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Great commentary by Hugh Johns, who was a feature of Star Soccer, and the highlight of Sunday's in the 70's :)

Your memory isn't quite correct. Although Blyth got blamed for the goal, and it was a reason used to justify keeping the hapless Alan Rough in goal, it was all a bit of an urban myth as the fault really lied with Willie Donachie. Although he didn't have the longevity of Glazier or Oggy for...

Given Eccles age, length of contract and Championship experience I think £4m is not far off, given we bought Kitching and EMC from League 1 for round about that figure.

For us maybe, but not over their whole careers.

Tommy Hutchison for me. Interesting reading Hutch's book that Sillett tried to bring him back to Cov in the 86-87 season. Would have been really fitting if he had some involvement with our cup winning team.

Tavares for BTA would have been pretty risk free, while Allen was out on his feet by that time so Torp could have come on for him. The whole point though would have been for BTA & Allen to walk off the pitch very slowly, applauding the fans, shaking hands with the ref etc, and killing a bit of...

I hope we play our strongest team so we give ourselves the best chance of progressing into the next round.

Oggy put the jinx on it during his commentary by earlier saying defenders get those fouls given 99 times out of a 100, even though they are buying them. Just our luck that we got that 1 time in a 100 against us at such a critical point in the match 😡

I didn't want MR gone either, and was frankly amazed how many on here were happy to get rid of him, given all he had achieved with us. Although it can't be proven either way, I'm also confident that under MR we would have accrued more points from the games played since he was sacked. Given his...

Was a bit surprised Lampard didn't make another substitution, particularly after they equalised. It was obvious then that the head of steam they had built up would result in at least one more chance, and a slowly taken substitution could have given our players a better chance to regroup and...

Ok, well I'm glad those that didn't want a cup run last season were disappointed, and hope that you/ they will be equally disappointed this season.

You are joking? There were plenty of posters on here saying the same this time last year (and every year for that matter) about concentrating on the league, and it strikes me that another cup run is just what we need to boost the morale of the players and supporters alike.

The keeper was stood upright and not in position to spread himself. If BTA hit the ball hard and low there's every chance it would have gone in. His other option was to take it round the keeper and possibly buy a penalty from the keeper or the retreating defenders, although I'm not sure BTA...

In terms of the rights and wrongs of selling Sheaf and/ or MVE now, I would only consider doing so if we received a ridiculously high bid. If estimates of £6m for MVE and £8m for Sheaf are correct I would rather hang on to the Summer. That would also allow us a bigger and better pool of players...

A lot of us believed this was our time at the start of the season. Much of that was due to the relegated sides seeming to be weaker than in other seasons, with only Leeds looking to be a definite contender. When we beat Everton comfortably just before the season started I allowed myself to...

Our points haul under Lampard is not as impressive as it first seems however, as he has had the kindest set of fixtures imaginable, and has gained less points from those games than most of us would have expected than if MR remained in charge. To be fair he could reverse that by winning at...

Selling MVE in the January window would be short sighted to me. Many of our supporters live in cuckoo land thinking it is easy to just pluck out a quality replacement (think Hamer). We need to bear in mind that his predecessors in this league were Dabo, Da Costa and Kane! If we need to sell I...

Mumba is ok going forward but EMC had him on toast whenever he had to defend so would be worried about that aspect of his game.

Well I guess you would have to factor in the air fare! If we want DK to keep prices low for similar games in future, then it really is up to our fans to turn up or else we can't really complain if he changes tack in future. Last season our fans did up for our cup games, so hopefully he will do...

He should have scored but even the best forwards miss 1 on 1's.