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Most prevalent in the West End in the mid 70's. The other similar one - a few years earlier - was "Spider - Brogan", as between those who favoured Chris Cattlin for left back and those who preferred Jim Brogan. Ah the 70's......... (drifts off into a warm nostalgic mist....)

To sell a player you need: 1) A club that wants to buy him and 2) The player's agreement that he will join that club on the terms offered. The fact that a player has not been sold does not mean that his club have not tried to sell him.

I've never really understood what SISU were offering to co-investors. By anyones' standards they haven't made a success of turning the business around, they've alienated (many of) the supporters and it appears that they've been told that they can forget owning the Ricoh. Getting someone to...

What you say makes sense - in the short term. SISU accept relegation, sell pretty much anyone they can get a fee for and so then cover a large part of the lost Championship revenue for the 2012/12 season. What I don't understand is what comes next. We have the cash to see us through a year...

Not a graveyard of ambition - more a graveyard of employability!

Those teams may not have been "rolling in money", but I don't recall them having their squads decimated in the way ours has been. Realistically, taking players of the importance of Westie, Turner, Gunna, King & Juke out of a squad (with Crainie & Clingan also off soon?) was always going to...

He's going up in my estimation!!

Your memory is OK Wingy, he was one of the original utility players. I think he might have started up front, but then played anywhere on the left.

My "formative years" were the 70's - I think back to the players I saw: Bill Glazier, Roy Barry, Ernie Hunt, Neil Martin, Willie Carr, Dennis Mortimer, Colin Stein, Tommy Hutchison, Jim Blyth, Graham Oakey, Ian Wallace, Mick Ferguson, Terry Yorath, Jim Holton, Gary Gillespie, Danny Thomas...

I always told my kids they could support anyone they wanted to. They only had to support Cov if they wanted to live inside the house.

First hero was Neil Martin - a "proper centre forward".

Worst tackle I ever saw.

It seems almost churlish to bring facts into the matter as they're obviously enjoying their vendetta so much - but if no rules had been broken neither Coventry nor Sunderland would have gone down that year. This was (for our younger readers) in the days before big squads and squad rotation. In...

I don't know about the investors, but believe me SISU will know. They'll have a media agency that will send them a copy of every newspaper article and a transcript of every TV programme that mentions them. This "bundle" will then be circulated to all their senior people, possibly weekly but...

That one really showed how dim they are - the only way we could stay up was if we won and they lost, so how could we gain any tactical advantage by knowing their result??????

If this is true, then my guess is that GH will have agreed an option to buy the stadium IF/WHEN he (the consortium) can complete a deal for the club.

I was wondering if he'd be OK to play for us if we get to the play-offs? :):)

So what happens if he gets a serious injury today?????

I'd heard a whisper that we were "making his availablity known". I wasn't sure whether to believe it, but now I'm thinking perhaps it was right. If so, something has gone badly wrong somewhere.

Apparrantly he's always had the ambition of being on the Board of a Conference club.....