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A friend who was out there used to call them Bennys after the rather dim character in Crossroads.

International, former Premier League player who spent the summer at the World Cup. Some pretty strong selling points there

If he gets a straight three year deal at any club, his fuckin agent is a genius.

He might also just want a fresh start. Everything about his time here screams treatment rooms and injuries. Could just be a simple as that.

Laughable

Peretz made an incredible difference to the team when he came in. He organised the defence, gave it confidence and made saves. I think we were conceding the same number of shots at goal a game but the number of goals we conceded per game halved or somesuch in the stats shown before the Arsenal game. The confidence that bred made an enormous difference. That's not to say that Tonda didn't organise the team well. We were playing really high paced attacking football which was a dream to watch for the latter stages even as we were running out of puff due to fixture pile up. The big thing for me is we played 3 premier league teams, beat two of them and competed with the other. That's something we weren't doing before even when we were a premier league team which is why I'm ok with us taking this chance. At the start of last season we had a team of individual teapots standing with hands on hips. By the end of it we had a team that wanted to win together.

Posted on the Department of War social media.....

Despite Will Still winning 2 in 11 with virtually the exact same squad?

I like it. We should have had more of that when dealing with the EFL - maybe it wouldn't have been such a hatchet job on us.

The school that closed in 1971!!

Of course.

Hey thanks for that - I didn't even realise it existed [proves how on the ball I am]. I geniunely don't want to pee anyone off - well you know no more than I do normally. I'll do that - if it is like the rest of the stuff on my design site and my art and books, it'll get ignored 😂 Weston-super-Mare? My wife went to school there - La Retraite Covent School - it no longer exists but they helped her during some difficult times - she's not even religious!

But making sure they stay in Rochdale is probably punishment enough.

It's not even a little bit wrong is it!

I forgot Coventry too! That’s probably the game that I knew we had a very good manager. Complete masterclass without are two best attackers that day.

The Wrexham battering? The Arsenal FA cup win? Even the City FA Cup defeat I thought we were coached brilliantly, Tonda was reacting to every single move Pep made. Not sure we were watching the same team last season!

Thats rubbish are you saying our subs didn’t make a difference to win a game? Thats coaching- you really think Tondas coaching didn’t improve players to get results? You are way off here.

Weird how people look at things. I couldn't disagree more. I'm not going to check back individual results but we were the superior team against Wrexham, Charlton, Coventry, Arsenal, QPR, Norwich in red hot form etc. You don't go on the longest winning streak in the league and beat Arsenal to get to the FA cup semi by luck.

Your self imposed, much trumpeted sabattical from the Lounge didn't last long then. It's almost like you can't resist.

Apart from the 5-1 win at Charlton Saints haven't been convincing in most games, too many sloppy goals let in Shef Wed, Preston etc . Most games we have 20 min chunks away to opposition. It may have been a tactic to over pass the ball at back and risk losing the ball but dint think that's a coaching skill, more luck. Even Doncaster wasn't convincing but if a draw is a draw and a win is a win then its cleaver management but I personally didn't think we won or drew games from our coaching decisions.

I don’t buy that as a reason. I expect it may be something the clubs know but won’t share publicly 🤷‍♂️

Just post the link in the buy and sell forum.... People can look or ignore it, whatever they choose.

back in my Ugly inside days there was a phase on there of calling people names like Bulb and Balloon head, i've never heard of them until then but are apparently common insults in certain parts of the country. Another bizarre one to me was Mackerel, found it pretty funny, remember being in London around 2000 and one of the locals i was with looked at a group of lads who walked past and said "mackerels, the lot of 'em" which they didnt seem to like.

Well my 'The Cheats' design products are now online. But because I am geninuely not some sort of rip off, self-promotion bloke, I haven't put up the link to the page. Ironically it is Spreadshirt so they are printed and posted from Germany! I genuinely am only making about £1 or so a product and that is covering my costs and time. Anyone wants the link to the page let me know - if not tell me to f-off I'm sure someone will 🤣

It is a issue, it impacted our profit/loss sheet we went down