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Not old enough to remember Brian Dear but I do remember the very effective Willie Irvine (came on loan from Preston before signing permanently) together with Bert Murray (on loan from Birmingham before Pat Saward's fan-supported buy-a-player fund bought him).

Gus has now said it publicly. In his post match interview he said it felt like a defeat because of the number of chances that were squandered - and Barnes was the biggest culprit. Again. Could we be seeing why he wasn't playing regularly at Plymouth? Credit to him for getting in positions to...

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Haddock I bet you've haddock nuff of all these jokes now!

Battipiedi and Baz both looked comfortable on the ball and passed it well considering it is very early days in their introduction to English football. Barnes was certainly the main disappointment: if we're going to go for five across midfield, let's use a midfield player there rather than a...

34,766 watched Albion v Rochdale in 1972! Probably be just about 28,000 fewer tomorrow.

Think this is the likeliest suggestion: Shoreham-born boy not going to get a chance any time soon at Arsenal.

Yeah, in all fairness I probably agree that leaving Whing out was in the cold-light of day the right thing to do, but for a cup match i'm sure he could have found space on the bench for him (instead of Hoyte). + I'm not in prison

Hi Guys, Long time fan and long time NSC reader with a few thoughts about today's game. First of all I was very impressed with the team's (Poyet's) approach to the game, throughout we attempted to get the ball on the floor and pass it, and were by no means disgraced against a very decent Villa...