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Dennis Mortimer, with an honourale mention for Gerry Daly.

Memory plays tricks, and I might be getting games mixed up, but I recall beating Ipswich 5-0 at home in quite deep white stuff, where they had to clear the snow off all the line markings. It was the promotion season from Div 2. Bobby Gould scored a hat-trick so the scoreboard showed 999 I...

Sorry it upset you Rev. Yes, of course everyone’s got an opinion, and the fact that we disagree about Bigi isn’t a problem. Who said anything about it all being rosy? That’s the opposite of what I think. Many things about the club are fair game for public slagging, but I wouldn’t include our...

Starting by listing all his alleged faults on a public forum and saying you hope he won’t be here next season? I think he’s a good player. Not a world beater, but a good player, and I hope he is here next season.

Surprised at the lukewarm comments about Reilly - I thought he looked a great midfielder at this level, both with and without the ball. Time will tell.

Just got back, haven’t read the thread, but just to say that I enjoyed the way we played today. Not exactly pretty a lot of the time, but massive effort from every player. The sort of committed performance that actually had me looking forward to going again, for the first time in ages...

I remember having the exact same feeling when Fergie pulled a goal back that day - we had so much attacking threat that even coming back from four goals down didn’t seem unrealistic. I’ve tried in vain to find any references to the 3-3-4 formation, but it can probably only be found in old...

100% agree. If Stevenson goes for 1.5 million just to cover the losses and bring in a couple of lower-league journeymen, maybe I have to accept it but I find it impossible to enthuse about it. Yet people on this thread are cheerfully debating how much we should ask for, and we’ve even got the...

Yes, but I recall that Gordon Milne's adventurous tactic (especially if the other team only had one winger) was to push one of the full backs into midfield, effectively making it 3-3-4? So we scored tons of goals but were wide open at the back. It was a crazy couple of seasons, because if we...

By a bit of cheating, I’ve looked up the No. 7 for that day and it was indeed Ray Graydon – if you got that from the photo alone it’s a great call. What a fantastic combination of wingers that was – Hutch on on side and Graydon on the other, one tricky the other much more direct. With the...

Already a candidate for understatement of the year :)

Just to recap - after talks early on New Year’s day, more details are emerging about the policy positions of Northern Wisdom and Hill83 regarding Jordan. Northern has positioned himself firmly on the centre ground, whilst Hill’s views were said to be slightly further to the right. Sources...

I wouldn’t refuse to buy tickets as a way of trying to get rid of SISU, because I agree with Grendel (and others) that it is not going to work, and harms the football club. However, I go less and less often, simply because it’s not a good way to spend an afternoon or an evening. I know young...

Yes, what financial expertise he demonstrated there :( But the fact that he said this at all suggests they had thought about the risks, and dismissed them. They knowingly gambled with the future of CCFC and lost.

It’s great that people are looking for sites, and nobody would be happier than me if one could be found and for CCFC to invest in a brilliant new home (especially if it was near the city centre). There’s nothing to stop the club putting in an application anywhere it fancies, but why would...

Thanks to the OP for the links. Sounds like Slade has an old-fashioned approach to many aspects of football management – will to win, commitment, big guys, fitness, hitting people on the break, team spirit, often 4-4-2. It might not be for the purists, but we’ve watched so much ineffective...

It’s never a good idea. I tried it once and was limping for a month afterwards until the GP gave me some special ointment.

Wonderfully well put - this explains their whole disastrous tenure, which has wrecked every relationship and ruined our club.

So what you are saying is that the money CCFC have available for the playing side is actually higher than Fisher claims. He understates it to boost his case that we have to own a stadium. Is that it? It’s a genuine question – I’m finding it hard to follow your argument when you keep releasing...

Mr. Grendel, I haven’t done my homework properly so I don’t know what you mean. Speaking as one of the thickos at the back of the class, it would be great if you could just tell me the answer. And put a gold star in my exercise book. Then we’ll both feel good.