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Reply | Dunne off?
at 08:55 3 Feb 2025
You are of course right and this is extremely sensible stuff....but at some point you do have to build and have a squad to go up. Don't you do that by selling the luxury fancy dans and keeping a core of players (like Dunne) who have the drive to get you up? Can't keep churning all the time.
I also find it very hard to cheer a balance sheet.
But, I know you are right deep down. |
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Reply | Dunne off?
at 18:10 2 Feb 2025
blimey, Jimmy, read that quote from Wilder and realise that he's hardly after you as being the new main man......more like desperate for a Championship stop gap |
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Reply | Dunne off?
at 12:40 2 Feb 2025
Total guess, but isn't that likely to be Sheff Utd leaking some names out so we run scared from keeping on driving the price up?
Funny though, if we did manage to get £2m+ I wonder if Nourry would be tempted to break his rules on not revealing fees? |
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Reply | Dunne off?
at 09:17 2 Feb 2025
I admire your optimism that we could find better Championship footballers than Cook, Field, Smyth with our budget. Funny how people see it, Cook and Field are the players I would least like to lose. |
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Reply | Dunne off?
at 08:31 2 Feb 2025
Great shout. As quality as Ferguson was as a manager, taking one of the finest centre backs I've ever seen and playing him at right back was a total travesty.
As you say, his height was never a problem. Saw him take the evil Fashanu out of the game at Plough Lane in 88 I think, who got so frustrated he literally threw Parker into the crowd. God, how I hated that Wimbledon side. |
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Reply | Dunne off?
at 14:35 1 Feb 2025
Play-offs? Get stuffed today and we'll all be worrying where our next 12 points are coming from, especially without Dunne and that fancy dan Soton loan in there instead |
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Reply | Dunne off?
at 14:11 1 Feb 2025
Well good luck Jimmy but I fear he will sink without trace at Sheff Utd, especially if they get promoted. He needed some time with us to bed in and I wish him well but I think he will struggle. Hope not, enjoyed him whilst he was with us. |
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Reply | Choose your adventure – Preview
at 09:01 1 Feb 2025
Thanks Clive, your previews are as excellent as the reports.
As sad as it is about Jimmy - would be so tough to lose someone with such heart and commitment, but we all know what can happen if he were to sign a new contract. Sheffield Wednesday nullified him easily last week and no doubt that would become the norm and within a few weeks we're wondering why £2m wasn't taken.
Would much prefer he stayed, became the best RB in the championship and the heartbeat of our side for many years, but if he were to leave we'll get over it.
I guess my main frustration is that we should be able to keep hold of the Dunne types. Good, but not great. All commitment and heart. As you say, get the contract renewal offers at the right time, something it seems we have been poor at. It's the really good ones we won't be able to keep. |
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Reply | Dunne off?
at 10:51 31 Jan 2025
You are of course right, Dave, but it is tough to take when he has been so important to us. But we have to put our big boy pants on, and realise that if in fact he did sign a new contract with us his form would soon disappear / leg explode etc.
A real test of the club and the plan, this. |
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Reply | Chloe Kelly joins Arsenal
at 09:53 31 Jan 2025
Yes, best of luck to her. Hopefully she can serve a few years there than come home to lead our women's team to the WPL. |
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Reply | QPR fan on countdown today
at 19:45 30 Jan 2025
Agree - I really miss his late night show. Gordon Smart was so boring in comparison and gone over to podcasts now. |
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Reply | QPR fan on countdown today
at 17:36 30 Jan 2025
Ha -- no. But Colin did end the show with "QPR 1 Birmingham 0" (opponent was a Birmingham fan) - not something I ever thought I would hear on Countdown. |
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Reply | QPR fan on countdown today
at 16:53 30 Jan 2025
She nearly killed a long-running show single-handedly with her venomous ways (off-set as well, allegedly). Colin is totally the opposite, brought back the warmth and I think is the best the show has ever had. Not that I work from home and watch it, you understand. |
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Reply | QPR fan on countdown today
at 16:07 30 Jan 2025
I think his name was Ted. Not our Ted, nor likely to be anyone on this board as he gave his favourite players as Adel and Kevin Gallen rather than Barry Bridges and Rodney Marsh..... |
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Reply | QPR fan on countdown today
at 15:23 30 Jan 2025
Worth picking it up again - Colin Murray is really excellent on it. Revitalised it.
Go Ted today! |
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Reply | Santos gone.
at 07:17 30 Jan 2025
I tell you what, it is a very good sign for me if we have managed to turn a remarkable profit on Santos. This really does show the model is working if players we've bought have had a terrible time yet we are still getting money for them - compared to the struggles we've had in the past to get any money back on signings. Age and profile of signing really helping.
No fan of Nourry but props to him, or whoever is involved, for this.
Edit- or did we pay money for him? Can't remember. [Post edited 30 Jan 7:18]
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Reply | Yang Minh-Hyeok
at 09:40 29 Jan 2025
Oops was on wrong thread too.
To mirror my point there, as I know nothing about this, is there a thought that you take a loan like this from Spurs even if you don't necessarily desperately need it, because if it goes well we could get a far better loan for the whole season next year? Like a testing exercise? |
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Reply | New Year transfer window rumours
at 09:31 29 Jan 2025
Do we need bodies that are wingers, though (if that is what he is)?
Chair / Smyth with Saito, Dembele soon to be back and of course Alfie can play there.
Sometimes I just feel like loans like this are something you need to do because it is Spurs, and if we behave nicely one day they might let us have a superstar young striker for a season? [Post edited 29 Jan 9:32]
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Reply | New Year transfer window rumours
at 09:12 29 Jan 2025
It is happening according to WLS.
I just don't understand loans like this. Appears very unlikely we will go up or go down, so what is the long-term point?
> if he is amazing (which he won't be), it won't be enough to get us promoted and we will never sign him so just blocking Dembele when back or Chair or Saito if he is actually ours
> if he is average, just learning on our time like Ashby
I just never really understand it. Yes, if we were in bottom 3 or top 6, but if not, what is the point? Obvs when he nutmegs 4 Wall players to get his hattrick on Saturday I will probably get it :-) |
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Reply | kids and grand kids....
at 08:34 28 Jan 2025
As the poster above says, all part of being a parent. Very difficult to say no and make them not "fit in", but also worrying. How about making a deal that "find a friend" has to be on their phone? Always made us feel a little bit better.
On the other hand, plenty of positives in being out and about and socialising rather than inside gaming all the time, which is what 99% of kids seem to do. |
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