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I was fortunate (or unfortunate depending on your point of view) to watch Scargill close too in 1984. I concluded he was a charlatan. This mini thread belongs elsewhere.

Great orator - just a big dick

As the consensus appears to be that Giles will start ahead of McCallum and Ostigard ahead of Rose, there seems to be only two areas of doubt in the team selection, CDM and left side attack The options appear to be - in order of liklihood (imho) 1. CDM Shipley LSA Allen 2. CDM Sheaf LSA...

Mason must be on his way. He is one whom there should be a ready home for in league 1.

With Thomas and Chaplin in the team, we are not suprised. Both lacked end product in different ways Edit -seems neither was playing, oh well

That's about it in a nutshell

...maybe because it is very close to the truth. Newly promoted teams are always viewed as the easiest, it was how we viewed home games like Lincoln last year. Wild optimism does nobody any good, it just doubles the disappointment and is actually just a bit irritating because it involves a...

agreed, and during his tenure Robins' success rate is well above average. The European thing is the only question mark. To view it as a success, one of Kast, Job, Hiss & Dacost has to become a regular first teamer, with two a bit like Shipley - in and out.

All agreed and well known to everybody. That was the point behind the strategy - skilled european players that nobody has noticed, at less cost, who would join us partly for the chance of being spotted by bigger clubs and get really big money. Or something like that. Definetely worth a concerted...

But the jury is out on the cheap european players. Not Hamer, he cost money - that's different and looks to be a real star But Kastaneer, Jobello, Hissner and Dacosta were all cheapies. One of those four has to become a regular to warrant continuing with that strand in recruitment. Kasta is an...

Aren't Barnsley are just going to whang in as many set piece crosses to the far post, particularly from our right. On current form that might be a problem. Oh, and they will probabaly try to get Thomas 1 on 1 on McFaz . I'm going to be watching through my fingers. But Godden is going to get the...

... and we are scoring goals (better than last year). The problem is at the other end.

stop please stop - enough transfer speculation already. We have three strikers and limited ability to get rid any that would now surplus (Baka I assume). Give Godden and Walker chance please

Having gone thro this thread it is written in the runes that they will win 2-0 with Chaplin & Thomas scoring, both from very difficult chances...... I'm glad we sold Chaplin - he could never have done the Godden role up front role on his own and we turned a nice profit to boot. I liked Thomas...

The question is who is in a position to take all these players? The L1 and L2 teams are all broke having no crowds. None of these players are in the "development" mould like Eccles. The ones that are like Bapaga we want here. The two that are only played under sufference by Robins, whom a...

It is a reasonably educated guess though, don't you think? It is pretty clear getting a new LWB is not a top priority, there are bigger holes, and that having four loans is out of character for Robins. Norwich came knocking, and we thought "bargain". No human outside your own family warrants...

I knew there was a fourth. That makes my point even more so. Looks like Kelly, Sheaf, Hamer and Hissner ar bthe central midfielders.

Last thought. I think this move was not planned, not strategic, but wholly opportunistic. This is not necessarily a good thing. Norwich knocked on the door and we saw the merit in it. It was not because a weakness in the team more important than any othe was identified, leading to a search for...

Out of interest, this means we have used 2 of our loan slots on one position. We now have Giles, McCallum and Ostigard as loans. It means that probably any additional player brought in for the CDM slot would have to be a free or a purchase. It is concievable that if Rose comes back, two of our...

Thw two corners we have conceded from were down to poor cover at the far post weren't they? ON both occaisions that was the left.