Spoke to the paper today and nobody from the sports desk was available. The person I spoke to "only knew" that Shane was here two weeks ago at his old club and raffled a pair of his boots, had photographs and that stuff..." So (a) No newspaper report but (b) maybe he SAID this stuff ...

Sarah Star tbf he's probably been awaiting hobnob clearance to join since Christmas.

which year?

Snoball - have you ever considered that if Shane Long read this board and was grateful for your support of him, he might have logged in and sent you a message? Nope. That would be extremely unlikely. Players are probably "advised" not to read the boards, but I'll bet they are formally ban...

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Spoke to the paper today and nobody from the sports desk was available. The person I spoke to "only knew" that Shane was here two weeks ago at his old club and raffled a pair of his boots, had photographs and that stuff..." So (a) No newspaper report but (b) maybe he SAID this stuff a...

To NOT take into account time on pitch and starts seems crazy to me You can take them into account, but you can't extrapolate. You can't directly compare six 15-minute appearances by one player with one 90-minute appearance by another. As a rough guide, maybe, but not as a like-for-like comparison....

Still not sure his spin on "time on pitch to goals scored" ratio is a particularly relevant stat. Like most of the other ones though. WHY EVER NOT? When Doyle played he virtually always started, and, unless injured, usually played 85 minutes or more. When Noel Hunt played he mostly starte...

Put it another way. If we had this team (incl loanees) plus Noel Hunt and we finished seventh this year would we not be 1-2-3rd favourites for promotion next year? (I'm presuming no more fire-sales, and guessing Matejovsky/Cisse might go and be replaced) That to me suggests this team would have a fi...

We don't even have the firepower to stay up in this division and some of you want to be promoted?! We will get slaughtered if we are promoted, relying on Long and Sig to score in this division, no capable strikers to really, and I mean really to score. Where is the Ebanks-Blake and Jason Scotlands ...

We will need to average 2 points per game for the rest of this season and then beat the likes of Forest, agreed? That will mean 7 wins from 8 followed by something like W8 D2 L3 (plus 2 more wins) W17 D2 L4 = "53 Points" from 23 games, the same points tally as the 106 team. Therefore IF we...

I'm running short of urine now
as you see to have taken it all

They played 4-4-2 at Sheffield with the very good Simpson up front with Priskin Ikeme resumed in goal for the Hoops. Matt Connolly, Damion Stewart, Kaspars Gorkss and Matt Hill made up the R's back four. In midfield, Taarabt and Hogan Ephraim started out wide, while skipper Mikele Leigertwood and Al...

It's hard to disagree with Starfish's point about jealousy of Snowball. These complaints are only now being made because so many nobbers scorn Snowball's earnest nature. Well, if you want to influence events like Snowball has done, you have to put in the work as Snowball has done - who else was wil...

Among my various beatings was the one that dared to say crowd support is seriously important. This place isn't "the crowd" but I feel pretty sure what we say has an effect I feel absolutely certain that the vast majority of players under 20 will read these pages, and I suspect many more se...

If McCormack is not the mate but meant to be the journo, then it's a spoof
cos I can't find any McCormack on the newspaper site, or in linkedin

Even if it's a spoof, I was right about Shane (and Jimmy)

To be fair to his knockers... He was pretty shit apart from early March 09 - late April 2009 and January 2010 - now. We can write off the period between as down to a combination of Rodgers, injury, team form and weight. He looks a different quality of player now. That doesn't necessarily make peopl...

Yes, and if we got promoted, Shane Long would score 25 :lol: :lol: :lol: I only ever predicted 10 goals in a full playing premiership season OR 20 goals in a full playing championship season OR 30 goals in a full playing Div 1 season He's on 9 now with 13 games to go, so has a very decent chance of...

Currently we are eight points behind Cardiff, with a game in hand on them We've already seen a team make up those 8 points in 4 games In 2006-7 TWO teams made up 13 & 14 points respectively, in just 12/13 games In 2006-2007, after 34/35 games it looked like this, Cardiff likely top-six finishers...

2009-2010 Cardiff, currently 6th having played 35 games, with 52 Points... 2008-2009 Preston, no games in hand, made up 8 points and a goal difference of 18, in FOUR games. 2007-2008 After 34 games Plymouth were on 52 points in 5th having played one game less than Cardiff this season (ie doing bett...

One of those games was a 6-0 win against Cardiff :lol: Yup, and Reading have to play Cardiff. A 1-0 win there would do very nicely, thank-you Yup, and we are eight points behind them BUT WITH A GAME IN HAND. Win that game in hand (say Scunthorpe) and win in Cardiff and we'd be two points behind wit...