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Reply | New home kit
at 15:45 4 Jul 2025
Over to the second and third shirts to save the day for the second consecutive season. |
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Reply | Morecambe
at 13:30 3 Jul 2025
SWFC were meant to pay June’s wages on Monday but club owner decided to pay only the club’s under-21 players, as they have the highest value in the transfer market, and a portion of the salaries owed to non-playing staff.
Danny Rohl has been paid in full, which means Wednesday would receive financial compensation if a rival club came in for the German.
If the club cannot fulfill their fixtures then EFL have to look at revoking their licence and removing them from the league. |
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Reply | RIP Brian Wilson
at 12:53 12 Jun 2025
The greatest Barbershop Quartet ever!!! |
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Reply | Kwadwo Baah
at 12:59 5 Jun 2025
There has only ever been one transfer in football history where the sell on clause has broken through the 40% barrier and that was Tino Livramento who went from Soton to Newcastle for £32m and Chelsea received £!5m.
Next on the list, KDB Wolfsburg to City for £55m and Chelsea received £10m. Equates to 18%. |
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Reply | York v Oldham
at 12:55 27 May 2025
But they can decide whether to pay to go through the gates:
average league attendance in 2023/24 was 2,746
average league attendance in 2024/25 was 2,474
A 10% drop this season and we finished 4th!
Also this is the last season of the EFL parachute payment. |
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Reply | so how many points do we need and how do we get them?
at 15:37 10 Apr 2025
Have Halifax FC been granted approval from the EFL that they will be allowed to be promoted? EFL current rules are it is okay for 2 sports clubs to share a ground but not 3 (Halifax FC, Halifax Panthers and Huddersfield Giants).
Gateshead FC received approval from the EFL on 7/3/25 that they would be allowed to join the EFL if promoted.
10 points should do it and Gateshead to drop out of top 7 and be replaced by Southend. |
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Reply | Would you take out of the cup & play offs if it meant McNulty being sacked?
at 15:54 27 Mar 2025
5,000 last achieved in 1969/70.
Current average 2,589 (believe the arsenal system for recording attendance is utilised).
The onfield success that got us to div 1 resulted in the average crowds of 3,400 in that division, still a hefty chunk to make up.
Only if Jim gets a NASA type budget we will even remotely get near 5,000, even then he would manage to pull a rabbit out of the hat and we would miss target. His style of play is very banal.
Banal - so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring. Nailed it Jim. |
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Reply | Ebbsfleet (H) match thread
at 11:39 10 Feb 2025
I would bin Jim in a heartbeat and go out and get Mike Williamson.
He was the manager last season when Gateshead beat us 5 - 1. |
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Reply | RAFC 23/24 Accounts
at 12:46 22 Jan 2025
Shares were issue in 2 tranches:
1st on 30 May 2024 and in the accounts
2nd on June 2024 that won't be in the accounts |
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Reply | Pitch update
at 10:22 17 Jan 2025
Springfield Park received a Green Flag award for the first time in 2024.
Green Flag award is the benchmark international standard for publicly accessible parks and green spaces in the United Kingdom and around the world. |
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Reply | Pitch inspection 10.30
at 09:29 23 Dec 2024
Baltimore Orioles baseball pitch drainage system can clear 16 inches an hour. |
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Reply | Stadium use as part of possible future redevelopment
at 20:13 29 Oct 2024
Isn't Edenfield Road surgery <10 minutes from the ground? Can't see the NHS funding another one so close.
Diagnostic centre, all tests under the Northern Care Alliance go to the new £10m diagnostic centre in Oldham. Where is the requirement for one at Spotland?
The location if the club is not great for commuting to, what about the office space currently available elsewhere? and isn't that already fit for purpose?
But get the end user signed up as posted by Rodingdale and the club should be fine but what if there is no-one signed up - still press ahead or ditch? |
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Reply | AFC Wimbledon cashing in during the week
at 12:59 24 Sep 2024
They get to keep 45% of the gate receipts as the away team in the league cup, so the switch to newcastle may pay for the work on the ground that was opened on the 3 Dec 2020. |
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Reply | NFL is back
at 12:13 13 Sep 2024
TT could have a word with Chris Borland the 49ers LB who, after researching the effects of CTE, retired from the sport after one season. He chose not to live for the now but to live for the future. |
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Reply | Paul Waugh
at 11:47 11 Sep 2024
I agree on the point on local government and given the fact that a fair few councils (100+), without financial intervention, will be going off a cliff in just over 2 years’ time. There needs to be a massive re-think of what people want from local government.
In order to improve, the following needs to happen:
• get social services the hell out of there, it is not a council function it is an NHS function.
• Merge the District Councils (tier 2) with the county Councils (tier 1) to create Unitary Councils i.e. Hertfordshire has 10 District Councils and 1 County, merge them into 2 Unitary Councils.
• Service provision re-calibration – Manchester has 10 Metropolitan Councils with each having their own department that could easily be merged or have one lead provider i.e. payroll could be administered for all 10 by 2 Councils, Business rates could be provided by one for all 10, same with Council Tax. This is the big win here, redeploy the excess to shore up other departments.
• Dispense with the grand initiatives of making it the Borough of choice for employers etc and just focus on delivering the basic services.
• Council tax rises are like state pension increases, there will be one every year. |
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Reply | Paul Waugh
at 20:04 10 Sep 2024
careful it's a controversial topic but say it as it is.
Is everyone in life going through it without proper fiscal/pensions planning?
The pensioners have had money thrown at them over the last decade and always get a good increase with their triple lock – 10.1% increase in 2022 and 6.7% increase in 2023 when the rest of the workforce were not in receipt of increases anywhere near that. This is the only group that the government has focused on since 2011.
It’s the young I feel for who the government has thrown under the bus – under schooled due to covid, those that go to uni get to pay 6% a year on fees for the next 40 years and at the weekend all those in jobs get to look at houses they will never be able to afford. You enjoy your avocado on toast!
As for benefits, a re-introduction of the 2 strike rule, send them for 2 jobs that they suddenly don’t either don’t feel inspired by or it really is not them and then cancel their benefits for the next 6 months.
In general I feel there is far too much reliance on the state and a distinct lack of people taking personal financial responsibility, which has to change. |
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Reply | Gateshead
at 11:00 28 Aug 2024
No until they resolve the issue of being able to meet the 10 year security of tenure on the gateshead international stadium.
Stadium costs the Council £860k a year. |
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