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Given that Walsall has been an utter graveyard for BWFC over many, many years we're probably better off with it being Wimbledon. I can only ever remember us beating Walsall away the once - in the League Cup when Anelka scored his first for us. Never remember us winning in the league there even though our home record v them is good.
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4 minutes ago, Whitestar said:
Haven't watched MOTD for absolute years, i was probably at school last time i watched anyway at one time it was called match of the day NOT Premier League highlights show and they would show a couple of important games from that day even it it wasn't in the top flight league, i can remember us being on beating Newcastle 4-0 that wasn't in the top division (i remember it well as it was showing the 1st time i got to touch a girls tuppence)
We did them the season after as well when it was the Kevin Keegan roadshow.
That 4-0 was the day the Newcastle fans walked out en masse to leave a completely empty away end. Didn't realise it was on the box, pity they've never surfaced on You Tube or the like.
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The 5-0 against Chester was very late season and straight after that horrible 2-1 defeat at Valley Parade. It was 0-0 until late in the game. We then won four on the spin and got over the line.
Graham Barrow was a Bolton hating cunt going back to his Wigan mid-80s days. Always seemed to want to pick a fight rather than play a pass.
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Agreed. This is a man who ended his England career a great, finishing top scorer in the 1986 World Cup and then scoring our first World Cup semi final goal since 1966 at Italia 90. He had other notable achievements in an England shirt such as scoring all four in a 2-4 win in Spain. Great club career too.
Then he was a very good TV presenter very much in the style of one of his predecessor's, Des Lynam.
He's blown all that legacy by consistently spraying his sneering political views all over the shop. Someone whose arrogance has extended to him considering himself a "thought leader". He came across as quite humble when a footballer but his ego has since grown and run away with him, to some tune.
Once one of us. Now about as far away from that as you could imagine.
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Glad that Charlton are out of the way. Orient have been a great team but built on a good few loanees.
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Oh who gives a shit. There will be all sorts of folk there not associated with either Orient or Charlton. I was annoyed with her for not potting Evatt sooner - but not for this.
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51 minutes ago, Steejay said:
Mmm, not too sure about that.
They already have Gordon and Barnes.
He definitely needs to leave, though. Been blunted by Pepball.
Maybe back to Villa?
That was my thought re Grealish
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Job description.
* Able to bake pies.
End of job description.
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11 minutes ago, Zico said:
I always had that down to them just wanting to be the harder hooligans
I think it dates back to that FA Cup Final and replay in the early 70s when they kicked seven shades of shit out of each other.
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Don't Sheff U also have some kind of rivalry with Forest that's linked to the miner's strike? Leeds and Chelsea is another proper grudge match.
Anyway Tranmere can fuck off. Absolutely not coloured with Bolton Wanderers. Wigan by the Mersey.
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Nothing sums up the Evatt era more than Stockport County. They bolt out of the National League (beating us as a non league club in the FA Cup) , through League 2 like a dose of salts and then straight to the top of League 1 overtaking us with our pretty, pretty football on the way.
I am sick of hearing their fans say they've never lost at the Reebok (played them 5 times in league and cup, we've drawn 2 and lost 3) and generally fed up of being on the wrong end of results against them.
Another one next season that needs putting to rights next season along with winning at Bloomfield Road/preserving our long unbeaten home record v them and further wins v the pie men.
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53 minutes ago, Johnnyrotten said:
Yes I feel like we got away with it a bit, thinking about those wooden Burnden Stand seats. In theory it would be relatively easy to escape into the terrace below but in practise the gates to the terrace would have been locked no doubt and the occupants weren't generally of the young and fit variety that could scale the dividing wall, any fire would have been catastrophic.
Manny Road was always plastic seats in my time, bolted to wooden floors I think, but probably less of a fire hazard overall.
Certainly another reason to appreciate our current stadium.
I can remember the wooden seats just about. In fact on the last day of 77.8 when we clinched the title v Fulham loads of those got broken through people standing on them. Bloody uncomfortable.
