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Post by terrierpark on Feb 22, 2020 17:42:57 GMT 1
We never start well and am sick of the smae old same old. Its piss poor. Im beginning to think thatreturning to cozy safe old L1 is what the club SECRETLY wants. Theyve certainly proved themselves to be out of their depth at the highest level. "Working class club" Aye lets get back to 11000 gates and wait for the board to complain about the attendances You're beyond parody like the club then
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Post by terrierpark on Feb 22, 2020 17:31:17 GMT 1
cowleys aint all that are they ? They will be in league 1 next season We never start well and am sick of the smae old same old. Its piss poor. Im beginning to think thatreturning to cozy safe old L1 is what the club SECRETLY wants. Theyve certainly proved themselves to be out of their depth at the highest level. "Working class club" Aye lets get back to 11000 gates and wait for the board to complain about the attendances
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Post by terrierpark on Feb 22, 2020 17:19:01 GMT 1
cowleys aint all that are they ?
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Post by terrierpark on Feb 11, 2020 20:05:14 GMT 1
very good !
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Post by terrierpark on Feb 11, 2020 19:58:22 GMT 1
I wish people would keep their grandads away from the internet. Whats significant about 1987 Ben if i may ask ?
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Post by terrierpark on Feb 11, 2020 19:37:07 GMT 1
Crikey i went to St Peter's left in 79, but dont remember a sweet shop. Im guessing it was one of the terraced cottages across the road just up from the white bear pub? The best sweet shop in Birstall was "Goodies" Before that it was Blakelys a right small shop opposite the market place but they didnt like weighing 2oz of spice out there lol. I’m talking about the original St. P school down on Kirkgate. The sweet shop was at the junction of Leyland Road, Kirkgate and Church Street. You went to the new St. P, like my brother and sister did. ah i know what you mean ...the off license lionel vickers was across the road
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Post by terrierpark on Feb 11, 2020 19:35:43 GMT 1
I have a few reasons why i wont be rushing to renew. I would like to know what division we will be in for a start.That wont be possible but at least id like to see us in a much safer position . I would also like to change seats as those around me never appreciated my foresight. indeed many words have been exchanged. I told them at the start of last season when we were playing well but losing and Wagner was playing with very few attckers that we would become demoralised and get relegated I told them Billing was crap as he wouldnt frame himself and get stuck in I told them Kongolo didnt look interested when he came back from injury last season and that he didnt look the same player. Get behind them they cried then stopped coming to the games after relegation was confirmed. Interestingly no one argued over Flo though lol
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Post by terrierpark on Feb 11, 2020 19:24:21 GMT 1
Lucky Bags.....6d. A weekly treat from the sweet shop right next to St. Peter’s school in Birstall. Football special Birstall Smithies to Leeds Road return 2s, entrance 2s, programme 6d. Marvellous. Farthings stopped being used in 1961 so I don’t remember actually using them, knew what they were though. If the old currency was reinstated today I wouldn’t have the slightest problem using it again. Coat pockets would need reinforcing though. Crikey i went to St Peter's left in 79, but dont remember a sweet shop. Im guessing it was one of the terraced cottages across the road just up from the white bear pub? The best sweet shop in Birstall was "Goodies" Before that it was Blakelys a right small shop opposite the market place but they didnt like weighing 2oz of spice out there lol.
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Post by terrierpark on Feb 8, 2020 20:56:15 GMT 1
lossl 7.5 simpson 6.5 (5 first half) toffolo 8 shinds 7 steerman 7 hog 7 obrien 8 bacuna 7.5 Kaching 7 (6 first half) ESR 8.5 mounie 7.5
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Post by terrierpark on Feb 6, 2020 22:42:06 GMT 1
I think to some extent this concern over the finances is like everything else in football i.e. Managing Expectations. Having waited 45 years to get to the top division i never expected us to give up our place there so easily. I was even more shocked that we started this season from a position of survival than strength and the possibility of ending up in the playoffs. The take over and the way the finances have been done put paid to that, and a lot of people are a little bit miffed to say the least. So we the fans "The life blood of the club" will have to wait and see for next season what the summer window brings. I like the Cowleys and PH has gone some way this Jan window to allay fears for now. Im not bothered if it costs nothing or twenty million i just want to see quality in all positions and no holes in the squad or square pegs plugging them. Part of the finacial planning for next season must be focused on giving the fans a little bit more to cheer about than that of late.
