Weekly review 5/7/2015.

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1. Geoff Lewis says:

   July 5, 2015 at 12:41 pm

   Thanks Paul,
   A very interesting article and bringing back memories of those players from Sheffield United.
   Good news on the sale of the new shirts( I may be in the minority at this moment,( not that keen in the two tone colour), lets hope we can increase the sale of season tickets.
   Transfer activity, we have said it since last season we need a midfield general, not any more wingers.
   There is strength in Noone, Harris, Kennedy and Pilkington. Strikers plentiful if they can link up with each other and get the support from midfield.
   We also need a new captain on the pitch and let Marshall be the club captain for his great service to the club.
   One player hat impressed me last season was the loanee from Evertom McCelny(spelt it wrong)Go for him.
   Enjoy the seasom Paul.
   Regards
   Geoff
2. The other Bob Wilson says:

   July 5, 2015 at 12:52 pm

   Hello Geoff, good to hear from you again.
   I can’t get too excited about the new shirts either, but, fair play, they do seem to be very popular – I daresay their “target audience” are not old fogeys like us!
   I’d go along with making Marshall club captain, but Mark Hudson’s influence was missed more than his playing ability in my book.
   I liked McAleny as well, but he seems very injury prone and I get the feeling Everton still see him as a potential first team player – maybe he’s someone who we could look at again later in the season when his team may have decided to let him go while they can still get a fee for him?
3. Dai Woosnam says:

   July 9, 2015 at 12:37 am

   Yes Paul, some fans have long memories.

   Maybe I am am an unforgiving soul, but I find I can never put aside the nefarious aspects of a player, from my thinking.

   For instance, when everybody banged on about what a nice guy our clueless Norwegian manager was, I could never forget that utterly disgraceful red card foul on Robert Lee…a foul that were it committed in – say – an Old Firm derby, would have caused mass rioting and fisticuffs.

   And likewise, now that folk are all saying what a noble soul Slaven Bilic is, I cannot help but recall that utterly disgraceful sending off of the very decent Laurent Blanc, that Bilic engineered by clutching his face back in that 1998 semi-final (when he had been pushed in the chest), and thus ensured that Blanc missed the game of his lifetime.

   And even 13 years later, Bilic still had the brass neck to justify his behaviour (see below).

   And Blanc the decency to let sleeping dogs lie.

   Personally, to use KK’s parlance, “I would luv it – LUV it – if West Ham get relegated this key season for them before they move home!”

   http://www.goal.com/en-india/news/2292/editorials/2011/03/29/2416207/it-was-laurent-blancs-fault-he-missed-the-1998-world-cup

   Kindest,
   Dai.
4. The other Bob Wilson says:

   July 9, 2015 at 5:37 am

   Thanks Dai. Having met the guy, I have to say Ole was a nice bloke – it’s a cliche to say someone is too nice to make a good manager, but it may have applied to him. I also liked Bilic as a player and he is an interesting guy, but that link you provided is pretty damning.
   One other thing, the loan signing of Sammy Ameobi makes it a bit more unlikely that there was anything to that story about David Cotterill.
5. Dai Woosnam says:

   July 9, 2015 at 8:45 am

   Yes, Paul…
   Sammy Ameobi is some capture…if only on loan.
   Who can forget that brilliant goal for Boro against us, a coupla years or so back?
6. Dai Woosnam says:

   July 11, 2015 at 3:40 am

   Paul…a couple of my pals have read our above conversation and wrote to say they thought I was too hard on Slaven Bilic and West Ham United.
   No! No! No!

   I was not hard enough.

   Truth is that Bilic is the darling of our sporting media…not least because he was the man in the rival Wembley dug-out, the night when Steve McLaren’s vanity notoriously got the better of him and he determiined that the incessant rain would not show up his thinning hair. So, ipso facto, Steve McLaren’s enemy was our new friend !!

   But the truth is he is a deeply flawed fellow, and that Laurent Blanc incident is so incredibly damning.

   Look, I kinda understand why he fell to the ground shamefully clutching his face. But the day after, any man with any kind of conscience would have pleaded with FIFA for retrospective justice for Blanc. Okay, so Bilic would have been banned from the third place play off game. Hardly a big deal.

   But Blanc missing the game of his life, WAS.

   Imagine if a similar incident occured in 1966, and Bobby Moore thus missed the game of his lifetime due to a squalid bit of cheating. THAT is the true analogy.

   And all this might STILL be forgiven were it not for the fact that a full THIRTEEN years later, Bilic is still brazenly self-righteous about his act.

   A thousand curses on the fellow.

   And also on West Ham too, who give us all this twaddle about their fine traditions, yet hire a proven CHEAT as the man to be custodian of their reputation.

   Kindest, as ever,
   Dai.
7. The other Bob Wilson says:

   July 11, 2015 at 6:20 am

   Again, I can’t add much Dai – I agree with you. Incidentally, it would be good to have those friends of yours taking part in our on line conversations on here – the more the merrier!

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