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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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Reply | Finally saw a win!
at 13:07 1 Sep 2025
I've had nearly a year a couple of times, once around the 2006/07 era when I had a Saturday job so had to miss a lot of games, then more recently the disastrous Critchley/Ainsworth era as the only game we won against Watford I had to miss! |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 19:25 30 Aug 2025
There's an ugly video doing the rounds of him copping real stick from the Blades fans after today's game.
Fair play to him for standing there whilst a couple of thousand people scream "Sacked in the morning" at him. |
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Reply | Just back
at 18:00 30 Aug 2025
Today was a good day.
Did the team show potential for positivity today? Yes.
Did it have periods being bloody awful? Yes.
Did it win? Yes.
Is winning fun? Absobloodylutely. |
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Reply | In Advanced Talks With Edwards
at 14:03 29 Aug 2025
Argh no, Gino was a million times better than Christer Warren ever was, do not sully Gino's name in that fashion! |
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Reply | In Advanced Talks With Edwards
at 09:59 29 Aug 2025
Its the hair and clean shaven look.
If he had the hair but a big hairy beard to go with it he'd just look a scruffy twit. |
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Reply | No subject
at 09:58 29 Aug 2025
"Advice on car hiring in France"
That's what we're calling it these days is it eh... |
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Reply | The spectre of Kelman (and Jones) – Oppo Profile
at 09:56 29 Aug 2025
It absolutely is me being a Negative Nellie but I fear this has 0-2 written all over it on Saturday.
I desperately want to be wrong!
(Well, by "wrong", I of course mean for the R's to win. I don't mean wrong by it being 0-4 instead...) |
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Reply | Teams called Rangers losing 5-0 by half time
at 14:41 28 Aug 2025
I haven't managed to see any yet this year (and I must admit the Beeb having Bundesliga on Friday nights might well compete with that now too...) but toward the end of Mrs SLM's pregnancy last season I really enjoyed whacking on some Scottish Championship games that BBC Alba show through iPlayer.
Yeah of course its not the greatest standard, but the games I watched were hard fought, closely matched, and competitive, and it made them hugely enjoyable to watch when you can't do much else on a Friday night with a heavily pregnant wife. |
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Reply | Books
at 16:56 26 Aug 2025
I've just read Ultras by Tobias Jones which is a look into the mad world of Italian ultras, particularly focused on Cosenza. Enjoyed that.
A few months ago I bought Red or Dead by David Pearce as I did enjoy The Damned United and I've given up on it. I presume (but am not old enough to know) its written in the style Shankly spoke in, but my God it is impossible to read as every sentence repeats itself multiple times and it goes round and round in circles a bit. No wonder its so long! |
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Reply | If we go down , does anyone give a shit.
at 12:46 26 Aug 2025
The club would need motivated owners to do what the likes of Birmingham have done in League One.
We do not, so we'd be more likely to sink without a trace and be down the bottom two leagues for the long haul. |
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Reply | Confront the training ground - 11am Monday
at 11:00 26 Aug 2025
Its fairly common for ultra groups in Italy to turn up at training sessions and intimidate everyone when results are going badly.
Not sure what that says really but its a small anecdote for you all... |
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Reply | Isaac Hayden
at 13:28 25 Aug 2025
It would be very us under this regime to sign him then not see him until January. |
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Reply | Julien Stéphan
at 18:12 23 Aug 2025
The man just comes across as nothing as a puppet to me who's happy to take an easy salary, but a teenager on Reddit told a dinosaur like me a few weeks ago he's a much improved manager over Marti and Nourry is doing an amazing squad building job so I'm sure I'm wrong. |
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