[jjamez]

I think you'd have to be as mad as a hatter if you know the answer to 10

Is the mj statue on his garden now, or in the middle of a fountain? Didn't he blame the fans for not appreciating it or something?

[Lord Snooty]

Mad as a Hatter. Must be Luton or Stockport then.

[theo_luddite]

Well done jjamez - you worked out the clue. The answer is buried in the question, though not obvious at first.

The mj statue answers to 8b and 9 are still not correct.

[Baggiebob(BBB)]

A brilliant win and well deserved I hear.
Whilst your going up the table, we (WBA) are going down - now 11th. In fact the only good news today was that Walsall like you beat the top of the table team.

Theo, that was a brilliant write up my man - brilliant. Do u do the program write up's as well or write fr a paper? Cos your good.

Now less of the flattery, can you now predict where middle table we'll (WBA) finish the season. I say 8th.

[Lord Snooty]

With Bruce in charge, you'll finish bottom half. Then next season he'll spend an absolute fortune on journeymen footballers who will somehow get you to the play offs.
If you don't go up, you'll be doomed to Championship football or even lower just like all the other clubs his magical wand has been tapped by.

[theo_luddite]

A brilliant win and well deserved I hear.
Whilst your going up the table, we (WBA) are going down - now 11th. In fact the only good news today was that Walsall like you beat the top of the table team.

Theo, that was a brilliant write up my man - brilliant. Do u do the program write up's as well or write fr a paper? Cos your good.

Now less of the flattery, can you now predict where middle table we'll (WBA) finish the season. I say 8th.

Cheers BaggieBob, if that's a job offer let me know.

I predicted you'd soon be back in the top six in the match thread and to a large extent that Town would get another battering if we played like we did in previous meetings. Shows how good my predictions are but I'll take the 3 points because I can't remember us playing that well against Fulham in recent seasons.

Do you really want me to predict your middle 8 (ish) final position? You could have been out of site by half-time at Luton but it seems a lot of heads drop when you concede first.

I just do this for the amusement of myself and others on this site. Occasionally it annoys some opposition fans on their own forums that take themselves far too seriously, but I long ago stopped looking for any responses. You only end up arguing with idiots in need of a sense of humour transplant and they've often had far more practice at being an idiot as a rule.

I might have annoyed the odd Town fan too in the past. C'est la guerre, as they say in Montreal.

If I was doing this for anything else (like money, or beers) I'd have to name and shame my sauces (especially for the pics and screen grabs) though I think most of us on here use similar sauces for some if not most of our info. The rest comes from snippets of what else is available around the game (like pressers, newspaper waffle, radio interviews, interweb previews).

There's stuff I observe and keep for a rainy day (see Boiler Repair Man - I saw Parker in that jacket a while back and though I'd find a use for it one day). Otherwise after a long-time watching Town (like many others on here) I just remember things and anecdotes (or remember roughly where to look as the beer slowly flushes away the memory cells).

My wacky or occasionally rather strange sense of humour might always not be to everyone's taste, I know that. It's not meant to be taken seriously but I do throw some odd facts and figures in there to try and edumacate, entertain and amuse plus a few deliberate typo's as a dig at the appalling English allowed to escape our school system that turns up on t'interweb these days. It's up to you guys to decide which bit is which.

I like everyone's match thread efforts on here, no matter how in depth (see Snoots, the historian) or short and sweet or quiz/anagram orientated. Everyone has their own style which is great and it makes it interesting for all of us.

I've also too much time on my hands (at the moment) after being made redundant thanks to Covid and Bodgit's (lack of competent) handling of it, so the part-time work I'm doing to actually pay the bills leaves me time to look for a few other creative things to do or odd-ball info to search for for a thread.

Now, can you give me some tips for next weekends predictions?
As always I'm doing my New Year L666s style dive back down the table in Snoots's Prediction League.

I'll be having a few beers in Brum at the weekend and looking for your result on the way back from St. Andrews (assuming the Gil Merrick stand hasn't been turned into a pile of rust by the recent rain).

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With Bruce in charge, you'll finish bottom half. Then next season he'll spend an absolute fortune on journeymen footballers who will somehow get you to the play offs.
If you don't go up, you'll be doomed to Championship football or even lower just like all the other clubs his magical wand has been tapped by.

You forgot "skint"

[Lord Snooty]

Did I, theo? Yes, I did. An oversight on my part.

I meant to say doomed to the Championship for years as well. Once Bruce has been, there's no going back.

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Just look at where he's been and how long it took to recover. Sheff Utd, he wasn't there long enough and Warnock came in just in time. But Town had a massive transfer budget when the new chairman, Mr Rubbery took over. He not only blew it, but blew it so much that we had to sell our star player (Marcus Stewart) and this pissed off the new chairman/owner so much that he pulled the plug and we went into administration.

Wigan, Hull, Sunderland, Sheffield Wednesday. Where are they now?

Hope that's settled a few doubts for you, Bob.

[Baggiebob(BBB)]

Did I, theo? Yes, I did. An oversight on my part.

I meant to say doomed to the Championship for years as well. Once Bruce has been, there's no going back.

