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Harry Stefano Toffolo

Rockabilly

Rockabilly

GAFF LAD. "Open your knees and feel the breeze"
sammy the snake said:
but you know, f*** em..get the fireworks ready
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Larry Lansbury

Viv Anderson
Really good, sensible signings. We need a core of players who know and are used to the English game and are guaranteed to deliver. Think O’Brien will be one of first names on team sheet.
 
Tantobie Red

Tantobie Red

Youth Team
Huxley said:
The only real difference is Toffolo and O’Brien didn’t hand us our arses in their previous games quite the way Davies and
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True, but Calderwood's tactics of gifting Davies, the key opposition threat, freedom of the pitch to punish us back then had a little to do with that. We contained O’Brien for the most part in May but his engine in midfield looks to be the sort of thing we're screaming for now, and Toffolo has just had his best season by all accounts. Good piece of business, hopefully they can both make the step up.
 
Omar Devone Little

Omar Devone Little

Mr Realistic
With all this Lingard talk I'd completely forgotten about Toffolo and O'Brien...which makes the cynic in me wonder if the news was leaked to distract away from yesterday's shambles 😆.

They singed yet?
 
Captain Sinister

Captain Sinister

Senior doom Monger
Yeezy said:
With all this Lingard talk I'd completely forgotten about Toffolo and O'Brien...which makes the cynic in me wonder if the news was leaked to distract away from yesterday's shambles 😆.

They singed yet?
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I had just come on here to ask that very same question!
Well, have they?
 
Captain Sinister

Captain Sinister

Senior doom Monger
DapperDan said:
I holidayed in Leicestershire during the first COVID wave. It was very nice.
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Rural Leicestershire, like where I live, is lovely.
However, the market-town based Borouggh Councils are doing their damndest to sub-urbanise every interesting small village, plonking down large, housing estates on the edge of virtually every village.
I grew up in Gedling (wife interjects: boys never grow up at this point - just ignore her!), and in those days it was a smallish village, with a village centre, local independent shops and various services. On the fringes the housing estates were bieing built up.
By 1970 Gedling was just another lost village: a suburb of Nottingham.
Within 10 years from now I reckon a lot of Vale villages will be subsumed into Melton Mowbray.
Progress... it is killing the society and the character of everywhere.
It is still a beautiful environ roundabouts here.
But it is vanishing.
 
Strummer

Strummer

Socialismo O Muerte!
LTLF Minion
Captain Sinister said:
Rural Leicestershire, like where I live, is lovely.
However, the market-town based Borouggh Councils are doing their damndest to sub-urbanise every interesting small village, plonking down large, housing estates on the edge of virtually every village.
I grew up in Gedling (wife interjects: boys never grow up at this point - just ignore her!), and in those days it was a smallish village, with a village centre, local independent shops and various services. On the fringes the housing estates were bieing built up.
By 1970 Gedling was just another lost village: a suburb of Nottingham.
Within 10 years from now I reckon a lot of Vale villages will be subsumed into Melton Mowbray.
Progress... it is killing the society and the character of everywhere.
It is still a beautiful environ roundabouts here.
But it is vanishing.
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It is the same everywhere in the East Midlansds.

Ruddington, where I used to live, has had planning permission for nearly 600 new houses on estates on the periphery of the village approved, despite overwhelming local opposition.

They are dumping these identikit estates outside village centres, but not providing any additional investment for village services like healthcare and schools. Rudd had around 7.500 inhabitants before this, and it is not unreasonable that each new house will have (at least) two occupants and one car, and there was no plan to increase the numbers of GPs, or to provide extended capacity for the two village schools (infant and junior) both of which are currently running at almost-capacity.

Such issues were raised during the planning process, but were overruled by the Government Planning Inspectorate.
 
Jimmy

Jimmy

First Team Squad
Captain Sinister said:
Rural Leicestershire, like where I live, is lovely.
However, the market-town based Borouggh Councils are doing their damndest to sub-urbanise every interesting small village, plonking down large, housing estates on the edge of virtually every village.
I grew up in Gedling (wife interjects: boys never grow up at this point - just ignore her!), and in those days it was a smallish village, with a village centre, local independent shops and various services. On the fringes the housing estates were bieing built up.
By 1970 Gedling was just another lost village: a suburb of Nottingham.
Within 10 years from now I reckon a lot of Vale villages will be subsumed into Melton Mowbray.
Progress... it is killing the society and the character of everywhere.
It is still a beautiful environ roundabouts here.
But it is vanishing.
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For many years I've wondered how long it will be before Bingham and Radcliffe on Trent become one continuous conurbation. It's only a matter of time.
 
RedRobbo

RedRobbo

Grenville Morris
Jimmy said:
For many years I've wondered how long it will be before Bingham and Radcliffe on Trent become one continuous conurbation. It's only a matter of time.
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Yep. Over a thousand additional houses being built in Bingham.
Thats circa 4000 add folks - no increase in services.
 
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