Recent content by tonyw

Yeah, Warnock signed him for their one Premier League season - for eleven million quid!

Just to point out - three of those four managers (Warne being the obvious exception) were in their first full season managing an English club, having taken over in December or January the previous year (and finished between 7th and 11th) Des may have the perfect managerial profile after all!

Oh yeah, my only reservation about Bennett is how much we need to pay him - because before he came to us, he had been playing for more than a decade in the Championship and Premier League. But as long as his wage demands are reasonable (i.e. in line with being a rotation option for an upper...

My understanding was that historians' best guess is that he was of Greek heritage.....but from what is now modern Turkey?

Ah yes, the annual Ox4Eva St. George's Day post. I think, to keep up with tradition, I must reply as I usually do and question why we decide to celebrate our Englishness by venerating a Turkish guy who (probably) lived 1700 years ago, who definitely never set foot in England, and who is also...

or Joe Skarz, Alex MacDonald & Ryan Taylor from MApp's promotion side. For me, the whole problem with how we've gone about building our squad for the last several seasons is that we've spent far too much time chasing players who are, on their day, too good for this division - but for a variety...

This is exactly how I see the last two games from last week - especially Lincoln. We have two strings to our bow. We can play it around the back until the opportunity to get it out to our wingers in space arises, and have them cause havoc. And we can press, harry and break quickly on opponents...

Not saying that I don’t think anyone will bottle it - just saying that I doubt three teams will. Different sport, but in the NBA, they just had exactly the same scenario in the Eastern Conference. Teams 5-8 separated by a game, two playoff places at stake on the last day. All playing teams that...

I’m pretty sure that Jerome will be reminding me of the other scores every ten seconds or so all morning on Saturday! I wasn’t meaning to offend. I just think that when the 5th-8th placed sides in the division, with everything on the line, play four teams with nothing to play for…..they are...

Agree with pretty much all of that - except that it’s not very cost-efficient to release Findlay when we still owe him two years’ wages. We’d be better off loaning him back to Killie and having them at least cover some of it…….

Don't see it. He's not performed at all for Des. Why would he want to trigger his option (on what will presumably be a pretty high wage) and risk us not being able to find another club who will pay a fee for him, or even match those wages? Then you're stuck with a player you don't want taking...

Very odd way to look at it! Because if our result is a win, then we only need either A) or B) to happen, and we don't give a damn what Blackpool do......I guess we will be equalling their result, but we won't need to. EDIT - I think on reflection, my complaint is that your algorithm is correct...

Think I've found it, and you're right, it was Torquay: https://www.facebook.com/lincolncityfc/videos/lincoln-city-1-1-torquay-united-2003/417308342423630/ You only get about two seconds of the penalty, but enough to see Alan Marriott giving the Torquay taker the 'You t**t' finger wag. Here's...

Yep. They've had 1,298 minutes out of Joe Taylor. We got 231 minutes out of Goodwin (as well as 254 minutes out of Matete, and 255 minutes out of Burey). It's exactly the same as what we did two years ago - we desperately needed a forward to give our overworked front line a breather as we...

I hope I'm wrong, but this season is starting to feel a lot like 2002-03, the full season under Atkins. Other than the quality of the football. Then we were in with a sniff of the automatics, only to go on a bad run - turned it round with a couple of big wins, and looked like a shoe-in for the...