PHILINFRANCE Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 Hey, @Kid in the Riot and @Silvio Dante. Grow up and behave, the pair of you. I enjoy your posts on various subjects immensely, whether it be cricket, restaurants or even football, but, if I may be so bold, you are both letting yourselves down with this childish bickering. Just drop it, shake hands and move on - no sarcastic reference to Twine’s signing, Honest. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAWS Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 Credit to the club for getting this done, obviously funded by the Conway sale. However still think we are lacking up top. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slartibartfast Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 5 hours ago, Lanterne Rouge said: Do you mean to say they didn`t cover the Wincanton all-comers jigsaw competition? Shame on them! exactly 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malago Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 (edited) 4 hours ago, Gazred said: Scott's signing day. Certainly seems popular down the canteen. Good to see you my luv! Seems a nice lad. Hope he starts tomorrow. Edited August 17 by Malago 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeh Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 14 hours ago, JBFC II said: It was 'I'm going to wait 10 games before drawing any firm conclusions' Now, after 1 game, it's top 6 or bust for Manning. Twine is a good addition, but not sure he changes things that much does he? With twine and Earthy I feel we may get 8th rather then 11th, Our defense and goal scoring isn't good enough for top 6 at the moment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citywest30 Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 @Davefevs Bristol Live reporting it as 3.2m with add ons. Earlier, you said you believed we had kept on returning with the same offer. Any idea if the 3.2m the same offer or had we moved on what we were willing to pay (if so, presumably as a result of getting money for Conway)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southport Red Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 11 hours ago, PHILINFRANCE said: Some years ago, I caught an early morning, red eye flight to New York, pretty angry as security held me up, and all I wanted to do was sleep until the plane reached NY. Lo and behold, the most angelic blonde woman I have ever seen sat down next to me. I sort of smiled awkwardly, received a warm and friendly smile from said bombshell and, after a few minutes of sitting there dumbstruck, I finally managed to say something. "So, business or pleasure?" Smiling, she replied, "Business actually! I'm a sexologist, and I'm headed to a conference in New York". Well, my eyes widened and my breathing intensified, and I managed to say "Oh really?! What does that entail?" "Well, my particular area of study revolves around sexual trends, stereotypes and myths", she says, "and we've actually discovered some pretty exciting new stuff". "Like what?" "Well, you know the myth that black guys have the largest dicks?", she asks. "Well yeah, everyone knows that one." "Its actually Irish men", she says with a smirk. "Wow, I never would've thought of that", I said. "I know right? Also, you know how they say Italians are the most attentive lovers?", she asks. "Not really, but i guess it makes sense", I replied. "Turns out it's actually Jewish Men", she says. "That one I really didn't expect", I said, laughing nervously. "Well its true! We've also uncovered some new trends. We recently found out that on average West Country farmers last the longest in bed", she says. "No kidding!", I said. "I'm so sorry", the woman says, "Here I am talking all about myself and what I do and I don't even know your name!" Well, what could I say? I just held out my hand and introduced myself, "My name is Paddy Berkowitz, but all my friends call me Farmer Giles". My favourite all-time joke. Only in the version I tell it is native Americans and Jews “Hello, I’m Tonto Goldstein” 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southport Red Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 57 minutes ago, citywest30 said: @Davefevs Bristol Live reporting it as 3.2m with add ons. Earlier, you said you believed we had kept on returning with the same offer. Any idea if the 3.2m the same offer or had we moved on what we were willing to pay (if so, presumably as a result of getting money for Conway)? Pretty sure @Corsham Alf said earlier we offered 2 at first, then went back later with 1.5 (which seems odd, but what do I know?} Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Br1stolCityBoy Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 16 hours ago, Bazooka Joe said: What is this strange thing you call "celebrate"? Celebrate that we’ve just bought a decent player, without trying to be a doom watch!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 2 hours ago, citywest30 said: @Davefevs Bristol Live reporting it as 3.2m with add ons. Earlier, you said you believed we had kept on returning with the same offer. Any idea if the 3.2m the same offer or had we moved on what we were willing to pay (if so, presumably as a result of getting money for Conway)? Could be a coincidence…but the timing of Twine deal immediately after the Conway deal was interesting - but surely they’ve expected that Conway cash for some weeks??! Add in the Earthy loan deal only a day or two before which seemed like cover in case we didn’t get Twine…all seems a little odd timing to me but there we go - perhaps it was Burnley budging on their valuation in the end which finally oiled the wheels. Anyway let’s see how they perform on the pitch, ultimately. