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Interesting that it has concrete figures for what we were paying for his wages: £3.5k a week in his first season with us, rising to £10.5k in his third if he’d stayed with us.
Agree with people saying it feels like more of a 3rd kit, but I think it looks alright - not our best away kit of recent years but far from our worst, and I reckon it’ll sell decently. Talk of pink being for “pansies” comes across as a bit Alf Garnett in 2025 though, sorry,
If there’s any aspect of human endeavour in which Stainrod doesn’t consider himself an expert - and isn’t willing to explain in excruciating detail how the rest of us idiots are getting it completely wrong - then we’re yet to discover it. Truly the greatest to ever do it.
Brilliant advice in here, agree with everything you’ve said. Thame_hoops, listen to this guy!
I went on the apps for the first time in my mid 30s, having been in a long-term relationship since before they really became a thing, and have generally had a really good experience with them.
I think as long as you throw yourself into it in the right spirit (would particularly echo the numbers game point, being respectful and also just having fun with it, approaching things positively rather than expecting them to fail) then they can be a really positive thing - they certainly were for me!
Agree with almost all of this. If he's fit, engaged and performing to the required level, then I don't see any reason why he shouldn't play a part this season.
At the same time, I think a bit of wariness is probably healthy too. He's barely played any first-team football for three years, and has shown that he can't be relied on, whatever the reasons for that might be. If it turns out to have been a mental health thing then that's rough on him, but given his availability thus far you'd have to hope that the club have already ruled out giving him a new contract, however well he might perform over the next few months.
Best case scenario would be for him to be a decent squad option this season, before we either shake hands and part ways next spring, or get him off the books on a free at Christmas. Anything else would be way too much of a risk given what's gone before.
Very slow to reply to this, but did all 5 days, and a couple of panel discussions (seeing my name on the lineup, even 500 stages down from the headliners, is a top 10 life moment).
Pulp, Olivia Rodrigo, Ezra Collective, DJ EZ, Snapped Ankles, Alanis all brilliant. Best Glastonbury I’ve been to, up there with the best weekends of my life, got a lot of “U rsss” while wearing my shirt, a very drunk Burnley fan told me we’re going up this year. I guess we’ll see if he’s right.
Bit of a tangent, but I recorded this radio show earlier in the week, interviewing a soundsystem / DJ duo called Nzinga Soundz and playing some great old reggae tunes.
Went for a coffee afterwards, ended up talking about Notting Hill Carnival and growing up in West London, I mentioned that I was a QPR fan, and she said that Leroy Rosenior is her brother!
Thought the Rangers connection, or the show as a whole, might interest people:
Bored and can’t sleep - there’s at least one earlier player: George Vose signed for Man United in 1932 and played a single game for them after the war.
Mixed feelings about this, seemed great when he arrived and has been solid throughout, but his game hasn’t really developed - though I’m sure all the upheaval at the club hasn’t helped - and he’s clearly been checked out for the entirety of this season. Suspect he’ll go on to have a decent career overseas, and wish him well. Big season required from whoever comes in to replace him, presumably one of Vale, Esquerdinha or Larkeche.
Right, but how many of those sixteen players are centre forwards who would have been available on our budget, and been interested in coming here? A quick check on transfermarkt suggests that only Emil Riis, and maybe Josh Maja fit that criteria. Norwich spent 11 million quid on Andre Crnac, who ended up scoring one goal less than Frey did.
Dream all you like, but the financial realities are what they are: the market for Championship goalscorers has exploded, and we don't have enough money to compete, so we've had to buy cheap and hope we get lucky. You can criticise how we've approached that (Washington and Bonne, for example) or other clubs beating us to emerging talent. But when the market is stacked against you, you're inevitably going to end up with more misses than hits.
I also think you're applying a pretty rosy filter to the past: Les was a generational talent, but around the same time we also spent decent money on Mark Falco (£500k, 12 goals in his first season, no more than 5 subsequently), plus obvious dross like Mark Hateley and Mike Sheron. The idea that, Les aside, we used to have a conveyor belt of amazing strikers is pretty tenuous. Even if it was accurate, it's clear that the game's changed beyond all recognition since then.
Except if you play three at the back and two up top, where do Chair / Dembele / any of our other midget 10s go? We've clearly been better playing 433 than 4231 recently, but we never stick with it because it doesn't suit our creative players.
Whatever formation we choose, we'll keep running into trouble because there isn't any setup which suits all of our players: either because they haven't been recruited with a shared approach in mind, or because they're just not very good, so we have to shift everyone else around to compensate for their flaws.
Absolutely chuffed for Eze and Palace. Proper club, great fans, and entirely deserved on the day. Beating pep, city and all they’ve come to represent just makes it sweeter.
Agree with your second paragraph: it's entirely possible the club decided in Feb that it was worth triggering the extension in order to keep playing him and make sure we stayed up, but have rowed back a bit from that since.
Looked up the source of this and it’s pure clickbait nonsense. Headline is “Eze sends goodbye message as Crystal Palace exit confirmed” - it’s only halfway down the article that you find out the “exit” in question is in fact Joel Ward confirming he’s leaving Palace at the end of the season, which Eze’s then posted about on Instagram.
From looking at transfermarkt it seems like his 60th appearance for us was the Preston game he got injured in. Entirely possible that the club were happy to extend his contract at that point, but that things have changed in the last month or two.
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