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Ditto - I'm guessing main entrance means the main stand side? Or do you mean main entrance to the Lookers?

My problem with Taylor is that he appears to always want to run from deep. Many a time I've shouted at him to get the forward. Tuesday was a case in point. We were pushing, yet he's hanging around half way inside their half, hoping to get the ball and run, trying to beat 5 men before doing anything threatening. Can't understand why he doesn't get forward, pushing their defence deeper and deeper, and give us an option to play him in near the byline.

Just a bit of fun. If you don't like it, don't vote.

Simple really - if we went bust, who would you start supporting, if anyone?

I think this was at Vale Park bb

It's rare I read the pinned threads (so many of them....) - might be worth putting something in the main forum body?

Kids for free works for me. No-one would begrudge it (I don't think), and bully for them if they did. Clubs like ours have to go for the community angle, and what better way of building some support in the local community than to have all the kids at the local schools coming to BP on a Saturday.

According to soccerbase: 15-11-2003 Matthew Wolfenden 07-05-2004 Kelvin Lomax 15-02-2005 Stefan Stam 05-07-2007 Mark Allott (and 01-08-1995 - 20-02-2002) Where the date given is date joined the club. No idea if that means debut, or whether the player was professional at the time.

That was my take on it too...

Apart from Allott, I think you're right.

I can help with this.

This season has been a bit of a joke in my eyes. I remember talking pre-season about how this was Shez's big chance, how he'd done well to take what Ronnie had started to build, and turned that into a force to be reckoned with. A few tweaks to that, and strengthening in key areas, would see us make the playoffs again with ease. Yet we seem to have gone backwards. People talk about the good football Shez's teams play, but I can't see it. We've had some good results this season, but apart from Everton, when have the performances really impressed? Even in some of our biggest wins - Walsall, Yeovil, Vale - we've looked average at best. I sit near BB80 at the games, and have discussed the 'limitations' point a few times. It's all about potential with managers, circumstances around the club are never going to be constant, so we're unlikely to continually be able to move forward, yet the manager should be able to at least hint that he's developing, and improving year on year. Will Shez be able to put this season behind him, and put together a squad who can challenge next year? That's the big question for me. He has the summer transfer window, and he better use it wisely, as if he doesn't, and we start next season poorly, I think he may not get another one. Someone previously mentioned the apparent lack of professionalism at the club - this to me stands out when it comes to the simple things - taking throw-ins, corners, etc. Other teams come and are obviously well drilled, they have routines, they have a plan. We don't. If something as basic as that isn't getting the attention it deserves, then it makes you wonder what else doesn't get picked up on. Sorry for the rant, but I have to say I'm losing the faith a little.

Amazing how 7s and 8s are being given out after that display. 5s and 6s would seem more appropriate.

We get Leon back to match fitness, he goes back to Leeds and fires them to playoff success, probably over us. How's that?

He did, he clapped us just as he was stepping over the touchline, but had his back to us so it was hard to see. Probably too knackered to turn around!

Don't remember us giving him much to do really. Have drank a lot between then and now though, so may be my memory failing me...

46. Casper Ankergren, Leeds Jesus wept.

Hughes is the most skilled footballer at our club by a country mile. If he can stay free of injury, he'll be dynamite next season.

When he starts getting some game time?

Key difference S_W, between today and the era of Royle/Frizzell, is player power. With the intro of the bosman, and the constant chopping and changing of playing squads, managers nowadays can't really bank on being able to build a settled squad, not unless they get some instant success and can then take that side forward. A couple of seasons of 'building' will see players contracts expire, and them then off somewhere they can get a better deal.

Not far off I still maintain that they aren't too bad. In league 2, for example, from 1994-2001, the average didn't get above 4,000. It's been above that every year since.

League 1: 03/04 - 7505 04/05 - 7740 05/06 - 7460 06/07 - 7485 League 2: 03/04 - 5390 04/05 - 4500 05/06 - 4060 06/07 - 4134 Hardly a downward trend, and in all cases, higher than 1999/2000 or 2000/2001.

Not quite sure where you get that from... Stats

Taylor is under contract till 2010 BBC

The Ford Sporting League was a short-lived English football league sponsored by Ford Motor Company. The League's only season was that of 1970-1971. The league adopted a unique points system, intended to reward goalscoring and punish ill discipline. Clubs were awarded a point for every goal scored at home and two points for every goal scored away, but lost 5 points if a player was booked and 10 points if a player was sent off. Oldham Athletic A.F.C. won the league, winning a pot of £70,000. League rules stipulated the prize money be used on stadium improvements, so the money went to build a stand in the stadium. Ford's sponsorship of the competition is notable, with the 1970-1971 season marking a watershed for sponsorship in English football. In addition to the Ford Sporting League, the season saw the first Watney Cup and first Texaco Cup, although The Football League itself turned down an offer of £600,000 to sponsor the Football League Cup. Wikipedia