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 (edited) 2 hours ago, citywest30 said: @Davefevs Bristol Live reporting it as 3.2m with add ons. Earlier, you said you believed we had kept on returning with the same offer. Any idea if the 3.2m the same offer or had we moved on what we were willing to pay (if so, presumably as a result of getting money for Conway)? No, we had been stuck at £2m for a good while. We started the summer offering less than that! @Southport Red was the other way around. I don’t know the exact fee as my attempt to play a game of higher and lower with my mate wasn’t a success. But he alluded to it being more than £3.2m, so we budged quite a way in the end. It’ll probably go into my spreadsheets (for now) at £3.2m until such time as I can try to reverse engineer all our transfer fees from the annual accounts. Re the Conway money, I do and I don’t get the link. I think it was more a convenience factor, ie we know we’ve had to increase our offer significantly, we’ll use the Conway transfer as an “excuse” (wrong word) to say that we couldn’t go higher before, but now we can. @Alessandro just seen your reply. Edited August 17 by Davefevs 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Port Said Red Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 12 minutes ago, Alessandro said: Could be a coincidence…but the timing of Twine deal immediately after the Conway deal was interesting - but surely they’ve expected that Conway cash for some weeks??! Add in the Earthy loan deal only a day or two before which seemed like cover in case we didn’t get Twine…all seems a little odd timing to me but there we go - perhaps it was Burnley budging on their valuation in the end which finally oiled the wheels. Anyway let’s see how they perform on the pitch, ultimately. I think the timing was more for diplomatic / bad news good news reasons. Both deals had already been done so the announcements were easy to coordinate. We have done similar before. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozo Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 5 minutes ago, Davefevs said: No, we had been stuck at £2m for a good while. We started the summer offering less than that! @Southport Red was the other way around. I don’t know the exact fee as my attempt to play a game of higher and lower with my mate wasn’t a success. But he alluded to it being more than £3.2m, so we budged quite a way in the end. It’ll probably go into my spreadsheets (for now) at £3.2m until such time as I can try to reverse engineer all our transfer fees from the annual accounts. Re the Conway money, I do and I don’t get the link. I think it was more a convenience factor, ie we know we’ve had to increase our offer significantly, we’ll use the Conway transfer as an “excuse” (wrong word) to say that we couldn’t go higher before, but now we can. @Alessandro just seen your reply. Surely two transfer sagas both culminating on the same day can't be coincidence. Must be connected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 1 minute ago, Port Said Red said: I think the timing was more for diplomatic / bad news good news reasons. Both deals had already been done so the announcements were easy to coordinate. We have done similar before. Timing of announcement, absolutely. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 4 minutes ago, mozo said: Surely two transfer sagas both culminating on the same day can't be coincidence. Must be connected. See my final para - connected through convenience imho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 6 minutes ago, Davefevs said: Timing of announcement, absolutely. 1 minute ago, Davefevs said: See my final para - connected through convenience imho. Yep - announcement and deal completion different things entirely 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozo Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 2 minutes ago, Alessandro said: Yep - announcement and deal completion different things entirely You can only keep them so far apart though now the season has started. Must just he coincimental Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leveller Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 16 minutes ago, mozo said: You can only keep them so far apart though now the season has started. Must just he coincimental Coincimental may have been a typo, but it’s a brilliant new word! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozo Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 15 minutes ago, Leveller said: Coincimental may have been a typo, but it’s a brilliant new word! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pillred Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 (edited) 4 hours ago, Monkeh said: With twine and Earthy I feel we may get 8th rather then 11th, Our defense and goal scoring isn't good enough for top 6 at the moment Our defenCe is pretty sound, and we have no way of knowing how Armstrong and Mayulu will turn out. I'm a little more optimistic than you are and don't forget we have Hirakawa to come too. Edited August 17 by pillred Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KegCity Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 3 hours ago, citywest30 said: @Davefevs Bristol Live reporting it as 3.2m with add ons. Earlier, you said you believed we had kept on returning with the same offer. Any idea if the 3.2m the same offer or had we moved on what we were willing to pay (if so, presumably as a result of getting money for Conway)? £3.2m is fair enough. After some hysteria around overpaying it seems like we’ve done a good deal. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astrondrew Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 15 hours ago, Davefevs said: They didn’t want £5m. Fair enough. Is that them looking for the money they wanted for him but didn't get? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 13 minutes ago, astrondrew said: Fair enough. Is that them looking for the money they wanted for him but didn't get? Nah, its the extra City gave them on top of the £2m they couldn’t go beyond!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astrondrew Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 2 hours ago, Davefevs said: Nah, its the extra City gave them on top of the £2m they couldn’t go beyond!!! Worth every penny by the looks of things. