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In the online clips he’s classy and exciting, with the obvious caveat that it’s just the best 0.1% of what he’s done. But the art of management is to consistently extract the best out of people, so hopefully Robins and Viveash will do that. Let’s hope his shots are harder than Callum’s and his...

Cuthbert, Dibble, Grubb

If he scores 400 goals per minute I confidently predict we'll at least make the playoffs ;)

Probably got one or two old pics of the West End somewhere, but what exactly do you mean “Not outside the ground but as you go through the turnstiles”? Seems unlikely anyone will have pictures of the turnstiles as they go through them, or from inside the ground.

Matty's hair is sensational in the promotional pics. Fit for the window of Toni & Guy.

You pre-date the primordial soup?

Any toffee-throwing would obviously require extra safety measures these days. Every fan being issued with a full face visor at the turnstile, and being asked to complete a 3-page disclaimer about edible projectiles.

No, not a hilarious new Disney crime caper, but some random recollections from Highfield Road. Does anyone else remember the bloke who used to wander around the pitchside track in the late 60s or early 70s advertising himself as "Soupy Sam"? He dribbled scalding grey liquid into paper cups from...

Got to disagree. A proper centre forward is the focal point of almost any good side (unless you've got billions of pounds of talent like Man City), and Gyokeres is the best we've had since dropping out of the Prem IMO. He takes the fight to the opposition in a way that someone like Walker will...

One Fatty Rimmer, there's only one Fatty Rimmer

Come on Northern, it says "recruitment is the key to bringing in better players". You're not going to argue with that surely?

Nice thread Hutch11. All sorts of random little memories come to mind. For example, I was also there when the South American guy (Jose Perdomo?) swung a 50-yard ball from the centre circle, setting it off somewhere in the general direction of Montevideo, and bringing it round in a huge arc like...

I was there when George Hudson scored the winner in the final game of the season in 1964, and the crowd went on the pitch at the end to celebrate the Third Division title. These things stay with you forever, even if you were only a kid at the time.

Bit puzzled by the positions Shipley is asked to play in. I seem to recall that in his first season or so he was mostly played as a left-sided midfielder, and often struggled. Then he got a few games in a central/holding role, seemed to relish it and IMO looked much better – just simple...

The point is that very few in the team can shoot properly, and we need to bring a couple in to do that next year. It's stating the bleedin' obvious, but you don't score by sweeping it tamely wide or too near the keeper. Go through the squad and ask yourself how confident you would be in each...

We hit our delicate through balls harder than our shots

Is there anything in the rules that says you can spend half a minute drying the ball with a towel in the middle of a match?

In the last couple of seasons, I've lost count of the number of times McFadzean has given opponents a couple of yards by wasting his time putting his hand in the air and looking at the officials. It's a baffling schoolboy error, considering his experience and how mature he is in every other...

Didn’t need research, I remembered it because you claimed you were speaking for everyone, but (along with a few others) I could see the value of Gyok even then. Anyway, glad you like him now (y)

Last season you informed us that "not a single one of us would care" if Vik didn't play for us again. Can I suggest you're a bit too quick to write people off?