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Reply | Players with big conks
at 20:58 8 Sep 2025
I dunno, quite a lot of ears too.
Are you sure he wasn't an elephant?/ |
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Reply | Downvotes
at 12:08 7 Sep 2025
You're one of the posters I always look out for - obviously I don't always agree but you are always honest and without an agenda. |
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Reply | Celar
at 21:09 6 Sep 2025
I agree that we shouldn't overstate it, but 50th is about ten places better than either the Republic of Ireland or NI and just a couple below Scotland and Romania. They drew 2-2 with Sweden the other day and a few year's back they came to Wembley and only lost to a Harry Kane goal in the 94th minute.
It's not setting anything on fire, but it's not rubbish either.
(The rankings also are a bit harsh on European sides (and Latin American ones) IMO because they all play each other a lot - Iran are currently 20th and Egypt are 34, which I suspect is due to them playing a load of rubbish Middle Eastern sides a lot of the time.) |
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Reply | Celar
at 13:56 6 Sep 2025
I'm glad to see some acceptance that a player who had a very decent record at a good level (and plays international football for a half-way decent international side) might not actually be utter sh*te just because he struggled to make an impact in a very poor QPR side.
I'm not even convinced that he's incapable of playing in the Championship, but I do think he did not fit the capabilities of our team at the time. He had just shown that he might do a job for us in the two games before his injury, but I think Kone and Burrell are both better options for us and a loan with a view to a sale is the right way to go.
Largely I think it is "on us" (or at least on Nourry, or whoever was responsible for last year's transfer window) but if the rumours of him not settling in London are true then I think a bit of that is on him - maybe he should have done a bit of research, it's not as though London is an obscure place. |
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Thread | Footballers who sound like places
at 20:35 4 Sep 2025
Right, I'm as bored as everyone else is with a sodding International Break for two weeks so England can play a ski resort, so:
Harvey Vale: a station on the Piccadilly Line somewhere between Earls Court and Rayners Lane
Lyndon Dykes: a small village in the Lincolnshire Fens
Rob Green: a Recreation Ground in Croydon
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Reply | Resplendent Footballers
at 20:21 4 Sep 2025
I reckon you're all playing on Easy Mode by picking Rangers players, so I'm racking my brains for someone who played against us that I didn't slag off for 90 minutes.
I genuinely admired Matt Le Tissier all his playing career, but subsequently he seems to have shown himself up as a bit of a knob. So I'm going for Liam Brady and hoping that Brian Mc isn't going to pop up and say that everyone in Ireland knows that he's never got a round in in his life.
But if it's Rangers, I'll have another vote for Glenn Roeder and throw in Alan Macca and Gary Waddock. |
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Reply | Our away support, and support in general....
at 12:45 4 Sep 2025
Have just had the horrible thought that if I'm right sooner or later someone is going to come up with Craft Football for hipsters.
Maybe that's what Wrexham are now. |
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Reply | Our away support, and support in general....
at 12:44 4 Sep 2025
I have a theory that there's a thirst for the dirty, gritty real thing - not just football, but lots of things.
It's a bit like the revival of vinyl record shops - of course most music is now listened to digitally, the sound is clean, you can get it virtually free online; but for some people the warmth of vinyl is better, and even the "inconvenience" of having to put the needle onto the disc is part of the experience.
With football, slick Premier League football is available in your living room all the time for the cost of a TV sub but it's not the real football experience at all IMO. |
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Reply | Former player photos
at 17:28 3 Sep 2025
What a lovely thread; good luck to you James.
Of course, your uncle's beard is a poster on this very site. |
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Reply | The Dangers Of Online Jiggery Pokery
at 17:25 3 Sep 2025
Jiggery Pokery is a great phrase, should be used more often.
When my lad was in the first year of his archaeology degree, he went on a dig at the Bishop of Durham's old palace, excavating the Bish's Pinery-Vinery. |
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Reply | CONTRARY to FIRM BELIEF
at 21:19 2 Sep 2025
Exactly right, Brian, and IMO this sets out exactly what Madsen doesn't do.
Which does not mean Madsen is rubbish. As you say, Wilkins was transformational, players like that don't come along often. (If I recall correctly we got him on a free from Glasgow Rangers; amazing, really.) |
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Reply | The box-to-box 8
at 21:12 2 Sep 2025
Bryan Robson was another one later (not as good a passer of the ball IMO) but when you start thinking of those names you realise the fact is there are bloody few players who can do all that at any one time.
I think it's a bit like the "No 10". If you've got a Stan or an Adel, or an Ebs then: great. Chair isn't quite at that level but has still carried the team for years. But for years and years we have had squads with no-one of that quality in that position, sometimes you just have to accept that and concentrate on other styles of player. |
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Reply | Taylor Richards gone…thank god.
at 19:27 1 Sep 2025
It is surely in keeping that the Invisible Man should simultaneously leave in three separate threads. |
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Reply | In Advanced Talks With Edwards
at 18:24 1 Sep 2025
Frighteningly possible, and given garybannister86's post upthread it's going to be a relief if the Transfer Window Slams Shut and we haven't persuaded Roy Keane out of retirement.
Let's face it, if you rang him up and asked him if he was still in his prime he'd bloody tell you he was. |
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Reply | Out of the darkness – Report
at 15:07 1 Sep 2025
I find BlueSky works OK for me, but basic problem is that (some) people online behave like total dicks in a way that they wouldn't dare to face to face.
I think the only real answer is to talk to more people face-to-face! Half of the digital revolution is about reducing the amount of human contact in our lives, and frankly it's a bad thing in countless ways.
This place is one of the rare exceptions but, much as I appreciate all that Clive does and the many excellent posters on here, it's basically a substitute for being able to get to games and chat in the pub afterwards. Since I can't, I'm really grateful this site exists, but anytime I can do Real Life I'll choose it over digital. |
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Reply | Saito goal
at 22:06 30 Aug 2025
Tell you what, Smyth comes over really well in that.
We all know he's limited, and also that he always puts in a shift. What you see there is how he can help with team spirit.
You get the impression that it's not just the fans who are glad to see Saito back. |
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Reply | Kone v Kelman
at 21:45 30 Aug 2025
That's a good observation.
This is hypothetical, but Kelman might do better in a stronger side than Charlton, which made more chances for him to put away.
But if you're playing up front for a side like QPR or Charlton, you need a bit of that physicality (or maybe Burrell's pace) to make chances for yourself. |
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Reply | CONTRARY to FIRM BELIEF
at 21:38 30 Aug 2025
I think he's good at the stuff he's good at, not so good at the stuff he's not good at.
OK, I know, statement of the obvious.
But what I mean is that I don't think he's the sort of midfield general who can transform a side (a Ray Wilkins, to pick up from the OP). Wilkins want't just a brilliant passer, he was a leader who knew the game inside out and didn't mind bollocking team-mates who weren't performing.
I think Madsen needs at least some of the other moving parts of the side to be working. Without those, he doesn't force his way into the game and contributes little or nothing, but if some of them are present he has something to work with and is useful. (Though I wonder if Vale might prove a better option.)
Him having a decent game today is a good sign not just because no-one wants to see any of our players fail, but because it suggests that the team overall is starting to come together. (I'm not putting it higher than that just yet.) |
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