PaddockLad

ok am waiting…

It was a newspaper advert for the broadcast of an European tie on channel 5 whilst Gullit was manager , the spiel was something like SEXY FOOTBALL, CHANNEL 5 TONIGHT AT 7 :45pm Then the mocked up picture of Batty below . Google doesn’t appear to have the original advert in full but that might just be me being useless (I’ll get HMHM or the broken doll to have a go, they’re internet genii ) The game was almost certainly v Partizan Belgrade in the old cup winners cup which I think was the only European game Gullit was in charge for. Happy to be corrected on that..

There’s a 2 in 3 chance we’re going to get one of the ugly sisters from mancyland in the semis, I think all talk of the final should be banned

FA cup fourth round fortuitously scheduled for the weekend between the two legs of the semi final

“Don’t fuckin mess ya cunts” Like a Brazilian Begbie 😆

Having a good season , mostly unsung 👍

That’s affirmative

So we’re on sky, does that mean because it’s the Carabao there’s no streams for Man Utd at Old Trafford v Charlton ??

fate is inexorable

“ghan hame” in kale valley… talking of which Lucas De Bolle ripping it up for Hamilton Accies at the moment btw

We should make a Toontastic retirement crèche, put the non productive and pre senile like you and Robin Robin in it

It’s fuckin lovely isn’t it? We’d say “tway” for two, which I realised when we went to Breda in the UEFA cup is precisely how the Dutch pronounce “two” ie as in Willem II F.C. who play in nearby Tilburg, a local explained the club is named after Prince William the 2nd, or as they say “Willem Tway” …. I’ve since learned the make up of the Anglo Saxons who settled the north east and eastern Scotland were from all over what is now northern Germany, Denmark and Holland, and some of how they spoke is still with us today 👍

“Nae twa doots”

Was giving this a miss then started to regret it, but I’ve not been out the house since Friday with a rotten cold so I wouldn’t have been going anyway….not sure if that’s a win? 🤔

Stand by for a knock at the door this weekend if I get nicked @Gemmill I’ll send you a visitors pass from jail , bring a cake with a file in it :D

SIGN THE PETITION ✊🏻 This is near where the in laws live. Incomers to the area are CUNTS

Aah ok, yeah it was just to illustrate that there’s more than one way to come at this. London is obviously hugely different to the NE but Brentford is a brilliantly well run club. London , especially south London is teaming with young talent in a way that am fairly sure the NE no longer is. Elliot Anderson isn’t ready to contribute at 21… if he was, he would be . There’s time for him but where are the others?… I completely agree with the criticism of Ashley re youth development but perhaps it doesn’t make sense to invest when the raw material is scarce. South London provides more premier league players than anywhere else in the country and the competition to attract them is intense. Looks like Brentford have let others incur all the initial expense then just cherry pick those who didn’t quite make it and saved millions. They may well still make good profits on B team players. Just a personal opinion, but I think the diminishing returns re outstanding young talent coming from traditional Northern industrial “hotbed” areas ie NE, Liverpool/Manchester, Yorkshire coal field, and to me most obviously and sickeningly Scotland . The communities that produced hundreds of great players in the 20th century no longer exist, so the players aren’t coming through. What have we had in the last 20 years? Taylor, Ramage, Carroll, Longy? In the 80s Newcastle had a player of the year award and a Geordie player of the year. Not much need for the latter recently…

No. No idea 🤷🏻‍♂️ bonus point / negative point? 🤔

Yeah but don’t bother. Domestic installs deliver a constant temp of about 20-22 degrees, there’s little adjustment ie it’s on or off and it doesn’t do HW. Hydrogen boilers would be better but are ludicrously expensive atm and you’d have to change your entire system ie pipes rads etc .

I think combis are being phased out in new builds but retro fit is still allowed. It’d cost 20-30k per dwelling to install a low carbon system . That’s covid furlough type money and there’s no conceivable uk government going to do that in the in the near future.. it would make sense and provide 1000s of jobs but It’s not happening…,

Brentford ditched their academy precisely because theyd develop players and not be properly compensated when they left (usually to Chelsea I imagine 😆) https://theathletic.com/4067209/2023/01/08/romeo-beckham-brentford-inter-miami-loan/?source=user_shared_article