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Reply | Walsh v Nardi
at 11:45 10 Aug 2025
Well, let's hope so, because he barely got a kick right yesterday. |
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Reply | If Celar is the answer what's the question 🤔
at 11:44 10 Aug 2025
I thought Celar was often very bright yesterday, but lots of people don't want to see it. There was a header he won in the first half that had everyone around me groaning because they wanted him to flick it on, I guess, into nowhere. Instead it was a perfect cushioned header for Chair to run onto and put the ball behind their defence. There was a disguised backheel in the second half that did the same thing – put us in behind the defence. He was not good last season, at all. But he did well in the first half yesterday. |
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Reply | Walsh v Nardi
at 00:30 10 Aug 2025
If Walsh kicks all season like he did today, he is going to cost us a load of matches. Never mind the actual goalkeeping, his distribution was absolutely awful today. |
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Reply | Kelman:Here We Go
at 14:24 28 Jul 2025
I had hoped we'd give him a go. But if he didn't want to stay – and it's hard to blame him – then we have obviously done the right thing. And £3.5m plus add-ons for a striker with one good season in the division below strikes me as a good bit of business: we've absolutely maximised the potential of that signing. which is what a club like this needs to do.
Look at this way. If he had in fact been a reasonable squad player for the last four seasons – say 30 goals in 100, which we would all think had been a good return on a punt from Southend – we would have been dancing in the street to get £3.5m for him. And that is *probably* what he'll turn out to be. [Post edited 28 Jul 14:26]
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Reply | Reggie Cannon/QPR update
at 17:25 11 Jul 2025
And he may have said kittens, but he didn't specify what sort. Don't be surprised if they're rabbit kittens. |
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Reply | 25/26. New kits
at 09:40 24 Jun 2025
There are around 9,000 Jews in Iran now. There were 100,000 before the revolution. It is not a happy place for Jews, though they are tolerated. Jews remain only because Iran, unlike most of the Arab world, did not expel its population. |
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Reply | "If Dixon Plays For England So Can I..."
at 22:46 14 Jun 2025
TBF you're also missing out a succession of Rolls Royce defenders from that list – Thompson, Hansen, Lawrenson. And I think you're underrating Hughes, who was really a half-back – a "CDM", as the youth say – who converted to centre back, and was important going forward, not just hoofing it out. But I know what you mean about it being less than the sum of its parts. Though those were the days when there were very few undoubted superstars, so every British team had its fair share of journeyman. Combine that with players not leaving relegated clubs (Brooking staying at West Ham when he was the heart of the England midfield!), and it meant the good British players were spread a lot more widely. |
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Reply | Season perspectives
at 23:13 4 May 2025
First time poster, but longtime fan! I remember the great team with the four sets of twins – the Morgans, the Ferdinands, the Allens and who can forget Gerry and Trevor Francis! I can even remember when Matrade Loftus Road was called the Kiyan Prince Foundation Stadium!
Anyway, some fans complain that the ground isn't all it could be, but my info is that the club are right on top of it. Some people might think it's controversial, but I think their plan – it's only a plan! Don't get your knickers in a twist! – to move the ground to Guildford is inspired. Great transport links, and a real football town with close links to London W12!
What's really exciting, though, is the youth programme. The info I'm getting is that Nourry, love him or hate him, has really worked on getting that up and running, and we're really seeing the results now. There are four management consultants doing internships right now, and the talk is three of them could turn pro in the CEO's office. |
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Reply | Favourite living guitarist
at 11:47 2 Apr 2025
James Walbourne is an incredible guitarist. Currently with the Pretenders, but has worked with so many people in so many styles. His side project His Lordship are well worth listening to. |
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Reply | Favourite living guitarist
at 11:45 2 Apr 2025
I saw the Blasters in 1985, opening for Jason and the Scorchers. When they came on and opened with Marie, Marie, I was outraged that they were doing a Shakin' Stevens song. Didn't realise they'd written it. They were so good. |
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Reply | The Boys From The Bush
at 13:32 25 Mar 2025
He is Chelsea. I interviewed him last year, and asked about that famous photo that seems to show him at a Chelsea v QPR game. It was him, and he always supported Chelsea. |
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Reply | Don't get carried away
at 17:52 17 Feb 2025
We started getting successful at set pieces last season, by playing to Dunne at the near post, for flick ons that either created chances or went in. The same thing we did with Edwards against Derby. |
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Reply | Top 10 Championship players 24/25
at 17:40 17 Feb 2025
Former FourFourTwo editor here explaining why it is so early to be nominating …
They have to cover all 92 clubs. That means getting the stuff in from 92 fans, some of whom will take ages to respond. They have to tabulate it, edit the copy where applicable, do the picture research, lay it all out, proof it and get it to the printers. And also format it for the web. At the same time as doing the normal magazines. Because it's a special it will likely go to print before the mag it goes out with – I don't know how much earlier, but it will be a few weeks, probably. The mag itself goes to print two or three weeks before it is in the shops. So in order to actually get the thing done, they need to leave a couple of months to actually pull it all together.
In music writing, we start getting asked for our albums of the year in September. |
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Reply | AC/DC European tour
at 12:54 7 Feb 2025
Both of you wear good earplugs. Near the front it will be too loud for you to actually hear the chord changes without them. Seriously. |
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Reply | Kelman?
at 23:26 1 Feb 2025
I went to see Orient today. They didn't play well – lost at home to Stockport. And Kelman did not look good. Seemed slow and fat. Didn't dominate in the air. Had a couple of chances. His best moment was, I suspect, entirely by accident. We're not getting any kind of fee for him. |
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Reply | Saito, stick or twist?
at 17:57 16 Jan 2025
Stick. Clearly a talented player. Can't believe anyone would let him go from this squad. |
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Reply | We sign a striker!
at 17:56 16 Jan 2025
It's good that the club have reconfigured "threadbare squad" as "creating pathways". Genius. |
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