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Reply | Taylor Richards gone…thank god.
at 15:12 2 Sep 2025
Laird's diary:
August 2021 - Mr. Martin told me to attack! 😊
January 2022 - Mr. Parker told me to attack! 😊
August 2022 - Mr. Beale told me to attack! 😊
November 2022 - Mr. Ten Hag told me he might recall me in January! 😁
December 2022 - Mr. Critchley told me not to attack 😯
January 2023 - Mr. Ten Hag told me to stay at QPR and not get injured so he can sell me in the summer ☹️
February 2023 - Mr. Ainsworth told me to do the haka and then not attack 😭 |
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Reply | Taylor Richards gone…thank god.
at 09:12 2 Sep 2025
To quote Boyle from Brooklyn Nine-Nine, I think you may be only 99% right this time.
Richards - crap.
Balogun - let's go with crap even though we were disappointed he left us for Big Rangers.
Roberts - renovation project that didn't work out, missed the Wales World Cup squad with genuine injury, Leeds couldn't get him healthy either.
Paal - played at QPR level or slightly better for 2½ years, meant we didn't have to worry about left-back.
Iroegbunam - did fine, now a Premier League player on merit.
Laird - first-team regular, victim of four-four-f******-two, now a first-team regular for probably a better side than us.
JCS - "So, you take him on, and you put medical staff around him to try and get more minutes out of him. Enter Ben Williams, and Clarke-Salter is probably his biggest success story to date." |
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Reply | Taylor Richards gone…thank god.
at 00:38 2 Sep 2025
Taylor's crime was being brought in by Mick Beale and not being very good. That's it. Most of the million football players in England aren't very good. Fair play to Brighton, they rinsed us for a League Two player. He gets pelters for his availability from people who would have complained about him being in the side if he WAS available, so he couldn't win. |
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Reply | If we go down , does anyone give a shit.
at 15:51 26 Aug 2025
The worst thing about being relegated is all the games you have to lose to do it.
Once we're in League One we'll adjust to the new reality, win more games than we lose, and have a chance to get a young core in place that propels us straight through the Championship.
Really the best that can be said for life in the Championship from a sustainability point of view, is that it's where you have to be to get promoted to the Prem. If your plan is Premier League in five years, you're literally better off spending years 2 and 3 in League One than having to loan in Ronnie Edwards/Jamal Lowe/Andre Gray/Nakhi Wells just to stay in the Championship. |
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Reply | RND joins on loan
at 15:05 26 Aug 2025
And Waterloo Sunset, Gooner-dom notwithstanding. |
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Reply | Protesting together
at 14:59 26 Aug 2025
The main issue I can see with all those suggestions is that Pigbag is already in a minor key 😉 |
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Reply | RND joins on loan
at 14:45 26 Aug 2025
I'm nicknaming him Maestro - "Norrington-Davies" is the orchestra conductor's equivalent of Lennon-McCartney 🤓 |
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Reply | Taxi for Marti
at 16:40 15 Aug 2025
Clubs aren't deciding in round 1 whether to take the League Cup seriously. The optimal strategy as practiced by almost everyone is to treat the rounds up to the quarter-final as slightly more intense friendlies, and then start taking it seriously if by sheer luck you happen to win all your games and find yourself in the semis. |
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Reply | If Celar is the answer what's the question 🤔
at 23:54 10 Aug 2025
Mostly this, yeah. Celar for me is the epitome of a Replacement Level Player, to borrow a Moneyball term. He knows the game enough not to embarrass himself, but we could find another player kicking around on a free who will contribute exactly the same.
Look at it this way, if we'd had a guy called Gianni Sellers on trial from Concord Rangers, 13 caps for British Virgin Islands, YouTube channel packed with worldies, manager says he's got the best nose for goal he's ever seen at that level, and then he copies Celar's performance against Preston kick for kick. Would you be worried about missing out on a generational talent if you didn't sign him up? Or would you think, nah, not ready for this level, and we've got Lloyd and Kolli as medium-term projects already? |
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Reply | QPR: The Modern Circus of West London – Column
at 16:54 4 Aug 2025
Interesting facts, and all credit to Gareth Dixon for his role at QPR, but this piece was definitely given to an AI at some point in its life cycle with the instruction "make this sound prettier". |
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Reply | Morecambe FC RIP
at 15:14 3 Aug 2025
Here's my favourite little factoid for the "reality hits" side of the argument:
Here's every team in last season's League Two ranked by average home attendance.
Bradford City (17762)
Notts County (10626)
*AFC Wimbledon (9745)
Chesterfield (8505)
Doncaster Rovers (8057)
Port Vale (7622)
Carlisle United (7425)
Swindon Town (7229)
Milton Keynes Dons (7025)
Walsall (6470)
Tranmere Rovers (6389)
Gillingham (6268)
Grimsby Town (6067)
Crewe Alexandra (5397)
Colchester United (4998)
Newport County (4239)
*Cheltenham Town (4198)
*Morecambe (3410)
*Barrow (3381)
*Bromley (3111)
*Fleetwood Town (2995)
*Harrogate Town (2968)
*Salford City (2849)
*Accrington Stanley (2556)
And here's the same for League One.
