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Eze 09:51 - Feb 29 with 6321 views

After reading the accounts maybe just maybe we have enough room and shekels to tempt Eze to sign a new deal and stay for one more season and have a right go at the Play offs next time round.

Maybe even look to sell Manning if we need to but keep the rest of the squad together (including Hugill for another year)

Another season would also surely only increase Eze's value too.....

"you may say I'm a Dreamer but I'm not the only one"

Eze on 16:43 - Mar 2 with 1824 views

CroydonCaptJack

Eze on 15:14 - Mar 2 by W7Ranger
Jimmy White bottom left.

Bottom left is Steve Davis brother

Eze on 16:55 - Mar 2 with 1784 views

smegma

Eze on 14:57 - Mar 2 by Mytch_QPR
The one in the middle looks like John Motson's mildly violent brother, the one on the right is a young Terry Wogan.

Top right Terry Wigons twin brother

Eze on 16:55 - Mar 2 with 1784 views

GroveR

Eze on 15:29 - Mar 2 by NW5Hoop

Even if we keep Eze, we won't be in a position to push for the play-offs next year, because we won't have any money to strengthen the defence. The calculation should never be, for the club's part, what's the best thing for a player who definitely will leave us sooner or later. It should be what's best for the club. I'f be pretty happy to put up with the defence conceding two a game in order to carry on watching Eze, but I'm not sure it's the best thing for the club.

Amen to that. Maybe I'm oversimplifying but it can't be difficult to sit with him and his agent and say "look, you're a once in a generation talent, we value you at £NNm so you can go to whoever meets that price and makes a bid"

Eze on 16:59 - Mar 2 with 1775 views

W7Ranger

Eze on 15:19 - Mar 2 by DannyPaddox
Which was indeed the name of their difficult third album ...

Back row 2nd left, a young Don Revie.

Eze on 17:00 - Mar 2 with 1774 views

WadR

Deserves the move this summer and frankly I think he's good enough to be an immediate starter for all bar the top 6 and would improve the squads of everyone except probably Liverpool and City.

Obviously bit reductive but Daniel James had 4 goals and 7 assists in 33 last season, Mount 9 goals and 4 assists in 38 and Maddison 14 goals and 8 assists in 44 the year before. Eze has 11 goals and 7 assists in 36.

And, for all his brilliance, don't think Freeman comparison is relevant. Eze's 6 years younger, faster and significantly more two footed than Luke - all indicative of a higher ceiling.

The only real minor weakness currently is Eze's concentration and positioning in defensive play, which may be tested and scrutinised more in the Prem. But even that has come on so much in the last year, so I don't doubt would continue to improve in a better side.

[Post edited 2 Mar 2020 17:01]

Eze on 17:08 - Mar 2 with 1756 views

VancouverHoop

If he genuinely wants to improve he'd be better off in Germany. Bundesliga teams actually play their youngsters in actual league matches, rather farm them out or keep them on the bench until they grow roots.

Eze on 17:08 - Mar 2 with 1755 views

Mytch_QPR

Eze on 15:19 - Mar 2 by DannyPaddox
Which was indeed the name of their difficult third album ...

I looked on Spotify and blow me (not literally, if you don't mind) - there they are.
Nice organ work on 'Lonesome At Your Table'

I suppose the term 'mainlining' had a more innocent meaning in those days.

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Eze on 17:09 - Mar 2 with 1751 views

Mytch_QPR

Eze on 16:59 - Mar 2 by W7Ranger
Back row 2nd left, a young Don Revie.

Is that Martin Keown bottom right?

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Eze on 17:16 - Mar 2 with 1732 views

DannyPaddox

Interesting football fact. In his early days at Luton, Don Givens spent a season on loan with Big Tom.

Eze on 17:32 - Mar 2 with 1693 views

Mytch_QPR

Eze on 17:16 - Mar 2 by DannyPaddox
Interesting football fact. In his early days at Luton, Don Givens spent a season on loan with Big Tom.

What position / instrument?

In any event, it looks as though a final tour may be out of the question, according to Wiki:

Due to their advancing years the band have only had occasional 'comeback' tours. They have toured more regularly in the last 4 years with the original band playing together.

In 2004, Big Tom’s son Dermot McBride took Ginger Morgan's place on Bass Guitar, Peter McCarthy took Ronnie Duffy's place on drums and Robert Browne, a second keyboardist in the band, appeared to take Cyril McKevitt's place on Trombone (however both were performing for the band in their Q4 2005 tour). In 2005, the band recorded a hit single The Same Way You Came In. In November 2006, McBride suffered a sudden heart attack, jeopardising plans for future tours, however doctors later gave the all clear for him to have a mini tour of Ireland in February, 2008.[1] It is believed that the band will revert to the seven original Mainliners for this tour.[2] Cyril McKevitt died of a heart attack, on Tuesday 15 September 2009, just days after the end of the band's Summer 2009 tour. Martin Campbell filled McKevitt's position one year later. Since 2014 the band continue to tour on a regular basis including 8 dates in 2015-16 [3][4]

Big Tom died on 17 April 2018.

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Eze on 18:52 - Mar 2 with 1603 views

Match82

Eze on 16:55 - Mar 2 by GroveR
Amen to that. Maybe I'm oversimplifying but it can't be difficult to sit with him and his agent and say "look, you're a once in a generation talent, we value you at £NNm so you can go to whoever meets that price and makes a bid"

Playing devil's advocate though, the agent could easily say "thanks, but Eze wants to play in the premier league in 2020. You can sell him for (lower) £NNm or we'll just run the contract out and leave for free"

There's something to be said for Eze/whoever leaving on good terms. If we have a reputation as a club for bringing players through and doing what's best for them, that's a big recruiting plus when we are looking for the next Eze who has been released from a big teams academy.

Eze on 18:59 - Mar 2 with 1596 views

BrianMcCarthy

We had a ballroom attached to our family hotel in West Cork in the late 70's and early 80's. Held about a thousand and one night a week was dedicated to the kind of banal nonsense that Big Tom and The Mainliners used to churn out for the sweaty old ones who'd flock from all over to slow jive and waltz. They often played 'music' in our place.

My bedroom was upstairs and I'd fall asleep with a pillow over my head to block out the foulness.

This thread has given me the chills.

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Eze on 19:19 - Mar 2 with 1569 views

kensalriser

Eze on 16:59 - Mar 2 by W7Ranger
Back row 2nd left, a young Don Revie.

On further scrutiny I now believe back right to be Plug of the Bash St Kids.

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Eze on 19:38 - Mar 2 with 1541 views

queensparker

It’s a real shame tho - in a parallel universe (or pre Sky) where we could keep this team together for another couple of seasons and slowly add a defence and a centre forward, I’d be 100% backing us for promotion within two years.

At least we’ve got Warbuton in place to spend the Eze money - that’s definitely progress.