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Injuries......
at 16:42 7 Aug 2025

Jude is currently suffering a bad reaction to some prescription worming tablets and not 100% for Saturday. I don’t usually play the ITK card but you can trust me on this one.

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Injuries......
at 13:30 7 Aug 2025

Paul Nardi - sprained ennui

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Knob End Match Fred
at 21:58 6 Aug 2025

After every Knob End goal kick I wanna hear the keeper get the full:

”You’re shit! Hrrraaaaawwwwwwwwrrrrrr ggghhhhhhaaaaaaawwwwrrrrrr!”

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Kevin Mcloud
at 17:54 6 Aug 2025

“Vaguely controversial”

You flatter yourself 😆

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Kevin Mcloud
at 16:57 6 Aug 2025

Group think? Jumping on comments? Ya paranoid git.

And let me tell you … the 112 members of the Danny Paddox Collective do not like being referred to as “you lot”

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Kevin Mcloud
at 15:47 6 Aug 2025

So just like everyone else then. To be fair.

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Knob End Match Fred
at 15:44 6 Aug 2025

We’re walking along
Singing our song
Walking in a Hrrraaaaawwwwwwwwrrrrrr ggghhhhhhaaaaaaawwwwrrrrrr wonderland

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Knob End Match Fred
at 15:15 6 Aug 2025

Ah yes but to quote Chewbacca,

“Hrrraaaaawwwwwwwwrrrrrr ggghhhhhhaaaaaaawwwwrrrrrr!”

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What is the Best Stan Bowles Story?
at 14:56 6 Aug 2025

Pretty sure it was Tony Hazell that up-ended the FA Cup at Roker Park. But a story from the same neck of the woods I saw with my own eyes albeit on Match of the Day when I was a kid. The Rs were playing Middlesbrough (on their way to a rare away win that season) at a windy Ayresome Park and as Stan is about to take a corner a match day programme blows onto the pitch. Or maybe it was a throw in. Anyway Stan picks the programme up, and possibly with Don Shanks, spends a few moments looking at the team line-ups (presumably) whilst pointing out the Middlesbrough players. Stan is studiously stroking his chin as if gaining some tactical knowledge from reading the programme. My memory recalls Stan gives the programme to a Middlesbrough fan in the crowd and we then score from the corner. Of course I may have remembered that all wrong.

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The QPR summer transfer rumours thread
at 10:34 6 Aug 2025

It’s Wednesday, Less than 4 days until the first game of the season. I’m beginning to worry we’re leaving it a little late to get a centre-forward in, show him around the ground, organise a game of paintball in a wooded area in the home-counties in order to speed-bond him with the rest of the squad, arrange a behind closed doors game against Chertsey Town to properly cement him into the first XI. Not forgetting a day with the media team, new boy wearing green and white hooped third kit draped in the club scarf assuring us he is going to become the best version of himself.

Edit: Scrap the paintball in the woods - injuries sustained would be up there with the Charge of the Light Briagde.

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Friendly Form Table
at 11:24 4 Aug 2025

Team P WDL F-A Pts

Millwall 8 602 18-7 18
Pompey 6 510 13-0 15
Leicester 6 501 11-6 15
Derby 6 411 12-9 13
Charlton 7 412 11-8 13
Sheff U 5 401 19-7 12

Ipswich 4 400 12-3 12
Bbun Rov 5 401 10-5 12
Brum 7 403 7-9 12
Bristol C 5 311 9-6 10
Hull 4 310 4-1 10
Saints 6 231 8-7 9

Watford 4 220 5-2 8
Oxford 5 221 5-2 8
Norwich 6 222 7-7 8
QPR 6 222 11-12 8
Stoke 5 212 4-6 7
Swansea 5 113 5-8 4

Cov 4 121 5-8 5
WBA 4 112 7-9 4
PNE 5 113 3-7 4
Wrexham 3 102 4-3 3
Boro 4 031 7-9 3
Sheff W 1 001 1-3 0

Mostly meaningless but interesting how each club has prepared. Portsmouth’s plan seemed to have been to give the players a run out against lots of lower league teams (Woking, Farnborough, Crawley, Reading, Havant & Waterlooville) to build up the fitness and confidence. Then (like us) they played a mid-table Dutch top tier team. Portsmouth didn’t lose or concede a goal in their 6 games. Our plan was to start against a lower team and gradually make it more challenging by 1. playing against a stronger team and 2. not play anyone up front. Sheffield Wednesday maybe the most illuminating - just the one pre season game, a 3-1 loss at Lincoln. Not Lincoln City but Lincoln United of the 108th tier. Though I read they fielded a young team.

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