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I have watched Swansea twice recently and twice against us and if we go by the final league table and they are what has become a common phrase on here a “top end” championship club, fourth best in the division going by the league table I have every confidence if Mark Robins can get his...

Swansea been getting away with sneaky niggly sly strong arm tactics all season got caught out today

Not so sure about Fulham they could be next seasons Norwich.

Jimmy Hill was involved in two large pivotal moments the massive 5 years as manager that propelled us to the top division but there was a few years later him being chairman/ managing director not sure what his title really was the first as manager deserved that statue but his second coming...

You are correct you can only judge in hindsight and if you read the title of this thread it says pivotal moments and in my opinion not hiring Malcolm Allison at that time and hiring Noel Cantwell who had no manager experience at all was a mistake and possibly a pivotal moment at that time...

Big Cyrille is the prime example at both clubs about the same length of time infact he played one more game for us than Albion won his only major honour here but he was a West Brom man and they were his club and the older Albion fans see him as a WBA legend, I think we all accept that but he is...

You can only judge things as they were in 1967/68 Malcolm Allison’s forte was working with and moulding young players and that was what we were all those players Cantwell got rid of were in their early to mid twenties Ronnie Rees for example was one of the best wingers in the country either...

Sorry will never agree on that Noel Cantwell broke up the 1967 promotion winning team, the likes of Gould, Tudor, Clements, Rees, all went on to have good top division careers. Cantwell bought centre-forwards as if they were going out of fashion, Neil Martin, John O’Rourke, Tony Hateley, Chris...

That is correct Malcolm Allison got the job it got into the papers our pompous chairman got the hump and vetoed the deal. Bloody shame Alllison would have been a perfect replacement for the flamboyant Jimmy Hill and would have attracted top players. Noel Cantwell was an opposite dull as ditch...

Regardless of Dublin signing for Villa Bryan Richardson was responsible for Dublin leaving the club Dublin said at the time if I am to leave I’ll pick where I go, can’t blame him for that.

There have been plenty of stories around this ten year contract. When Hill was manager here he a chap called John Campkin was vice-chairman Campkin was a big noise at ITV who knows what exactly went on behind the scenes but in the summer after our promotion no money was spent on new players and...

We did approach Brian Clough first time after Jimmy Hill resigned and the second time a more serious approach after Noel Cantwell was sacked there are all sorts of stories as to why it didn’t happen but I think mainly it was a personality clash between him and out chairman Derrick Robins who...

Cloughie conned us re. Stuart Pearce, made a bid of around £250k for Ian Butterworth good player which we turned down Forest upped it to £450k if we included Pearce in the deal, both signed for Forest within a year Butterworth was flogged off to Norwich City wherr he played for a long time. and...

Without doubt getting sisu involved with our club

You spend a lot of time on here doom & glooming our club. Where does Bristol City fit in your reckoning then

So your saying Barnsley are top end ? we beat QPR, Cardiff, Reading did the double over Millwall and hit them for six, perhaps they all had an off day.

What or who do we class as a “top end” championship team, we finished more or less halfway three points behind “big” club Stoke and took four points off them & thirteen points behind seventh place and considering our injury situation until just after Christmas that is a pretty “top end”...

I would expect any negotiating will have been done a while ago Robins will know exactly what James wants wage wise so it will be down to one if he wants him obviously and two if James wants a higher wage. His agent talking to other clubs would always happen.

Don’t underrate Eccles he’s a good player and I think could blend with Sheaf well.