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The stats are pleasing but not surprising. Sheaf and Eccles both have very clever technique in winning the ball. It's a definite skill. With Hamer it's more that he's a human dynamo. Edit: actually if anything I'm surprised the numbers aren't higher. Eccles in particular seems very adept at...

That sounds like it was after my time. Not sure it's wise to out yourself as a toffee apple cider drinker!

A Campbellburger was essential to settle the nerves before a game 🍔

A long extension to the contract of a high quality player. What are you doing to our club Mr. King?

Yeah it took me a while (the nineties were already after my time 😁) but then I realised you were just tellin' stories.

Ah I see you are pulling my plonker. Although I haven't necessarily got a plonker ;)

As I said, they had run us down to the point where we had to make a distressed sale on deadline day. So under those circumstances and at the time they chose to cash in, they probably got as much as they could. It doesn't make it any less annoying.

Yes, and what you are saying is not contrary to what I am saying.

Don't know about that, have reliable numbers ever been made public? Even if it's true, the money only went into keeping us afloat in the absence of meaningful investment.

In excess of £100,000 wow. It still rankles with me that we were in such a bad state that we couldn't achieve anything like Maddison's obvious (to most) potential value, or keep him longer and build around him. At that time we had been turned into a small town club run by charlatans.

That's altruism for you.

You're the third to mention it, and the spelling keeps getting longer and longer :) It was a haunting chant that rang around the whole ground.

And Walker got into similar positions but was ignored. tbh if we want to get promoted, I see both of them as decent backups rather than automatic starters.

The midfield three was impressive, with them seemingly being entrusted to be flexible and rotate. If you’re playing that way, realistically you need 5 or 6 guys who can fit into that system, tweaking it from week to week according to the opposition, and to cater for fatigue and injuries etc...

Usually sung, with cello and woodwind accompaniment from the West Stand above, to the tune of the final movement of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 3 in D major.

That was a fine run to win the pen.

Well over quite a few weeks, O'Hare didn't seem to get back fully to his former self when he came back from his hamstring problem in the autumn. These things aren't easy, because in this league even a few % off full fitness really shows.

(Sung at the Villa keeper, who wasn't in the best condition) One Fatty Rimmer There's only one Fatty Rimmer

It's a pleasure Cobi ;)

Yeah, we just need to buy a few perfect all-round players 😄 I’d argue that the closest we have to that is actually Hamer (at least the new-look version of him), who gets about so much we understandably play him more as a box-to-box midfielder. But in the absence of so many AMs at the moment...