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Vowles has no recent coaching experience and in todays game just being a good ex player isn't good enough. Successive coaches after Powell have been unable to get the team to work as a unit; to work for each other; to knuckle down when things are not going well; to show a hunger and desire. But all the above have been issues for the last 5/6 coaches. Were they all bad coaches? Also recruitment has been heavily criticised but again this has been the responsibility of more than one person for that period. IMHO there is something fundamentally wrong within the fabric of the club as a whole. Is it a lack of all round strong leadership to give direction and purpose that permeates through the club? Is it the culture? God knows! Some people have suggested that Carrs 'resting' may be due to words said at half time v Warrington. I hope it was. I hope he gave the team a right old rollicking that stripped the paint from the walls. A professional sportsman/team should expect harsh criticism if they do not perform to expectations. And if they do not respond then show them the door. P.S. just seen a clip on Facebook about Trevor Francis after his record breaking £1m move to Forest. In the quarter final first leg of the 1980 European Cup campaign, Forest lost 1-0 at home to Dynamo Dresden. Clough when interviewed afterwards on TV - not behind closed doors - stopped the ITV reporter in mid sentence and said disparagingly 'Just show me something connected to Trevor (in the game) ... I didn't see him for ninety minutes .... he didn't put one in the net and that's what he is paid to do'. Two weeks later in Dresden, an hour before kick off Clough says to Francis 'Young man. Where do you want to play?'. Francis says 'Upfront in the middle'. Clough responded 'You start there, and make sure you finish there!'. Francis scores twice. Forest win 3-1. Weeks later Forest win the European Cup. Imagine if after the first leg Clough just went to Francis and said 'Never mind you might do better next week's. Sometimes a rollicking and home truths need to be given.

I am assuming that you contacted Social Services about this .....

I agree about the Gen Z people that I know. Neither of my daughter's drink alcohol - they are aged 32 and 27. One partner likes to have the odd whisky or vodka and the other lad doesn't drink at all. Their friends might have the odd pint or glass of wine and that's it. Never seen any of them trollied! I started drinking in pubs when I started work at aged 16 in 1980 and went out drinking 5 or 6 nights a week for many years. In the early 1980's I attended a Wakefield MDC in-house health awareness presentation. The presenter talked about drinking regularly and its impact on a person's health. They provided a simple example about the affect of drinking every night. Evening one you drink 5 pints and feel drunk. Evening two you drink 5 pints and do not feel as drunk so on evening three you drink 6 pints and experience the same drunken effect as evening one. And so on, as you continue to build up a tolerance for drinking more on subsequent evenings. The message was totally wasted on me as I was so proud that I could drink 8 or 9 pints a night without wobbling to the chippie.

I still say to people 'I am taping that tonight'. Then I have to further explain what I mean.

Ahh, Jimmy. Another 'old fashioned' comedian that was a universe ahead of what passes today as a comedian. Saw this on a Facebook post earlier today. Jimmy Cricket received a written letter from his mother 'Dear Jimmy. Please excuse the wobbly handwriting as your Dad is a sex maniac'. Quite utterly brilliant.

I realised that I am now an old fart when I saw an email in my inbox with the title 'Your Application for a Seniors Card is Being Assessed'. That was a surprise to me as I have never applied. However my wife, bless her, found out that the criteria had changed and I - along with her - was now eligible. I have told her that I will refuse to use the card when I get it. Is it because of ego ... maybe; is it because of vanity ... quite possible; Is it because if I use it in a pub for a meal I will only get a meal half the size than what I usually eat .... absolutely!!!

Apparently, the Scottish FA have said that they will support Infantino's proposal based on the reasoning that it has taken them 28 years to appear in the tournament and they will be bu$$ered if they are to pass up on the chance to go straight to a World Cup if they do not need to go through the qualifying process for 2030. After hearing about Scotland's decision, a second team has declared their support for Infantino; the Heard Islands and McDonald Islands. Their representative, a Mr Pingu, said that after Trump had slapped the 10% tariff on them it would be a delicious revenged served very, very cold, on the Trump family when they beat Scotland in the WC Final. Yep, it's been a slow Friday for me.

Comic Gold. Whilst on this thread people have contributed 194 pages of assumptions, guesses, hypothesis, speculation,conjecture, pulling rumours out of their jacksy with no idea of what the deal will actually be.

Just reflecting on Bill Oddie who was a big part of my TV life in the 70's. He fronted a Saturday morning kids show called Saturday Banana. My only memory of that program was when Bill asked this young girl to read the autocue to say what was coming up after the commercial break. The young girl said 'After the break we will talk about the Grand Pricks'. Bill interrupted and correctly pronounced it as 'The Grand Prix'. The young girl looking puzzled said to Bill 'It says Grand Pricks!'. They cut away to the commercial and you could hear Bill say 'The word is French it's pronounced Prix'.

Kevin Keegan was not the most gifted footballer of his generation but the sheer effort and application that he put into every aspect of his game elevated him to twice being European Footballer of the Year. A truly great player that gave many, many memories to all supporters of the game irrespective of their club loyalties. Thanks Kev from a Leeds United supporter.

Sad, sad news. Condolences to all that new Scott.

I saw a post on Facebook earlier today saying that the NRL are closing on the purchase of a major Sydney hotel.

Oh golly gosh! That reminded me of an incident in a mixed sex education class we had at school back in 1980. The Teacher gave everyone a small piece of paper and to save any embarassment she said that if anyone had a question they could write it down and put it into a small box that would be passed around the class. The box was duly passed around and everyone put their slip of paper into the box whether they had written a question or not. The Teacher went through the slips of paper, discarding both blank and jokey ones. Then she started reading out the questions. To me, some of the questions were eye openers, and some sounded downright illegal but the Teacher gave a response to all. Then she came to the final piece of paper with a written question - which I remember verbatim. With an hardly suppressed smirk on her face the Teacher read out 'Miss, why do I always wake up with a terrific hard on when I dream about you'. After we had all finished laughing and before she gave a response she added '..... and that question was signed by Emi'. Emi was the nickname of my best mate and he was sat next to me. Poor old Emi. Obviously Emi had never written the question. But I had never before seen a human perform a pretty impressive tortoise impression by managing to retract his head wholly inside his jumper! Happy days!

Worzel, stop your whining. For us old farts who used to watch snooker on Black and white TV the only help we ever had was when the commentator uttered the immortal line 'For those watching in black and white the pink is behind the green'. We coped.

I know that the event is taking place at Everton but that is no reason for the RFL to ask Wayne Rooney to coach Huddersfield!