At 29 years old, having never played top flight football, I doubt his wage demands will be too unreasonable. And its a 46-game season, not to mention cup games. We need, realistically, 3 or 4 new CMs. If he is our 4th choice, that's fine with me.
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At 29 years old, having never played top flight football, I doubt his wage demands will be too unreasonable. And its a 46-game season, not to mention cup games. We need, realistically, 3 or 4 new CMs. If he is our 4th choice, that's fine with me.
Dare I say it but he might be a positive influence in the dressing room...
Manning and Grimes sound like WW2 Spitfire pilots.
They'd have been ground crew, to Biggles and Algy.
Till we ran out of Algys of course
Loved Biggles books when I was little. Made me want to be a pilot, but girls couldn’t then as a profession
I read most of the Biggles books, I can’t even recall any mention of anyone of the female persuasion in any capacity, let alone pilots!
If you are thinking Biggles' Flies Back to Front, then you are misguided, the love of his life was a German spy called Marie Janis!
Surely that was in “Biggles Flies Undone”?
You need to watch the 1986 spoof film Biggles: Adventures in Time. It's a bit corny but the story is in it.
I read one of the WW2 stories when I was about 12 but could not get on with the Biggles books at the time. I love vintage aircraft and was minded to read WE John's earlier WW1 books after reading a history book about pilots in the First World war a few years ago. Thios totally transformed my opinion of Biggles. My understanding is the Johns served in the nascent RAF and that the adventures experienced by Biggles are actually true but the character is a composite of various pilots who carried out the escapades in the stories. I really enjoyed them when I returned to them about 10 years ago as I was no longer reading them as dated children's stories but as accounts of genuine exploits. In my opinion, they give a fantastic description of aerial warfare and the experience of flying in those times that is hard to beat. It is staggering how difficult things like navigation and bombing were in those days and the Biggle's novels recount these problems with a dash of black humour. The latter stories are, as I understand, much weaker and inaccurate but the WW1 novels are grounded in reality and should not be dismissed as they have proper historical merit.
There seems to be little else to discuss at the moment. The Club are telling us nothing, the owners are telling us nothing, the ITK Press are coming up empty, even Twitter seems to have run out of ideas about winding us up.
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I'd blame the bloke that randomly threw Biggles into the mix with undue care and attention
One of the current issues is, that when things go wrong they seem to spend all their energy looking for someone to blame, when they should be looking for solutions to the problem.
I always blame GulyBlame Fran, everything is always down to her