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Post by terrierpark on Feb 6, 2020 17:03:07 GMT 1
Question Would you trust an unqualified, ill informed individual to perform surgery on you? Answer No Then why does anyone take any notice of the drivel posted on here by people who have no knowledge of business finance. And let me assure you, general business finance, whilst opaque at best is a breeze to understand compared to the impenetrable chicanery of football club finance. The speculation is fuelled by Dean wanting his brass back. How that is structured,neither I nor anyone posting here has knowledge of. Just be safe in the knowledge that the club is in good financial health, is being run very prudently and has an asset base which has significantly increased over the last 6 years, particularly the last 3. Now enjoy what the Cowley’s are building and enjoy the footie. That's great news then. No holes in the squad at the start of the 2020/21 season then. Quality players only then. Championship ready in the here and now. We will be able to hang on to our best players too and use the parachute money to add real quality to the squad and start building again rather than the short term sticking plaster of the loan market. We took that approach before remember with DH at the helm because we couldn't compete with clubs with parachute money. Anyone seen a flying pig ?
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Post by terrierpark on Feb 5, 2020 0:36:56 GMT 1
I dont begrudge DH getting his money back. It really needed to come from the new owner but i can see how and why its been twisted to suit all parties except us the fans that yet again have watched by and large a poor product yet again with the odd good performance here and there. For me the debt could have been paid in 3 installments 50% this year and 25% for the next two leaving us with a little more financial clout this year which might have seen us sat a little bit more comfortably up the table. DH's project Huddersfield in League 1 was one of a man despertae to see us promoted. His project in the Championship was more of a cautious approach built on constantly selling our best players and just about keeping us in the division...until Wagner of course who was backed more than any other Chmpionship manager we have had. I just find it hard as fan having endured the absolute misery and sense of hoplessness in our relegation season from the Premiership that he would gamble to some extent with a double relegation by leaving us in this predicament. I recognise of course that this Jan window many issues have at last been addressed and we may now have enough to stay up.In that respect PH has really done the business, but come the summer to some extent its square one with so many loans up, so with another significant parachute payment and DH fully paid off there should be no excuses not to sign quality players so there are no holes in the team or square pegs. Lets be one of those teams with the parachute money that we used to say we couldnt compete with eh? rather than some ramshackle looking outfit. Perhaps I've missed it, where has it been said Dean will be fully paid up by this coming summer? I, no doubt wrongly, thought his loans were to be paid over three years. No maybe I am the one that is mistaken I was just under the impression that he was getting it all at once
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Post by terrierpark on Feb 4, 2020 23:41:36 GMT 1
I dont begrudge DH getting his money back. It really needed to come from the new owner but i can see how and why its been twisted to suit all parties except us the fans that yet again have watched by and large a poor product yet again with the odd good performance here and there. For me the debt could have been paid in 3 installments 50% this year and 25% for the next two leaving us with a little more financial clout this year which might have seen us sat a little bit more comfortably up the table. DH's project Huddersfield in League 1 was one of a man despertae to see us promoted. His project in the Championship was more of a cautious approach built on constantly selling our best players and just about keeping us in the division...until Wagner of course who was backed more than any other Chmpionship manager we have had. I just find it hard as fan having endured the absolute misery and sense of hoplessness in our relegation season from the Premiership that he would gamble to some extent with a double relegation by leaving us in this predicament. I recognise of course that this Jan window many issues have at last been addressed and we may now have enough to stay up.In that respect PH has really done the business, but come the summer to some extent its square one with so many loans up, so with another significant parachute payment and DH fully paid off there should be no excuses not to sign quality players so there are no holes in the team or square pegs. Lets be one of those teams with the parachute money that we used to say we couldnt compete with eh? rather than some ramshackle looking outfit.
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Post by terrierpark on Feb 2, 2020 23:56:49 GMT 1
The thing is though DH never stated the money he was spending was only a LOAN to the club. Every statement he made inferred he was spending what he was prepared to spend indeed never expecting to see it back. So do our previous accounts show a sum of money clearly owing to DH year on year as a loan increasing ? Or have they magically appeared since Premiership status was achieved?
or is all this a ploy to avoid ffp ?
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Post by terrierpark on Jan 31, 2020 23:11:26 GMT 1
Did that success lad sign for anybody ?
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Post by terrierpark on Jan 31, 2020 22:31:11 GMT 1
Tony Norman was a class keeper My first ever town home game (that I remember) think we lost 4-1 at home to Grimsby and this guy was in goal. For Town or Grimsby ? I think he played for the fishy lot either them or hull . My recolection was him keeping a clean sheet for us the firt time i saw him at home
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Post by terrierpark on Jan 31, 2020 22:28:20 GMT 1
It would have been a pretty good window if we'd signed a winger with an end product. Might as well stick than twist on another show pony who cant cross or score
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Post by terrierpark on Jan 31, 2020 22:17:51 GMT 1
Tony Norman was a class keeper
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Post by terrierpark on Jan 31, 2020 16:40:14 GMT 1
Lyle Taylor and Juninho Bacuna ....Who will win the wackiest hair award ?
