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Did you know? I became a member of the Charles Buchan Boys Club in 1954 and was expected "to play the game as it is meant to be played and support your team in bad times as well as good and not be boastful in success ...and be cheerful in defeat!"

Did you know? My school use to give out letters of "Certificate of Character" to help you find a job ( at 15).
I was a quiet lad of "modest disposition,played regularly for the school first team and always played a hard game". (Why did I suddenly think of Vinny Jones?)

Did you know my second job in 1966 was going to pay me 7s.8d. per hour for a 40 hour week.

Would you say times have changed? (Items my mum had put away and have just surfaced. I'd forgotten about them!?)
 
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PowerSpurs said:
Except we started that season pretty well and were going at more than 2 points a game until January. More likely Grealish wouldn't have been picked much at all.
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We got points but played pretty poorly.

L Everton...woeful throughout
W Southampton...awful 1st half good 2nd
D Newcastle...good 1st half poor 2nd half
W United.. very good throughout
D West Ham...v good 1st half shocking 2nd
W Burnley...awful throughout
W Brighton... good in parts poor in parts
W WBA...turgid
W City ... very good throughout
D Chelsea...meh throughout
W Arsenal...v good 1st poor 2nd
D Palace...decent 1st half terrible 2nd
L Liverpool...decent throughout
L Leicester...bloody awful
D Wolves...Great 1st 5 mins terrible last 85

28 points in 15 games
Less than 2 points per game until January not more.
There were a lot of worries on the match day threads at the time so this ain't hindsight.

We have done nothing to address this other than to have sacked JM 68 days ago.

The idea that Grealish wouldn't have got on the pitch simply shows what a clown JM was.

I ain't Grealishs biggest fan but tbh he would be better than Lo Celso and or Ndombele
 
remembercolinlee said:
We got points but played pretty poorly.

L Everton...woeful throughout
W Southampton...awful 1st half good 2nd
D Newcastle...good 1st half poor 2nd half
W United.. very good throughout
D West Ham...v good 1st half shocking 2nd
W Burnley...awful throughout
W Brighton... good in parts poor in parts
W WBA...turgid
W City ... very good throughout
D Chelsea...meh throughout
W Arsenal...v good 1st poor 2nd
D Palace...decent 1st half terrible 2nd
L Liverpool...decent throughout
L Leicester...bloody awful
D Wolves...Great 1st 5 mins terrible last 85

28 points in 15 games
Less than 2 points per game until January not more.
There were a lot of worries on the match day threads at the time so this ain't hindsight.

We have done nothing to address this other than to have sacked JM 68 days ago.

The idea that Grealish wouldn't have got on the pitch simply shows what a clown JM was.

I ain't Grealishs biggest fan but tbh he would be better than Lo Celso and or Ndombele
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In terms of the ubermensch, the obvious question is what use Grealish would be when we were willingly surrendering midfield for 45-60 minutes per game from December onwards

Oh, I have a suggestion for this...
 
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remembercolinlee said:
We got points but played pretty poorly.

L Everton...woeful throughout
W Southampton...awful 1st half good 2nd
D Newcastle...good 1st half poor 2nd half
W United.. very good throughout
D West Ham...v good 1st half shocking 2nd
W Burnley...awful throughout
W Brighton... good in parts poor in parts
W WBA...turgid
W City ... very good throughout
D Chelsea...meh throughout
W Arsenal...v good 1st poor 2nd
D Palace...decent 1st half terrible 2nd
L Liverpool...decent throughout
L Leicester...bloody awful
D Wolves...Great 1st 5 mins terrible last 85

28 points in 15 games
Less than 2 points per game until January not more.
There were a lot of worries on the match day threads at the time so this ain't hindsight.

We have done nothing to address this other than to have sacked JM 68 days ago.

The idea that Grealish wouldn't have got on the pitch simply shows what a clown JM was.

I ain't Grealishs biggest fan but tbh he would be better than Lo Celso and or Ndombele
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I was talking about the 2018/19 season when we were linked to Grealish in the summer.
 
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humanbeingincroydon said:
Has a single pundit said that Jack Grealish needs to move to The Sheikh Mansour Team if he wants to win trophies yet?
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If you heard TalkShite recently it's more like is there a pundit that hasn't said that. No, what they think would be a good think is for that team to continue to stockpile players, he doesn't get to play all the time (cos they have 'rotation' you know), and he gets to fulfill 'ambition' (which apparently these days means doing something where it's hard to fail, instead of achieving something where it's difficult to achieve, like staying at your parent club).

And yes Citeh are stockpiling, because apparently it's ok to have twice the number of players they need (rotation and depth etc, which is something that most other teams aren't allowed for normal economic reasons). And if this means that a talent like Foden takes a couple of extra years to get into the first team, and then not play all the time (when he would be first choice in many teams long ago), it's down to 'brilliant' development by Fraudiola rather than wasting that talent. And if a player is bought (for ££££££) when the previous ££££ player isn't quite as good as Fraudiola wants, then he's cleverly 'identified a weakness' and rectified it, instead of being limited to what he has already got to work with, like normal managers do.

But don't try and point this out, because it will be considered sour grapes.
 
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humanbeingincroydon said:
Has a single pundit said that Jack Grealish needs to move to The Sheikh Mansour Team if he wants to win trophies yet?
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Because he’s coming from Villa who have been nowhere recently but fighting relegation. We have been on a different stratosphere, we have been trying for trophies but failing miserably, nothing like Villa. That’s why our players get that different pressure and rightly so because we are different levels to Villa. That’s why our best player wants to leave because he wants to move onto the next logical stage of his career, something we can’t provide him. Grealish hasnt even played one CL game in his life let alone sniff a trophy.
 
Spurlock said:
Because he’s coming from Villa who have been nowhere recently but fighting relegation. We have been on a different stratosphere, we have been trying for trophies but failing miserably, nothing like Villa. That’s why our players get that different pressure and rightly so because we are different levels to Villa. That’s why our best player wants to leave because he wants to move onto the next logical stage of his career, something we can’t provide him. Grealish hasnt even played one CL game in his life let alone sniff a trophy.
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Technically what you said is that a club at a certain level should never aspire to win anything and know their place, and their players should do likewise

Somebody should have probably told Ashley Young, Gareth Barry and James Milner about that...
 
humanbeingincroydon said:
Technically what you said is that a club at a certain level should never aspire to win anything and know their place, and their players should do likewise

Somebody should have probably told Ashley Young, Gareth Barry and James Milner about that...
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When someone resorts to ‘Technically’ it’s usually a last ditch attempt at proving their weak point

you can’t kid a kidder mait
 
Spurlock said:
When someone resorts to ‘Technically’ it’s usually a last ditch attempt at proving their weak point

you can’t kid a kidder mait
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When somebody says "technically" it also implies that somebody's counterargument was weak, for example when saying all players at Spurs should be demanding to leave if they want to win trophies but saying Southampton players should sit down and shut up because they can't expect to win trophies (except the ones that get picked off in great numbers by Man Utd, Liverpool and Arsenal, yet somehow we're the team Southampton fans accuse of breaking up their squad...)
 
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