Any of your players good enough for Plymouth?

[IJN]

No, I wrote it.

 

[Antony Moxey]

I can never see or even imagine the time when ECFC is regarded by anyone has a better/bigger club by anyone in football though, just as, as I said, we would be ragarded bigger/better than BCFC.

Bigger/better? Two completely different things. I can see times when we might be 'better' than you (we did finish above you a couple of years ago, ergo that season we were better than you), but never 'bigger', same as with you and BCFC.

 

[Hunterwasmyhero]

The five ***** has me really confused.

Well done Porkus, it must be something to do with supporting A***** that gets you seeing more than there actually is:-

What do you think you Ginsters pastry-coated offal munching Cornish ****?

 

[Incontinentia]

There are only really three types of team in my book:

1. Your own team.

2. Teams who had a golden age.

3. The rest.

Only a handful of teams have had a golden age (even though I'd define the term generously - you don't have to have been Liverpool in the 1980s, some there or thereabouts in the League and a couple of FA Cups will do).

Clearly, none of the local teams have ever had it and people like Wigan aren't having it now. If they slipped a bit, would anyone really feel a frisson of excitement about playing them? Leeds, Forest, Newcastle, Man City etc are a different story.

It fades pretty slowly too - I still see Preston as a big club even though their golden age isn't in living memory for Harry Patch, let alone the rest of us.

 

[IJN]

I agree with that, Blackpool are another such club.

I have a thing about strips as well, I've seen Airdreonians, Bristol Rovers, Blackburn, Wolves, Argyle (Obviously) and Blackpool (again) all of whom have famous strips or colours, and I always think when I'm watching such a team, what an historical club they are.

I suppose it's just being a football fan that does it.

 

[The Emperor]

I think you missed one Ian....... Stoke City.

Could so nearly have been you having a golden period in the premiership had you managed to keep hold of Pulis.

Like their style of football or not, they are in the league they belong in.

 

[IJN]

I was within weeks of not renewing my ST with that bloke in charge.

I don't like him or his munchin (an ex great player of ours) Kemp.

Horrible football and nothing to do with what I want to watch.

 

[The Emperor]

I'll save that one, it's a gem

I thought so, yes.

 

[Copernicus]

Yep, all of them.

 

[macnabs]

Pulis's teams play "horrible" football yet Gargoyle has produced this season the worse football seen for years and yet when it produced by Rab C it appears to be OK. They are so strange down west.