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozo Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 Brilliant to see Twine score the winner fairytale stuff 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS3_RED Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 1 minute ago, mozo said: Brilliant to see Twine score the winner fairytale stuff Just a shame Earthy didn't get his first just after. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KegCity Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 Looked good value today! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Team Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 TBF his song is superb! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 Was ironic we’ve waited 8 months to sign Twine as our 10, but we played him on the left and played our 6 replacement in the 10! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Dante Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 1 minute ago, Henry said: Was ironic we’ve waited 8 months to sign Twine as our 10, but we played him on the left and played our 6 replacement in the 10! Tbf we did to start with but the formation then evolved into a 3-4-2-1 and he played centrally. The difference between him today and in the loan spell was that he looked like he had a rocket up his arse. Might be due to injury in the loan, might be psychological having joined full time, might be that he was playing in a frenetic game so had to play faster, but his speed of play and thought made a real difference and I’d suggest that 20 minutes was his best period for us. Impossible to really tell anything long term from today in view of the nature of the game, but an undoubtedly positive (second) start 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 5 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said: Tbf we did to start with but the formation then evolved into a 3-4-2-1 and he played centrally. The difference between him today and in the loan spell was that he looked like he had a rocket up his arse. Might be due to injury in the loan, might be psychological having joined full time, might be that he was playing in a frenetic game so had to play faster, but his speed of play and thought made a real difference and I’d suggest that 20 minutes was his best period for us. Impossible to really tell anything long term from today in view of the nature of the game, but an undoubtedly positive (second) start Oh yeah, he played well and we won. Fair play to him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 1 hour ago, astrondrew said: Worth every penny by the looks of things. Thought he was excellent when he came on today. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
INCRED Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 31 minutes ago, Henry said: Was ironic we’ve waited 8 months to sign Twine as our 10, but we played him on the left and played our 6 replacement in the 10! Yeah, great isn’t it that we have two really good players who can comfortably interchange positions. Twine was actually playing in field on the left which gave Pring a lot more space to move into We were effectively playing 2 10’s behind Fally 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loosey Boy Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 A player who has clearly been really, really keen to join us - his face when we scored….pure passion!!! Played really well when he came on - his pass to Bird was sublime! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcusX Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 1 hour ago, One Team said: TBF his song is superb! It’s good but the words are wrong Should do something better with the first part anyway I reckon, first line could be something like When the City really starts to play 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WessexPest Posted August 18 Share Posted August 18 Swindon supporting mate of mine not a happy camper today: “Twine should be tried for treason!” 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eardun Posted August 18 Share Posted August 18 I thought his movement and calmness on the ball (given the urgency of the situation) was excellent yesterday. And generally I thought our movement in the final third was much better yesterday - something that’s been an issue in the past. You would like to think that we will be able to break down those stubborn defences now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MythikRobins Posted August 18 Share Posted August 18 He was unlucky not to score a bit earlier, when the ball bounced to him favourably and his shot from outside the box whizzed past the post, due a to a great block from Joe Bryan. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRedRobin Posted August 18 Share Posted August 18 This move is perfect for Twine. More than anything Twine needed stability instead of going on loan constantly. He knows he is our main man here as our Number 10 and so I really believe we are going to get a lot out of him. I am really looking forward to seeing what he can do. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDarwall Posted August 18 Share Posted August 18 His 1st involvement was a lovely through ball to Bird (would have been a very similar goal to Korey's v Man U), he was then unlucky with the deflected shot & caps it with the winning goal. Obvs early days etc but if he'd played like that for the majority of his loan spell there would have been few arguments about making him permanent (but ironically we probably couldn't have afforded him!). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudolf Hucker Posted August 18 Share Posted August 18 Twine’s now scored on both of his City debuts! