bluebruce

Absolutely love the look of these hoodies I keep seeing advertised on Facebook, but not sure the vendor is reliable. If you guys could make something like this (minus the fucking Venkys logo on the sleeve) at a fair price I'd definitely buy it. As long as it had the zip, I only do zipped hoodies! If it's not something you can do, I'd love to know if anyone on here has bought one of these and received it (and it not been shite). Think the club is also missing a trick.

So who did he want instead that he didn't get?

My guess would be we probably paid him about 15k per week of it anyway. The saving will mostly be from the summer onwards, which was happening anyway.

Is it? Like you said he wasn't any use to us. What would have been better, not signing one of the other players so we could keep someone we don't need?

https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=975131944624594 Pretty much admitting he's heard about the criticism from fans and it hasn't helped. Sounds like he feels confident at the moment though so hopefully we see the best of him in the run-in.

I can't seem to find it now, but I found an article the other day about Sergeant signing a deal. I'm pretty sure it was from last May and described him as 17. So he's either nearly 18 or already 18, unless my memory is playing tricks and it said he was 16. Higgins I'm not sure. But yes they both do absolutely have time on their side, I was only observing what's there right now. It's a required growth area but they have time to grow. Physically as well, which is a scary thought in Higgins' case, he's a unit already.

Given that what Dolan mostly gets criticised for is decision-making, and he has the right attitude to the game, I'd argue he could still improve through more experience. It may just click one day, how to read situations differently.

His general play looks good, exciting looking player. He needs to work on his finishing though. Not the only one, Higgins could have had more there.

The most unfairly maligned player at the club. By some distance.

Our u18s have done the double on Liverpool now, who are actually second-bottom in the 13 team league. We're 5th, with 1 or 2 games in hand of all the teams above us (although 6th have a game in hand over us).

Yeh you've got to backspace instead. You know, the button or whatever it is on your browser that takes you back to your previous page.

The ones on the mobile version can be a real pain. They take you to a whole other page rather than being a popup with an option to close, and you have to backspace to get back to where you were. You then aren't taken to the point you were already at, but instead taken to the top of the thread. Those ones are really irritating. I can live with the desktop versions.

Sure, although 'if he keeps playing like the best game he has had all season' is a big, big ask. I'd happily settle for how he's been playing the last month and a bit.

I assumed he meant league goals. Which he has 5 of, so needs to double his tally for the season. Be nice if he pulls that off.

Would this have been your opinion if we had lost last night?

I already have an account, and it looks like that does indeed work, thanks! I'm pretty busy until Monday but if my spirit hasn't been crushed by the Plymouth result by then, I'll give it a watch. Thanks, that'll be a useful resource since I have to miss a lot of Saturdays in particular. Not as exciting when you already know the score, but when I miss a good 'un it'll still be worth it.

The only time Big Mak doesn't smile is when you don't let him take a penalty. And tbh, it's been understandable he didn't get to take the last two, his goals had all come from headers really, and his shooting with his feet had often been poor. After those last two finishes, with the form he's in, if we get one in the next game I'd let him take it.

Whilst Mani did always say he was only getting that opinion from a member of staff at the club, and has subsequently admitted he doesn't think the lad is as good as all that, he made it clear he was wholesale buying into the validity of that opinion* and went to lengths to mock those who thought it was a right load of old bollocks. If Buckley finally finds form for an extended period and realises his initial potential, I'm sure he will be along with some more 'I told you so' fun. *(comments like, IIRC, I don't see it myself but they know more than us, and essentially shouting down the contrary opinions due to our supposed lack of knowledge...we were right, these experts were wrong)

Aye I agree, mostly by dallying too long whilst the squad imminently needed reinforcements. We're about to have most of our players back anyway, which will set the squad up strongly for the final run, but the longer we went without bringing players in, the more points we lost, the better quality those players needed to be to save our season. My gut feeling is we didn't bring in enough ready-to-go quality up front to achieve that. Plus the fannying around lost us our manager, and I'm not fool enough to think one good result since means we don't have to worry on that front. The same thing happened last season when we got a one-game bounce from Eustace coming in, and we didn't really have great form after that game, it took a while for things to click.

I think quite a lot of people know this, but, when microwaving leftovers from the day before, sprinkle a little water over it first. Stops it drying out and keeps it tasting pretty fresh. This is especially essential on pizzas, stops the crust getting nasty. (Anyone wondering how much, I usually just put my hand under the kitchen tap on full blast, then flick whatever's on it, and usually do this two or three times depending what I'm nuking...some stuff requires a bit more, some a bit less, and if it's been in the fridge it needs less than if it's been left out...if it's got a watery sauce covering it all, it probably doesn't need it at all)

It's a shame there are so many teams underneath us who can just slot into WBA's place as contenders if they slip though. We really have thrown too many points away this last couple of months. Even just a couple of those defeats having been wins would have us 9 points clear of 7th right now and make us very hard to catch. As it is, we're 7 points clear of 12th, and any team from there upwards could catch us if they go on a run and we don't do quite well ourselves.

I think this is a tougher game than it looks on paper. Plymouth are actually in good form, 2 wins and a draw from their last 3 games. And they did us last time we played. Add those games together and you get 10 points from 4 games - which is more than a third of all their points this season. Absolutely hammered Millwall yesterday, who we've often struggled against. Albeit with an own goal, a penalty, and 5 goals despite only 7 shots on target and 35% possession. They also beat WBA in their previous league game just like ourselves, and beat Liverpool in the cup. I think we're playing them at a bad time. Their tails will absolutely be up.

Oh don't worry, I knew that. I was talking about the social media buzz. Some very limited minds on there. If anything I thought you were probably criticising the notion.

Don't I have to be registered and pay a subscription to do that?

Absolutely knew I'd come into this topic right now and see that people would want Lowe to be in charge because he got a single win. It's as stupid and as predictable as people wanting an ex-player to get the managerial reins every time we need a new manager.