Recent content by ACbee

No mention of Simon Royce? Have I missed something and he's not goalkeeping coach any more?

I've heard that we've approached Sam Parkin, who's out of contract with Queen of the South. Good record with Swindon, but that was 7 years ago. Not much since by the looks of it, but still only 30.

It's been said about the injustice of the goal, and having watched it again when I got back home on Sky it looks worse than it did live. That said, I felt it was the 5 minutes after that where we lost the game. How evident it was on the cameras I don't know, but we lost our shape once...

Sorry, should've added that I'm at GP, and Forrester is warming up and has been announced instead of McGinn.

Forrester is on the bench, in place of McGinn.

Really pleased somebody has written this as I wondered whether or not we'd be a bit biased. Their 6 was Stuart Lake, a good family friend of ours, and I thought he had a great game. He's been around the non-league scene a bit and was with Wimbledon as a youngster. His younger brother Ryan was...

Not really a review, but more of a follow-up of the story that I wrote in SS & CB's. (Sorry for using this thread but didn't want to start a new one.) My story was around page 140ish, about the Hull and Everton League Cup games last season, and my Dad who had just been released from hospital...

I have just picked up a copy of the book this afternoon for my uncle, Kevin Harding, who played in the early 70s as an apprentice professional. Having flicked through it, the book is incredible, and far beyond any expectations I had of the detail it goes into. His youth involvement and reserve...

I believe CM is a great forward to have in an average side - leading from the front with his workrate and giving us a first line of defence from the top of the pitch, effective when we don't have the ball for long periods. But I don't think his movement is good enough to exploit a defence when...

Have just picked up books from Mrs vcmazz after a day of organising by vcmazz. Thanks to NB and everyone else involved for allowing me to contribute, and to vcmazz for all his efforts to ensure that my family will all get a copy in their Christmas stocking!

And I would hope so too, but not due to the fact that the manager hasn't massaged their egos, given them a cuddle or a kick up the arse, but because they are relatively well paid professional sportsmen, who are under-performing. I'm not defending AS, his style of play, the recent results or...

It is a shame that you have had a bad experience of this, but to call it a 'policy' is doing the current set-up a disservice IMHO, as this is an isolated incident involving one scout, and probably not reflective of the numerous Bees scouts that are out and about every weekend. I was fortunate...

My view of things, 48 hours late but hopefully still valid. Tuesday night was a dire game between a team who played pretty football, but had no quality end product, and a team who huff, puff and battle, but lacked quality when it was needed. It still surprises me at how misunderstood KOC's...

Along with many of the above, I enjoyed Stamping Grounds by Charlie Connelly, about Liechtenstein's 2002 World Cup campaign and Floodlit Dreams: How to Save a Football Club (Weymouth FC) by Ian Ridley.

The perfect ending. Not for Beckford's miss, but for the fact that Richard Lee deserved to save it. McDonald scores, such mental strength, and then they miss again. Made all the more special because it was my Dad's first game back at GP since coming out of hospital after kidney failure, and...