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Reply | Alan Hansen seriously ill
at 16:26 10 Jun 2024
Brian Clough: We've got a little fat guy who will turn him inside out
Gary Newbon: John Robertson
Brian Clough: Yeah, a very talented, highly skilled, UNBELIEVABLE outside left, he'll turn him inside out! |
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Reply | Leaving loftus road...
at 14:33 10 Jun 2024
Looking at the Sir Bobby Robson stand at Portman Road from the outside on Google Street View (one of the newer stands behind the goals, can't find a pic online) the upper half seems to overhang the street below.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/prXhPECKGC3kSeHP6
Does anyone think the SAR stand could be rebuilt like that to make it bigger? [Post edited 10 Jun 14:36]
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 11:22 10 Jun 2024
Up against Francois who has a 31,000 majority, one of the safest in the country. You'd think that even with how badly they're likely to do, the Tories won't lose that seat. |
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Reply | 'Marquee' Rs signings who were (successful) 'statements of intent'
at 18:22 9 Jun 2024
Not for the first couple of seasons he didn't, he was regular first choice. It started going wrong in the first PL season when he made one or two errors culminating in a horror show at home to Palace just before Christmas. Gerry Francis seemed to lose confidence in him after that and he didn't play the rest of that season.
He replaced Roberts early on the next season 93/94and played a good chunk of the season before losing his place again but even if his contract wasn't expiring and he hadn't wanted to return to the Czech Republic I don't think Gerry Francis would have been wanting to offer him a new deal. [Post edited 10 Jun 12:43]
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Reply | Rangers SInce 1966-67 Without Rodney.
at 11:11 6 Jun 2024
You could probably make the same comparison with the Champions of Europe and Don Revie. Prior to him pitching up as player manager in 1961 they were a mid to lower half second tier team (and had been for many years) who had won absolutely nothing.
What they have been and are today stems from his 13 years as manager. |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 13:56 5 Jun 2024
Starmer played a blinder I think. He was obviously in possession of that letter saying it wasn't Treasury civil servants who'd come up with this two grand a year figure and like the top lawyer he is, he let the defendant Sunak lie again and again to the jury to basically hang himself. |
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Reply | Eze for England!
at 20:45 3 Jun 2024
"What was he doing in the f*cking box?"
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 13:45 28 May 2024
Can we steer the topic away from the B word guys and stick to the General Election? |
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Reply | Confession time - Play off winners
at 20:47 27 May 2024
Yes and No. Derry was still at the club in the 2013 close season but didn't play at all and became Notts County manager a few months into the season. Mackie was at Nottingham Forest that 2013/14 play off season (joined the fakes the season after when we were embarrassing ourselves in the Prem and joined us again the following season). [Post edited 27 May 20:51]
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 15:08 27 May 2024
Plus his and Osborne's political choice of austerity which the IMF called unnecessarily harsh and deep and counterproductive in the long run which most of our public services are still feeling the effect of today.
The economy just before the 2010 election was starting to recover and austerity killed that recovery stone dead. |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 09:09 26 May 2024
Definitely not guaranteed to get elected.
I grew up in Camberley and when I still lived there (last in 2012), he was my MP. The local council (Surrey Heath) had been solidly Tory and had always been the ruling party, often with very large majorities since the local government reorganisation in 1974. At one of the council elections in 1983 every one of the seats was Tory.
Even up to the 2015 local election they had 36 of the 40 seats. This changed in 2019 as the Lib Dems had been slowly gathering support and the Tories only just had a majority (18 out of 35). Come the 2023 local election I saw something I never thought would happen; not only were the Tories not the ruling party, they were absolutely obliterated, only 6 councillors elected with just a 17% share of the vote. Lib Dems got control with 24 out of 35.
I suppose in a roundabout way I'm saying that Gove saw the writing on the wall from last year and knew he would be on very thin ice in this election. [Post edited 26 May 14:19]
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