Leonard Venkhater

That you, Bala?

Pathetic capitulations, indeed. There have been far too many and I am just sick of them.

It seems such an obvious rule of thumb. "Don't wear a hairband/white/red/green boots, if you are shit"...

Yes. As soon as I saw him, I thought sleaze..Portfolio lol

Hahaha...Look what I found. And listen to the chant at the end! https://youtu.be/k_Voahxehek

plus "When I tell Walton to catch it, he throws it into the net.."

Don't then ?

Then get a five-point, positive adjustment a propos of Wigan!

What? You mean you haven't immediately ordered the film!

No! Me and my mate from Darwen met him in The Dirty Duck, when a few of the players came in. It was a quiet Tuesday night and our away game at Bolton had been called off. Kit Napier and Barry Endean even gave me a lift at the end of the night! I have to say O'Mara seemed slightly odd. We actually thought he was trying to take the p***, but not quite sure!. I remember 3 members of the aforementioned Queens JM Appreciation society came in later and they could not believe what they saw-JM in "deep" conversation with the likes of us. We never told them he was taking the p***!

Hahaha...As I am sure you know, it is not quite, as simple as that. I think you need to be able to engage, motivate and take people with you. A complete t**t would merely "lose the dressing room" like Hodgson and Souness( in the end). That is not to say ruthlessness is not required, otherwise you just try to please everybody, handing out unwise, long term contracts like confetti, just to keep the group together ...oh wait a minute...

Good point. And I remember grabbing hold of any positive contribution he made, hoping it was going to turn out well in the end! One Saturday night in The Queens/ Vulcan after a particularly dismal performance, we even started a club-"The John O'Mara Appreciation Society"...

Oh, so was I...hence, my embarrassment!

Pulis is from the same cesspit stable, as Kean and Coyle...Pulis spoke out for his mate, Keano, at the time like a good company man.

My view too. I feel embarrassed at the way so many of us embraced Lambert like he was the new Messiah. Lambert played us big time.

Rightly so. Petulant behaviour!

Absolutely. This is my sense as well. He took a similar tone several months ago about the time of the home fixture against Barnsley. I think he knows he is losing the fans now because there is so little belief in any method or pattern of play. After 3 years there are still too many no-shows with square pegs in round holes/polished turds( choose your own description!) Any notion of a long term, slow build project is hardly supported by the number of replacements that are required this summer and in so many key positions. Despite loyal fans' fervent hopes and willingness to herald any flashes of improvement in Brereton and Gallagher, they are both down there with O'Mara, Chris Brown and our whole back catalogue of shit strikers. If this were a normal club, we would agree It needs a catalyst and a new broom (Gordon Lee/Souness/Mackay)....but you know the rest....

Proven failures, indeed. I am trying to think of any success brought by Gallagher on the right, yet TM continues to repeat the selection. I agree we are "bound" to try. I actually gave up believing at Derby. Lockdown brought naive sense of hope and Wigan screamed unbelief..

This also begs the question re TM's skill in the market and how optimistic we can be around the significant additions required. I have been reading people's analyses of TM's transfer dealings and what percentage of successful buys should be considered a good return etc. Statistics are one thing, but my own actual spectator experience is that TM's dealings do contain too much in the way of disappointments/dross...Johnson, Gallagher, Brereton, Samuel, Rothwell, Bell, Hart, Gladwin and Chapman all fit into that category for me. It is a significant worry for the future.

Agreed. So much for TM's long term building strategy

It wasn't a putdown or anything. I meant it.....starting to test my patience indeed! I think he is shit...there...said it....

Brilliant, that. Understatement is such a tonic- especially when I am raging!

Good idea...I would like to hear Arbitro's analysis of that infamous decision by a certain Spennymoor headmaster at Selhurst.... Also -under the heading of "Possible Atonement"- his comments on the high number of penalties awarded to Rovers in the 3(?) Rovers games he refereed after 1989!

Now that is very funny... One of my wife's elderly aunties referred to Philip Schofield, as "coming out of the press!"

So, as a child, you were sent to the shop for "messages", which you put away in the "press"?