Yes those conversations are hard. You try and prepare them by retaining

a sense of realism so that when it happens it wont be such a blow but then recently i've been thinking that maybe I should just let him retain his unrealistic optimism!

He got it completely when I said to him that at the start of the season we would find it very tough because all the other teams have more money than us and he knows that every game is tough so we can;t ever expect an easy game but he looked a bit down this weekend when I said to him that we possibly already have left ourselves too much to do to get out of the bottom three!

Posted By: Jim on January 15th 2020 at 14:38:04

Message Thread

Player you were most gutted about when they were sold. (NCFC) - Trent_Canary, Jan 15, 11:44:20
- James Maddison (n/m) (NCFC) - essexcanaryOTBC, Jan 15, 18:17:21
- Eadie deffo (n/m) (NCFC) - Kangol Canary, Jan 15, 18:12:21
- Ron Davies (n/m) (NCFC) - rosarios_school_tie, Jan 15, 17:26:47
- Mark Robins, Darren Huckerby and Bradley Johnson (n/m) (NCFC) - Kar1, Jan 15, 16:12:14
- Dave Phillips (n/m) (NCFC) - MIKEWALKER, Jan 15, 15:43:21
  - Oh yeah. (NCFC) - Cardiff Canary, Jan 15, 17:08:19
    - Scored peaches for fun and had a lovely bit of arrogance about him (n/m) (NCFC) - MIKEWALKER, Jan 15, 17:41:39
- Ekoku to Wimbledon (ffs) for £1m was very annoying. (NCFC) - Huge Small, Jan 15, 15:10:21
- Super Chrissy Sutton. (n/m) (NCFC) - Rob NCFC, Jan 15, 14:50:05
- Kevin Reeves (interesting how many of us old un's remember him) (NCFC) - Saucerer, Jan 15, 14:48:46
  - Probably the first real example of having our best players picked off by the bigger boys (n/m) (NCFC) - mr carra, Jan 15, 15:40:03
- Fleck, Reeves, Sutton (n/m) (NCFC) - Worthing Yellow, Jan 15, 14:45:58
- Fleck, Fox, Sutton (n/m) (NCFC) - Charles21, Jan 15, 14:27:39
- Hugh Curran (n/m) (NCFC) - ghostof barry butler, Jan 15, 14:19:42
- Sutton and Eadie in equal measures (n/m) (NCFC) - Dandy Highburyman, Jan 15, 14:09:31
- sutton made me miserable (NCFC) - paulg, Jan 15, 13:30:57
- Crook... (NCFC) - Cardiff Canary, Jan 15, 13:23:50
  - Still recovering from that time... (NCFC) - Worthing Yellow, Jan 15, 14:43:42
    - Chase out indeed. (NCFC) - Cardiff Canary, Jan 15, 17:03:00
  - Could hardly have picked a worse time really could we. (NCFC) - megson, Jan 15, 14:15:17
    - I was never quite sure why we needed to sell (NCFC) - Cardiff Canary, Jan 15, 17:05:06
- There's been so many,but I'd add Watson Brucey,and although only (NCFC) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Jan 15, 13:23:37
  - Heh (NCFC) - Cardiff Canary, Jan 15, 13:27:41
- Eadie. Cos that felt like we were really giving up. (n/m) (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Jan 15, 13:09:43
  - This, it was the end of the production line... (NCFC) - Maillot Jaune, Jan 15, 14:42:16
- Eadie and Bellamy (NCFC) - Brom, Jan 15, 12:58:50
- Sutton and Eadie. My son will be gutted when/if Pukki is sold. (n/m) (NCFC) - Jim, Jan 15, 12:58:30
  - my lad is fixating on Cantwell (NCFC) - CWC, Jan 15, 13:50:09
    - Yes those conversations are hard. You try and prepare them by retaining (NCFC) - Jim, Jan 15, 14:38:04
    - As is my daughter! (NCFC) - norway, Jan 15, 14:16:02
      - Same, my youngest daughter like STC (n/m) (NCFC) - strap_on sally, Jan 15, 14:30:20
