They surely cannot be as bad as the ones that used to be behind the Holmesdale terrace, access via a slippery, muddy slope!

Toilet contractor announcement to be made in the next 48 hours. Likely to be a three year deal to fix them.

After extensive "Loo diligence".

'S right. Next thing, all these namby, pamby youngsters will be expecting heated seats in the stands.

Dad and I watched games standing on the muddy slope of the Holmesdale Road end. He cheered and I rattled.

Ouch! Willo - that ones beloo your usual standard!

With regard to Dazza, not sure why his posts create so much animus. He's easy to follow and enjoy, and equally easy to ignore depending on your personal preference. But it eludes me why people get so wound up by him. Either way (enjoy him or not), he's not really worth the column inches he commands. The real problem here is people taking him far too seriously. And that's their problem; not Dazza's.

It seems to me that no one is really "in the know" unless they know Steve Parrish directly. Any information that doesn't come from Steve himself (and even then, it may suit Steve's purposes to put out incorrect rumours anyway) is pretty much as speculative as something you or I make up. However, if someone knows somebody in the club who isn't Steve Parrish then they may feel they are "in the know" even though they're really not. My guess is that's the case with Dazza.

My view is that Dazza posts in good faith. I suspect he probably has contacts in the club, quite possibly better contacts than most on here have, and I suspect he accurately posts what they tell him. The problem is that Dazza's like a journalist pursuing a story who believes everything his source tells him at face value. But part of being a decent journalist is validating what you're told, even when you think your source is reliable. I don't think Dazza does that. I don't think he can. Thus, he takes informed but inaccurate rumours and then amplifies them as prospective fact.

For me, Dazza's posts amount to "informed scuttlebutt". They're interesting because they quite probably do represent gossip from inside the club rather than just forum speculation, but in reality they're about as likely to be true as the latter because the insiders who feed him aren't really informed themselves. They might know a little bit more than you and I, but they don't know the facts. Thus those who take Dazza's posts literally get upset when they're wrong as more often than not they will be. Meanwhile, those who understand what they really amount to enjoy the distraction he provides and don't take them as hard information, thus not being bothered when his pronouncements come to pass.

With all that said, if we only discussed hard facts on this forum, there'd be far fewer posts than there are. Best to just enjoy the speculation and leave those who think they know more than the rest of us to be hoist by their own petard when a different manager to the one they assured us was incoming is hired.

Sydenham by birth. Selhurst by the Grace of God.