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Agree. Probably the stupidest rule they have ever come up with.  Love to know what difference a booking makes; yes, I guess more likely to be truly hurt perhaps with a foul that brings a booking, but that suggests that you can’t be truly hurt from something innocuous.   Also, what about something like an accidental ‘clash of heads’ or some such.  Complete accident, not your fault, but off you go, making your team weaker through no fault of your own.  It is madness. 

She might have been right but it’s still daft that a caution has to be issued to avoid having to go off. The principle should be that the innocent team and player shouldn’t be disadvantaged especially now they have to wait an extra 30 seconds - if you get injured by a foul against you then you shouldn’t have to go off at all after treatment, caution or not. 

You would have hated Sir Brian’s public comments. He might have been straightforward but he didn’t sugar coat his views in the way you suggest. Neither did his son at times. And there were fans in both eras who were critical of that despite the success that Brian in particular brought. Football, most professional sport, is a tough environment. Sink or swim.
We have, whether we like it or not, a manager who on his own admission gives wordy answers to questions, answers that are (thankfully in my view) mostly anything other than couched in football speak.  It’s a style you clearly dislike. I don’t, partly because we (and the players) get to know what he’s thinking and partly because he comes across as honest - honest in the views he expresses and honest in what he is as a person. I would bet quite a lot that he’s exactly the same in Moor Farm and at home with his family away from journalists asking daft questions just after a match. What you see is what you get.
You - players, fans, Mrs Warne - don’t have to like it and in which case move away or don’t listen. But all the good managers I’ve worked for have largely been true to themselves and their personal style, including in their public utterances.
 

You would have hated Sir Brian’s public comments. He might have been straightforward but he didn’t sugar coat his views in the way you suggest. Neither did his son at times. And there were fans in both eras who were critical of that despite the success that Brian in particular brought. Football, most professional sport, is a tough environment. Sink or swim.
We have, whether we like it or not, a manager who on his own admission gives wordy answers to questions, answers that are (thankfully in my view) mostly anything other than couched in football speak.  It’s a style you clearly dislike. I don’t, partly because we (and the players) get to know what he’s thinking and partly because he comes across as honest - honest in the views he expresses and honest in what he is as a person. I would bet quite a lot that he’s exactly the same in Moor Farm and at home with his family away from journalists asking daft questions just after a match. What you see is what you get.
You - players, fans, Mrs Warne - don’t have to like it and in which case move away or don’t listen. But all the good managers I’ve worked for have largely been true to themselves and their personal style, including in their public utterances.
 

You would have hated Sir Brian’s public comments. He might have been straightforward but he didn’t sugar coat his views in the way you suggest. Neither did his son at times. And there were fans in both eras who were critical of that despite the success that Brian in particular brought. Football, most professional sport, is a tough environment. Sink or swim.
We have, whether we like it or not, a manager who on his own admission gives wordy answers to questions, answers that are (thankfully in my view) mostly anything other than couched in football speak.  It’s a style you clearly dislike. I don’t, partly because we (and the players) get to know what he’s thinking and partly because he comes across as honest - honest in the views he expresses and honest in what he is as a person. I would bet quite a lot that he’s exactly the same in Moor Farm and at home with his family away from journalists asking daft questions just after a match. What you see is what you get.
You - players, fans, Mrs Warne - don’t have to like it and in which case move away or don’t listen. But all the good managers I’ve worked for have largely been true to themselves and their personal style, including in their public utterances.
 

You would have hated Sir Brian’s public comments. He might have been straightforward but he didn’t sugar coat his views in the way you suggest. Neither did his son at times. And there were fans in both eras who were critical of that despite the success that Brian in particular brought. Football, most professional sport, is a tough environment. Sink or swim.
We have, whether we like it or not, a manager who on his own admission gives wordy answers to questions, answers that are (thankfully in my view) mostly anything other than couched in football speak.  It’s a style you clearly dislike. I don’t, partly because we (and the players) get to know what he’s thinking and partly because he comes across as honest - honest in the views he expresses and honest in what he is as a person. I would bet quite a lot that he’s exactly the same in Moor Farm and at home with his family away from journalists asking daft questions just after a match. What you see is what you get.
You - players, fans, Mrs Warne - don’t have to like it and in which case move away or don’t listen. But all the good managers I’ve worked for have largely been true to themselves and their personal style, including in their public utterances.
 