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Just look at where he's been and how long it took to recover. Sheff Utd, he wasn't there long enough and Warnock came in just in time. But Town had a massive transfer budget when the new chairman, Mr Rubbery took over. He not only blew it, but blew it so much that we had to sell our star player (Marcus Stewart) and this pissed off the new chairman/owner so much that he pulled the plug and we went into administration.

Wigan, Hull, Sunderland, Sheffield Wednesday. Where are they now?

Hope that's settled a few doubts for you, Bob.

 Much as I expected, me Lord. I was not in favour of Brucie being our saviour, although he has a 1/3rd of the season to get us up to the play-offs,though not sure we have the players to do that.
Trouble is getting the players to play in a formation that they like - if they themselves know.

Incidentally bog rolls were mentioned in a earlier post. Now BBB stands for BogrollbaggieBob, and in gold lettering.

As to helping with predictions Theo, I just guess them as my knowledge of soccer is limited. It's true.

[theo_luddite]

With kick-off looming I guess I should cough up the Kwik Kwiz answers (as I see them).

1. What year did Fulham eventually move into (not purchase) Craven Cottage and start to play there, having roamed around a large number of assorted playing fields in the neighbourhood prior to this? In 1896, after two years of development, the Club finally took residence in their new home – one that would not only match our ambitions but also offer a more secure foundation to move forward.
2. Why did Megabus have to drop the £1 advert (above) on the back of their buses? Hardly anyone could buy one. The advertising regulator got on their case. The rest as the say was increased fares all round.
3. Who was born in Fulham, played for Fulham, managed Fulham for 4 years, had legs that couldn't stop a sheep or a pig down a ginnel and is generally rated as our worst manager ever (give or take, even though he probably wasn't sober most of the time)? Malcolm MacDonald
4. What have Fulham had to buy in order to build their new Riverside stand? (Hint, it's not steel, concrete, plastic seats, roofing materials, new flood lights or gold leaf bog rolls). A section of the River Thames. I don't know who they bought it from, but permanently obstructing a public footpath is an offence, which happened when they built the back end of their new stand, so they had to apply to move the footpath, buy a stretch of river and reinstate it. You are also not allowed to build on or over your neighbours land (or river).
5. Who is Fulham's all time leading goal scorer? Gordon Davies
6. What is unusual about the Craven Cottage team dugouts? jjamez is correct with this one - they are the only one's in top flight English football where you have to walk across the pitch to get to them. The (maybe temporary) new ones built at the foot of the new Riverside stand don't have a lid on them (as yet?), but neither do the ones at Old Trafford.
7. Who's statue is outside the ground? Johnny Haynes
8. (a) Who's statue used to be outside the ground? jjamez got this too, Michael (gotta be feeling someone) Jackson
Hint - the 7' plus erection was installed (what?) after the club owner at the time had invited him to watch a Fulham v Wigan match (such a joy Laugh ) and he subsequently passed away in, er "unusual" circumstances? Watching the Wigan match and his demise have not as yet, been linked - did the FBI miss something totally bleedin' obvious guv?
8. (b) What did the former owner (of both club and statue) blame on it's removal? Former chairman Mohamed Al-Fayed declared it would result in bad luck and that it was ( in his tiny mind) the only reason Fulham had remained in the Prima Donna League while he was in charge and it was the main reason Fulham were relegated back to the Chumpionship that season. There are no records of the statue ever kicking a ball in anger, saving a penalty or scoring a goal for Fulham to back up his assertions.
9. Where was it situated from 2014 to 2019? Does anyone really care where it is now? The National Football Museum (now in Manchester). No, apart from Al-Fayed. (It might be in Harrods, but who else cares?). The NFM removed it from display, but as Al-Fuckwit gave it to them, it's likely in a back room of theirs somewhere.
10. Fulham have scored 7 twice (so far) on their travels this season. Since joining the Football League, their biggest ever win is 10:1 v Ipswich Town (home, old 1st Division, 1963), their heaviest defeat is 10:0 at Liverpool (League Cup, 1986). Fulham beat The Shaymen 0-8 in Division 3 in 1969, their biggest ever away win, with a team captained by some far from statuesque young sprite called Johnny Haynes and shortly after the Shaymen had sold star defender Chris Nichol to Luton. (I might have been stood on the Speedway track for that one, or was it Stoke in the Cup, or was it both? I was still at junior school at the time, honest guv, and Town were rampaging up the 2nd Division at the time, so how would I remember?). I (or you) may have mentioned this before in another Fulham thread.

So the real question iiiiis .....
Who is the only other team Fulham have scored 8 against away from home? (Clue - not in the same season, nor even close to it). Their best FA Cup win is shown as 7 - 0: vs Swansea City 11/11/1995 FA Cup R1, however they beat Luton Town, then of the Southern League First Division 3-8 in the FA Cup 1st Round, January 11th 1908.


After checking all over the interweb, Fulham only scored one against us on Saturday and the only thing Mitrovic got was a yellow card for throwing himself on the floor several times, fouling one of our lads and moaning at the ref. Despite the moaning of Fulham fans all over the interweb, the records show we won at theirs, they won at ours, we both got 3 points for our efforts.

So in the spirit of Mock the Week, the winners of the quiz are everyone who joined in.

[Lord Snooty]

Probably his mate Uri Geller, gave him the story about moving statues will relegate you.

Good old Uri.