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Reply | Owl be seeing them in League One Sheff Wednesday Vs QPR match Thread
at 18:12 27 Sep 2025
Its a funny one really, from a brutal truth standpoint with all of Wednesday's issues every club in this division should expect 3 points from them, but that also makes it a huge banana skin fixture.
And in addition, you have to play to earn wins, no-one is going to roll over and give it to you (well, excepting us at Coventry perhaps...) so if you're not on it you'll get caught out.
A point better than none, always. |
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Reply | Women’s Rugby World Cup final .
at 16:55 27 Sep 2025
England just look head and shoulders above everything, no-one has really given them a close game.
That said its clear the gap between a full professional team and one that isn't. And the Canadians were brilliant against New Zealand last week, but they've had to crowd fund elements of their trip to England, just shows the difference funding can make. |
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Reply | Owls’ problems coming home to roost – Preview
at 15:40 27 Sep 2025
Councils owning football grounds is a quickfire way to crumbling, unsafe, grounds within a decade. Clubs spend the bare minimum already, councils would do even less. |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 21:57 26 Sep 2025
Blackburn Rovers have banned the Lancashire Telegraph from all club premises because they don't like the local press reporting objectively, and have even been pressuring Charlton to ban the journalist from The Valley tomorrow.
Embarrassing, but it seems grown adults behaving petulantly when they don't get their own way is becoming ever more normal. |
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Reply | Bircham isn’t happy
at 09:01 23 Sep 2025
I've got a work colleague who's a Reading fan and he said they gave him the nickname "Cheeseburger" as it was the first English word he learned, allegedly. |
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Reply | Bircham isn’t happy
at 12:32 22 Sep 2025
I think those of us that are probably 20/25+ are a bit bemused by it at first because we've never really seen it before, but this thing has been the done thing in Europe for a long time, and you know what, I like it.
It means we've won, it is a bit of fun, its another moment that's able to send everyone home feeling happy.
Will it feel a bit silly in a meaningless end of season game? Probably. Will it look silly if you've done it in September and are still relegated come May? Probably.
Is it fun in the actual moment though? Yes. Yes it is.
Carry on lads. |
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Reply | Dembele
at 09:00 22 Sep 2025
End of the day its elite sport and to be in the team you've got to be better than the guy you're up against.
So that's Dembele's only real choice no matter how he's feeling, be better. |
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Reply | 2025/26 squad photo
at 11:51 18 Sep 2025
Its almost a one-to-one ratio of support staff to players.
I think back to when Ollie was manager first time round, I'm sure his coaching staff was just Scott Rushton, Gary Waddock, Kenny Jackett and Prav Mathema as physio!
Things have changed somewhat. |
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Reply | QPR sponsorship curse strikes again
at 11:50 18 Sep 2025
I met a couple of guys behind Guava a couple of years ago at a trade show in Manchester and I was rather unconvinced by their patter then. It was just after their initial sponsorship with us was announced.
I went and looked them up on Companies House afterwards and they were just another Fintech company that had received a huge chunk of investor cash and was swallowing it up at an incredible rate.
Wouldn't surprise me at all if they collapse in full after this, felt it was always a matter of time in a crowded market full of companies all doing the same thing. |
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Reply | Applauding a quality opposition goal
at 08:53 16 Sep 2025
There's quite a lot of applause from behind the goal for both of Gareth Ainsworth's goals at Rushden & Diamonds all those years back.
As well as the goalie Billy Turley screaming at his centre back Barry Hunter after the first, which as Ian Holloway rightly pointed out is hilarious, what did he expect him to do?! |
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Reply | Eliminator Playoffs
at 16:23 11 Sep 2025
Peter Ridsdale wants to extend the play-offs to incorporate the 7th and 8th place sides also.
Not sure why him, given Preston won't finish anywhere near it anyway. |
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Thread | Eliminator Playoffs
at 13:23 11 Sep 2025
Anyone for more Americanisation of the sport...?
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6618936/2025/09/11/championship-promotion-playo
Here's a novel idea, perhaps all 24 teams in the league could play each other in a set of 46 play-off matches, with the teams being awarded points for how they get on in these play-off matches, then at the end of the season the team with the most play-off points get promoted?
All the excitement of the play-offs, for nine months of the year! |
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Reply | Charlie Austin on Under the Cosh
at 12:45 10 Sep 2025
I would allow Charlie Austin QPR hero status, he's the best all round striker I've seen playing for the club in my era, probably just ahead of Paul Furlong and Kevin Gallen (first game 1996 so never saw Les).
These podcasts are always a way for players with axes to grind to get it out. I remember Rowan Vine's and Leon Knight's which were both car crashes of podcasts. |
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Reply | Contactless debit cards
at 12:19 9 Sep 2025
"You'd basically be back to living in the 80's & 90's"
Don't threaten them with a good time Juzzie! That's exactly the sort of stuff they dream about (or at least their heavily romanticised overly nostalgic version of it). |
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Reply | Contactless debit cards
at 13:33 8 Sep 2025
One of the things that gets me when I see people on the internet ranting about their ability to lose cash and not being able to stick a tenner in the grandkids Christmas cards because the Government will want to tax it (showing they have no idea about tax whatsoever in the process), is they think cash is completely free for businesses to use and therefore they must accept it.
Its not, banks will charge just as much for processing cash deposits, it costs to secure it, it costs to insure it as and when it is left in tills overnight.
There's a guy I know in Leicester who owns a trophy shop who is a bit like this, then he had his shop broken into about eighteen months ago and lost £1,300 when the thieves made off with the till. All lost as he hadn't insured it. He also proudly voted Brexit then expressed regret to me after when he learned that the supplies he bought from the Netherlands were now much more expensive to acquire.
(Not wanting to start that argument! But this is the type of person we're talking here, easily led by rubbish they read on the internet then learn through bitter experience that its perhaps not quite what they thought). |
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Reply | Playing in Europe as an EFL club
at 13:25 8 Sep 2025
DIdn't Wigan win the FA Cup and get relegated in the same year after that Birmingham one...? So perhaps them? |
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Reply | Taylor Richards gone…thank god.
at 17:17 4 Sep 2025
Debt factoring isn't entirely uncommon in the business world, especially for cash hungry businesses.
Its very expensive though. |
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