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  1. JimmyHillsbeard

    'Staying Up' by R.A. Gekoski

    it's a great read but Gekowski clearly thought that it would be a fascinating account of a club on the brink of relegation year after year. All good, but he was granted unprecedented access to the club in the the most sucessful season since the cup win. The failure to recast the book to reflect...
  2. JimmyHillsbeard

    villa after maddison?

    Quite although we shd remember that Callum Wilson did not have a choice. It was touch and go whether Pressley let go either him or Cody MacDonald, and the manager took a gamble on Wilson (the fact that he was a cheaper option might have been significant). During that breakthrough season where he...
  3. JimmyHillsbeard

    villa after maddison?

    Even in that was true - and I simply don't share your memory - we were in the top flight. Now we are in the third division. The parallels you should look at are Wlcott and Oxlade-Chamberlain who played 20-odd and 30-odd games respectively before leaving Southampton
  4. JimmyHillsbeard

    villa after maddison?

    Wallace sold to Forest for a million, Babb to Liverpool for £3m, Gillespie to Liverpool, Paddon to Norwich, Mortimer to Vile, Holmes to Spurs, Thomas to Spurs, Thompson to WBA, Blockley to Arsenal, Sealey left for Luton. The fact is NONE of these players you mention stayed with the club when...
  5. JimmyHillsbeard

    villa after maddison?

    But can you honestly point to a single player who has benefitted from staying with us for a season or two when they had the chance to move?
  6. JimmyHillsbeard

    F.a.o jhb

    yep I do but you were right about him lasting longer at Southend than Pressley did with us.
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    Joe Murphy

    Anyone noticwe how his loan game for Chesterfield turned out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kwUnSJeY6I
  8. JimmyHillsbeard

    Blame

    Ann Lucas - hasn't scored a single goal all season
  9. JimmyHillsbeard

    One single significant event that shaped our season .......

    Not very different to Mowbray's assessment of Saturday. Still think Pressley was absolutely right on this.
  10. JimmyHillsbeard

    New Manager

    Paul and Ringo?
  11. JimmyHillsbeard

    Great Stuff on and off the pitch

    You can tell your Dad he's wrong. Cotterill said he was offered the job after Coleman was sacked, but we went for Boothroyd in the end.
  12. JimmyHillsbeard

    Geoffrey Robinson

    section 2 of that episode talks directly about the mortgaging of HR, the sale of the ground and the planned move to the new ground.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caGmMy7VjUc
  13. JimmyHillsbeard

    Football League Show

    Phil Brown said we were 'almost' as big a club as Portsmouth.
  14. JimmyHillsbeard

    Port Vale match thread

    Knowler on the phone in
  15. JimmyHillsbeard

    Accounts

    No celebrations. Just like no one was secretly hoping that SISU would force us into another transfer embargo.
  16. JimmyHillsbeard

    Port Vale Forum Pre Match Interview / Report vrs Coventry

    You might be better off asking some of the questions after our manager is announced.
  17. JimmyHillsbeard

    Insider talk from today

    Sale who just about wrecked Stockport County? London Wasps Holdings are owned by a hedge fund aren't they?
  18. JimmyHillsbeard

    Well hockaday has the job surely

    Perfect result, undeserved three points but shows change is needed.
  19. JimmyHillsbeard

    MK Dons (H) - Match Thread

    Pesky loanees eh?
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