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Lord Elpuz

Misogyny is likely to become a hate crime and I would advise any individuals on this forum to tread very carefully indeed about the attributes of females, from a skills qualification perspective, in any profession. We are a civilised Western democracy. We are not the Taliban.

Lord Elpuz

FGR? They’re just not in our League.

Other Footy, then ?

Lord Elpuz

Funding for grants appears to be covered here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/find-funding-to-help-your-business-become-greener#find-current-funding Without funding, such an installation would probably cost around £80-£100K - and possibly be VAT free. The outlay can be recouped over several years due t...

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just thinking of all of the song titles that are a lazy football headline writer's dream, depending on whether he turns out to be any good or not: Dead End Street Respectable Street Mercy Street Dancing In The Street Street Fighting Man Street Spirit Apart from South London & Shrewsbury, he and...

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Looking at the full list of Teams in League 1, I don’t see anything there that frightens the hell of of me. Derby appear to be favourites, but we have special agent Curtis on the tactical awareness for those two games 😉. At the end of last season I thought Wycombe looked the worst side we’d faced t...

Lord Elpuz

Looking at the full list of Teams in League 1, I don’t see anything there that frightens the hell of of me. Derby appear to be favourites, but we have special agent Curtis on the tactical awareness for those two games 😉. At the end of last season I thought Wycombe looked the worst side we’d faced th...

Lord Elpuz

I would dearly like Alfie to stay another season - however, I think the main reason he is still ‘in the building’ is because Cheltenham are currently paying his wages - any new Club signing him will want to limit having to pay his salary until he actually starts kicking a ball for them in anger. The...

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As long as he’s full of beans, that’ll do me.

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He’s been one of our top performers over the last season - but he’s 33, so it’s the tail end of his career, and maybe one last shot at a season’s wage bigger than CTFC offer, before he calls it a day.

Good luck to him but we needed to be looking at some point soon to replace him anyway.

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Anyone care to speculate what Aaron Downs was doing in Cheltenham on Monday ? Is it A Cheltenham Thing ? [emoji6] He’s currently got at least the UEFA A-Licence. He lives here, in Hatherley/Warden Hill I believe as have seen him around and in Morrisons. Yep, I would say that qualifies as ‘A Chelten...

Lord Elpuz

Anyone care to speculate what Aaron Downs was doing in Cheltenham on Monday ?

Is it A Cheltenham Thing ?

He’s currently got at least the UEFA A-Licence.

Lord Elpuz

It’s unfair to judge Russ Milton now - judge him in a years time. He is the continuity option, and as we keep hearing from the Club “ It’s a Cheltenham Thing”. I’m sure Reading, Wigan, Fleetwood, Morecambe and probably others, wish they had something like “A Cheltenham Thing”. Stay in budget, stay i...

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Now perhaps, people can see why I was asking how the Moore ‘handover’ was going to take place after he’d departed and before the new man had been announced. Now it all makes sense - a done deal, so the handover had already taken place prior to Moore’s au-revoir.

Lord Elpuz

It could be a written handover pack or video recorded handover of course. You mean a bit like when there was a change of National Administration in 2010 … “Departure from the Treasury - On leaving his position as Chief Secretary to the Treasury following the change of British government in May 2010...

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The things that looks a bit odd to me about the recruitment process for Moore’s replacement, are contained in these two snippets from JP’s report of 6 June 2023: “The club's first director of football Micky Moore is now in the final week of his employment with the Robins before he officially moves t...

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It’s always a worrying time of the year, closed season, when not much seems to be happening, other than agents posturing to get the best deals for their clients. We tend to regard existing players as having something unique that we can ill-afford to lose, but in reality they are all replaceable - th...

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We didnt spend big on Norton and Goodwin, look what we got, we will have to spend big to bring in a striker to match the partnership i feel May and Keena would of achieved. Our midfield dont contribute much to our goal tally so to me its vital Alfie is replaced with a potential 15 to 20 goal strike...

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Broom have signed for Fleetwood Town. Sent from my SM-T510 using Tapatalk He will soon have more teams than goals scored lol I liked Broom’s energy & he always did his best to put in a shift - but - generally he only sustained his high energy level for one half of a game. The exception was the ...

