Once again Venkys do the unpredictable. They probably read that we were reasonably happy with Adkins.

12 hours ago, Parsonblue said:

A cracking game of football tonight at Leyland.  Two teams playing attacking football and giving one hundred per cent.  Everyone in a Blue & White shirt tonight was good, not a weak link in the team against an excellent West Ham team.  Tomlinson, Travis and Thomson in particular caught the eye going forward.

Great run through the middle from Thomson, rasping shot hit the underside of the bar.

4 hours ago, 1arC said:

I said that his quotes to a degree were quite apt as he wasn't qualified at certain things as the article suggested. He wasn't qualified as a manager, but as his agent was running the club, he was appointed. He wasn't qualified as a wages clerk, but we was handing out £500 per week in a brown envelope to Matt Hocking. He wasn't qualified as a public speaker, so resorted to lies when interviewed. And also said, he nearly qualified for a spell at her majesty's pleasure, as he purged himself in court, after being caught over the drink drive limit, using his mobile phone and speeding, all at the same time.

I suppose his views on a possible future 3rd strip could be useful!

When we discuss this transfer window,it should be a comparative thing. In other words," have we improved relative to those around us?", not just"have WE a better squad?"

I'd say its pretty obvious that we have not.

I doubt we've improved much anyway, if at all, because the key areas have not been addressed. Some"manager" this is, forwards tripping over each other while the opposition saunters past the midfield,through the defence and comes face to face with a hapless keeper.

And why has Marshall not been training for 2 weeks? Wolves must have known that. How could we have got 1.5M in these circumstances?

Whole process stinks, like the club.

Everyone else in the relegation zone has changed their manager and are looking to strengthen their squads.

We are keeping our lame duck manager on and looking to offload players to get the wage bill down.

If that isn't deliberate relegation strategy then I don't know what is.

Absolutely Al the fookin white male dummy named Chris Brown was paid around half a million per year for what to go without scoring a single goal shows how bent the current professional game is.

I blame the agents Jal!

If Jim had taken a penalty he would have headed it!

Havn't read the 170 other posts but JIM FRYATT gets my vote. I'm voting on the basis of a player who had a reasonable number of games not someone who was picked just the once and abandoned.

If we do get the likely relegation, then we are likely to get some weasley words like, we will bounce back. No doubt the likes of Southampton, Norwich and Leicester will be used as examples of teams that fell to the level and are now in the premier league. It honestly would amaze me if we aren't in the fourth tier for the firs time in our history, if Venky's are still here in 3-4 years.

We have to take one step back to take two forwards?

Every time we have a chance we mess it up. A win yesterday takes us within a point of the opposition and out of the drop zone.

Results in games that should have been comfy wins show that we are destined for relegation without much fight.

We could avoid this if Coyle was sacked but this won't happen

Talking unemotionally, a draw was a fair result. They had a bit more fluidity about their play than we did, had as much possession and created as many chances. Inevitable that one would go in at some point with our defensive set-up.

It was a poor game, we are a poor team with failings a blind man could see. We look what we are, a hastily cobbled together team of freebies, cheapies and loanees.

We will endure many more games we should have got something out of but we will still go down.

Looking at the personnel, and remembering loans from Premier League clubs are vital to us, I still think someone else eg a Warnock would get more out of them. Coyle will probably be sacked once relegation looks unavoidable in keeping with a history of great Venky decision-making.

His voice isn't what it was imo.

Burnley fans will be there destroying the toilets.

Signing Danny Graham is unadulterated good news and news I didn't expect tbh.

Re-signing Spurr smacks of desperation, and I would've said the same if it was on Lambert's watch. We don't need a mediocre, L1 level defender to make up the numbers, the club needs to sign some actual quality.

I honestly think it smacks of realism, depressing though that is.

Lets see who we sign 1st before judging this one.

Guess we will see in pre season how attacking Coyle will let the team play and what formations we will play

1st signing Spurr! Does that give you a clue?

This squad is nowhere near good enough to try and play Coyles brand of open football and he won't get the money to improve it much.

This has got disaster written all over it.

Half of the squad will play Coyle's brand of open football though----the defence.

That interview was rubbish truth be told. It all sounded very good but there wasn't much substance. I got the distinct impression he isn't a very intelligent bloke. Trotted out the same old tosh over and over. The only positive I can take from it is he intends to play an exciting brand of football. But that's only any good if you're picking up points

Exactly! Instead of losing 0-1 it'll be 3-4! Great for the neutrals and the winners.

As someone far from convinced about the appointment I thought he came across very well in this interview. No rash promises but said the sort of things that most fans would want to hear from a new manager. Only time will tell to see if he can deliver.

It really is like Kean all over again. He gives "a good presser".

Time goes by and the search widens! Complete madness!

Player manager needed then we have one less player to find in a hurry!

We'll just have to wait a year or two longer before we play our nearest neighbours then!

Isn't Stanley a different club anyway?

Yes but who cares? I wouldn't care if it happened to us either.I would simply see it as continuity.

I love these stories, just shows there is always hope.

As Gav says, the idea we would just disappear is ridiculous.

I remember Vernon playing for Rovers, alongside Duggie and Clayton. He was a great inside forward, a number 10 when Duggie was on the wing. Great skill and a terrific shot on him despite him being as thin as a wafer. Quick too.

Gutted when he went to Everton but it was to be a worn path where Rovers were concerned.

And yes, he was a chain smoker. I know because there was a Bolton-Preston FA Cup replay at Ewood one season, 6th round? I sat next to him in the old A Stand in Nuttall St and I'll swear he never had a fag out of his mouth the whole game!

What do you mean "if" there is a thread about Stanley. There is, its called "Stanley"!

And by all means start a thread on Darwen if you want to. Just stick to it, don't bring Jack /Walker Trust/Walker family or Fergy/Man Utd or Abbey or any of the other obsessions you've been bombarding us with since you returned.

Remember your own sentence "its not all about what you might be interested in".

Well, deep breath, my post was about Stanley which, after all is the heading for the thread!

Your's is all about you, not an unusual occurance I've noticed.

I'm more interested in the fortunes of little battling Accy Stanley than plastic Manure. So what's the problem?

Against all the odds still playing and actually prospering this season, results-wise anyway. Came back after being closed down, a true inspiration if we go the same way.