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Benny Profane

......not entirely sure i was watching the same game then. Don't get me wrong, first 20 minutes they battered us; 0-3 wouldn't have flattered them at all. But we stuck at it, played some decent stuff on spells, scored a good goal, & ultimately the only thing that separated the sides was a (very)...

Benny Profane

2 things..... 1. Quite agree about the front 4, In theory (of course!) George bustling about being a nuisance & creating gaps for the 3 behind him to exploit could work very well. 2. This particular Forest Green thing is a good initiative (I'm ignoring the AI nonsense for now). All clubs should ...

Benny Profane

............one thing that does come out of this interview is the man's fundamental decency. There is no attempt at glossing things whilst simultaneously not painting a picture of doom & negativity. He's also not foolish enough to think the potential takeover (which is of course yet to happen) i...

Benny Profane

In defence of Aidan Keena 'Up there with the worst signings of all time' Bit harsh. In his first few months with us he looked the ideal foil for Alfie; slightly deep-lying (false 9?) allowing Alfie to run in behind, he could pick a pass & his first touch was good. Then Alfie left & he was ex...

Benny Profane

The badge is contemporary & quickly recognisable & (honestly) not that important compared to other issues. If we are quibbling over pointless stuff in a highly opinionated way though (surely the point of a chat forum) the 'Robins' nickname irks me more....mainly due to the fact we are one of...

Benny Profane

Not really.

Quick reply to the original question.

Benny Profane

I stand corrected, fairnuff. (&how often do you see THAT on here!) I was just thinking that compared to some other basketcase owners dragging clubs to near oblivion (Oldham & Southend spring to mind) or actual oblivion (Bury) they seem to have had a plan and done some prior research. Would w...

Benny Profane

...............Musk is vile , obviously, and on so many levels. And he has no interest whatsoever. Fine. However, the interesting bit is the fact that someone, somewhere, whose day-job is to understand where sport, power & money collide ( a Professor of Applied Sports Finance) thinks we are an i...

Benny Profane

The title was a reference to an old James Coburn film & is in no way connected to anything else. I'm from the past.

Benny Profane

My daughter has just texted me to say Micheal Flynn is a done deal; no idea how she knows this , but she usually gets it right from her 'sources'. Seems about as good as we could hope for under the circumstances? The trickle of players to the exit is still a worry, but hopefully things will start to...

Benny Profane

100% agree with Jerry on this; short precarious career,as a player you are (probably ) going to be given a pay rise for your final few seasons without having to uproot home & family by goingto FGR. Be stranger if they turned it down, especially as we are (generously phrasing it) in a state of fl...

Benny Profane

'twatting about with the likes of Oldham'. That would be Oldham who by every conceivable measure are a bigger club than we are; they currently average just under 7000 attendance wise, which we have never got near, they were founder members of the Premier League in the days when it was passably inter...

Benny Profane

Serious question;was there a 'top scorer in the division' clause for Alfie, or was that just wishful thinking? Moreover, was it tied to promotion?

Benny Profane

Of course! But it is one position we seem to (mainly) get right on a consistent basis.

Benny Profane

Haven't we a decent record with loanee centre halves? Off the top of my head Michael Hector , Rob Dickie, Cameron Burgess, Jamie Pollocks lad, Greaves. One of a similar quality would be nice in League 2.

Benny Profane

Just realised their centre half (number 17) is Josh Low's son. I suspect that might be the highlight of the afternoon for me.....

Benny Profane

............... taken from the clubs email to supporters, this is an act of genuine decency by Bolton(& possibly an acknowledgment at club level that travelling CTFC fans behaved impeccably on Saturday). "Travel to Toughsheet Community Stadium Bolton Wanderers have kindly agreed to fund a s...

Benny Profane

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/football/2023/nov/18/darrell-clarke-i-dont-want-to-be-treated-as-the-manager-who-lost-his-daughter Reading this it actually makes me feel proud he's our manager, & convinces me that whatever happens this season we are probably in safe hands as lon...

Benny Profane

...............& show the stereotypically unclassy touch of sacking a manager who is doing a good job, & replacing them with a famous name. In addition to that farce,the media will now being saddle them with the sobriquet 'Wayne Rooney's Birmingham City', a fad that did so many favours for '...

Benny Profane

...................okay, at present I'd probably draw the line at a Russian flag too! But I think the point still stands.

Benny Profane

Why are flags a problem? I mean, swastika on red background has no place anywhere (other than a museum) but outside of that......what's the problem with an Irish flag? If we had a talented French player, would that flag be a problem? Norwegian? Dutch? It's an honest question, not an attempt to provo...

Benny Profane

Seems about right on balance; the more I looked into all the candidates it seemed he & Artell had as much as we could realistically hope for at this stage. Experienced in the lower leagues and had some past success, out of work and so with a point to prove. Personally I'd rather have that than a...

Benny Profane

.....all this is utterly subjective &, more importantly, utterly irrelevant to our current situation. For the record I love the Birmingham badge, have done since the 70s. I think old fashioned coat of arms badges look,well, old-fashioned. 11 years ago when we were temporarily 'The Rubies' in som...

Benny Profane

After watching his first interview at Charlton it's clear this was the move he wanted....we'd have kept an unhappy player till January (albeit a professional one no doubt) & then lost him for even less. Good luck Alfie, an all time great here. Now let's move on!

Benny Profane

The point I tried to make is that the 20% clause was how we managed to get him so cheap. And he's been wonderful for us. And we don't have any clue what was agreed with Alfie, we're just speculating. Good luck to him next season, apart from the games against us, obviously . Let's just move on & ...

Benny Profane

The moaning about 'big portion going to Doncaster' miss the point a little; we got Alfie for £5k! That is INSANELY cheap, more like Conference North/South level than the striker he became. We have comfortably had our moneysworth out of him, he's been a magnificent player for us, & now he goes wi...

Benny Profane

'We are not the Taliban.' My favourite line on the forum, ever.

Benny Profane

Is Malabus really parodying a knee-jerk Daily Mail reader though? The problem with imitating such reactionary dinosaurs is that some people can't detect the satirising and just think somebody is 'telling it like it is'. This misconception drives Al Murray Pub Landlord up the wall (& Johhny Speig...

Benny Profane

They do have previous when it comes to 'Star' shirts though..........

https://www.oldfootballshirts.com/en/te ... s1483.html

Benny Profane

Brian Graham has just scored an absolute pearler of a volley in the play-off final against Ross County!

Benny Profane

........I am. Of recent vintage, I can only think of Michael Hector & Joe Rodon, Butland too obviously. Any I missed who then 'graced' the top flight?

Benny Profane

............Elijah Adebayo looking classy for Luton in the play-off semi tonight. Would be nice to see an ex-loanee in the Prem (as I don't think Butland will get his gloves dirty at United). And talking of which, is Jack the only professional footballer to be able to describe themselves as 'Former ...

Benny Profane

..........word from someone who works at the club is 'doesn't train as well as he might'.

Would explain his lack of opportunities; we see them in isolation of a Saturday or Tuesday, they see them all week.

Still seems a bit of a shame though, agreed.

Benny Profane

'Passionless twat'. What makes you (or any of us) think he doesn't care just because he isn't a ranter? Passion alone doesn't improve football teams; if that was the case the most rabid fans would be premier league managers. I've seen no evidence whatsoever that he doesn't care; I suspect he probabl...

Benny Profane

He could conduct the interviews via the medium of contemporary dance for all I care; as long as the team play with some cohesion & ambition I couldn't care less about media duties.

It's the rest that worries me.....

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