paulhanley
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Collins is one of the last ones I would be selling but if we are willing to do it (and provided we get more than we paid) there is an element of this that is quite exciting. It shows that the current owners/Fergal Sharkey/SS are planning revolution not evolution. Given the shambolic end to the season and the utterly feather-light/lopsided squad bequeathed by Evatt, who can argue?
The downside is that revolution will take a long time to bed down and probably affect our chances of promotion next year.
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3 hours ago, gonzo said:
In true Blackpool style of old they are too busy signing clogger centre halves who are a bit past their best. Giving them very long contracts in the process.
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I am encouraged by the list of other clubs in for him. Not all of those scouts/recruitment types can be wrong.
As I have said before I dont think we can get by with just one striker who has physique and aerial ability. Its still fresh in the mind how lame we used to look when Madine was unfit.
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35 minutes ago, Farrelli said:
Dear god.
You really aren't comfortable with people having opinions that differ from yours are you. Anything that doesn't follow Guardianista thought patterns and you are in shock that such people could ever exist.
There's a new phrase. It came originally from an anti-woke Labour peer called Lord Glasman. He describes the "lanyard classes". Essentially preening elitists who grab hold of any and every opportunity to parade their moral superiority to the grubby masses. Those folk are rife inside the public sector I'm afraid.
Maybe Lord Glasman's thoughts will take hold within the Labour party and it will genuinely become a party that properly represents working people again. Maybe other parties will follow suit. Be quite some turnaround if it did. And folk with your wokey view of the world would be left high and dry.
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34 minutes ago, Farrelli said:
I think you are being unrealistic. Councils are cutting back as they are skint. They don’t need another thing to control. Police can’t deal with present crime levels without adding another.
Councils might be at least a little less skint if they focused entirely on the services they were created to statutorily provide rather than on "diversity and inclusion" and similar wokery. The sooner they realise that they serve the people and not the other way around the more their budgets will become focused on what they're supposed to be focused on.
And before you get all uppity I work in local government and form my opinions first hand.
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10 minutes ago, Jol_BWFC said:
A good friend of mine and a fellow poster on here. 👍
Well he couldn't wish for a nicer place to live....
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A BWFC flag spotted with "Adderbury" across the middle. That's a beautiful little village with 4 pubs about 3 miles south of where I live in Banbury. Wanderers fans everywhere!
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15 minutes ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:
I've almost seen a bigger home crowd at Wigan
I wouldn't quite go that far.
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4 hours ago, Arrested development said:
I'm kind of in on to the Dalby signing now. 6 ft 3, holds the ball up well. Can play on his own or with a partner. Free transfer with reasonable wages. Ticks the boxes. He does need service to score though. Good balls in to the box. I think it depends on the wide players we sign as to whether he's a success.
There is goals in this team with Mcatee and Collins and potentially Dalby. Mcatee and Collins will both suit playing off him too. People can slag off Mcatee till they are blue in the face but he got double figures without really hitting top form. Colilns is a 15 goal plus league 1 forward.
Wingers next please fergal. Wingers and some proper centre Halfs. Annoys me that Blackpool got that Horsfall from Stockport. Fucking good league 1 defender him. On a free too.
I have no idea just how good Dalby is and its difficult to translate his Dundee Utd performances in to our league. However the type of player he is provides an insight in to what SS and co have in mind.
I'm wary of his goalscoring record at Wrexham but there are very likely to be reasons for that. SKD's goalscoring ratio per appearance was hardly stellar but what a good un he was in the role was used him in. I can remember looking at Lukas Jutkiewicz's goals per game stat when we got him on loan in 2014 - didn't look good. Again he was great for us played in a specific role that suited him.
Let's sign him, then let's give him a chance.
One thing is for sure though if we are opting for a style of play that needs a Dalby type we need another similar in the squad or else the whole thing falls down when SD is injured/suspended etc.
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Blackpool have made a couple of signings today, both big centre-backs. On one level quite impressed, on another not so much. Horsfall from Stockport and Michael Ihiekwe from Sheff Weds are both the types we lack. If we'd sign them though I'd have mixed feelings about whether they represent progress.
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4 hours ago, yardbones said:
Saw this posted on another site. Average gates for 1956/57. Ours was under 25k in a season where we finished 9th in the top flight.
Good to see us higher than Burnley, PNE, Blackpool, Blackburn etc.
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Dalby strikes me as a player around whom we'd have to play a very particular style. I don't think SS would be expecting lots of goals from him but he'd be expecting more goals from Collins/McAtee etc as a result of his presence. Thing is if that's the style we want we'd need another like him if he's not available or the whole system doesn't work.
Anyway, enough theorising. Let's sign him first!
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50 minutes ago, Clarence Carter said:
“As we walked towards the ground an hour before kick-off, there was unusual congestion,” described one of those fans, Pete Molyneux. “We soon realised several hundred Bolton fans, instead of going through the turnstiles or into the pubs, were walking round trying to spot any United fans. We were in it before we realised how sinister it was. Luckily, no colours were on show among us but anyone with a hint of red and white got sneering verbal abuse or a slap round the head, or both. The scene was ugly. Very ugly.”