Birmingham City (26326)
Bolton Wanderers (21325)
Huddersfield Town (18817)
Charlton Athletic (18112)
Wrexham (12781)
Reading (12535)
Barnsley (12211)
Wigan Athletic (9946)
Stockport County (9630)
Blackpool (9619)
Rotherham United (9330)
Peterborough United (9151)
Lincoln City (9004)
Bristol Rovers (7880)
Leyton Orient (7875)
Mansfield Town (7769)
Northampton Town (6629)
Cambridge United (6597)
Exeter City (6513)
Shrewsbury Town (6207)
*Wycombe Wanderers (5413)
*Crawley Town (4393)
*Stevenage (4005)
*Burton Albion (3254)
The asterisks are the NEW teams in the EFL post-1986 - the ones who came up from the Conference/National League who hadn't previously dropped into it.
This is the kind of correlation that statisticians dream about - EVERY team who came up since 1986 ranks below EVERY team who was voted in pre-1986, in both divisions. With the exception of AFC Wimbledon for obvious reasons. |
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Reply | Sheffield Wednesday
at 14:37 3 Aug 2025
Heck no, can you imagine?
"Man's nan dies in A&E waiting for a doctor while team of Government-paid millionaires lose 3-0 to Portsmouth"
Never mind the outcry if the safety notice on the North Stand magically disappears, or if the team signs a bargain bin Russian striker from Turkey and the work permit gets waved through... |
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Reply | Singing from the same hymn sheet – Fans Forum
at 22:04 31 Jul 2025
"We've looked at how other successful bakeries have made cakes, and whereas before we might have had some really good flour, butter, eggs, all the rest of it, the questions we have to be asking are - what can we do with those inputs, those "ingredients" if you like, to give them the best chance of turning into a cake? If it was as easy as just mixing all the ingredients together, we'd be implementing that model, but we've found that unless you put them in some kind of vessel first, then mixing them is just going to cover your whole room in semi-solid bits of food. So we've got people working on that, trying out all different kinds of pint glasses, and then of course that feeds into the whole issue of, do we want to be the bakery that just smashes the ingredients together with our fingers? Or is that an area where we can make incremental improvements like getting in there with a toothbrush or some kind of plastic straw, going anti-clockwise instead of clockwise? So many variables that go into a decision like that, and that's before you even get to the question of how long to microwave it." |
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Reply | Morecambe FC RIP
at 21:24 31 Jul 2025
Clubs of Morecambe's size have been going bust for a long time. The drop from League Two to National League is particularly lethal. Before Morecambe it was Macclesfield, before them it was Rushden, Hereford, Chester, Halifax, Scarborough, Darlington, Boston... I've probably missed some. Other, better-run teams step up to replace them. |
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Reply | Kit Porn
at 00:29 31 Jul 2025
Whitby Town. (That's one way to stop the old gits telling you your pink away kit looks weak.) |
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Reply | Sheffield Wednesday
at 00:14 31 Jul 2025
Owners like Chansiri? Wednesday fans were delighted with Chansiri in 2016 when they made the playoffs. Step up from Mandaric, never felt this much trust in an owner, man of integrity, really gets what we're about as a club.
The best owner in the EFL is a promotion (to raise expectations) and two relegations away from having the fans marching to the ground with his face crossed out on a banner. |
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Reply | Sheffield Wednesday
at 03:59 30 Jul 2025
The respective sports only stepped in to buy Montreal Expos, Chivas and Arizona Coyotes because they had the credible option of folding or relocating, which they did in all three cases. If the FA were to say "we will keep Morecambe alive and playing in Morecambe come hell or high water" and you're a prospective owner who wants a club for a fiver but would eventually have been flushed out by the threat of the club ceasing to exist, you no longer have to worry about that. You can watch the FA get more and more desperate for a sale until they're paying you to take it off them debt-free. |
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Reply | Kelman:Here We Go
at 13:41 27 Jul 2025
I'm skeptical of this point; literally every club bar the Premier League top 6 can point to clubs that have accelerated past them and grumble, because those are the eye-catching stories. But for every successful Brighton, Bournemouth, Brentford, Luton or Huddersfield there's a Reading, Wigan, Bolton, Luton or Huddersfield going the other way. |
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Reply | Josh Windass
at 21:27 24 Jul 2025
Word-itis 🤣 it's a text-based message board, would you prefer semaphore?
Everyone agrees that wages are a factor predicting attainment, but not the only factor. To put it in a way that precludes argument over the meaning of words, the correlation factor is greater than 0 and less than 1.
You are the only person who feels clever for noticing this fact. [Post edited 24 Jul 21:28]
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