THD ~ possibly same match?

RIP Mary Rand

Clive Thomas disallowed a goal for us at Torquay with the ball in flight - header from a corner - either for HT or FT.

At Torquay on Boxing Day 1980, Clive Thomas was alleged to have arrived, ahem, the worse for drink. When John Leslie disputed a decision, he punched him in the stomach.

AI ragebait bot is very apt. Unfortunately he's all too real.

Bushmonkey - I fear he is for real but he is completely detached from the whole point of being a football supporter (and possibly reality). He may have once understood it but his pathological obsession with money and how supporters are just there to fund the extravagant lifestyles of average footballers (and it is fine to price out people who depend on their football team for more than just watching success on the pitch) means all he can do is bore everyone on here with ridiculous money talk. He hates everything about our club other than the name and the transient players on the pitch. I put supporters front and centre of everything a club should stand for and be about. It was why AFCW was formed. He puts them last.

Is WIJG for real or some kind of ai ragebait bot?

6m$, Trevor Kettle was the ref against Accrington. Blew the whistle just after they took a free kick but before it went in the net. He wouldn't allow it. The playoffs would have been so different if he had.

RIP Trevor Oakes , see him and Showaddywaddy at Butlins 70s weekend

I get what you mean Trig. It didn't feel like a 3-0 loss. I've seen Stockport supporters moan about Addai but he was playing with Crawley vibes of two years ago. We didn't make the best of our chances but he was excellent. That attempt by Kai would have gone in against a National League goalkeeper.

Yes, against Accrington Stanley in the season (2015-2016) we beat them a few weeks later in the play offs to get promoted. They must have really hated us as that game ended 0-0 and those two dropped points cost them automatic promotion.

Was that the most enjoyable 3-0 defeat you’ve ever watched?

I always thought Thomas was absolutely right about blowing the whistle when time was up, in line with the laws. I think the rugby union idea of the game ending at the next 'stoppage' is better but it is not the laws of football. If the time was up by his watch with the ball in flight then the game ends.

Arthur Scargill is still with us too aged 88

I'm sure that will be of disappointment to Evertonians of a certain age who, to this day, have never forgiven him for disallowing a perfectly good winning goal they scored against Liverpool at Maine Road in April 1977 in their FA Cup Semi-Final (which ended 2-2, they lost the replay 3-0 and Liverpool lost 2-1 to Man United in the final before winning the European Cup for the first time 3-1 a few days later against Borussia Mönchengladbach). Brazil were no fan of him either when he blew his full time whistle just as the ball was going into the net in one of their world cup games.

JG- apologies for the late response. In purely commercial terms (and leaving aside any “do the right thing” aspect) ticket pricing would be set to maximise total revenue (sales x price). I don’t know how high you would need to push ticket prices before sales (and eventually revenue) started to decline- I suspect that the optimum pricing would be somewhat more than we charge now, but quite a lot less than that suggested by your “coffee ratio test”

Harbottle scores and cleared off the line for Bristol rovers

I'm sure I saw Parsons score a couple directly, definitely one at Plough Lane, maybe one against Orient, perhaps why they signed him. He didn't have a 'team' mentality which probaly hindered his progress but he was fun to watch.

People who you thought were long dead but actually still alive, ref Clive Thomas who will be 90 in June

Parsons was good when he broke into the team in 1977/78 but seemed to lose his way a bit after that. Shame really. Maybe it was attitude but something was not right. Shame his career ended so early, barely a few months into his fresh start at Orient. Mark Dziadulewicz was hard to judge as he played in that awful side in 1979/80 that finished rock bottom of Division Three and were relegated. After us he drifted into non-league obscurity with Chelsmford so could not have been that good.

We we actually paying this guy to be injured? Unreal

Last I heard about Layton Stewart is he is injured with a thigh injury picked up in the first week of training with us.

shots even

I know, I know. But I can imagine, given that he's done it twice, people behind the goal (and many at home I'm sure) were willing him to do so today. As much as I believe we were the better side, we weren't going to score today, Omar's miss pretty much summed up our fortunes, and when we did get the shoots on target the keeper did his job well.

Either Parsons or Dziadulewicz had a great free kick routine as I recall, both very skilful