- I was sad to see Nedergarrrd go. Appeared to be an absolutely capital fellow. (n/m) (NCFC) - DrDublin, Jan 15, 12:54:14
- Flecky to Chelsea. It hurt. (n/m) (NCFC) - Azteca, Jan 15, 12:49:54
- Kevin Reeves (NCFC) - Martin Peters, Jan 15, 12:49:01
  - No Reeves, no future! (n/m) (NCFC) - Kev, Jan 15, 17:38:55
- Eadie definitely, was a shit time for the club (NCFC) - city_lad, Jan 15, 12:45:26
  - What did he go for £2/3m was it? Easily undervalued (n/m) (NCFC) - city_lad, Jan 15, 12:47:05
    - Yeah it was quite a low fee even for 20 years ago. Probably because he had glass knees. (n/m) (NCFC) - Trent_Canary, Jan 15, 13:00:55
- Not a player, and a long time ago, but (NCFC) - Tricky Hawes, Jan 15, 12:44:12
- Sutton easily...we weren't good we were brilliant at the time and it was (NCFC) - BINMEN8R, Jan 15, 12:35:14
  - "we could have won the league and cups ". Ye Gods. (NCFC) - mr carra, Jan 15, 14:29:44
  - We had just finished 12th when he left, and were on the slide already (n/m) (NCFC) - earlydoors, Jan 15, 13:11:33
- Jimmy Bone (n/m) (NCFC) - fareastcanary, Jan 15, 12:30:39
  - Oh Jimmy Jimmy,Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy Bone ! (NCFC) - MORDENCANARY, Jan 15, 12:34:18
  - Kevin Reeves (n/m) (NCFC) - fareastcanary, Jan 15, 12:31:28
- Bellamy I think - not least because he went to Coventry. (n/m) (NCFC) - norway, Jan 15, 12:30:34
- Chris Sutton (NCFC) - avenging canary, Jan 15, 12:30:05
  - yup..... Agree with you, it was gutting. (n/m) (NCFC) - promethian1, Jan 15, 13:46:36
- does the Huckerby situation count? (NCFC) - CWC, Jan 15, 12:24:53
- Dale Gordon (n/m) (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, Jan 15, 12:19:03
- Robert Fleck to Chelsea (NCFC) - eadie2001, Jan 15, 12:18:45
- Ruel Fox/Mike Walker in early 94 (NCFC) - mr carra, Jan 15, 12:16:58
- Keith Scott (n/m) (NCFC) - malkybarkid, Jan 15, 12:15:29
- how did we not get promoted with Eadie, Bellamy, Iwan, O'Neil (NCFC) - ingi, Jan 15, 12:12:38
  - I think Eadie, O'Neill and Bellamy only played together about twice (NCFC) - Mecagoenti, Jan 15, 12:16:34
    - fake news klaxon (NCFC) - Henclrikus, Jan 15, 12:30:41
      - fyi (NCFC) - Mecagoenti, Jan 15, 13:39:00
  - Dean Ashton sale pissed me off (n/m) (NCFC) - ingi, Jan 15, 12:14:44
    - Eadie for me too, he was fab. I had a wee with him in Chandlers. Bellas too. (n/m) (NCFC) - DrDublin, Jan 15, 12:21:29
- Bellamy without a doubt. Jon Newsome leaving made me sad too. (n/m) (NCFC) - phelans tash, Jan 15, 12:12:36
- I was in Leicester a few days after he signed for them. (NCFC) - Garry Brooke, Jan 15, 12:04:30
- Sutton or Bellamy (n/m) (NCFC) - Knitted Jesus, Jan 15, 12:04:13
  - Yep. These two. (NCFC) - Under soil heating, Jan 15, 12:16:15
- Justin Fashanu (NCFC) - the101ers, Jan 15, 12:01:10
  - Agreed, Fash was good box office. (NCFC) - MORDENCANARY, Jan 15, 12:31:27
- Ashley Ward (n/m) (NCFC) - Duck, Jan 15, 11:58:37
- The most gutted I've ever been was when Lambert left (NCFC) - strap_on sally, Jan 15, 11:56:17
  - Same, the way it played out left a really bad taste (n/m) (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, Jan 15, 12:32:41
  - Me too I think. (NCFC) - APB, Jan 15, 11:58:44
- Same. Along with Bellamy (n/m) (NCFC) - Waz, Jan 15, 11:51:41

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