I vaguely remember the Boxing Day game in 1977. What I remember is that I couldn't see a thing! I would have been 11 at the time, went with my Dad and managed to get on the Longside. I ended up on the shoulders of some guy stood in front.

All the ref needed to do was apply some common sense, or worst case, check with the Accy manager. Anyway, as in the last couple of seasons, it was a good afternoon out, and a pleasure to watch some live football again.

Getting some desperate cash for either Leo or Pears, and promoting Hilton or Eastham, has always been the plan IMO. They'll try and justify it as 'career pathways'.

Instead of 2x60 minute games, it will now effectively be 2x45 minute games. Not much difference really. I've attended this for the last couple of seasons. It's a decent afternoon out, and a reminder of what a proper club looks like.

I used to love watching Busquets, he made the game look so simple. Rodri is cut from the same cloth.

Which would make no commercial sense given our financial plight.

Or just rip down the one next to it 😀

This year's Tour starts on Saturday. I for one can't wait. It's great sport.

Whoever we play from hereon in, we'll have to seriously raise our game. Having said that, I think we'll run out easy winners tonight. Beating weak teams is what we're good at. Hopefully it will spur us on.

Hypothetically, should England ever appoint a non-English manager and somehow manage to win a tournament, those throwing their arms in the air over 'the England manager should be English' would soon go quiet I'd wager.

True, but the signs of which teams might win the pot are.

I watched the Spain game last night. They're several steps ahead of us and entertaining to watch, especially with those two wingers they have.

It's half a 'job done', more like. Teams with any aspiration need to be coming out of the group stage with confidence and momemtum. We have the opposite.

This thread is beyond depressing. I only renewed our ST's 3 days ago and I'm regretting it already!

What does it matter where he's based? All that actually matters is that he does a good job, on which he's failed miserably.

I got round to renewing our two tickets on Sunday morning. That website though, Christ alive it's bad. It took me half an hour to get rid of the 400 errors. I'm a software engineer, so at least I have half a clue. Anyone less tech savvy would just give up.

I agree with you here. The walking football we seem to revert to absolutely bores me to tears. Any side that plays more in our faces and with more physical agression, we'll struggle against.

Yup. He was a very clever footballer.

...which in Waggot logic, will be used to validate the argument that reducing prices has no positive affect.

IMO this is exactly what will happen. Any money received from Leo will simply disappear per the Wharton money just to keep the lights on. The argument/spin will be that we're no worse off and opportunities are being given.

Portugal are the dark horses for me. I watched England for the first time in ages last night. Crikey, that was a dull watch. I think I saw someone earlier refer to it as 'walking football', which is exactly what it was.

This latest episode just goes to show what a grotesque institution the PL has become. The game at that level is beyond ruin, all down to the ever increasing greed of TV companies, the so called top clubs and their global owners. And the sad thing is, is that the same is happening in the Championship.

I thought that Ayari had a little something about him. At least he played with his head up and was positive.

I'm not surprised at all! There's always an ulterior motive with this lot, and in this case I don't think it's purely financial. When we have the people running the shop as we do, whatever structure, appoinments etc. that are put in place, will inevitably be half-arsed in both planning and execution, and not done for the right reasons.

Yeah, that's the only financial scenario, but not the only scenario, that I can think of.