Jonas

Yeah ,those seats were such a small thing but aesthetically made such a big difference. Just seemed to appear too at a time the club wasn't known for investment. Great stuff, when people used to ask where I sat that's how I'd describe it - above the second "C" on the Comet logo formerly the I in LCL Pils. Its a bugger without them (the CL games and when they built over the boxes) got to work it out from the end of the stand if its shown. I find his post match interviews back in the day riveting whenever I come across them, you'd expect to flick past 30years old pre/post matches interviews, even non-televised feed with him talking to Motson waiting for the link up is great entertainment to me.

Its because hairs are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos, and transmit them directly into the brain. This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight

It was a homage to the Diana Ross penalty miss at the opening ceremony. Similar standard of keeper in goal and similar level of testosterone in the taker.

Saved the tournament. Like Denmark before them.

Cant even have a nice enjoyable read about Slot getting sacked without having to read our fans and Iraola being thrown under the bus to defend our manager from the slightest of inferences.

Well, rather lose Gordon than Barnes for half the price. Cue Barnes going too.

Seems to have been in the offing a good while though, but I'll take all tne encouragement I can get at the minute.

The business is good especially with the tools downed but he's obviously a good player. The chances of his replacement being as good or better are lower than the chances his replacement gets called worse than shite before next season is out by the same detractors. Wanting better players than Gordon's level is not the level were stuck at.

Wasn't on internet forums then but can imagine. Even so internet chatter circa 2004 meant far less than now and had to have had far less, if any, baring on that decision than even some boos at the end of a few poor games did. However reluctantly even Sir Bobby was in agreement that 04/05 was his final year here and the understudy plan was around as early as 2003 when we were flying for non-performance related reasons. Sir Bobby staying wasn't an option even before the decline it would have meant renewing a contract (starting the temp feel over as it couldn't have been for long) for an elderly coach. The change was being made regardless 9month later. All it boiled down to was wait until May 2005, make the change in the summer of 2004 or make the change during 04/05 when options are limited.

Not even sure something as modest as this is true rather than an easy presumption by Hope but the concept that Eddie may know he stayed at Bournemouth too long should show its reasonable for people to wonder if its time here. Not an assessment of the job he's done just a case of is it not best for the club for a tag at this point. Yet Hope himself is dismissive of that concept I gather.

Not this again. Almost nobody was calling for his head. All anybody ever tends to produce to substantiate this is that the ground was half empty for a walk around (as it was in 2000/01) and it was four months after that that he was sacked. In the meantime he was retiring at the end of the following season anyway (even Sir Bobby himself accepted the time was coming to hand it over, the plan was to bring someone in to understudy him in 2003 to eventually take over), we hadn't won in 10games or something like that, were near enough bottom of the league, in obvious decline, players were downing tools and Shearer had been dropped. The fans four months earlier were a insignificant factor at best in that decision. Find "finishing 5th" always misleading too, in itself that's fine, 6th was good under KK, but finishing outside the Champions League places as it had become was catastrophic.

Reckon the KLF would have burned less money last summer than the DoF

No. Nobody thought the seasons we got to cup finals under Dalglish (and LC QF) and Gullit and a semi-final (and UEFA QF) under Souness were anything but bad seasons

Its almost impossible not to reach the knockout rounds of the Champions League the way its set up now.

It was more fun its just the expectation was to challenge for the title not be playing Barnsley in a relegation 6pointer over Easter.