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    Swindon Town’s Lost Architectural Masterpiece...

    in General Football and Allsports Chat

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    Latics have made a number of visits to the County Ground over the years, so I thought this may be of interest. An article about Swindon’s link to the famous Italian architect Nervi, who also built Fiorentina’s stadium and the Stadio Flaminio in Rome:

     

    https://calcioengland.wordpress.com/2019/03/22/florence-rome-swindon-how-the-grand-master-of-italian-stadium-design-nearly-made-his-mark-in-england/

    Lee Croft

    in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum

    Posted

    There's a difference between gross wages paid to the player and full employer costs (which include additional things like National Insurance and Pension contributions). In my line of work its typically assumed that the latter items add about 20% to the narrow wage cost. So it may be that the 1.3m and 1.7m are both right, give or take...

    Request for help - link to Barry Owen press conference

    in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum

    Posted

    Slightly left field request; I'm after a link to the video of the short press conference that Barry Owen gave at the height of the Ched Evans siege on BP in January. The one where he seemed to be wearing a Christmas sweater, appeared edgy and signed off with the classic line "thank you gentleman..........and ladies"

     

    I'm running some training at work on presenting and wanted to contrast a good and bad example of public speaking. I'll let you speculate as to which category this Baz classic falls into

     

    The YouTube link I had is sadly now broken; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc3S9q5yaTs&feature=youtu.be

     

    Thanks in advance!

    SD shirt offer; -20%

    in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum

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    Maybe of interest to anyone who was left disappointed by Father Christmas' offering this year...

     

    Current season home and away adult shirts available for £14.99 on SD.com; you have to pay £3.99 delivery but can get 20% off today (New Years Day) using the code TAKE20. i.e. long sleeved home shirt delivered to your door for £16.

     

     

    Harkins

    in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum

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    Great performance to a man out there today - with one exception. I am genuinely surprised by support for Harkins in here; granted it was his first game - and a cameo chasing the game against a Prem team, but still...

     

    Clearly overweight, yet easily muscled off the ball, too many flicks and seemingly unable to get the ball under control. Maybe fitness related but just looked too immobile for my liking.

     

    I would love to be proven wrong, but the signs didn't look great to me!

    Tarkowski

    in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum

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    Anyone who thinks we would get £1m+ for Tarky needs a reality check. A very good L1 defender, but everyone knows we're skint - and unfortunately our track record for selling off talent quickly and cheaply will count against us here.

     

    Rightly or wrongly, I can't see us turning down a bid of £600-800k should such a bid materialise.

    Anglo Italian Cup 94-95

    in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum

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    I was only 11 at the time of this and have some vague memories of the campaign - a search of the archives fills a few of the gaps in terms of opponents and results, but I'm intrigued to hear about anyone's first hand experience of those games (home and away). I seem to remember that there were reports of a load of British sailors attending one of the away games?

     

    It strikes me that the tournament probably didn't really capture the imagination in the same way that it would now; we had after all just been spoiled by a several years of relative success in league and cup.

     

    I've managed to source the programmes from the home games (Perugia and Cesena) - interestingly, the former includes Everton reject and World Cup winner Marco Materazzi as a sub! Does anyone know if programmes were produced for the away games?

     

    Cheers

    Latics' Run-in

    in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum

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    Another fantastic victory - and all the more important that we are starting to do it in front of our own fans! Just starting to think that TP may be the messiah...I guess we'll know after Tuesday :grin:

     

    Just taking a look at our run-in; March is going to be a difficult month as we're playing 4 of the top 6! Given the inconsistency of teams at the top and our recent form, do people think there is anything to fear there?

     

    Either way, the good news is that April fixtures look a bit kinder

    If Dickov does get the sack

    in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum

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    We need a motivator with just a little tactical nous, someone who has been there (at the wrong end of the table) and done it before (stayed up). This isn't about long term, its about making sure we are still in L1 come August, then we can make a long term and more measured appointment over the summer. Someone not afraid to play ugly. Not very exciting, but someone in the Russell Slade mould (not him as he has a job though)???

    FAO Barry

    in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum

    Posted

    We simply cannot give up the whole of the RRE, the club must push back hard on this for the reasons given above.

     

    Is there any sense at all that the Liverpool game wasn't a success in terms of safety and crowd management? A very small number of minor incidents by the sounds of it, so why change?

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