Big Budget breaking new loan players to arrive - almost certainly before this Saturday and PRE a new manager has been appointed confirms my long held belief that it is he, Dean, who is the Prime Mover in identifying Player's for acquisition and not always his now growing band of failed Managers ..
Of course Dean dresses it up by stating that M Lillis & R Wilson are right now, currently scouring the country to secure the right Player - Players - adding that it is the injuries crisis that forces his hand ..
Whilst Billy Davies has turned Blackpool down, almost certainly in favour of 'Forest' and Sam Allardyce gets fined 8 grand for cutting comments made to the media we just seem to blunder along in this bumbling stumbling long winded, way - Will you move a little faster said the whiting to the snail ..
Don't know how you feel about this but I would much prefer to see The New Manager appointed before any fresh playing personnel are brought in .. I always feel you can get an impression of a Manager
by the players he brings in.
Mystifying is not the word~ as its anyones best guess as to just who these New Players are gonna be .. any ideas .... Really, Who is it gonna be as previous potential Beckford replacement & Home Town boy Frazier Campbells already gone now - It all just smacks a bit of Fred Carno's Circus and yet ha ha I've still every faith, have you ?
Sorry To ~ BUTT In .. ?
posted on 9/2/13
Fed up of this Football v Rugby comparison.
There is no comparison.
One is very good value for money,
The 'other' isn't.
Untill folk admit they are manipulated (by the media)
nothing will change.
Don't agree !
read on.... (Tez !! read on )
USA,
the media 'control' what is 'football'...from being young..it's Grid Iron
South Africa.
When it was white controlled, Rugby Union was all the go.
Now it is Black....Soccer.
Australia,
Victoria, South Oz, the West & Tas...Aussie Rules....er, rules. No mistake, biased media driven..without question.
NSW & Queensland..RL.
But over the last 20 years massive inroads made by 'Rules' ! ...media controlled.
(RL has taken a real battering in that time.)
NZ.
UNION..end of.
INDIA,
Cricket.....
get the drift.
Canada,
now there's a 'rough' sport if we want to talk 'man' stuff.
Hockey.
I'd like to see BeckVaun have a go at that ,
posted on 9/2/13
I see Font of all Football knowledge Cas1987s Tip For The VERY Top and who's gonna go Much Further than Jordan Rhodes (Benik Afobe) is now Settling for Slumming it at Millwall .. .. ..
Perhaps your other BOLD prediction that Paulo Di Canio will become the next Town Manager may redeem you Cas eh .. .. Predictions Predictions .. What are we to make of em Uncle Delu .. ?
posted on 9/2/13
Captain Crèmmen…
Forget ‘em!
Have you ever seen the newspaper headline… ‘Psychic Wins Lottery… Again’?
The future is not what it used to be, anyway.
posted on 9/2/13
~ ~ ~ Uncle Delu .. I bet Tatiana Could'nt have put it better herself .. ~ ~ ~ Was she ever prone to bouts of predictions
posted on 9/2/13
Tatiana doesn’t do predictions. However she does do prone... I am very pleased to say.
And… when she trips the horizontal fantastic, radiant in the dawn of her budding womanhood, bearing the promise of hidden delight, anointed with all the fine perfumes of the Arabias… not to mention a touch of Wintergreen, I’ll tell you… it don't half make the corners curl on my mustard plaster!
posted on 9/2/13
Ah Uncle D you paint a lovely picture with those words .. Tatiana sounds Immense to me and reminds me of those heady days that Mirfielder will remember so well on :--
The Love Boat ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icAwcByaNtY
Pray tell Sir ~ Were you Captain Gavin Mcleod on that fine vessel ?
Back to Football .. Having just watched & listened to that marvellous interview with Sir Alex~ I URGE Dean to do the same SEVERAL TIMES OVER ~ Particularly when asked about players becoming managers ..
Players one day Managers the next he retorts~ How Does That Work?
He goes on to add .. Players need Preparation For Management !!!
