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Just what we need. Welcome aboard Ollie!

The manager at the time of Peter Swales taking control was Johnny Hart, who retired through ill health. Tony Book was never sacked, and retired after two spells in charge.

The other managers of the Swales era were either sacked, or "left by mutual consent". They were :

Ron Saunders
Malcolm Allison
John Bond
John Benson
Billy McNeill
Jimmy Frizzell
Mel Machin
Howard Kendall
Peter Reid

The final manager appointed by Swales was Brian Horton, who was sacked at a later stage by Francis Lee.

God knows if the pens were pens or the offsides were offsides but we probably got what we deserved for defending too deep and aimless punts forward to nobody. It's happening too often to be mere bad luck.

Also, why do officials keep adding on a minute to the added time when we are playing?

There was an injury (Wilson I think) just as the board went up, so there would have to be an extra added minute for that.

....Redredrobin is 5-2 favourite with Paddy Power in the 4 o'clock at Chepstow this afternoon.

While there are plenty of plaudits quite rightly flying around on this thread, I'd like to give a shout-out to Lewis Banks who was excellent yesterday, particularly in the way that he made himself available to receive the ball in areas where he could move it on to colleagues effectively.

Banks is definitely a sensible option to cut out the threat presented by Ryan Colclough.

No matter how much we expected this eventually, it still comes as a shock that Mad Dog has finally succumbed to this dreadful disease. We use the words "hero" and "legend" so freely these days, but if ever a man truly deserved both accolades, Mark Alfred Maddox was that man. My thoughts are with his family.