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Reply | Southend utd
at 22:54 24 Jun 2024
I have lived in and around Southend for over 30 years, since I was a kid and still live here now
The whole thing is a shambles with only one person culpable , Ron Martin. He makes Paladini look like a Saint
The whole new stadium thing has been in the offing for over 40 years the previous Chairman Vic Jobson announced he was gonna move the club yonks ago
Martin is a property developer and how he has accumulated his wealth is up for discussion shall we say
The club did brilliantly last year under Kevin Maher and without the points deduction and embargo would have made the play offs
The stadium makes Loftus Road look like the finest stadium in the world basically he took the ground away from the club put it in another company and then charged the club rent
The takeover has been ongoing for 8 months or so. A deal seemed to be close and then the council elections came the Tory bloke Cox got voted out and the new guy Cowan came in and ripped up what was proposed as it would have saddled the tax payer big time
The consortium have financed the club since agreeing the deal in October and have now said it needs to be done asap, Martin is running out of road but the club is in real danger
I’ve been to Southend many times down the years, took my boy to his first ever match there as a warm up to going to Rangers
Really hope they can get sorted |
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Thread | Birthday message for my boy
at 10:46 24 Jun 2024
Just wondering if anyone had ever asked the club for a birthday message ( a kind of FaceTime thing) for their kids from the manager players etc
If so how did you go about it?
Any help appreciated
Cheers |
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Reply | Palarse selling Olise :-(
at 18:24 22 Jun 2024
Agree if Eze has a release clause which has been touted then if it is met and he wants to go then he can
Also with Olisse seemingly on his way that may want Eze to leave even more |
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Reply | Non QPR help needed
at 19:32 12 Jun 2024
Not sure size and scale of your firm but I have worked for big / mid tier firms for over 15 years
Usually 3 options
1) They book your travel for trains and any cabs from station need to be reclaimed via expenses with a receipt with line manager signing it off before going to Finance
2) You book all travel etc and claim via expenses
3) Company policy is set for petrol for example 50p per mile print out via route planner plus receipt from petrol station via expenses
Definitely chase up you shouldn’t be out of pocket
Good luck |
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Reply | Leaving loftus road...
at 19:06 10 Jun 2024
I love and I mean love Loftus Road
When things have been going badly in my life I can go and spend two hours there, forget about everything and for that time nothing else matters
I can tell you who made the passes for certain goals I can recount obscure moments and I can give blow by blow accounts of random games I’ve watched
It was was, as others have said held up as the modern arena in the early 80’s concerts, Boxing etc
I love it and taking my boy was a proper proud dad moment
I’m 6”3 and leg room is sketchy the kiosks sell awful food and we are unable to
maximize revenues in other ways
I think at some point we will inevitably have to move but I hope the essence can be kept
30k tight to the pitch and not some soulless bowl
If that doesn’t happen has anyone thought about buying the houses behind Ellersille Road or the School or maybe just digging down? 🤔 |
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Reply | The Final: Attack on Wembley - Netflix
at 13:42 3 Jun 2024
100% agree that Wembley is not great getting in and out of it’s a bit like Millwall away where they try to herd you to the station even if that’s not where you want to go to (always aim for Preston Road not Wembley itself)
The way Wembley is set up is poor and the Health and Safety bloke on the documentary was a complete clown they need to have a serious review of how they can potentially do things better |
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Reply | The Final: Attack on Wembley - Netflix
at 13:15 3 Jun 2024
Possibly the biggest amount of Sh!t ever posted
I watched it the other night after reading this thread and I’ll be honest it was thoroughly depressing
I’ve been home and away with England before went to Euro 2000 away for the Germany game and have never been away with England since. Was in Charleroi Water cannons, tear gas the whole lot and I have no interest in that rubbish I’m there for a few beers and to watch the football supporting my team
Most England fans are fairly sound but there is a decent amount who are complete loons who are only interested in behaving like complete morons, shoving as much gear up their nose as they can and generally behaving in a totally inappropriate way. Reputation does proceed England and unfortunately the decent fans get tarred with the same brush
I’ve taken my 8 year old (who isn’t named Hugo and im certainly not posh) to a couple of the recent friendlies Brazil being the last one) tickets are reasonably priced and he gets to see some top players.Whether he is posh or not as a kid do you think he should have to walk through bottles being lobbed in the air and smashing, or maybe traffic cones coming down with a thud as he is talking about who might be playing, perhaps watching people generally behaving like f@cking tw@ts and sniffing gear all over the shop is maybe a good thing in your eyes?