Is Butt really ready to be thrown in at the deep end .. ? .. Is it even fair on him to do so ~ I would say Think Long & Hard Dean ..
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posted on 10/2/13
"super loui..
rugby league = sport played by blokes who cant play football??"
38YEARS
Yesterday I witnessed an association football match, Huddersfield Town v Cardiff City, played by blokes who can’t play association football.
Today, weather permitting I am going to see a rugby league game, Huddersfield Giants v London Broncos, and I expect there will be more skill, commitment, application, and entertainment in each five minutes, than the whole 90+ minutes of Saturday’s borefest.
In 1972 I stopped watching Town on a regular basis, declaring that football was “…dead, and it only wanted burying.” I have started attending matches again because my grandson is keen. Yesterday was like a wake, and I was looking at the corpse.
Category A game! More like ‘Down Among the Z Men’!
posted on 10/2/13
I genuinelly enjoyed yesterdays game Uncle D .. As seemingly did the majority of fans around me who gave a Standing Ovation at the end
Mi sometimes thinks thou asks for a tad too much .. what say you ..
How do you think your Grandson sees it .. ? I hope you try your best to put on a positive spin and refrain from teaching him how to be a moaner .. ..
I did spot your use of the word "Expect" there will be more skill etc etc rather than using "Predict" ~ which does provide for a little more license eh .. ..
posted on 10/2/13
Brûlée Wee
If you enjoyed yesterday’s game, all I can say is that you are easily pleased.
Around where I sit, the mood was different to that in your location. One guy who is a season ticket holder, has been a supporter since Moby Richard was a sardine, and makes a round trip of some 80 miles to watch home games was completely underwhelmed, and is seriously thinking of going to watch a lower division team located much nearer to his abode. Another guy who sometimes gets very agitated about refereeing decisions that go against the home team, was very critical of Town's inability to do the simple things. His daughter, wearing her HTFC gloves, was so enthralled by the game that she spent most of the time on her mobile phone. A 30 something season ticket holder who coaches under-tens teams was nonplussed by the way Town make a simple game look difficult. He is generally very critical of the standard of shooting. A teenager who I haven’t seen before gave an excellent impression of an inanimate object, huddled up inside his hoody. A middle-aged season ticket holder never uttered a syllable, but then he is like that every game. As for my grandson and the three mates who came along yesterday… they were seriously bored, and were generally more interested in things taking place off the pitch.
When I got to the bus stop, three regulars… father, son, and girlfriend… from my part of the world... arrived. The father’s first words to me were… “Well, I suppose it’s a point!" The son was less than impressed, but then he is a Rugby League fan (Bradford Bulls actually) The girl hardly ever speaks about anything. There was a guy at the bus stop, who I have never seen before, who thought Town played well. I told him that I didn’t think one effort on goal over 90+ minutes equated to playing well. I see that the BBC don’t even acknowledge that effort.
Of course, that’s only a sample, but I am telling it like it is.
I repeat… again… one more time… in my opinion, any team that goes onto a football pitch should do so with the intention of scoring more goals than the opposition, if they don’t, then they shouldn’t bother getting changed into their kit. If you see that in Town’s play, it’s a mirage.
I have been harping on about the poor standard at least since the F.A. Cup game at Port Vale in November 2009. It hasn’t changed one iota since then. It might even have got worse.
I teach my grandson how to play the game properly, again, at the risk of repeating myself for the umpteenth time, it’s the Bill Shankly way. He knows this, much better than a lot of so-called professional footballers who have supposedly been coached by professional coaches for 12 years or more.
posted on 10/2/13
Thank you for sharing your and your friends feelings with me Uncle D and though as per my earlier posting on some of them I def disagree they are nonetheless Much Appreciated .. .. Anyway Look try & BE Thankful for Small Mercies as Mark Lillis obviously shares your/mine enthusiasm for All Things Shankly .. As I've already pointed out on my latest thread offering, he did look yesterday, dressed as he was and being unafraid to show his passion, the spit n image of probably his own hero too .. Bill Shankly .. Never knighted neither ..