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CCTV from Warnes office during new striker interview.

No rock hard link but have been told that Samuel Snake has had his neck well and truly sniffed. Previously at Bolton.

Socks that have been previously owned and worn? Some you suspect might still be a quality pair but you’re not quite sure they fit your aesthetic? Some you can see might have seen better days? Some odd ones that might make an interesting combo but you’re not sure if you can find the outfit for them? Some that Eiran Cashin has cut a dirty great hole in? 
 
My sole intent was to spin out some sock analogies, don’t pull me up on it please. 

Torn between not even close and the end of the season, went with not even close in the end.  Largely because I want to see us give a manager time to build his team as I think chopping and changing rarely works.  To do that I think PW needs a season without any EFL business plan, support from a recruitment team that’s had a year to identify players to suit his way and the opportunity to reinvest funds generated.
I’m prepared to accept that it will be a bumpy ride in the short term but it may be beneficial in the long term.  It also doesn’t mean I’ll be happy with everything he says or does.

I think back to the playoff semifinal away at Brighton. We knew that we were light years ahead of them. Yes they had a nice new ground with comfy seats and guest ales, and yes they scored first, but we never doubted we would overcome them. We did and then some. If you'd told me then what our relative positions would be now, I'd have thought you'd lost your mind.
Brighton are one of several very well run clubs with great planning and business models who have risen up the leagues and are now established in the Prem. Of course they had some luck when it was needed, something we have fallen down on. But sometimes you make your own luck. If you're Eirin Cashin and you have the chance to go, and to try to prove yourself in the top flight, and an opportunity for the riches a club such as Brighton can now offer, you jump at it in an instant. You'd be mad not to. For our sake, I love watching Eirin for us and hope he stays and we can rise up through the leagues together. The way he plays all over the pitch even reminds me of McFarland, sometimes on the left wing! I'm not suggesting for even a nanosecond he's at that level, but equally I scoff at anyone who believes he's already reached his ceiling. What madness is that?

Dave was known as the Laird.  Nice chap.  I've still got a few of his ties.
Dave and I were on News at Ten dancing on a table at Baileys nightclub, the night we were confirmed as champions in 1975.  We both had a bottle of Champagne in our hands lol.  No recording equipment in those days so I never actually got to see it.
 
 

Looking forward to Warne getting us up the League.  Additions to squad would help.  
Dave Mackay did once tell me I didn’t know what I was talking about lol 😂 in his Scottish dialect 

he said it yesterday..

Can we get back on topic here? 
 
It was definitely 4 at the back on Saturday 

Rotherham United you say.....

Rotherham United you say.....

Seems a stretch. 
He only got them promoted (3 times in 5 years) because of the squad he inherited? What about the 2 other promotions over a four year period? No credit due for bringing the likes of Ogbene, Barlaser, Smith, Ihiekwe, Harding, Ladapo etc to the club in his time? 
I think it's fair to say he has his limitations but promotions aren't a given at any level, certainly not with Rotherham United in a league generally full of 'sleeping giants'. I get that he may not be everybody's cup of tea or even the right man to take us up but at least consider the whole picture, there's certainly more to PW than just luckily inheriting a squad during his time up at Rov'rum. 
 
 
 

So, basically, it's a pitch to those with the purse strings to allow recruitment to proceed.

Rotherham United you say.....

Rotherham United you say.....

He would say that wouldn’t he? Keeping his cards close to his chest.
 

Rotherham United you say.....

I think Spain were easily the better footballing side, especially in the first half, but their tactics in the second half have left a nasty taste in the mouth. Timewasting, shirtpulling, sly elbows.
That defender pretending to be nobbled to win free kicks, so cynical. 🤷 

It's good.  It's entertaining.  It's edge of seat stuff.
... But I'm not convinced I've seen quite enough from The Lionesses to suggest we can do this...
+13 mins added...

Rotherham United you say.....

Rotherham United you say.....

Rotherham United you say.....