OK, by (un)popular demand, here’s a quick poll designed to ask whether you want the thumbs up and thumbs down feature to remain…
Click HERE to vote
OK, by (un)popular demand, here’s a quick poll designed to ask whether you want the thumbs up and thumbs down feature to remain…
Click HERE to vote
Thanks for this Iain. Not sure if you're able to filter out the multiple poster/s on here from registering several votes, which is the crux of the problem, but at least you've listened.
Nail on the head Gav – agree with that entirely (including a thank you to Iain)
Iain – did you publish second part of poll you conducted about what we thought about how club was run or have I just missed it?
Maybe a better idea would be to ask people to comment which, hopefully, should be more telling. If not at least it will keep the multi poster/s very busy trying not to sound like themselves more than once xD .
dont see the point i dont often post but enjoy the banter which is nearly always off topic
Can you keep the thumbs up but get rid of thumbs down? It's nice to let people know you enjoy what they've written but this power goes to some idiots head with the thumbs down option.
If not, get rid.
100% agree.
Good idea, ECH. Just given you a Lennie Fairclough.
That's also been suggested before and, Like Gav, gets a thumbs up from me!
It's not possible.
ha..ha..don't sit on the fence Iain
Guys,
This quite random and not relevant to the post but I know someone on here will give me the answer i need. Over the years i have purchased the new home and away shirt and i used to have a current player name on the back however, this dooms the player to leaving, some examples are Cole and Berkovic etc, so my new policy is put a legend on the back, last year I did Dicks and Brooking, at least they aint going to leave. So my question in what number did Alan Devonshire wear, I seem to remeber it was 6 but did he have other numbers as well? please help because I have looked all over the net and can't find any help.
ramjet – a a DEVO DEVOtee, I can confirm that he did indeed wear 6 for much of his career and it became the number I adopted as a similarly skillful midfield dribbler.
He did wear other numbers – I recall watching an old Big Match recently and his was wearing 4. However, 6 is the number I will always associate with him.
Ramjet33 please put Spector on the back of your shirt the nhe might f**k off haha!
Love that Braderz, nice one,and you got a thumbs up
Haha i wish i could curse certain players by putting there name on my shirt, would be great!
brilliant !!! It would be money well invested to pay for him to leave.
It would be indeed, i would have Spector on the home shirt and Kovac on the away shirt, then it may tell the pair to f**k off and never come back, im hoping they will be gone before the season starts however!
point proved
Having got them removed originally with the help from Gav, i can honestly say that for the few days that they were inactive, the blog didn't suffer. However, since their return……
And me! lol
Yeah, I remember you campaigning against it too, Matt, but I managed to "thumbs down" Gav before they were banned – or was that you?:p
Lol don't know mate, just remember asking over and over for the bloody things to be gone! Then they went! And then the come back again! lol
Lol! I think it was Matt's idea to just have a thumbs up. Unfortunately, from Iain's reply to Headmaster above, it looks like it's not possible.
DevoDevo,
Thanks very much mate, both my home and away will bear his name this season, its not a name you see on the back of shirts much which is a shame because he was one of the best players I have ever witnessed in claret and blue although i was very young when i watched him. Here is to a good season COYIs!!!!!!
A real crowd pleaser, ramjet. Devo would be thrown the ball at left back and then run upfield with it, often running the length of the park and every time he got the ball the crowd would buzz with anticipation.
Graceful in full flight, he could beat players with pace on both sides or play successive one twos with the likes of Brooking, Pike etc. Never stopped running for 90 minutes. Never scored the amount of goals a player of his quality should have, but boy did he create some!
Still remains my favourite player ever to grace Upton park. Did it consistently week in week out, home and away. If you only remember him after his injury, then you never saw the best of him.
I agree with the idea to get rid of the thumbs down, I got slammed by someone apparently.
Devonshire was a cool cat, no doubt about it. I'm too young to (26) to remember him playing but from what I've seen he was a cracking winger, the likes of which you rarely see these days. And didn't we buy him from non/lower-league?
Great moustache too.
Yes mate we definitely plucked him from obscurity! can't remember who we got him from but it was defionitely a non footballing entity! lol
Pretty sure it was Dagenham, Matt – but memory might be playing tricks. I am almost certain it was non-league
Head bottom of the class,detention,Southall West London was the club,we gave them 5 Grand,the deal was the best find ever,what a player!20 mill he would be worth today he was a ballerina on the ball more graceful than Rudolph Nureyev!
Correct, Aussie. Would never happen now – nobody bothers watching the semi-pro leagues anymore.
Devonshire was slightly built and had skill. These days, you have to be built like a brick whatsit and to the hell with skill.
Iniesta would never have got a pro contract in England.
Yep – I remember putting a newspaper cutting up on the bedroom wall just before the 1980 FA Cup Final entitled "Dream Cream for Devonshire" as he was quoted as being a former Milkman while he played for Southall before we signed him. Since then I've learned he was a fork lift truck driver. Perhaps he had more than one job whilst playing semi-pro at the West London Club.
Devonshire had the style, Bonzo was the enforcer,Sir Trev was poetry in motion,priceless!
ah but it was non league, so not bottom of the class surely!
I wish I was 26 again, ECH, but at least I have the consolation of having seen West ham win trophies before I die!:D
I wish I was 46 mate!
hmmm, tough decision. ive personally never been that "BOTHERED" (matt ryan) by it. the one thing i would say it that if a poster didn't agree with your post, for them to explain why, thus a healthy debate! sorted!
No one would disagree with that Bazza. No point in everybody agreeing the whole time. But the idea of someone sitting in a room, logging in 26 times and minus-ing Matt Ryan for a wind up just reduces the site to the level of farce in my view.
totaly agree mate. but you dont even have to be looged in to use the icon. ive done it before forgetting to log in!
Hav'nt posted for a while,but created this comment,to say I thought it was southall,
Devonshire came from,in answer to Matt Ryan question, but was pre empted.
however maybe barrera will be the new Devonshire?
Did he play for Southall then? lol
lol .Not that I'm aware of,unless there is a Southall in mexico, lol.
Alan Devonshire – the definitive exponent of the Beautiful game.
Alan Devonshire- Sheer Class
YEAH
I vote to get rid of the thumbs up and thumbs down feature; nothing but a pain, and it often doesn't reflect the sentiment of the blog.
YEAH
Unfortunately, it's not the thumbs up/down its a few mindless idiots who have spoilt a perfectly good way of communicating approval/disapproval.