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Think Rocco Friel and Daniel Bennie are both well scouted prospects and not your usual castoffs as both were highly rated in their clubs. Always a gamble of course.
I was referring more to rumours like Jonathan Varane, Ethsn Mbappe and the Scottish Bayern fella mentioned above. Might all be nonsense and we end up signing players never on the radar, but we do seem to be having a good look round - which is what you'd expect with Cifuentes really anyway.
Purely based on the photos in his contract signing announcement it looks as if he has filled out a fair bit over the last year - looks to be packing more muscle on his upper body. Always thought he looked very slight which contributed to him looking even smaller between the posts so that might be something.
Thought that with Field too - also the fact we actually had a midfield so he wasn't desperately hauling players back who were breaking through the spaces left by a certain friendly ghost.
Must be a lot easier to not get booked when you are surrounded by players you can trust and rely on, and not sure he has ever said an angry word to anyone in his life so nice is he let alone a ref!
One of the best songs written in recent years imo, gets me most times. The whole album (Process) is just stunning - processing his mother's death from cancer which he'd moved home to help care for her during her treatment.
Also, not got a lot of time for the guy but hard to look past Tears in Heaven by Clapton.
A few great versions of this song, and don't know who wrote it originally so I'll just use the GOATs
Got sober in my mid-20s thankfully. Early 20s were a mess of drink and other substances, couldn't tell you how many near death experiences I may have had during endless blackouts. Few trips to psychiatric wards and a spell in rehab and had my last drink late December 2013.
In the twelve step fellowships since, life is profoundly different and love the life I get to live today.
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At the wafer-thin level I like the signing of Bennie, having never heard of him before about 1pm yesterday.
His write-up re: great on the press, physically mature etc. seems a good fit for the Marti press. Scouting further afield and seemingly to a plan/vision of the type of player we want to be coming through for the system just seems a little reassuring.
Of course, he may never make it anywhere near the first team but it reads well on paper.
Plus if he's sprinting all over the place on the press we can all sing the Benny Hill theme.
REM are an interesting one - a song like Nightswimming is in my all time top 100 list, partly time and place and memories of it but it always moves me in a way few songs do. You then have crap like Everybody Hurts and Shiny, Happy People that I just can't stand.
Bands that I truly can't stand or just plain don't get...
The 1975 Squeeze - mostly cos Jools Holland irritates me With you all on the Killers Can I group all the terrible bands from the 2000s like the Wombats, Kaiser Chiefs and Pigeon Detective types. Bad time for British music. Linkin Park. Effing rap metal boy band. Though RIP the singer.
Lifelong Labour member, but living in Mid-Sussex constituency nowadays. Will be voting Lib Dem, a party I have never worked out what they stand for, but only party with a chance to oust this horrible and incompetent government.
I was at Wembley as Crawley are my local league team, get to 2 or 3 games a season generally. Very glad we're not in the same division as them (from a pride rather than loyalty perspective.)
It's been a hell of a job by Scott Lindsay - they were borderline unwatchable last season when they nearly went down, but a brilliantly entertaining side to watch this season.
Liam Kelly has been brilliant - one of the best passers I've seen in league two. Was in the Reading team in Champ for 2-3 seasons - surprised he dropped to L2 to be honest.
I remember watching that show following a few young lads in the Palace (I think?) academy - and one of the coaches on there being pretty honest that in most age groups there's one, maybe two, players they have any real interest in and a lot of the other lads are makeweights they're pretty sure aren't going to make the grade but you need the squad to have the team for the ones with a chance to develop.
Seems like Kolli the one out of this particular age group, and I do think he has a chance of making it if he comes back from the injury.
I had a good mate in primary school called Phil Ifil. We tore every other Brent school team apart for fun using the timeless tactic of get the ball to Philip. The most sporting success I ever had those two years in the Gladstone Park Primary team.
He signed for Spurs when we were in Year 6. All the way through their academy, made a handful of first team appearances, loans at Millwall and Southampton in the Champ, went to Colchester for a bit and then disappeared into non-league.
Nobody else I've played with ever got close to his technique, speed and power as an II year old - it was terrifying playing against him. Always impressed me just how high the standards are that he didn't make it a higher level and drifted out the game.
Don't think it takes a huge amount of money or idle speculation to change those next manager odds in general. Just look at the lists we've had over the years in our many managerial searches.
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