An article about it from their side:
https://archive.ph/xefbeFrom their side we don't really register until we're in the same division. Then they know derby day will be an event and they know of the history/intense dislike on our side. That piece is not completely devoid of the usual hardwired conceit that is evident among the infestation that's their support base but less so than usual.
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Oldham v Southend today in the National League final. Probably favour Oldham but will regret that if they win as no doubt we'll draw them in the League Cup or Sherpa Van and they'll do for us.
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6 minutes ago, BobyBrno said:
Did some declutterring this week and coincidentally came across these😊
Finished work at lunchtime as we always did the last day before Christmas. Kicked out of the pub at 3, I wandered around town wondering if the match would be on as there was some doubt. Met a Bobby friend of mine in the town hall square and he said they had been told it would go ahead. Brilliant night.
We were well and truly back!
Magic. Those old boys being Gowling, Dunne and Morgan.
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7 hours ago, batton carrier said:
This is why my uncle hates them. He got me into bolton. He told me these tales and many more. He would say we are Bolton effing Wanderers (he wouldn't swear in front of his nephew) busby used to send buses to burnden to take the fans who couldn't get in to watch man u instead. I don't know if this is true but I have no reason to doubt him
The buses bit is true because when Jimmy Armfield became Bolton manager he put a stop to it. They actually used to park coaches on the Burnden forecourt to pick up rags fans. Armfield said no more.
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7 minutes ago, tomski said:
Warned you @paulhanley😂
All a bit odd!
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3 minutes ago, TrickyTrotter said:
Gerry McElhinney from an earlier era. Mid Ulster Boxing champion and All Ireland Gaelic Football semi finalist.
Soon sort some of these fannys out.
Taggart the better footballer of those two but McElhinney not too bad and definitely a hard man. Every other game he ended up with a bandage around his head and blood all over the shop.
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9 minutes ago, SatanGreavsie said:
They considered us a rival that fucking night. 3-0 . One of the abiding memories I'll go to my grave with. If only someone could somehow unearth some footage, I'd reward them handsomely in my will.
I was at that game but incredibly young. I just recall seeing the United fans on the Manny Road half of the Embankment which was usually for home fans and the BWFC fans on the away bit next to the Burnden Paddock. Think it was quite a foggy night and unless anyone tells me different there was (unusually) no trouble. Which cannot have been said about our previous game v them in 74/5 (Div 2) or the following season in 79/80. From what everyone has said 3-0 didn't flatter us and Worthy took the piss out of Gordon McQueen all night.
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17 minutes ago, tomski said:
Good post @paulhanley wasted on here as it’s full of sympathisers though.
Surely not. If so, what's become of our support base?
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I know what people mean about Karl Henry but let's go back a bit further. What we wouldn't give for a Kevin Nolan, Gary Speed or Per Frandsen.
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It's worth celebrating just how unbelievably shit our beloved neighbours, the self proclaimed "greatest club of the world" have become. Compared to their insufferable spell of success under old purple nose, the current state of affairs is the stuff of dreams and could never have been foreseen in our wildest dreams
- Now 12 years without a Premier League title
- Lost their status as the club with the most Prem titles - now 20-20 with Liverpool with the scousers far likelier to get to the 21 mark in the next year or two
- NOT the most successful club in English football, Liverpool again.
- A 15th placed finish, their lowest since being relegated to the old Division 2 in 1974
- A stadium that is essentially crumbling having been neglected for many years.
- Finances in a mess
- Several reports this week that their support abroad (especially in Asia) is hemorrhaging
- Beaten by a Spurs side who are even more dreadful than they are in a European final.
Feel free to add to the above list. There must be plenty of other elements of their decline to crow about.
We've got our own woes as have most clubs. On this quiet Saturday with no footy until tonight and very little other sport of note it's worth reflecting just what depths these arrogant cunts have plumbed. What a pleasure it is to see their cretinous support base having to keep its head down and feel what it's really like to be a football fan.
The only downside is that we were in the Prem in the wrong decade. I rather suspect we'd have chalked up several memorable wins home and away if our spell had been 10 years on from the one we had.
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Posh sticking to their usual profile of signings here
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14 minutes ago, mickbrown said:
Weird how it’s the free speech brigade celebrating his removal.
He can exercise his free speech all he wants now he's no longer being paid from the license fee, which requires impartiality at all times and has done since the BBC was formed. Weird how you've entirely missed that simple distinction.
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I like the look of this signing. You might ask why Hull have got rid but it seems like they are one of those clubs who need/want players off the books. He did well at Wycombe in side who looked really good towards the end of last season. He is a good age and it seems he is the type who puts his foot in and brings some physique and height. Most of all he is the type Evatt and Markham would never have considered.
Iles reckons he can play cb as well.