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See you there.

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.

i really don't see the point of this.

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?

if anyone should know about such a "free ticket" offer such as the one you got recently, it would be you! As you're fairly on the ball about club news and know people within......if you don't know about the offer, how is anyone else going to???

I think this was at Vale Park bb

Thanks guys.

 

Keep the names rolling please people!

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.

Wolfy & Lomax both made debuts 03/04 season didn't they? Stam was 04/05 IIRC.

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.

I was thinking along the lines of now this season is pretty much over, Sheridan feels like it isnt woirth rushing players back incase they get a long term problem that could be more serious and even push them behind schedule for the start of next season...

That was my take on it too...

Am I right in thinking that Stam's our longest serving professional?

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.

28 recall clause for Leeds.

 

To be honest though it's bad business for them, s'pose he fires us into a playoff spot, a spot Leeds are fighting for. Doesn't make sense to me. :/

 

Ah well, that's their problem.

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

I was a bit surprised that he got warmly applauded when subbed but didn't acknowledge the fans at all.

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!

To be fair he was good at BP (although he was awful at Elland Road).

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 will people notice that Super K is a bloomin right back!!

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.

Even Mandelson would find it hard to put positive 'spin' on those figures, well done for trying. Not a Civil-Servant by any chance?

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.

Just have a proper look at those stats you have kindly supplied. On closer inspection you will find that over the last 3 or 4 seasons in the second and third divisions there is quite clearly a downward trend!

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.

Something has to change because people are staying away from football outside the top 2 divisions

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

Just a reminder that some of the players metaphorically being shown the door by you guys are under contract beyond the end of this season.

 

By my reckoning those contracted beyond 2008 are - in no particular order

Eardley 2010

Lomax 2011

Gregan 2009

Thompson 2009

Hazell 2009

Taylor 2009??? Can anyone confirm this one?

Kalala 2009

Allott 2009

Hughes 2009

Davies 2009

Wolfenden 2009

Black 2010

Taylor is under contract till 2010 BBC

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