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Reply | Books
at 17:53 26 Aug 2025
If you like noir I can recommend the American Quartet from James Ellroy. He bridges the gap with fact and fiction to cover events like JFK and the bay of pigs.
Hard to read at points, but very good and probably closer to what happened than we will ever know.
I find his writing like Raymond Chandler on speed! |
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Reply | Jake Clarke-Salter
at 15:09 26 Aug 2025
I thought the insurance was to cover loss of earnings for a career ending injury.
I remember Tony Roberts had lots of ops and nerve damage on his fingers, so he was paid up. Then went to play non-league (Dagenham?) when they got really far in the FA Cup he had to pay back his payout or something similar? |
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Reply | Charlton Line Up
at 11:57 26 Aug 2025
I think it depends how the ref words his report that goes in, but i might be being too logical for the pgmol.
Current directive seems to be "keep playing until Liverpool win" |
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Reply | Isaac Hayden
at 11:55 26 Aug 2025
I really hope we didn't break our wage structure for this player. Its an upgrade on Colback for sure, but I'm worried for the dressing room if we are creating the kind of pay divide we've not seen since the Premier League.
There are probably players in our squad who are on £2-3k p/w having just left the EDS are they really going to be x10 worse than Hayden?
Fingers crossed this one works |
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Reply | Charlton Line Up
at 11:42 26 Aug 2025
I reckon Dunne is looking at a retrospective ban for that elbow |
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Reply | What do you expect from the Charlton game?
at 11:41 26 Aug 2025
If we are losing I'd expect to see a few crunching tackles flying in to show a modicum of effort.
I'm not counting Dunnes snide elbow that will probably see him banned afterwards. |
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Reply | Celar
at 11:32 26 Aug 2025
Yeah, even Brentford and Brighton have signed some stinkers.
I think the media like clubs to spend loads of money, it makes excitement for them.
Don't hear too much about Sheff Utd spending all that money on Brewster for example.
So far all our flops like Washington have been pretty small outlays for the Championship, so the element of risk is higher. |
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Reply | Julien Stephan - BBC London interview
at 17:42 22 Aug 2025
I think the objective is probably very clear.
I imagine its like you describe, make x % profit on player sales
AND, don't get relegated in the process.
It might be finish 1 point higher than last year, but its def not finish in the top 10 or go for the play-offs
Makes a hard watch for the fans though |
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Reply | Saito
at 14:11 22 Aug 2025
Yeah, someone the size of Madsen, with the vision of Madsen, but the workrate and heart of Jamie Mackie.
Still, he'd be worth more than Saito, and be in great demand |
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Reply | Saito
at 13:56 22 Aug 2025
We already seem to have a few fast short players in the squad now.
And the ones we have didn't cost £7m
I'd rather see the club bring in a player for an area we are short in.
So, that should be at least one LB and a CM who can play a ball forwards (not Hayden) |
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Reply | Inside training
at 16:51 21 Aug 2025
I remember some of the streams where they would leave the mics up during HT, always thought you'd hear something tasty from Sinton or Nick London, but never did.
I remember talking to Bradley Allen a few times when he'd come down from the radio gantry, such a nice bloke wouldn't pick on any player. This was even during the Barton seasons |
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Reply | Eze
at 16:48 21 Aug 2025
I'm hoping we were using that Chelsea trick. I think we did it with Frey as well, where the contract is light for yr1 and then loads up deferring all the cost to next season.
Otherwise its terrible business, like doing equity release on your house to go to the casino or something |
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Reply | GCSE results day
at 16:45 21 Aug 2025
We used to use "A,B,C" ratings at work for appraisals and the feedback was that there was not enough points in the scale. We would describe people as a "High C" to differentiate them from their peers.
We switched to number ratings "1->5" with 1 being the best, but no-one could get their head around it! ;p
"Is a 3 good?" that kind of business... ;D |
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Reply | Eze
at 13:18 21 Aug 2025
How do you measure the debt?
At the moment our owners convert the losses into shares, so we are not technically in that much debt.
However, if they want to try and recoup there spending isn't it something mental like more than £500m over the time they've been here? |
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Reply | Eze
at 11:08 21 Aug 2025
Whatever happened to him, I must have missed him on Match of the Day playing the Premier League? |
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Reply | Sam Field
at 17:02 20 Aug 2025
I doubt this is coming from anyone at the club, why would you want to devalue assets like Smyth or Shield?
This is just gaining momentum from kids, who want everything to be "fire" or "cook"
An average player trying hard just doesn't do it for their tiny minds.
Most people understand the value of hard work in a team, its why Jamie Mackie was so popular.
The consensus is that you wouldn't fill a team out of plodders, but having a couple in key positions means that you get that consistency which is key in a long season. Hopefully if we can put some flair next to Shield it will take some of the spotlight off of him.
Personally i'd love to see a mixture of Shield and Madsen and Varanne in one player, but if we had that he'd be playing for a top 6 club in the Champions League.
I don't think Sam Field is the biggest problem with the 25/26 squad by a long way |
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Reply | Harvey Vale: The answer to our problems?
at 11:12 18 Aug 2025
For context Super Ray was in the twilight of his career. Was looking after his conditioning and had played at top clubs like AC Milan, Man Utd as well as captaining for England.
As a player he was more like Gerrard or Lampard. At QPR he was allowed to run the midfield, as we had players like Barker or Holloway to do his running for him. That team was also innovative for having very attacking fullbacks who covered all the wings in a way this team hasn't done since.
Although I do think Vale has a great eye for a pass at the moment he's closer to Tom Carroll than Super Ray |
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Reply | Taxi for Marti
at 16:07 15 Aug 2025
I said the same thing earlier ^^
"Thats why we have leagues though isn't it?
So in theory every week in the Championship you get to play teams of a similar level so the matches are competitive.
If we had to play a PL team every week you would hope we wouldn't be using much of our current squad otherwise it would be worse than Southampton's efforts last season.
I think the League cup has been successfully devalued now, so that most people understand its a Mickey Mouse thing and for a lot of the teams in it who might be a). aiming for Promotion or b). avoiding a relegation these extra games are an unwelcome distraction
I know its a trope, but didn't Wigan win the FA Cup and then get relegated?
Shall we ask a Wigan fan if that was the best thing for their club?"
I loved going to Wembley, but I'd rather we competed in the league than the league cup. FA Cup is a bit more special, but yes I'd rather we didn't get relegated. L1 could kill this club |
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