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There really is some crap there. e.g. I'd forgotten that Reid was even in our squad.

Now that made me laugh!

Me neither. Once, a very, very, very long time ago, I was on a skiing holiday in Switzerland and one evening in a bar I met a bunch of Norwegians, and one of them was speaking his own language in exactly the same style that PlakkiLakki spoke. It was a bit like speaking with a Norwegian dolphin. Very strange, disorientating and entertaining all at the same time, but the weirdest thing was that I couldn't stop thinking that he was just like PlakkiLakki.

Just a likkle bik

I was there under this user name. Does anyone else miss the spectacularly zany PlakkiLakki?

How I long for the good old days of down votes.

He did indeed. I think he's an example of a player who has been greatly improved by the current management team. Previous manager said that he couldn't manage 90 minutes, now he's doing it twice in a week. Previously he was a walking red card, now he still has all the passion but looks much less of a sending off risk.

Yes, this quote (which I firmly believe was Lee Sinnott, but I'm often wrong), looks very, very out now but may have seemed reasonable early in the season. It's one of those where hindsight is a great thing (insert joke about being glad to see the back of Nuttall here...).

“Nuttall will score more goals than Fondop makes starts this season.” (oops, wrong way round first effort)

I just wondered if your user ID came from Penrhyn Avenue, Alkrington? I grew up in Conway Close opposite.

The register comment was a complete disgrace. It was liked by Fluffy, which says all you need to know. If you need any further reason to ignore these people just try searching against “malignant narcissist” on YouTube.

Victor’s what?

Yes. What I'm saying is that great passes for great goals always have to allow for the recipient to move. This is not "walking football" and it's not netball. If all the players just ran to a new position and then stopped again every time possession changed then there would be a lot more successful passes, and it would all look rather strange. Of course there is some luck involved in making such a pass, as the intended recipient may move somewhere else, it's very dynamic, and of course there is almost always some deviation between where the ball was meant to go and where it ends up. However, if you don't have a go then you can't ever make a great pass. He had a go and it turned out it was a great pass. Thanks.

Absolutely that. He knew the ones he wanted and he wanted 4 of them, so that we should have 3 available even if one is injured / suspended.

There's no such thing as an effective pass to a team mate who's just stood there, completely static. Part of the skill of the pass is in anticipating and allowing for your team mate's movement.

Missing Norwood, Dallas, Walker and Hope. Reid either injured or binned. Yet we did find a way to win. I think MM’s experience will get us out of here via the playoffs this season.

And then there was the John Rooney fiasco.

Willoughby and Reid join Nuttall in the bin? Or is Reid unfit?

Too early for me to have seen, but Whitaker’s scoring ratio for a winger was superb.

Indeed, those were the days!

MM has said that he’d like to play a midfield 2 once he has a pair that works, and he’s said that he wants more in wide areas. Would be lovely to see 2 wingers in there, like the old days of Holden and Adams!

I think we did that when we swapped DU for MM. Here's hoping anyway, the recruitment seems to be much better now, although of course it's very early days.

How ironic. DU was only 5 years and 33 signings away from being able to transition us to 4-3-3, yet we dumped him.

What a stupid comment.

Or crack their ribs whilst laughing at a deyres42 post.