And he reacts to scoring for us exactly how you'd expect a fan to, limbs all over and proper ****ing buzzing.
I heard that in the dark days we were about to let him go and his dad asked the club what they were doing as he had some great offers from Prem clubs. He was then offered a contract on improved terms, presumably on the basis these clubs could see something in him so best not to let him go on a free. His dad wanted him to stay for lots of understandable reasons and professionally and personally that looks to be working out. Never been so pleased with a change in ownership . . . My only bit of vaguely itk chat and there will never be anymore! Proper player and improving all the time. Don't get me started on John Egan
Something a large section of our fan base easily forget. He has a mistake in him, so what? So does Ross Stewart. Seen him miss things he should bury! Neil has been getting better and better recently. In league 1 he was sometimes a bit too good fir other player, I.e he’d seethe pass but the player it was going to wouldn’t!
After Saturday my 7 year old grandson thinks he's great! Mind you I think it has more to do with the fact that he was wearing the same football boots that he has!
Pleased to hear this story, it is confirmation to me that we have had recent managers, including a charlatan who couldn't tell chalk from cheese.
Very much so. The fact that the hideous Parkinson could not see a player in Neil, even at that age, says everything.
Great to hear that. It just hoes to illustrate how disgustingly hollowed the club had become. We are on our way back now though, and if it takes the time it takes, that is super fine by me. There is a good bit to do but they are doing it, piece by piece. Very pleased for Dan, and there should be others coming through who will get good treatment and get their chance. We could never have blasted our way to any kind of decent level with money. This is the way I've always wanted us to try things. I'm old enough to remember us winning tbe Cup. There were five home produced players in the side, with only Dave Watson costing a significant fee, and we'd sold Colin Todd about two years before for a record transfer fee IIRC. It's our best chance and it's the best thing in the world to get behind.
.. I suspect that this is a fault, repeated at every Club. When challenged they will hark back to some past hero of theirs, and come up with something along the lines of X would never have missed that. They must have been very lucky about the games they missed in that case, because even the very best of them miss sometimes. Even Brian Clough missed the odd sitter, and Gary Rowell didn't score EVERY penalty he took. (Nor did Alan Shearer} For me there is nothing as satisfying as watching some local kid break through into the First Team and go on to have a good career in the Game.