At some point they put in those exits from the stand in to the terraces. I do not think that was a direct response to Bradford, I think it was before. In fact I think they were wooden too!
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1 hour ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:
Plenty of timber at Burnden.
Might be wrong here, but wasn't some of it made into furniture for sale to fans?
Both the Burnden Stand and Manny Road Stand.
I have a strong recollection at the start of the 1985/6 season at home against Rotherham there were multiple very pointed "no smoking in any of the main stand" announcements. Folk were still doing it early that season and some being approached by stewards. Back in the late 70s and early 80s my Dad always took us in the Manny Road Stand. Given that the Burnden Stand opposite was well under the roof it often looked dark from across the pitch. The only light you could see was people lighting up their fags.
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We actually played them the week before at Burnden and they were promotion bound with Stuart McCall their main man in midfield, they won 0-2.
I think we won 2-3 at Cambridge on the day of the fire itself. I am also pretty sure that on the same day there was a massive riot at St Andrews between Birmingham and Leeds fans in which one fan was killed.
Very different days those. Nowhere near as safe as now. Truly horrible events.
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We conceded 70 goals last season, the most in the top half of the division. There is not even a debate to be bad that our defence needs to be addressed. We've rightly let Santos and Jones leave and Murphy has returned to Newcastle. They need to be replaced with better. End of.
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New deals with India and the USA in the space of a week. It will be interesting to see how analysis develops of both. They certainly both seem to have have upsides and downsides but I suppose that is the nature of any deal. It is never going to be any other way. Fair play to this Government for not turning it's face against Trump.
It is important that neither deal is set in stone. Work should continue and they should evolve. Similar with our deal with the CPTPP in the indo-pacific. The general idea is mutual benefit. All nations are different, all have strengths, all have needs.
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New trade deals with India and the USA
New Pope elected.
Still no new signings at BWFC. Schumacher out.
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15 minutes ago, Casino said:
B team
And seeing as we have signed B team players from much higher up, Im getting in first
He will never play a game
You could easily be right.
What I would say is that the Isthmian League is probably the highest standard of all three feeder leagues in to the National League. Plus they did have a good long look at him first hand and clearly saw potential.
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Good call for setting up this thread. Let's hope it stays busy.
Our scouting network clearly extends as far as coastal Essex!
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Is this thread the substitute for the usual "transfer gossip" thread this summer?
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2 hours ago, Whitesince63 said:
Well whatever is being said on social media chat I’d be absolutely amazed if Randall was one of the ones who was going. I know he hasn’t lit any fires here but it’s hard to deny he’s a quality player and I don’t really think he’s had much of a chance to prove himself then but what do I know, it’s down to what Schu sees not us. Maybe he believes he can still get a decent fee for him, albeit nothing like we paid but money towards incomers.
It would be a surprise if Randall left so soon. That's what makes me think Sheehan might be sold. At 29 it's now or never to make some money on him as a full Welsh international and I reckon we'd accept less than £500K. Maybe even half that.
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25 minutes ago, Whitesince63 said:
He’s left footed and plays either left back or left centre back but probably left back for us unless needed in the middle. Well thought of though and if he does leave Lincoln there’ll be competition for him I’m sure.
Seems to have been left back in a back four in recent weeks.
Played every game for Lincoln last season. Stark contrast to our sicknote culture.
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It's this. Found it!
They're taking the piss, Pt II.
in Terrace Talk
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For those defending Linekar's social media spoutings while working on BBC programming it's worth a reminder about this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_independence#:~:text=The BBC must be independent in all matters,supplied%2C and in the management of its affairs.
He was told by the BBC that he had to cut it out. So what did he do? He shared a pro-Palestinian video that criticised Zionism and featured a rat illustration. In Nazi Germany a rat was used as a metaphor to describe Jews as vermin.
People on here are defending him because they share some or all of his views (hopefully minus the hideous stuff from the last offence committed that cost him his job). This misses the point. He worked for the BBC (even if he was a contractor) and needed to be neutral on all subjects.
It takes a certain level of arrogance to be repeatedly overstepping that same line.