Worcester Owl

Mother of God, man!!

I saw the Jaguars v Baltimore Ravens at Wembley about 5 years ago. It was my first NFL game - and last. I won’t be going again, one of the most boring sporting events I’ve ever attended!

It slightly worries me when @GKing521 shows signs of optimism/enthusiasm. Doesn’t feel right somehow!

Steady on there.

Well I will be then - cut the fake humility/bollocks, it’s gone on long enough.

You’d tikka bold font over no font at all, though. Could have been wurst.

Surely that could never happen on owtb!!

Lol not that one, presumably.

This is not at all a dig at you and I’m probably going to be accused of being a dinosaur, but the modern game’s insistence that every player, including strikers, must “close down” does my head in. If Nuttall can’t do that, but scores regularly from now on, then it’s Saul Goodman in my book.

Went to see him at a speaking engagement in Evesham a few years ago. Forever a legend, of course, given his playing career. However on the night he was quite spiky and a bit arrogant in the Q&A with the audience. I came away thinking, he didn’t really need to be quite so unpleasant. I remember getting his autograph there, wonder if it was the same day!

What the Dickens!

Really? I checked this morning and we were 12/1, hard to believe the odds would have come down that much

Manager’s union, not a surprising comment really.

I’m going back a long way now, I took my daughter to what if I remember was Capello’s first match in charge of England, must have been about 2008? I was stunned to discover the pies there (“hand crafted” ) were £12!!! All those years ago. I don’t mind sports venues having a monopoly on food and drink provided they charge fair prices and have plenty of choice, otherwise as you say let fans take their own buttes!

Well that’s a good article and you can understand why Frank & co chose Arundel, great story. Does this mean Arundel are not as good as they were then? Or have we changed supplier? As you say, we need to know! Piegate!!

I’m with you on this, and not just for station staff. Before I retired I used to regularly get a GWR train back late from London Paddington and the trains weren’t very busy at that time of night. It didn’t worry me, but if driver only trains get the go ahead and conductors/train managers get axed I can’t imagine lone females would feel as safe in some of the near empty carriages. NB that is NOT to be taken as a sexist comment!!

Oh no further proof that I’ve lived in the south for too long Down here I’d run a mile from a pie priced at £4!! That said, if there are good alternatives as @redlion says then yes, the club should be shopping around.

I know you’ve had a yellow card from Matt, but come on. This is as surreal as Trump standing up and saying it’s all my fault, blame me, etc.

Spot on. And while I don’t always find myself agreeing with your posts, that’s also one of the funniest things I’ve read on here, I couldn’t stop laughing at the image of a balaclava-wearing manager in the dugout!

With the odd exception, those days are long gone, and were even when Scholes was coming to the end of his playing career. It’s a romantic idea, but when you’ve played at the highest level and earned squillions why would you feel the need to finish in the lower leagues?

As a proud Middletonian and lifelong Latics fan, I’d triple upvote this if I could! Scholes might not be the worst choice, but I can’t see it happening. When he took the job last time he made it clear he wouldn’t tolerate boardroom interference, and he proved to be a man of his word. He wasn’t here long enough for anyone to form a view on whether or not he might be a good manager.

I don’t think people are saying that. We are 22nd in the table and 23rd on playing record. People are saying that DU does not have what it takes to turn this form around.

Not sure Brian Clough would have agreed with your view if applied to club boards generally, and he wasn’t a bad manager for most of his career!

Yes, because we are extremely capable of going OTT with our opinions on our club, precisely because it means so much to us. An outside perspective will usually be more objective. Where does Basil say that we should stick with DU? What he actually said was Only you know how youare doing on all three, or whether Unsworth is the right man. He's had fifty gamesnow, and I'd imagine over the next couple of months the Board will reach conclusionsabout him one way or another. I’d say that’s a pretty objective view, whether you agree with it or not. I’d also say that Basil’s views on how clubs are run, given his experience at Blackpool, are very valuable indeed. And for the record, I can’t see DU delivering winning football on a sustained basis, and so I believe we need a new manager.

I'd say you've just taken insularity to a new level. Personally, I find an outside perspective on where we are on and off the pitch invaluable.