Mike the Metal Ed

He was pretty bad. Indecisive and positioning all over the place. He clearly improved given he went on to play in the Champions League and at the World Cup (although I remember him having a nightmare for Australia in 2006 too) but this is easily as bad as Ward v Wolves, even if David Lowe let him down a bit for the second.

Got a quintology of Ricardo alone.

Walk through the Lanes, as it's on the way, get a pint down round the Pocklington's Walk area, then once you're at the uni just carry on to the ground. Ain't a bad city really, people just love talking it down for their own reasons.

Meant to quote this ofc

I maintain Andy Johnson could have been decent if he ever passed the ball forwards. Didn't quite figure out that aspect of being a midfielder though bless him.

Milan had his faults, and he demonstrated many of them in that 07/08 season, but imagine thinking we weren't spiralling the drain from 2004-2007 anyway. The club was literally running on fumes before he came in, and I'm not sure we could have survived relegation to League One without his acumen.

Foxes TV trying desperately to bring us the commentary. Could they not?

This is making me nostalgic for how fun 2007-2014 away days were, before the "bought a gold membership in December 2015" fans got on board.

Peterborough away was like that because it was the only old school terrace we got all season, but also horribly managed by Posh at the same time. Much like crowding around the doors on the Tube though, I think half the problem could have been solved if people were willing to stand out on the right of that terrace instead of crowding in the middle. People complained it was overcrowded in 08/09, but there was loads of room up that side. It wasn't fully covered by the roof though so the sudden hail was fun half way through the game.

I think my Zambian visa has just been cancelled

Also from 2002-2010 we could barely afford to spend £5m on the club's total wage bill, let alone a single signing.

Transfer inflation isn't household inflation and ChatGPT (people on here really need to stop treating it as the oracle of all knowledge) isn't going to be a substitute for existing research such as this. https://www.totallymoney.com/content/transfer-index/data/#filters?2=Forward|Centre-Forward&4=2000-2001|2001-2002/options?order=9|desc The estimate isn't far off though, based on what a Freddy Kanouté or a Patrick M'boma went for, he would have cost around £14-15m, and he did actually hit a run of form in his first season, as well as giving us THAT moment v Sunderland, he's probably still better value for money than Patson Daka

Yeah I thought it happened at a relatively empty Old Trafford but I'm probably misremembering

When we first signed him, he was put into the U21 team away at Man Utd U21s, broadcast live on MUTV

It's not people with 70 away priority points getting tickets for Oxford away.

He can be arm in arm with Zsolt Lacsko

My biggest memory of his time here is him grabbing the ball for every set piece at Upton Park, and doing such a shit job, he eventually started getting booed and had to give the ball to someone else.

Individually, yeah, Kalac is up there. Gerry Taggart had a stinker of a first season, so I can't imagine his debut at Old Trafford was a happy one, especially since that's the game where we ended up throwing away a two goal lead (my mistake, he only came on in the 89th minute, bit harsh to pin that one on him) Joe Mattock had such a torrid time when he broke through, it gave me a policy of easing off players for bad performances because I saw the jeering he got cause his confidence to absolutely crumble. It took the League One season to rebuild him.

We used to be a joke. One win a season in the CC used to be an aspiration, a cause for celebration. I thought we'd beat Derbyshire for the most wooden spoons before we saw this day.

Yeah my comment wasn't actually made with any disrespect in mind. I just think any professional footballer should want to impress enough to be a starter, and Logan certainly tried that when he got the nod ahead of Paul Henderson before settling into his role as backup. In not so many words you should aim to be a starter without grumbling if you're not, just take your chance if you're given it.

I'd worry if a player came into the club openly aspiring to be the next Conrad Logan.

Bi-eyi-tez

TIL that the manager and the manager alone is the only person who can dictate the result of a football match and whether the club at the time is well run or an utter shitshow coming off a number of consecutive bad decisions at boardroom level is completely irrelevant.

When I got my junior membership in 1994, they made up for lost time by sending me the 94/95, 93/94 AND 92/93 squad photos