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Reply | Archer to pompey
at 08:46 28 Jun 2024
Another 2 year stint as a number 2 where he'll play a couple of cup games a year. Great life! |
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Reply | Had to post this...
at 08:45 28 Jun 2024
Also a racing driver. Not a bad double career... |
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Reply | Begovic
at 21:14 27 Jun 2024
I can't imagine we've signed a 30 year old keeper from a club in Belgium to stick him on the bench behind a 21 year old. |
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Reply | Cricket 2024 County/International Thread
at 21:13 27 Jun 2024
Stunning performance from Leicestershire's Louis Kimber yesterday in the County Championship at Sussex.
243 runs off 127 balls, 43 off a single over for most ever (math doesn't math, he had 3 extra balls due to no balls), highest ever score from a number 8 or later in the batting order.
T20-esque batting numbers.
Despite all that they still lost. |
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Reply | Transfer rumours 2024
at 16:37 26 Jun 2024
I don't think so because normally they're announced followed up with something along the lines of it being formal once the player's contract has expired with the previous club.
Been a few transfers along those lines already. |
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Reply | Would QPR beat England ??
at 16:36 26 Jun 2024
We all love Ilias but ...he wouldn't, would he? There's a reason Alexander-Arnold plays for Liverpool and Ilias plays for QPR.
England have been terrible so far in this tournament but they'd wipe the floor with QPR.
If you want to see what a team full of second tier players looks like in a European international tournament...look at Scotland. |
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Reply | Transfer rumours 2024
at 13:42 26 Jun 2024
If Willock had a deal elsewhere it'd have been announced by that club by now so it looks like he's going to join the ranks of the unemployed and hope someone picks him up eventually.
Big risk to take. |
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Reply | England 🏴 v Slovenia 🇸🇮 Match Thread
at 08:37 26 Jun 2024
I couldn't watch the game last night as was out but was listening to it on the radio.
I think Nix has a point, a consequence of this 24 team tournament going into 16 is that it rewards negative football - ie don't lose and you're guaranteed to go through pretty much, even without winning an actual game (as Denmark and Slovenia have just proved...) As a result loads of teams, including what I'd call Tier 2 nations like Slovenia and Serbia, just stick 10 men behind the ball, hope to nick something on a counter attack, and bore everyone to death.
That said, it is down to the "better" nations as England claim to be to have to be able to find a way to win.
I imagine as well everyone saw Scotland open up in game 1 and have Germany run a big fat German pork sword right through them and that clearly gets across the message that keeping games tight is the way to go for the smaller nations.
It will be interesting from the next round onwards when its win or go home. Teams will have to open up and that should create opportunities, and actually playing better teams should be easier to play against.
That said this all has the feel of 2010 South Africa to me - quite a well hyped England team, the manager at the time was seen as indomitable, we then struggled through the group stage with 5 points and 1 win, fans booed at stadiums, Wayne Rooney was caught on TV moaning about them, then got battered in the next round by an excellent young German team. |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 14:49 20 Jun 2024
The bit I can't get my head around is that they seem not to have thought about how sophisticated betting companies software is, and how a "small" (figuratively speaking) £100 bet would make moves on a market like that that it would enable betting companies to spot irregular patterns straight away.
I mean...its actually really, really, really stupid. |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 08:52 20 Jun 2024
"Tory candidate looked into over betting claims married to campaign director"
I mean....sheesh...are people just stupid or what? |
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Reply | Richards.
at 15:40 13 Jun 2024
Success has many fathers, failure is an orphan, as they say! |
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Reply | Kits 20024/25
at 12:18 13 Jun 2024
Is that meant to be a tally or are the Thousand Year Reich now sponsoring Brum? |
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Reply | Richards.
at 12:16 13 Jun 2024
Wasn't he one Beale was insistent on bringing in, over the recruitment team's heads? |
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Reply | Football Cops Ch4
at 21:04 12 Jun 2024
Social media has a lot to account for here too, lots of Facebook pages (and no doubt TikTok and the likes younger folk use) popping up to show the kids pretending to be hard, all being more idiotic than the other for the clout for them to show off.
Just think of the amount of police resources these idiots suck up every Saturday. |
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Reply | I hope this is and stays just a rumour.
at 21:00 12 Jun 2024
Given they've just been rejected by Liam Rosenior, I can't see them going for Marti where they'd have to pay money, or Marti wanting to go there if someone who is jobless has turned them down because he didn't like what was on offer. |
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Reply | Armstrong extended
at 12:41 12 Jun 2024
Am I right in thinking that at his age even if he left on a free at the end of a contract, any club picking him up would have to pay some level of compensation for him?
Willock a bit different as he's mid-20s now. |
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Reply | The EFL officially highest attended European league after Premier League.
at 12:37 12 Jun 2024
Lies, damned lies and statistics.
The Championship, and English football pyramid in general, is incredibly well supported compared to their equivalents around the globe. Way better.
But its incredibly disingenuous to suggest its the 2nd best attended when the number of fixtures it has dwarfs other leagues.
Total Championship fixtures - 552
Total Bundesliga / 18 team fixtures - 306
Total Premiership / 20 team fixtures - 380
In this instance average is a far better indicator.
Of course saying "2nd highest in total" is no doubt some useful marketing for someone trying to flog TV and sponsorship deals! |
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Reply | QPR Women
at 17:14 7 Jun 2024
Still bloody throw that lead away in Bend It Like Beckham though don't we.
Great news, I think integrating all sections of the club more can only be a good thing. Am I right in thinking this set of QPR Women were a new set up, from a previous QPR Women who a few years ago broke away and became their own club under a new name due to lack of support? Hopefully lessons were learned so that doesn't happen again. |
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