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  1. [quote user="Penfold"][quote user="Norwich"]He has played with his heart on his sleeve for many years, and has won us so many matches. As proved with this ashes series, stats don''t do the talking.[/quote][/quote] .
  2. [quote user="barryevans"]  exited by that team jaime lad to get a double [/quote] As in going out/down maybe ? [:''(] Cant see anything to excite me though I''m afraid [:(]    
  3. [quote user="Penfold"]"Stupid, stupid Fred. Stupid, stupid Fred. Stupid, stupid Fred. Stupid, stupid Freddie Flintoff." Selfish twerp. It''s not about you. Goodbye and good ridance. [/quote] Goodbye Freddie you have been great for us, hope you have success in your future carreer [:D]    
  4. [quote user="DGC"]???[/quote] P.U.P = Pinkun Picker  
  5. An excellent summation McCanary of what we had already known or guessed, not too enlightning though [;)]    
  6. Was anyone here on the nightmare from Paddington to Cardiff on our playoff final with Birmingham ? I left Gorleston at 04.30 drove to London to my son''s house in Paddington, had breakfast then caught the train to Cardiff along with hundreds of young and old City fans bedecked head to toe in our yellow and Green. All went well until we got to just before Newport and the damned thing stopped, and stopped and stopped for about six hours in the middle of deserted farmland. Kids were crying, tempers frayed, half a dozen or so young men a bit worse for drink were arguing with a burly railway policeman and trying to jump off the train, it was all quite fraught. Eventually we got there just before half time, missed all the build up, no food and of course we got beat ! The worst footballing day of my life, and we didn''t get any compensation either !  
  7. This is all toooooo complicated ![8-|] Why don''t we just say SORRY and send him back ? [:D]  
  8. [quote user="WeAreYellows49"] Well sadly for us as fans it''s another step on a downward spiral for your club, already over £20million in debt, paying off managers and backroom staff every season, compensation now to ColU, unless there is major investment coming in then I can only see our poor club spiralling. [/quote] Quite right WAY49, If only we had splashed the cash way back to replace Worthy, (legally), with a manager of quality, it would have been far cheaper than all these pay-offs and compensation and loss of status. In fact we are now back to when we did lose Worthy, we now have in my opinion Peter Grant mark II, there are many similarities. I fear the worse, we have the fourth underwhelming new manager in a row, that''s some record !    
  9. [quote user="Camuldonum"] PS: He was not your first choice.  Your first choice said thanks but no thanks. Hopefully Lambo will do well for you but first choice he was not. Spin? [/quote] That''s interesting, it does fit . .  . Logic said if ,(only if),Gunny was to be sacked then the timing was wrong, it should have been soon after Board meeting after the Colchester match (on Sunday ?). So it would have been if the actual first choice had said "yes" wouldn''t it ? But then, later,the second choice was approached , (on wednesday ?), and Gunny was sacked on the Thursday. Mmmmm, Seems we have been mislead yet again ![:@]
  10. Good luck with your presentation Nutty [B][<:o)], plenty of photos please [H] This week I am rather torn for choice, I did fancy Celtic but couldn''t put too much faith in a Peter Grant connection. So I am going for Leeds on the basis that they are grinding out one goal victories without really playing well, always the sign of a successful team to me, when they do play well they will hammer someone, so I fancy that Tranmere will step up as the sacrificial lambs this week and get well beaten. Also of course they did me a good turn by winning on the first week of the season and there aint many do that for me [:D] LEEDS v Tranmere = HOME WIN Good luck Meth [Y]
  11. Colchester say the two clubs are six figures apart, that could mean anything from £100K to 900K, it will probably go to arbitration. Seems a strange way for a cash strapped club to go about things, probably will sell Hoolihan to pay for it.
  12. Just how long will he stay here then ? Bearing in mind we have a board prepared to sack a manager after just two games employing a manager who''s happy to leave his club leaderless just three matches into the season [:O] Hardly a union made to last is it  ? Hmmm !
