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Reply | Morecambe FC RIP
at 17:02 20 Aug 2025
In fairness the guy is quite highly qualified and has worked as a coach in the Football League here and with Cesc Fabregas in Italy so he's not a complete chump. |
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Reply | Sam Field
at 08:50 20 Aug 2025
To use that as the example, Sam Field is the Shaun Derry of that partnership. Whether you rate him to be as good for us as Shaun Derry was is open to debate, but at the same time Derry was so good because he did his shield bit and was able to give the ball to Faurlin / Taarabt to do the magic, let alone then the likes of Tommy Smith/Wayne Routledge/Jamie Mackie out wide.
Poor Sam has never had that level of quality to work with at QPR. If he did his role as the Shield would be a hell of a lot more appreciated. |
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Reply | Football Manager 1982
at 12:56 18 Aug 2025
I might have to give that new version he's done a go on mobile. I've long stopped playing the modern day Football Manager games, they are just so over the top and over-complicated now.
I wonder where the Collyer brothers are these days too, as inventors of the original Championship Manager/Football Manager we know today... |
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Reply | Julien Stephan - Word of warning
at 12:26 18 Aug 2025
The thing with Williams is his background in cycling / working for Team Ineos etc means you're planning athletes physical loading and fitness around a handful of competitions per year where you need them at peak fitness for that event.
Its the same as athletes in an Olympic year - events they'll run in the Spring will (or should) be worse as they are specifically building to be at peak fitness for a two-week period in mid-summer for The Big One. What they do around that, even in events like Diamond League, is for the most part completely secondary.
You simply cannot do that in a sport like football where it is 9 months long and each week needs maximum effort/focus. The same would go for a 82 regular game NBA season at the Nets.
It might have looked good for one year but as Hunter points out it was also Marti taking over from Ainsworth.
My sporting experience ultimately is no more than amateur running but getting to a decent level (sub-80 minute half, sub-3 hour marathon) to understand some basic training principles, it is bonkers, in my view, to try and adapt the same physical conditioning methods you see in a sport like cycling, to football. |
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Reply | Julien Stephan - Word of warning
at 19:39 17 Aug 2025
I've said it recently but its feeling to me we have a new generation Paladini and minions on our hands and it took bloody years to get rid of them. Was hoping never again! |
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Reply | “Offender” chant
at 15:44 16 Aug 2025
Just a bunch of reactionary Scunthorpe's on here I find...  |
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Reply | “Offender” chant
at 07:38 16 Aug 2025
I don't want to call people thick, but the people posting on the club's own official Facebook page in their full names proudly announcing they will sing it can pretty justifiably be called thick. |
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Reply | Taxi for Marti
at 12:33 14 Aug 2025
I'm not sure really, it all depends what squad they finish August with. Lots of reports up here still that a lot of players need to be sold to balance the books with very little coming in.
If that ends up happening no way are they threatening to top 6. |
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Reply | Taxi for Marti
at 08:45 14 Aug 2025
In a dream world the EFL would bin off the silly Trophy with its Premier League U21 sides, bin off the Premier League clubs from the League Cup, and have it as a competition for the 72 league sides only with the final still at Wembley and hey, why not a European place on offer too...
Oh, can anyone see the altitude of that pig...? |
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Reply | Who was this disaster down to tonight....
at 11:11 13 Aug 2025
As I put in the match thread last night, the match going fanbase is already sensitive after the sour finish to last season, and to do that and lose torches a huge amount of goodwill unnecessarily.
Sure, we might win three on the spin and all will be forgiven (for now), but it also wouldn't take much for it all to get dredged back up again if we then went on another winless run.
Goodwill, once lost, is much more difficult to get back, and last night was an unnecessary destruction of it. |
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Reply | Insulting or Inspiring?
at 06:50 13 Aug 2025
I know you like Nourry because he talks clever and appears to be at your intellectual level, but he is in charge, all these people report to him, he's hired them all, he dictates strategy, so yes it is entirely down to him. |
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Reply | Carabao Cup Winners thread - victim one - Plymouth Argyle
at 21:39 12 Aug 2025
It may be a team on the pitch that bears no resemblance to our league side, but its the sort of result and outcome that torches a huge amount of goodwill with the fanbase.
Especially the poor sods who have travelled tonight.
Just think how much people kicked off after the Leicester cup game in January! |
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Reply | Lags Eleven
at 14:35 12 Aug 2025
You're thinking of Richard Johnson who was brought in to shore our midfield up for the final 3 months of the 2003/04 promotion season, did decent enough from memory but was let go fairly early into the following season when he struggled with the step-up.
Without looking it up on Wikipedia, I'm sure the time he spent in Australia was down to drink driving. |
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Reply | Carabao Cup
at 13:07 12 Aug 2025
The club is frequently at pains to tell us they have no money, so presumably we have to lose cup games that we could win money out of so they can continue to tell us they have no money.
Or something. |
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Reply | Richard Kone/Saito/Rhys Norrington-Davies
at 13:00 12 Aug 2025
This is QPR so Kone will sign then approximately 21 minutes into his debut his ACL will explode into a million pieces and we'll never see him again. |
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Reply | Strictly come dancing
at 08:41 12 Aug 2025
You know what...I could see him being pretty good on that actually. |
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Reply | BBC Sport player rating Rs vs PNE
at 11:42 11 Aug 2025
Online polls like this always have a large number of emotionally immature people who will just blanket vote 1 / 10 for everyone because the result didn't end up the way they wanted it to. |
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