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I think I recall the great Jackie Swindells missing two penalties in the same game against Runcorn on a Friday evening at Canal Street back in the late 60's! It could be my memory playing tricks but does seem to be etched in my mind.

I'm a tad deaf so maybe didn't hear it. In that case then the ball was both in the wrong place and moving! Agree with the comment on the other thread that the cause of the goal was more down to Scott Leather diving in to the tackle and missing the ball and player by miles, than what happened with the free kick.

Yes I was at the Rochdale game with my dad and a City supporting school mate and it was an unbelievable evening. At the time beating a league team was something we weren't used to!

My special game would be the 4 - 1 win over Barnet in 91 when I made my first visit back to Moss Lane after a number of years away. I'd settle for a performance like that on Saturday!

I believe the biggest problem for Damian this season has been a lack of service. Over the last couple of seasons he has enjoyed good partnerships with Jack Redshaw and then Duncan, as well as James Lawrie to an extent. All these players have looked to link with Damian and play as a proper partnership, however, this season from what I've seen he's either had Perry, who's flick-ons etc can go just about anywhere, or Walshaw, who makes no attempt to provide any opportunities for Damian or anyone else and will look to shoot on every occasion. I'd go along with a few other people on here and put Lawrie and Reeves up front on Saturday and then we might see a bit more of the flowing football we enjoyed last season.

Did anyone see the perma-tanned one being interviewed on Granada Reports this evening? I think it was in the street in Liverpool regarding this Mayor thingy. Certainly looked like him and it must have been sunny over there recently!

As many of you know I stand with DAB and we had this discussion on Saturday and a considerable number of us believe it is the only way forward and we even appealed to Flynny (Brian not our centre back impressionist) to try and pursuade the board to look into it! As Chester progress and FCUM get their ground built then we will be very poor runners-up in attracting the better part-time players as these clubs will clean up by offering higher wages so lets make some viable plans to attract youngsters to the club by making the intention known that we are going full-time next season. There will be loads of lads released by the North West's league teams next summer so lets be right in the mix by being able to offer them the opportunity to stay as full-time footballers......it'll sure beat the dole queue!! The reason for doing it now in BSN is that if we do get promoted (after a couple of years of building) we may stand a chance of staying up......I'd fancy Stalybride to do well......whereas we're not going to see anything other than a big struggle if we go up as a part-time outfit again.

A few quotes there from Flitcroft straight out of the Steve Evans book of quotes.........clubs higher up the pyramid wanting to sign him and it's all about the potential of the club. Not the money then?!!!!