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozo Posted August 18 Share Posted August 18 20 minutes ago, Rudolf Hucker said: Twine’s now scored on both of his City debuts! Maybe we should cancel his contract now and sign him on a new deal on Friday 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted August 18 Share Posted August 18 1 minute ago, mozo said: Maybe we should cancel his contract now and sign him on a new deal on Friday No more Twine signings please 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozo Posted August 18 Share Posted August 18 32 minutes ago, Davefevs said: No more Twine signings please Haha, we loved every minute of it! Interesting that Manning described it as constant back and forth calls. I wonder what the hell they were discussing when valuations were so far apart?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Severn Beach Pigeon Posted August 18 Share Posted August 18 Just now, mozo said: Haha, we loved every minute of it! Interesting that Manning described it as constant back and forth calls. I wonder what the hell they were discussing when valuations were so far apart?! Maybe we were raising our offer £1 at a time 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ska Junkie Posted August 18 Share Posted August 18 (edited) 4 hours ago, WessexPest said: Swindon supporting mate of mine not a happy camper today: “Twine should be tried for treason!” Proper club int we? Twiney loves the City obviously, the West country's premier club, by an absolute mile! When the WURZEL rhythm starts to play Make us dance, make us sway.... Edited August 18 by Ska Junkie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petehinton Posted August 19 Share Posted August 19 New song is class, however ‘Hirakawa’ fits even better and is actually a winger. Needs fixing asap, anyone got a printer that we can print lyric sheets out and hand over to s82? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry Posted August 19 Share Posted August 19 It’s a bit of a daft song when Twine isn’t the sort of player to run down the wing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2015 Posted August 19 Share Posted August 19 18 hours ago, WessexPest said: Swindon supporting mate of mine not a happy camper today: “Twine should be tried for treason!” They were a very unhappy bunch when I bumped into a few on the train from Bath Spa on Saturday. Was fantastic to see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsquirrel Posted August 19 Share Posted August 19 really pleased for ST, and manning. ST comes into the team as Mannings golden boy and Manning has got 'his' man. both of them now have to work their socks off to prove this was a deal worth waiting for, perfect mentor for young GE too, things are looking very rosie all of a sudden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SecretSam Posted August 19 Share Posted August 19 On 17/08/2024 at 09:35, Davefevs said: No, we had been stuck at £2m for a good while. We started the summer offering less than that! @Southport Red was the other way around. I don’t know the exact fee as my attempt to play a game of higher and lower with my mate wasn’t a success. But he alluded to it being more than £3.2m, so we budged quite a way in the end. It’ll probably go into my spreadsheets (for now) at £3.2m until such time as I can try to reverse engineer all our transfer fees from the annual accounts. Re the Conway money, I do and I don’t get the link. I think it was more a convenience factor, ie we know we’ve had to increase our offer significantly, we’ll use the Conway transfer as an “excuse” (wrong word) to say that we couldn’t go higher before, but now we can. @Alessandro just seen your reply. It's being reported as a 'deal' of £3.2m, including add-ons, so would that be say £2m + £x when he makes a certain number of appearances, + £x if we get promoted (don't laugh)? I'm not that familiar with how these deals are structured. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Port Said Red Posted August 19 Share Posted August 19 15 hours ago, Davefevs said: No more Twine signings please New shirt sponsor for next season in honour of the Twine "Signings" Dave? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Ian M Posted August 19 Admin Share Posted August 19 19 hours ago, WessexPest said: Swindon supporting mate of mine not a happy camper today: “Twine should be tried for treason!” Twine's just had his Road to Damascus event. Tell your mate to hit you up when he encounters his own and you'll help him get tickets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted August 19 Share Posted August 19 40 minutes ago, Port Said Red said: New shirt sponsor for next season in honour of the Twine "Signings" Dave? Stained his teeth, hence the bleach! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KegCity Posted August 20 Share Posted August 20 On 16/08/2024 at 15:59, steviestevieneville said: Me as well. I do think twine has pressure on him as it would seem we’ve paid quite a bit for him & obviously wages that go with it . He needs to do more than I saw last season . However that’s down to manning now. Nice to have tinnion keeping his mouth shut as well. I genuinely hope he goes on to grow in the role as technical director. id love to know how much influence biff Newman is having . He seems to around the club a lot . One to keep an eye on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toffee dog Posted August 20 Share Posted August 20 12 minutes ago, KegCity said: One to keep an eye on. Do you know something or putting.2&2 together? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KegCity Posted August 20 Share Posted August 20 5 minutes ago, Toffee dog said: Do you know something or putting.2&2 together? I'm not in a position to say too much, there's nothing concrete in place at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toffee dog Posted August 20 Share Posted August 20 1 minute ago, KegCity said: I'm not in a position to say too much, there's nothing concrete in place at the moment. Thanks could be interesting we will have to wait & see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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