I’ve done 100’s of Rangers games down the years my boy comes in the pub he knows there’s gonna be bad language and he’s not to repeat it and I would never want football to be sanitized to the point of you may as well watch it at home,it’s the atmosphere the thrill of a Jimmy Dunne last minute winner etc but you are seriously condoning that behavior as some posh people moaning?
Give your head a wobble |
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Reply | De Zerbi....
at 19:46 18 May 2024
When Marti was linked with Sunderland and Hull I said there is no chance of him going to either but if someone like De Zerbi left I’d be more worried
Brighton under Bloom have lots of long lists in every department from the Tea Lady to the strikers and these change regularly
Marti will be on their long list I’m sure. Has managed within Europe has managed in European competitions has experience of English football has left every club he has been at in a better state.
That was basically Potters CV before he got the job
He might not be number 1 but he will have been discussed [Post edited 18 May 19:50]
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Reply | Rayan Kolli
at 18:13 8 May 2024
I’d love to see Kolli succeed we all love a kid coming through from the Youth Team and establishing themselves as a first teamer
Another reason I’d like to see him succeed is that he seems like a great kid
My lad was mascot for the Sunderland game early in the season as the players walked off after the warm up they do a pic with all the mascots before going to get changed
My lad was front and centre of the pic and was given a ball to hold as part of the pic, Kolli was one of if not the last one to go in after he’s done his pic before going down the tunnel the following happened
RK What’s your name?
PBlock Junior Charlie
RK Chuck me the ball Charlie (throws him the ball) let’s see how good you are
Proceeds to have a 30 second to a minute kick about just him and Charlie
RK You’re a great player!!
Charlie literally bursting with pride. His whole day (apart from the result) was fantastic but that act of allowing a little lad to have a kick about on Loftus Road with a QPR player will always make me want him to succeed even more |
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Reply | Eurovision nul or douze points
at 13:33 8 May 2024
Won’t be watching
Just don’t rate it to be honest
Also nothing will ever beat “My Lovely Horse” by the lads from Ireland |
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Reply | Liam Rosenior
at 12:38 8 May 2024
Marti in my opinion wouldn’t touch the Hull job or Sunderland job with a 10 ft barge pole
He is managing a club in one of the best Cities in the world loved by the fans and has a real feel for the club and what he wants to do you aren’t gonna swop that for Hull or Sunderland
My brother and I were chatting after the Leeds game and he said (and I agree) if someone like De Zerbi left Brighton Marti is the sort of profile that appeals to them. European experience left every club he has been at in a better position he is on their long list I reckon I’d be more concerned around that than what’s being suggested |
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Reply | Strangest (but true) encounters with Rs players, past or present
at 10:45 3 May 2024
Random one
Working in the Wetherspoons in Southend while at college around 1998/99
Bloke comes in and I think that’s Brian Morris (QPR physio at the time) came in ordered a small red and some food
Started chatting and said the reserves were at Southend that night had a good chat then left him alone he gets up and leaves then reappears 5 mins later and asks if I wanted a full set first team training kit ((Le Coq Sportiff)
Top man |
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Reply | Taarabt - al nasr sc
at 10:39 3 May 2024
I loved him
I’m early 40’s so Bannister Ferdinand were my first hero’s but I remember the year under Warnock. I’d just started going out with a girl (now my wife) and often she’s ask what we were doing on the weekend and the answer was anything after 6pm on Saturday unless she fancied coming to Rangers (she did a few times to be fair)
Generational talent worth the admission fee on his own
Was one the table names at our wedding
There will be another player to capture our imagination Eze did it, let’s just hope the next one is on his way |
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Reply | QPR Cafe, Bloemfontein Road.
at 16:30 9 Apr 2024
Big thumbs up for Cafe Rest (latterly Paddy’s portions)
Saturday lunchtime Double Sausage Double Egg Chips and Beans Bread and Butter and a cup of tea
Midweek Sausage Mash Peas Gravy and Onions
Both followed up by beers in The Bush Ranger
Simpler times that I remember fondly
The Italian on the Uxbridge road given a shout further up was also decent |
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