Mike the Metal Ed

Trying to get to one home game a month or so without it feeling like an obligation. If I can't get in the section though I won't bother as those around my old ST seat are part of the reason I'm not bothering. Otherwise I can focus on going to local teams for a bit of a break and continuing to be a bottom 25% Pokémon TCG player.

I don't mind so long as it leads to chance creation as an end goal. If that involves building some pressure with the ball, fine, but let me see a plan.

Without looking it up I think that might have been Franck Rolling's only Premier League appearance for us though so not a bad guess.

I'd assume Stoke away relegation game from the presence of Harry Worley, but Clive Clarke had his heart attack in August so he wouldn't be in that team, sometimes Sky's data for old matches is bugged.

Simon Royce started that game so no. He wasn't exactly a Rolls.

Yep, notable for being Martin O'Neill's first game.

This one might be too obscure

Brighton in 2003, promotion confirmed?

So it's the flat seats more like in the Bundesliga you're after, rather than the ones like at Anfield or Old Trafford?

What's actually so bad about that design, out of interest?

The club thinks 90% of the crowd are better trained than that.

Can't wait to see this statement qualified.

It seems tactics back then were basically "dribble until you shoot or run into an opponent"

"Orders from the boss. You have to score on the stroke of the 14th minute, or we unleash more dirt from Coleen Rooney."

To be honest, I just couldn't stand the way his Burnley team played the last time he brought them to the KP, and that was after plenty of years to bring forth his vision. Must be someone out there who can play grassy chess like Maresca but with a little more flexibility and urgency when called for.

"they hate each other don't they" Just overheard in a pub in Salford. Deny it all they want but even Man U supporting neutrals know. Also "Two-all!" "What, United??" "No, Leicester”

"Hmm... That Vestergaard sure is composed on the ball." "Yeah, too bad he's passing it back to the centre mark after Jacob Murphy left him for dead and scored!" DO HO HO HO.

I've just realised this video is blocked in the UK It's the Gavin and Stacy clip where Sue is going hell and high water to protest a new phone mast (this was in the 3G days, using the same cancer scare bollocks that people are still beating on about today, people not understanding different types of radiation isn't new) and then continually complaining about the lack of phone signal.

Your whole existence seems to be to go into threads for people to go "I'm fed up with giving a lot of money to incompetents" only to go "Why are you telling me I can't go?" So, what exactly is the "point" of your posts?

Level doesn't matter. Went to York Street for a 4-0 win over Workington years ago and had a great time. Q&A in the programme even had a player saying Lloyd Dyer was the fastest player he'd ever played against.

As an avid former FOX reader long before it was age appropriate for me, I love that you fail to see the irony that Pete would have been in the "We are where we are" camp when faced with the current shitshow. Frank chained himself to the terraces to try and prevent the Kop being made all-seated. He did also fail to boycott the friendly v Milton Keynes in 2004 though, so maybe you do share a bit of DNA.

Those ones are, sorry. Missed the mangled club badges. Didn't do my due diligence. They did use AI genned photos last season though. Pretty sure they've got an intern on a Stable Diffusion tutorial right now trying to generate some footage of us scoring goals for Thai TV.

They did it last season too. Players lining up in the tunnel with long arms etc. Zombie club.

I know. I can't even hear myself clap the boys off for only losing 4-0.

Seeing out my season ticket but I'll probably show up a minute or two after kick off again. So sick of the matchday experience™, that and those in the ground the likes of which clapped us off at half time vs Liverpool are doing far more to put me off going than the team being shit or the fact I haven't witnessed a league goal since October.