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Reply | Players we should have got rid - way before we did
at 17:19 12 May 2024
I suppose the real "hanging onto" players are ones that were actually decent, but where we kept them to a point where we had to sell them for peanuts because the contract had run down, when we could have got a decent price and reinvested a year or two before.
Those are tough to call.
Maybe Trevor Sinclair, who we could have flogged for big money (then) when we were relegated? We kept him as part of the bid for immediate promotion, and failed badly.
But then we'd have never have had that goal against Barnsley. |
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Reply | Players we should have got rid - way before we did
at 17:12 12 May 2024
Tony Roberts
This isn't just a "Roberts was crap" judgement - for a few years the jury was out, he would have occasional decent games, pull off a classy save etc.
But by 1995 at the absolute latest (when we'd had a whole season without Stejskal), when we still had a good squad in which he was clearly a weakness, and when we were about to get the Ferdinand money, we could have replaced him for a fraction of the money spaffed on Hateley etc.
PS Barton was one we never should have signed in the first place, all the warning signs were in plain view. |
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Reply | Players we should have kept
at 14:41 12 May 2024
That was the one that made me think "hello, I don't like the look of this."
I'm not saying that Gorkss would have kept us up, but it seemed a gratuitous kick in the teeth to a good guy. It felt like the judgement was that the promotion team were to be thrown away for something shiny and new. |
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Reply | Andre the friendly ghost departs
at 14:25 12 May 2024
If so, can't help feeling his dad has not done him any favours.
Simply allowed him to be exposed above his natural level.
As with the offspring of a lot of sporting legends, real career options appear to be to accept that you're nowhere near as good a player as your dad/mum/uncle/whatever and
- chip out some sort of living playing the sport you love at a lower level, or
- do something else and play for fun in your spare time
(Obviously there are exceptions, like the Charlton brothers being nephews of Jackie Milburn, but Bobby Charlton was a football genius and Jack some sort of workaholic, and Andre Dozzell has never looked like either of those things even at his best.) |
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Reply | Away Kit - WISHLIST 2024/25 Season
at 17:26 29 Apr 2024
Fair enough.
If anyone could find a sponsor whose initials spelled out F U C K O F F C H E L S E A just for that one match in that shirt that would be nice too. |
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Reply | Away Kit - WISHLIST 2024/25 Season
at 17:17 29 Apr 2024
Incidentally, the problem with green and white hoops is that, however well it works as a kit (which it does) it doesn't do the prime job of an away kit which is to avoid colour clashes that come with the home kit.
We should be wearing blue and white hoops except when we're playing anyone in predominantly blue or predominantly white (or both). Against teams in white, green-and-white just won't do. |
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Reply | Team for Cov
at 00:53 27 Apr 2024
Sympathise with the OP but there is such a thing as integrity and respect for the competition, the other teams, and the fans.
One or two younger players getting a run-out is one thing, wholesale changes is going too far. |
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Reply | Chelsea sell 2 hotels.....
at 23:16 19 Apr 2024
Did they use Monopoly money?
Go to jail.
Do not pass Go.
Just f*ck right off. |
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Reply | Reggie Cannon
at 21:52 10 Apr 2024
I make you right and even if things go pear-shaped you'd still be right on most of us expecting bottom three and praying for 4th bottom. |
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Reply | With all this talk of strikers...
at 21:17 10 Apr 2024
The alternative view is that we should be writing off all of them and starting again in the summer.
Not sure I'd go that far but I'd certainly be well along that path.
Let's also not forget that the one absolute quality forward we have is Ilias Chair and none of us can be exactly certain where he'll be next season. |
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Reply | Championship Predictor - final table
at 00:55 5 Apr 2024
Dunno about you lot but I want us to win every game between now and the end of the season and will be disappointed if we lose to any except Leeds (only side we play who are above us in current form table) or maybe Preston (one below us)
Obviously all sorts of things can go wrong, but no, I'm not expecting us to simultaneously start losing while a bunch of sides deservedly in the relegation zone win everything in sight. I think it's more likely we finish a place or maybe two above where we are now.
On complacency, that's a matter for the players and manager, not us. In Marti I trust. |
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Reply | Jude The Cat: GONE?
at 22:45 2 Apr 2024
Hoping (in order of desirability):
1. It's an April Fool; or
2. It balls; or
3. He's the new Plymouth manager |
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Reply | A positive team that cares
at 22:32 1 Apr 2024
Contracts can be varied "by agreement"; a lot depends on who has the bargaining power.
If they said: "Go to QPR, we're not covering all your wages and QPR can't, but you'll play. You're in the shop window. Stay here and you get paid, but you won't play, and we've not had any offers for you" then he might be willing to take that
(Pure speculation on my part; I'm just saying that legally that could happen.) |
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Reply | A positive team that cares
at 22:22 1 Apr 2024
Very much agree with you on those two sides. They were both very good, very likeable sides and while they may not have won any trophies, they made QPR as a top flight side seem natural, not just the product of a brief glorious episode
For personal reasons I saw much less of the Holloway side but they have a big place in my heart because they turned round a truly awful period under Houston and Harford. The fact that they did it in lower divisions doesn't undermine that; on the contrary, the fact they did it for us when we were skint at places like Wigan and Crewe Alex matters to me. |
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