, to see Sadiq Khan's outing as Mayor of London visit the Holocaust memorial makes me genuinely embarrassed to have believed the tory spin. Shame on them.

A very straight forward and accurate assessment of our options! The remain camp portray the leave vote as little Englanders but they ignore, probably the majority of us, who believe in the European concept but just think it is currently grossly undemocratic and dysfunctional. Can no-one else recognise that the Euro benefits German exports at the expense of the recovery of struggling economies in southern Europe. The idea that governments like Greece and Italy can have governments imposed on them is appalling and the fact that the EU parliamentary gravy train is increasingly made up of crackpot protest parties is totally ludicrous. Most of all the idea that you can have a right to free movement in the EU when the minimum wage in some parts is more than a fifth less than ourselves is absolutely absurd. It is a magnet that cripples our schools and health care and most importantly when we really need to help good people like the Syrian refugees we have to sit on our hands. Criminal. I hope that we can speak out for the millions of people across Europe who agree. Maybe then we can change Europe to be the ethical trading zone that my parents voted for in the seventies. A vote leave will not be as black and white as marketed it will be a kick up the arse.

I was 12 and I am ashamed to say that I actually cried!

I think you need to check up on your definition of far right.

How can anyone be disappointed with this season? I think we need to distribute video's of Saints in the 90's to add a bit of context!

You must have a heart of iron to not be able to emphasise with the McCanns. If they had a hint of guilt they would have kept the campaign to find their poor little girl as low profile as they could, yet generated more global publicity than probably any other missing persons campaign ever. So much so that they created a vehicle for the investigating officer to write a grubby book to capitalise on it.

Do you really think it was acceptable for a senior police officer to write a book making sensational claims about a family that lost their child in order to make financial gain?

I enjoyed that thank you

Perhaps the 'Israel free zone of Bradford'.