  13. Hmmm, cynical old me wonders if this was all sorted out on the day we played Colchester ! Probably during the half time break ! [;)]  
  14. [quote user="Eggy"]Irrespective of who will be appointed manager we definitely need 3 points tomorrow night, lets hope all the hype around the manager appointment is not getting to the players. [/quote] If the "new man" is seated in the stands tomorrow night then traditionally we have a nailed on three points !![H]
  15.   " ill bet you a £1000 its a man " Hold hard there, Cherie Lunghi was reported shopping in Morrisons this morning  [:D]
  16. Watched the Millwall highlights earlier today, they were just doomed not to score, they hit the woodwork twice and wasted loads of chances. Hard luck Angel, I''m going to add Millwall to my list of bogey teams for PUPs to avoid.    
  17. I almost begged in these Forums ages back not to hold interviews but to target your man and by legal avenues bust a gut to get him ! As I said that''s BIG club mentality ! Those damned interviews just helped pick out the best orators, full of verbal football talent and devoid of football managerial ability. Peter Grant and Glenn Roeder could have talked themselves into any job of any kind, neither could have been selected on their managerial achievements. So fingers crossed we now get a man of some proven ability because we want him and not just because he''s available,and hopefully stop this remorseful parade of loser type people who have cost us dearly both financially and status-wise !      
  18. [quote user="canaryman"]As some of you might know i am friendly with steve coppell and he was telling me that he visited CR and colney yesterday and apparently he''s going to apply for the job but might only stay here for a year before he retires thanks for reading hope coppell gets the job [/quote] I think maybe voicing your "friend''s" confidential comments on a public forum may well strain said friendship to the point he may not be prepared to confide in you in such a way again [;)]  
  19. Sky were the ones who said we were going to sign JFH ! [:D] That makes them really credible [:O]
  20. [quote user="paul moy"] Having seen the terrific performance of Darren Bent and Sunderland last night and having memories of how he demolished us in a friendly last season, I do hope that you are not tempting fate there !! [/quote] Good point Paul, I have been known to talk things up before, lets hope it puts the jinx on Everton and not us [:$]  
  21. [quote user="Crox"]Arsenal 6 Everton 0 hmm this was on the openning day of the prem so maybe the colchester match was just a fluke beacause 6-0 arsenal seems a fluke aswell, everton are not a bad side they have some good players? so would people agree that maybe the two matches were just werid openning day flukes?[/quote] 1-7 & 1-6 at any time of the season are unique scores, it''s almost certain that neither club will encounter such reversals again this season if ever. Gunny''s 1-7 reversal was probably linked with our woeful display on the last day of last season, in effect,discounting the pre-season games, they were two consecutive League matches and I feel that is how he was judged not on the Colchester match alone.      
  22. Perhaps they think he is too big to throw a season ticket at on home match days. . . . . .! Seriously, if this is true , heaven forbid it isn''t, then this ranks as the most illogical appointment in a long list of illogical appointments !  
  23. [quote user="BIC"][quote user="Gentleman Jim"]  and is uppermost in McNally''s mind is Steve Coppell, and I am sure he would put us back in the higher reaches of football !    [/quote] You sound very sure of that... how do you know? [/quote] I don''t know of course, I dont have one of those "reliable sources" , it''s just that I feel that''s just the type he would go for,  Coppel is about the only one of that kind currently not employed . . . .
  24. "David McNally is credited with attracting Roy Hodgson to the cottage, and an instrumental part behind the scenes, in Fulham''s survival" That was a typical quote when McNally resigned from his post at Fulham.  Nobody can justly decry Hodgson''s performance and success with the, then ailing, London Club. His quiet non-chest-thumping style  would be welcome to City fans after the" big-I-am rhetoric " we have suffered under Grant and Roeder. I think that McNally already had a similar type man in mind when he sacked Gunny, I don''t think he is a knee jerk reactionist , was well prepared and has already actioned this new appointment. The man who would fit the above criteria and is uppermost in McNally''s mind is Steve Coppell, and I am sure he would put us back in the higher reaches of football !          
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