You would have hated Sir Brian’s public comments. He might have been straightforward but he didn’t sugar coat his views in the way you suggest. Neither did his son at times. And there were fans in both eras who were critical of that despite the success that Brian in particular brought. Football, most professional sport, is a tough environment. Sink or swim.
We have, whether we like it or not, a manager who on his own admission gives wordy answers to questions, answers that are (thankfully in my view) mostly anything other than couched in football speak.  It’s a style you clearly dislike. I don’t, partly because we (and the players) get to know what he’s thinking and partly because he comes across as honest - honest in the views he expresses and honest in what he is as a person. I would bet quite a lot that he’s exactly the same in Moor Farm and at home with his family away from journalists asking daft questions just after a match. What you see is what you get.
You - players, fans, Mrs Warne - don’t have to like it and in which case move away or don’t listen. But all the good managers I’ve worked for have largely been true to themselves and their personal style, including in their public utterances.
 

You would have hated Sir Brian’s public comments. He might have been straightforward but he didn’t sugar coat his views in the way you suggest. Neither did his son at times. And there were fans in both eras who were critical of that despite the success that Brian in particular brought. Football, most professional sport, is a tough environment. Sink or swim.
We have, whether we like it or not, a manager who on his own admission gives wordy answers to questions, answers that are (thankfully in my view) mostly anything other than couched in football speak.  It’s a style you clearly dislike. I don’t, partly because we (and the players) get to know what he’s thinking and partly because he comes across as honest - honest in the views he expresses and honest in what he is as a person. I would bet quite a lot that he’s exactly the same in Moor Farm and at home with his family away from journalists asking daft questions just after a match. What you see is what you get.
You - players, fans, Mrs Warne - don’t have to like it and in which case move away or don’t listen. But all the good managers I’ve worked for have largely been true to themselves and their personal style, including in their public utterances.
 

You would have hated Sir Brian’s public comments. He might have been straightforward but he didn’t sugar coat his views in the way you suggest. Neither did his son at times. And there were fans in both eras who were critical of that despite the success that Brian in particular brought. Football, most professional sport, is a tough environment. Sink or swim.
We have, whether we like it or not, a manager who on his own admission gives wordy answers to questions, answers that are (thankfully in my view) mostly anything other than couched in football speak.  It’s a style you clearly dislike. I don’t, partly because we (and the players) get to know what he’s thinking and partly because he comes across as honest - honest in the views he expresses and honest in what he is as a person. I would bet quite a lot that he’s exactly the same in Moor Farm and at home with his family away from journalists asking daft questions just after a match. What you see is what you get.
You - players, fans, Mrs Warne - don’t have to like it and in which case move away or don’t listen. But all the good managers I’ve worked for have largely been true to themselves and their personal style, including in their public utterances.
 

You would have hated Sir Brian’s public comments. He might have been straightforward but he didn’t sugar coat his views in the way you suggest. Neither did his son at times. And there were fans in both eras who were critical of that despite the success that Brian in particular brought. Football, most professional sport, is a tough environment. Sink or swim.
We have, whether we like it or not, a manager who on his own admission gives wordy answers to questions, answers that are (thankfully in my view) mostly anything other than couched in football speak.  It’s a style you clearly dislike. I don’t, partly because we (and the players) get to know what he’s thinking and partly because he comes across as honest - honest in the views he expresses and honest in what he is as a person. I would bet quite a lot that he’s exactly the same in Moor Farm and at home with his family away from journalists asking daft questions just after a match. What you see is what you get.
You - players, fans, Mrs Warne - don’t have to like it and in which case move away or don’t listen. But all the good managers I’ve worked for have largely been true to themselves and their personal style, including in their public utterances.
 

To continue the pedantic mode, at the moment he made the comment there was a defender between NML and the goal, the goalie, so it was 2 on 1. At the moment Barks shot it was 1 on 0 aka an open goal.
We do have bread rolls though, it’s true. And a Bettys that sells them. 😘

I do hope that @Owen87ITK regrets the ‘it’s two on 0’ bit of his otherwise excellent (as usual) commentary during Bark’s goal. It’s a 2 on 1 Owen, 2 on 1. 