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… elsewhere, according to JP.

Lord Elpuz

Micky will be discussing the offer, as well as the ramifications of the shenanigans currently going on at Shrewsbury Town FC, with all his close football world confidantes. With any luck, they will be advising him that it is not within his best interests to head off to Shropshire. But who will be ne...

Lord Elpuz

For what it is worth (not much, when considering the general degradation within this thread), I hope above all that Micky Moore stays at CTFC. Looking at the recruitment and the absolute fact it has returned our second best finish in the fabulous history of our Club, Micky’s work has done us all pro...

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We will all be watching JP’s insights very closely over the course of the week on the retained & leavers lists, but a rumour about Alfie is that he is bound for the Championship - & the Club that will take him there will be a bit of a surprise, as there has been no previous link - he’s appa...

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We will all be watching JP’s insights very closely over the course of the week on the retained & leavers lists, but a rumour about Alfie is that he is bound for the Championship - & the Club that will take him there will be a bit of a surprise, as there has been no previous link - he’s appar...

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Surely a lower end Championship club could offer Alfie the same wages as Wrexham. Would be a bit naff if he went there. Agreed, it would feel like a backward step from a footballing perspective, but for his family it would represent a big payday, like the one Ben Tozer accepted. Also, if Alfie went...

Lord Elpuz

Posted soon after 11am on 8/5/2023 by JP in a response to this:

Mark Watson Q: “Where’s Alfie going? Wrexham?”
Jon Palmer A: “Possibly”.

Lord Elpuz

It's not all attendances though, off the field revenue will make a huge difference at this level. I can't imagine Bristol Rovers make anything at the run down memorial ground, yet clubs like Burton who get by on low attendances benefit greatly from training facilities and non-match day income. I he...

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Good work Leckyfan, an interesting table. One stat/position really sticks out for me - bearing in mind there is an almost obvious correlation between gate receipts and final League positions (give or take a few teams either excelling above, or performing below their expected position based on attend...

Lord Elpuz

Thought that was destined for a 95th minute Alfie winner. I hope he's had the ovation he deserves. I'm sad I'm not there to add to it this week, although I gave it some last week. He got an ovation alright. What a player, what a man. Hope by some miracle he stays but I just can't see it happening. ...

Lord Elpuz

This was always my fear. Despite the clamour from the disgruntled ‘glory hunters’ earlier in the season - following the FA Cup exit and a few defeats to Teams in/around the bottom 6 - for the heads of our Management Team, our group of hard working professionals have understandably caught the eye of ...

Lord Elpuz

One would seriously hope that the usual ban on the Forest Green Supporters in the Robins Nest Bar prevails? The way that awful club treats our fans at Nailsworth has to be borne in mind. Last time I visited TNL I was sold a half cooked onion bhaji that was frozen in the middle, there were only 4 po...

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It’s sad that the owner of FGR has driven a wedge between the two clubs and a lot of the supporters. Murry Tom’s first act as a Director can be to make a gif of a gold star being scratched out and changed to grey to go on the scoreboard pre-match. I have to say, I would dearly like to see that happ...

Lord Elpuz

One would seriously hope that the usual ban on the Forest Green Supporters in the Robins Nest Bar prevails? The way that awful club treats our fans at Nailsworth has to be borne in mind. Last time I visited TNL I was sold a half cooked onion bhaji that was frozen in the middle, there were only 4 po...

Lord Elpuz

One would seriously hope that the usual ban on the Forest Green Supporters in the Robins Nest Bar prevails? The way that awful club treats our fans at Nailsworth has to be borne in mind. Last time I visited TNL I was sold a half cooked onion bhaji that was frozen in the middle, there were only 4 por...

Lord Elpuz

I would be sorry to see Alfie May go. The Club has been very good for Alfie and Alfie has been very good for the Club - he’s probably already secured his legendary status here. Because of Alfie’s age, it will be interesting to see who comes in for him. Obviously every Cheltenham fan will wish him we...

Lord Elpuz

In no other area, is your employment discussed so openly and the person ridiculed so openly. If the board are considering such things, I would like to think they are discrete and professional. it must be horrible to have your employment discussed in such a way and to hear constant public callings t...

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