Wasyls Pec Deck

Im going, but I live an hour or so away on a good run - but I question my sanity. I look forward to the standard immediate post match mouth frothing and meltdown on here.

The long grass at Seagrave, which is incidentally where he put his end of season review a few years ago.

Hard to know which one you are talking about…!

How about Rudkin found foresting dressed as Filbert Fox with an unnamed senior executive as Vicky Vixen. For information, foresting - I’m told - is like dogging but in the woods and dressed as animals.

It’s a bit like saying “if only”… if only my aunty had bollocks she’d be uncle

LOL

“At one point…” 🧐

I’ll throw in his slice/air shot at Plymouth, with the theme tune to Curb your Enthusiasm playing, for good measure.

Another interesting post, but I don’t think it is revisionism. It made sense in the way that football fans get excited by big transfer fees and foreign names, but that was it. I think you said in a previous post half of Europe wanted him, but according to who? Also plenty of players rip up other leagues and can’t score as many in the Prem, but with Daka it’s the basics of football that are lacking. While confidence and coaching may have been a factor, no one has really fancied him. It goes beyond on all that. Sometimes he wouldn’t look out of place in local social 7 a side games.

In an autobiography in recent years it was revealed he failed the eye test in the medical 🤣 he had a squiffy eye as well didn’t he? I think it was Walsh or Izzet’s book. Couldn’t make it up…

Very harsh! Akinbiyi may have been a total flop of a replacement for our main striker, but you could say the same about Daka as I’m sure he would have been signed with an eye on replacing an agent Vardy (something we’ve never got anywhere near). Daka was not good business, and certainly not intelligent! Though I appreciate the argument you are making, but I don’t think it reflects his performance levels whatsoever.

Who will pay money and get anywhere near matching his wage? Time and time again this has happened and it is reflective of such poor strategy and decision-making. True to say that salary expenditure correlates to performance and league finish (generally and with the odd outlier), but of course you can’t pay donkeys a healthy wage and expect to perform. It’s like we’ve just gone out and given stupid contracts blindly thinking it will equate to a high level of performance.

Nice work. Whether he’s statistically worse then Akinbiyi based on the relative fee etc to some extent is immaterial - both cost a lot of money and both are utter shite.

I remember getting lashed on in 1995 away at Bolton in the league cup. It was just pre Reebok Stadium in their old ground (Burnden Park?) that was all open from recollection. We were a Division One side and they were PL, and I think it finished 0-0. But the heavens opened all night and we got drenched.

Looks like they’ve been advising them on character building though!

Haha can you imagine…

I think we have too much time on our hands!

The arrogance of breaking from the model that had served us so well (ie buy raw talent with a high ceiling and sell to reinvest). A club like ours cannot sustain when “established signings” on big money and big contracts don’t work out. Unlike top 6 sides who can accommodate a few bad big money signings, it is simply too risky for us and getting it wrong consistently screwed us big time. And then when they didn’t work out, the good players we had woke up and realised it was only a matter of time before we declined - which they then accelerated by running down their contracts. I always wonder what it would have been like had sensible people like Steve Walsh stayed. He knew what he was doing and knew the profile of player that fitted the model.

Asleep at the wheel…

What were these fibs?

It’s not based on goals per 90. Not sure that data is available for Akinbiyi, but might be wrong?

Palace took him off our hands for £2.2m

He reminds me of when we signed Marco Ferreira on loan under Martin Allen (?). Around the time that signing someone with a foreign exotic name was enough to get excited. I think he only made 1 appearance 🤣 * actually his only appearance was as an unused sub.

Vichai got lucky, made some early mistakes but he learnt and delivered the unimaginable. We kept it together for a while after he died, but I think this was a key moment. For a club that had no real leaders, to let someone like Kasper go just speaks volumes for people not knowing what they were and are doing.

I probably will, but it defies logic. I’m keen to keep it going in my family, as my daughter probably won’t want to go much. She will likely be the first in 4-5 generations not to go. But outside of it being a family tradition, I can’t think of any other reason. How sad is that?