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Post by terrierpark on Jan 31, 2020 16:31:19 GMT 1
Flo has gone at last, Allelujah! should have gone in the summer after his performances. I will especially always remember the weakest header on goal i have ever witnessed,when it was set up on a plate for him. Well rid.
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Post by terrierpark on Jan 30, 2020 22:49:13 GMT 1
reported on radio leeds sport bulletin tonight after news,around 5 ish Said nothing of the sort. Said Flo and Mbenza in talks with other clubs. Mounie not mentioned. Apologies i must have misheard could have sworn he said mounie not mbenza.
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Post by terrierpark on Jan 30, 2020 22:13:26 GMT 1
reported on radio leeds sport bulletin tonight after news,around 5 ish
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Post by terrierpark on Jan 30, 2020 22:10:12 GMT 1
DC on Radio Leeds said Mounie and failure to thrive was in talks with a club ? I think it would be crazy to let SM go now with the form he is in. Campbell works hard but his goal scoring rate is poor. Would we have enough, i doubt it. As for the keeper situation Coleman was back up, if he cant back up now why have we had him on the books all this time earning those wages? Wouldnt it just be typical Town to get a winger in and then sell the striker who would nod them in ?
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Post by terrierpark on Jan 24, 2020 21:49:32 GMT 1
When Dean bought our stadium shares back after Ken Davy had purloined them nobody said 'where did all that money suddenly come from?'. When the Canalside development went up with all the improvements it brought the club nobody said 'where did all that money suddenly come from?'. When we started bringing in players like Mooy and Shindler nobody said 'where did all that money suddenly come from?'. Everybody just happily watched as Dean pulled us out of the shit. Brought in a manager with potential who achieved amazing things and built a team which got us promoted. So why do those people suddenly have the right to ask that question when things don't meet their expectations? We pay what, £240 odd a year to watch Championship football. We paid the same to watch Premier League football. Where were all the moaners then? Give it a bloody rest! Read more: downatthemac.proboards.com/thread/113284/january-transfer-window?page=177#ixzz6ByuYXn6YI thought the sale of Smithies and Butterfield by and large funded Wagners recruitment drive. Previous to Wagner who clearly built a team i had kept on asking when are we going to try and build a team rather than constantly sell our best. It would be intersting to see if Brighton do go down if Aaron stayed with them in the Championship. As for hoping we have kept our powder dry for further transfers in the summer the majority on here thought that would be the case for the start of this season so we will just have to wait and see. I really think there does need to be a bit more explaining done by the club around the finances so the potless and trousering theories can be put to bed. It would also go some way to reconnect the fans with the club other than that bloody app on your phone. I think there is a significant percentage of long time supporting fans that feel a degree of anger at what happened last season and how that rolled into this. So the longer these questions remain unanswered the more guilty they look of shinanigans as the accusations take root.
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Post by terrierpark on Jan 17, 2020 16:27:25 GMT 1
It wouldn't surprise me at all if they tried the buy it now prices are frozen in March approach or something similar.
Its a NO from me if we are back to league 1 simply because it should never have happened and those running the club proved themselves woefully inadequate in so many areas. The lack of funds for this season despite no attempt made to stay in the premier league and all the money and parachute money is a disgrace. We have been treated like MUGS for what we have had to put up with . We did our bit, we filled the stadium, we sang our hearts out and got behind them regardless , and as far as I am concerned the club needs to produce a product worthy of my support. 40 years of waiting for our lucky break , waiting to be amongst the money , only to see them mismanage it and things turn out the way they have, well they can do one if we are relegated again.
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Post by terrierpark on Jan 10, 2020 16:53:37 GMT 1
Something has gone wrong ,DC said yesterday which was broadcast on RL in afternoon he expected something to be announced in next couple of hours /really close. He also stated he wanted to announce things asap for the sake of the fans as he understands we are all desperately waiting to hear.
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Post by terrierpark on Jan 4, 2020 17:07:19 GMT 1
Never criticise a man unless youve walked a mile in his shoes,then your a mile away ,and he hasnt got his shoes!
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Post by terrierpark on Dec 17, 2019 20:54:59 GMT 1
The one thing i dont get about our performance on saturday is that i didnt expect to see us so lacklustre with the Cowleys in charge. There were 3 points for the taking and yes we might have a depleted 11 out there but for me the mental attitude is still wrong. Slow ponderous and far too reliant on one man. It was piss poor. Forest will be up for it after their recent hammering like Bristol was. If we start like the walking dead again on saturday i predict we will get a good hiding.
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Post by terrierpark on Dec 10, 2019 22:24:51 GMT 1
well i meant alan lee as he was with us
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Post by terrierpark on Dec 10, 2019 22:20:26 GMT 1
Who would you have?
alan Lee or steve mounie
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