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  • in reply to: Daniels, Goode, Toney… #207826
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    Still a skunk!

    in reply to: Super Sam #207825
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    Nah! Reckon we need colonic irrigation to get rid of the crap that’s been clogging up the club.

    in reply to: Super Sam #207817
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    Fair point but where’s OUR enema coming from?

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    What you don’t factor in is gate money for season 21/22.

    We don’t know as yet if fans will be allowed back in, what the maximum number will be if there’s still controls in place, and even if things got back to how they were pre-pandemic what sort of attendances we are going to see.

    Three seasons of very poor performances, a near-death experience with non-league football and a season and a half with no fans in the ground. That’s not much of an incentive to get fans back through the turnstiles and get them munching on Swann’s pies and drinking his beer.

    The days of a break even 3-3.5k attendances have passed. I can’t see gates getting much above 2k unless we are mounting a promotion challenge.

    We were losing money before the “sale of the century” so I can see wages being cut further. Getting the likes of Hippo, KDT and Jarvis off the payroll would help but I can’t see a queue forming!

    Is the old Division 3(N) trophy still in the cabinet? That might be worth a few bob at auction. It’s about the only thing Swann hasn’t sold off.

    in reply to: Daniels, Goode, Toney… #207812
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    I don’t talk about any member of THAT club!

    in reply to: Daniels, Goode, Toney… #207800
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    If he was then I look forward to Messrs Lineker, Shearer et al eulogising about Myles Hippolyte and Kenan Dunnwald-Turan on MOTD in a couple of years time!

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    in reply to: Daniels, Goode, Toney… #207794
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    To replace the five we lost?

    Sharp, Lundstrum, Norwood, Johnstone and Townsend.

    in reply to: Super Sam #207790
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    On the losing side today as Bromley leapfrogged Wrexham into a playoff spot.

    in reply to: Exciting Week Ahead #207763
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    Cam McGeehan was decent.

    in reply to: Exciting Week Ahead #207753
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    He’ll be on a two week holiday somewhere, then he’ll have to quarantine for a fortnight afterwards. So it’ll probably be July.

    And if it’s a family holiday then the whole of the recruitment committee will be there.

    The tumbleweed will be blowing around the SVS for a few weeks yet.

    in reply to: Exciting Week Ahead #207750
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    Tsunami is right.

    They’ll probably be “washed up”!

    in reply to: Next Iron Manager? I Hope Not! #207744
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    He doesn’t need anything putting into his body. He just needs the hatred sucking out!

    Any volunteers?

    in reply to: Super Sam #207727
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    Thought this was a belated reference to Sam Johnstone being named in the England squad.

    Reckon he’ll make the final cut too. If I had to ditch one of the four keepers it would be Ramsdale.

    in reply to: Exciting Week Ahead #207673
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    Which begs the question, why did we not offer Karacan a contract?

    Unless we did but he wanted to get on “the last helicopter out of Saigon”!

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    It’s classed as taking a step down!

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    in reply to: Exciting Week Ahead #207626
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    chairman said he would be our goalie last year,but Cox deemed otherwise after giving him 7 games,

    And there we have it in a nutshell.

    Chairman says one thing. Manager says/thinks another.

    in reply to: Exciting Week Ahead #207614
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    Well alot on here seem to think we’re making many signings this week on the back of what Swanny has said, I think you will be proved wrong, and it will be Cox who gets his way.

    I don’t give a tuppenny toss who’s right or wrong, or who gets their own way.

    I just want to see a half-decent, balanced squad in place. One that can win us a few games, and get us looking at the top half of the table instead of the bottom.

    If it’s in place by the time the players return for pre-season training then great.

    What we don’t want is Cox realising he doesn’t have an experienced keeper or a proper captain in early August.

    in reply to: pride of Lincolnshire. #207613
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    The Baron in the ivory tower of his sandscastle?

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    in reply to: Exciting Week Ahead #207599
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    D’ya reckon?

    We all know what happened to the last manager who thought he made the decisions on transfers.

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    in reply to: Exciting Week Ahead #207580
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    If we don’t have the new signings in place it will no doubt be the fault of Covid. Probably the Indian variant the he wasn’t expecting at the time of the last interview.

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    in reply to: pride of Lincolnshire. #207579
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    Bloody hell, Alcy! You walked right into that one.

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    in reply to: Tom Hopper #207542
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    Charlie Wyke not the flavour of the month in Sunderland last night!

    To be fair he’s not been that popular with the Sunderland fans generally.

    “Not the type of player we should be signing to get us back in the Championship”. “Why did we keep Wyke and send Will Grigg out on loan?”

    All sounds rather familiar, doesn’t it?

    in reply to: Tom Hopper #207512
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    Why not sign him up to another contract and allow him to leave on loan to Notts County for game time ?

    A lot of logic in there, although hindsight is a wonderful thing. If we had done that in 2019 and brought him back for the 2020/21 campaign then we wouldn’t have had to bring in Jarvis or Turan. Plus he’d have been playing in empty stadiums which would have negated Awaywego’s argument!

    The opposite view is that we’ve tried this several times without success. Olomola and Dales being classic examples.

    It’s been poor decision making by the powers that be. I don’t expect that to change this summer with the same personnel as last year in the building.

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    in reply to: Fair Game #207446
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    Fair Game’s philosophy is built around their four principles of community, independent regulation, integrity and sustainability

    If that’s the brief then I’ve an idea why we haven’t got involved!

    Community? Integrity?

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    in reply to: UEFA Competitions #207429
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    A Champions League featuring clubs who aren’t champions has always seemed a bit of a misnomer to me.

    And the fact that 5/9 finals have been the equivalent of domestic games would reenforce that.

    Taking the clubs that finished 3/4 in each group and putting them in the Europa League to try again is ridiculous and creating a new format seems just as daft.

    Managers moan about too many games yet they are all scrabbling to finish in a “European Spot”. So what happens? The domestic game suffers.

    And ultimately the fans.

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    in reply to: Bish Is A Blue #207419
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    Saw Wycombe playing at Carlisle a few years back.

    Hayes was outstanding. Sat in just behind the forwards and organised everything, never stopped talking and encouraging.

    Paris Cowan-Hall had a good game for them too, and Akinfenwa was a real handful.

    Shows what a bit of experience can do.

    I wonder if Coxy can take us from zeros to heroes like Ainsworth did with the Chairboys?

    Probably not, he doesn’t have the hair for it!

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    in reply to: Bish Is A Blue #207359
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    Never mind Swann. WE don’t want another season like the last one!

    Or the previous one. Or the one before that.

    in reply to: LEAGUE 2 CHAMPIONS 21/22… #207309
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    What, making a list of the players still under contract?

    A chimp with a typewriter could do it!

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    in reply to: LEAGUE 2 CHAMPIONS 21/22… #207293
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    Cox must get his recruitment right

    If only Cox was doing the recruitment!

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    in reply to: Saeson tickets #207238
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    No doubt the chairman will then say that is is the fans who are running down the club not him!

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