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« Reply #45 on: Friday, November 1, 2024, 15:49:23 » |
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I liked Fabian Robert. Tricky player and a bit of a terrier if I recall
Good call. I'd been scratching my head to recall a Fre winger. But had floundered on the Fre sounding Etienne Essajas who was in fact Dutch and also Lander Gabilondo who was Spanish Basque. |
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« Reply #46 on: Friday, November 1, 2024, 15:50:35 » |
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Miguel Comminges was good for a bit.
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« Reply #47 on: Friday, November 1, 2024, 16:10:07 » |
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5 Best and Worst away pubs
The Strawberry at Newcastle was brilliant before ‘that’ 5-0 cup game
Can’t remember the name of the 4-6 Birmingham pub - the crappiest, dirtiest pub I’ve ever been in. Still, probably, the better option than the Zulu pub we went in beforehand!
The Mersey Clipper before the Tranmere PO semi - great stuff in there
Most London away pubs - The Pride of Paddington packed full of Town fans was always good
The White Horse(?) stripper pub at Wycombe
The site of the very first UK live performance by the Kings of Leon. Sadly, no longer trading. Sending the troops in to deal with problems gave a whole new meaning to the term Snatch Squad... |
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« Reply #48 on: Friday, November 1, 2024, 16:26:57 » |
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Top 5 Norn Iron international caps at Swindon
Trevor Anderson
Bryan Hamilton
Jimmy Quinn
Kevin Horlock
Norman Uprichard
Some quality there. Only know the name of Uprichard - not too sure why. Alan MacDonald would be another NI name to throw in. |
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« Reply #49 on: Friday, November 1, 2024, 18:40:41 » |
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Best away games
Arsenal away league cup 1979
Swansea away Boxing Day 1978
Charlton away play offs 2010
Tranmere away play offs 1993
Gillingham away play off final replay Selhurst’s park 1987
Sod it 6😁 Mansfield away in 1986
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« Reply #50 on: Saturday, November 2, 2024, 01:23:01 » |
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Top 5 Players who could have been legendary and had much better, relative careers had they not been heavily injured and subsequently suffered with PITCH {Post Injury Traumatic Confidence Hoo-ha}:
Peter Brezovan
Jordan Lyden
Simon Ferry^
Louis Tomlinson
Sam Parkin^
^Both these likely attain some form of legendary status but their careers stagnated or dipped after leaving Town - despite much more promise. Plagued with ongoing injuries and for these two, they seemingly had ankles like peanut brittle post Town
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There's a threat, you end it and you don't feel ashamed about enjoying it.
You smell the gunpowder and you see the blood, you know what that means?
It means you're alive. You've won.
You take the heads so that you don't ever forget.'
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« Reply #51 on: Saturday, November 2, 2024, 07:26:18 » |
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Top 5 Players who could have been legendary and had much better, relative careers had they not been heavily injured and subsequently suffered with PITCH {Post Injury Traumatic Confidence Hoo-ha}:
Peter Brezovan
Jordan Lyden
Simon Ferry^
Louis Tomlinson
Sam Parkin^
^Both these likely attain some form of legendary status but their careers stagnated or dipped after leaving Town - despite much more promise. Plagued with ongoing injuries and for these two, they seemingly had ankles like peanut brittle post Town
Louis Tomlinson did pretty well with One Direction I thought! |
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« Reply #52 on: Saturday, November 2, 2024, 08:51:08 » |
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Top 5 Players who could have been legendary and had much better, relative careers had they not been heavily injured and subsequently suffered with PITCH {Post Injury Traumatic Confidence Hoo-ha}:
Peter Brezovan
Jordan Lyden
Simon Ferry^
Louis Tomlinson
Sam Parkin^
^Both these likely attain some form of legendary status but their careers stagnated or dipped after leaving Town - despite much more promise. Plagued with ongoing injuries and for these two, they seemingly had ankles like peanut brittle post Town
Personally think Simon Ferry maximised his potential if anything. Truthfully he was a fairly limited player, but he worked hard and was able to play the box to box role well. I don't seem to remember thinking 'what if' with him if it wasn't for injuries. Perhaps he'd of had a longer career in league one but certainly no more than that. I may be remembering wrong! |
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« Reply #53 on: Saturday, November 2, 2024, 09:22:20 » |
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Re Ferry, if you look back at his career it would appear that Di Canio really was the only manager who could get the best out of him. Over 100 games for us but after that, his career never really went anywhere.
As stated, he was a fairly limited player but PDC seemed to be able to get whatever talent he had out of him. Ferry would have been a 'challenging' player to have, the class clown if you like. When you hear his stories, it's amazing PDC didn't kill him, let alone get so much out of him on the pitch!
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we've been to Aberdeen, we hate the Hibs, they make us spew up, so make some noise,
the gorgie boys, for Hearts in Europe.
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« Reply #54 on: Saturday, November 2, 2024, 09:57:27 » |
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In no particular order - reseve team legends
Shaun Close - goalscoring machine
Paul Hubt
Nicky Hammond
Harry Agombar
Ibrahim Ariku
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« Reply #55 on: Saturday, November 2, 2024, 10:24:30 » |
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Top 5 loanees
1 Eoin Doyle
2 Michael Carrick
3 James Milner
4 Matt Ritchie
5 Jimmy Davis
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« Reply #56 on: Saturday, November 2, 2024, 10:24:54 » |
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PdC may have his flaws but, he worked wonders with some of our squad.
The trouble was, his character also ruined players for us- Leon Clarke?
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« Reply #57 on: Saturday, November 2, 2024, 10:30:59 » |
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PdC may have his flaws but, he worked wonders with some of our squad.
The trouble was, his character also ruined players for us- Leon Clarke?
Yeah.Wes Fods? |
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« Reply #58 on: Saturday, November 2, 2024, 10:44:55 » |
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Yeah.Wes Fods?
He may have soured his relationship with Wes for a while but, I dont think he ruined him for us. Unless I'm remembering things differently, Wes recovered from getting subbed off early doors and turned into one of our best keepers ever. |
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« Reply #59 on: Saturday, November 2, 2024, 10:49:33 » |
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He may have soured his relationship with Wes for a while but, I dont think he ruined him for us. Unless I'm remembering things differently, Wes recovered from getting subbed off early doors and turned into one of our best keepers ever.
Top 5 keepers........? |
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