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Agreed. I'm not a fan of "resting" players for a game that most will consider a complete write-off. Lets just play our best, and try to show our best. Nobody would benefit from throwing in some youngsters against this lot.

I still haven't decided whether I'll be brave enough to whistle up a stream for this game or not. I'll be crouching behind the sofa peeping through my fingers if I do.

I see what you're saying, but it would only serve to prolongue the shitstorm, and just add fuel to make it an even bigger story than it needs to be. DK has accepted the punishment and most likely just wants to put it behind him and move on (his statement ending with the remark that he will make...

Indeed, there's clearly been a discussion. Perhaps the club could've taken the line that it had pretty much all blown over and been forgotten about. Instead it was raked up again, and embarrassment ensued along with a pretty draconian result, given how minor the incident actually was.

All the fella did was have a bit of a rant because his ticket wouldn't scan. I wouldn't expect ANY fan to get a 10 match ban for that. Its not like he had someone up by the lapels, or gave anyone a thump. Sorry, but I've pondered it further and I still feel this is shabby treatment by the...

I see your point, but I totally disagree that the club were damned if they did and damned if they didn't. If the club DIDN'T, then this "story" would already have sank without trace. But they DID - and so here we are, with him banished for 10 games. Now we have some goons on here saying "well...

Have a day off.

Like I say. 2022. :facepalm:

I'm frankly astonished at some of the posters on this thread belittling and diminishing just what Dick Knight did for this club in its darkest hour, and all across the Gory Years of Gillingham and Withdean. A lifelong fan who stepped in when the club was on life support, and led the way to where...

He put a consortium together that wrested control of the club when it was on its arse, from the men who were murdering it. He brought the club back from the oblivion of Gillingham, and then stayed the course throughout a TORTUOUS planning application process over 11 years to finally deliver the...

It was 'out there' last week, and wasn't deemed newsworthy enough to last beyond that. I certainly didn't see it getting picked up by any of the Nationals. "Cranky old man gets the hump at staff after ticket wouldn't scan" would barely make the pages of the Sussex Express, let alone the "Sidebar...

A 10 game ban means he will not be at an Albion match now till 4th Feb (home vs Muff). I appreciate he's retired now, but a 4 month holiday to the Maldives would seem rather lengthy. So I think we can disregard the "he's going on holiday anyway" theory. There could easily have been a simple...

The Club didn't need to speak to him about the incident AT ALL all as far as I'm concerned. Like I said, it was a storm in a teacup. Nobody died. Nobody was injured. This all would have been quickly forgotten as a fairly inconsequential non-incident. Except now it won't. Because he's serving a...

If I was being shipped around from pillar to post due to a valid non-scanning ticket, I think I'D be pretty cheesed off as well. "We've moved on to bigger and better things" - this ignores the fact that none of these bigger and better things we are now experiencing would ever have happened...

Sorry, but banning the saviour of BHAFC over a petty inconsequential incident with a ticket that wouldn't scan is a f***ing DISGRACE. Absolutely shameful by the club. I'm quite disgusted by this. Shameful.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/when-saturday-comes-blog/2022/oct/19/football-time-wasting-sophistication-art-form Quite a prescient article today in the Guardian, about precisely this subject. "The most irksome aspect of this racket – the late double-substitutions, taking it in turns to...

As ever, the whole mood on here is based on the last couple of games. Go back to post-Leicester and people were checking out hotels in Paris and Madrid in lieu of next seasons Euro campaign. We've played well in each game under De Zerbi, but couldn't stick the ball in the net. Its an age-old...

There was also an instance in the second half when a corner was swung in, a couple of players went for a header that was only half cleared to the side of the penalty area where Trossard picked it up and we had a box full of players. But then one of the Forest players went down holding his face...

I'm glad there's a thread on this. Having seen what they were getting up to in the first half, I actually timed all the stoppages in that second half. The combination of their players going down every few minutes, trainers coming on, the substitutions taking an eternity, etc. By the end of the...

They must have edited that bit from the news report when I watched it last night then - I was literally sat there waiting for him to say it, but then they cut to someone else in the House before he did. It seemed very weird to place the ball on the spot like that, then walk away from it. Hey...