To take your jovial comment semi seriously,  as I get older I start thinking about the moment when I will be unable to watch us live any more - I live 80 or so miles away and have to drive to be able to get back home after a midweek or late kick off game. So while I can I still like to go. Telly ain’t the same however good ramstv may be. 
But oh boy do I wish the highways agency would not screw up both north/south routes at the same time and same area. They’re the sky tv of roadworks with their ignorance of travelling football fans. 

It was a cold watch but a good game with good goals and good individual performances all round. And well done to the 100 or so that did their very best to create an atmosphere. 
It was interesting seeing the safe standing barriers in place. There looks to be new vertical barriers that run down the terrace as well as the horizontal/seat level ones. DC developments are certainly investing in the ground after some period of non investment. It’ll be interesting to see where they go next. 

Oh me too, @MadAmster, me too.  We are similar ages and I hope that I can carry on with my season ticket for many years yet. I just recognise though that that does depend on what happens to me and/or my (slightly older) wife if I can’t drive safely or she can’t be left alone, for example. Things start falling off in older age, sadly, often beyond control. 

Oh me too, @MadAmster, me too.  We are similar ages and I hope that I can carry on with my season ticket for many years yet. I just recognise though that that does depend on what happens to me and/or my (slightly older) wife if I can’t drive safely or she can’t be left alone, for example. Things start falling off in older age, sadly, often beyond control. 

It was a cold watch but a good game with good goals and good individual performances all round. And well done to the 100 or so that did their very best to create an atmosphere. 
It was interesting seeing the safe standing barriers in place. There looks to be new vertical barriers that run down the terrace as well as the horizontal/seat level ones. DC developments are certainly investing in the ground after some period of non investment. It’ll be interesting to see where they go next. 

To take your jovial comment semi seriously,  as I get older I start thinking about the moment when I will be unable to watch us live any more - I live 80 or so miles away and have to drive to be able to get back home after a midweek or late kick off game. So while I can I still like to go. Telly ain’t the same however good ramstv may be. 
But oh boy do I wish the highways agency would not screw up both north/south routes at the same time and same area. They’re the sky tv of roadworks with their ignorance of travelling football fans. 

To take your jovial comment semi seriously,  as I get older I start thinking about the moment when I will be unable to watch us live any more - I live 80 or so miles away and have to drive to be able to get back home after a midweek or late kick off game. So while I can I still like to go. Telly ain’t the same however good ramstv may be. 
But oh boy do I wish the highways agency would not screw up both north/south routes at the same time and same area. They’re the sky tv of roadworks with their ignorance of travelling football fans. 

Perhaps their taxi broke down.

I had to admire their enthusiasm on such a cold night.
I think they could have given the Fleetwood fans a night off from the standard banter though - coming down from Lancs on a night like that for a trophy few are currently 'up' for about deserves a bit of praise.

To take your jovial comment semi seriously,  as I get older I start thinking about the moment when I will be unable to watch us live any more - I live 80 or so miles away and have to drive to be able to get back home after a midweek or late kick off game. So while I can I still like to go. Telly ain’t the same however good ramstv may be. 
But oh boy do I wish the highways agency would not screw up both north/south routes at the same time and same area. They’re the sky tv of roadworks with their ignorance of travelling football fans. 

It was a cold watch but a good game with good goals and good individual performances all round. And well done to the 100 or so that did their very best to create an atmosphere. 
It was interesting seeing the safe standing barriers in place. There looks to be new vertical barriers that run down the terrace as well as the horizontal/seat level ones. DC developments are certainly investing in the ground after some period of non investment. It’ll be interesting to see where they go next. 

To take your jovial comment semi seriously,  as I get older I start thinking about the moment when I will be unable to watch us live any more - I live 80 or so miles away and have to drive to be able to get back home after a midweek or late kick off game. So while I can I still like to go. Telly ain’t the same however good ramstv may be. 
But oh boy do I wish the highways agency would not screw up both north/south routes at the same time and same area. They’re the sky tv of roadworks with their ignorance of travelling football fans. 

It was a cold watch but a good game with good goals and good individual performances all round. And well done to the 100 or so that did their very best to create an atmosphere. 
It was interesting seeing the safe standing barriers in place. There looks to be new vertical barriers that run down the terrace as well as the horizontal/seat level ones. DC developments are certainly investing in the ground after some period of non investment. It’ll be interesting to see where they go next.