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Reply | Rangers v the Oat Cake Eaters match thread
at 10:23 24 Nov 2024
Nice one Nix.
As for the performance I also thought that there was a bit more coherence about it and there was a bit more threat than in the last couple of games. Although that's a very low bar, obvs. I also thought Madsen was a bit better pushed further up. Another low bar but other around me saw the same.
I went expecting to be completely exasperated but ended up staying back to applaud the players - Saito especially - and Marti. |
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Reply | FAO clive
at 07:09 19 Nov 2024
Yeah Clive can I have the same pls. Preferably very very black just to make sure nothing gets through. |
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Reply | Mark Warburton interview
at 09:07 17 Nov 2024
It's just all so ****ing depressing. Absentee owners who don't understand the football industry. A head of performance with two jobs who's based in Dubai. A head of recruitment who spends all his time watching QPR games. And a schoolboy running the show.
What I saw in Leeds was a team that would fail to win anything in League 1 let alone the Chapmpionship. |
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Reply | Wireless Earphones Help, Please
at 09:04 12 Nov 2024
LDAC & other CODECs....... Well there's another rabbit hole...had to have a look.
I have a Galaxy S23 and had to put it into developer mode to get into the HD Audio menu.
The best I can get is Samsung's SSC which is 24 bit/48 Hz and up to 512 kbs
Not as good a LDAC (24 bit/96Hz and up to 990 kbs) - but better than the default setting. |
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Reply | Wireless Earphones Help, Please
at 11:35 11 Nov 2024
Discontinuing the Chromecast Audio was a really stupid move. For anyone who already has amps and speakers it's a perfect way of bring them into the 21st century. Excellent audio quality and you can use any app (Spotify, Tidal, Deezer, SoundCloud, Amazon Music etc etc etc). And you can group them in zones; except you don't have to bin all your old kit and spend £thousands getting locked into Sonos for the privilege. And have to use their shitty app (although I think they might have opened that up now). And wait for them to brick you kit to force you to buy the new stuff.
I have 2 x CCAs in use. I also bought 3 additional new old stock CCAs after they were discontinued. One's now with my son in Leeds (plugged into one of my spare amps and a spare set of speakers) and I have two in a cupboard. [Post edited 11 Nov 11:38]
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Reply | Wireless Earphones Help, Please
at 19:27 7 Nov 2024
Wired will always be better than bluetooth because of the losses from the latter.
At home, I connect my phone to my hifi via Google Audio; it directs the wifi signal from my router straight to the dongle in the back of my amp and from there into the amp itself via an optical connection. No BT involved.
Same with the kit on my car; in that case I stream from my phone but that then talks to the audio system via a wifi connection and not a BT one.
I only use BT for headphones as it's just so convenient; I'm always moving around and wires get in the way. |
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Reply | Tendonitis
at 19:20 7 Nov 2024
The surgeon who first had a look at my achilles had ruptured his playing badminton or squash (can't recall which) against his nephew. Desk job, bad posture, tight calves, lack of warm up......the usual :-) |
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Reply | Tendonitis
at 14:09 7 Nov 2024
An achilles is stubborn as there's very little blood flow down there.
Also, be careful talking my slightly muddled advice; other have pointed out the importance of the initial strengthening exercised FIRST which is, now I think about, what I was shown how to do before anything else; the stretching came a bit later, IIRC.
The bit about the heel lift inside your shoe is another tip I'd forgotten - I did that. I also switched to wearing running shoes at all times as that reduced impacts and set backs. Of which there can be many at the beginning of the healing process.
Be resigned to a recovery that takes many months. Get a pro to give you a programme to follow, |
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Reply | Tendonitis
at 10:34 7 Nov 2024
I suffered a slight tear in mine a few years ago - ironically caused by my fitness instructor over-stretching it after a workout.
I had several sessions of physio then switched to a trainer who specialised in sports injuries. I went to see him for several months.
The basic problem I had then (and which I still do) is that, if I don't stretch enough, EVERYTHING gets too tight; calves, hammies, glutes, lower back, upper back, shoulders and neck. Age makes this worse as liagaments lose their elasticity. All of this puts a MASSIVE strain on your achilles.
The exercises they gave me concentrated on regaining movement, getting a bit of blood flow to the achilles and then strengthening it.
It tool a very long but it hasn't trublem me since. But then again, I still do stretching. to keep everything (relatively) elongated. |
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Reply | No subject
at 10:28 3 Nov 2024
Yes, three in midfield. |
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Reply | Solid Midfield
at 10:27 3 Nov 2024
It was interesting to watch attack after attack progress via our midfield rather than through it as has been the case pretty much all season.
Refreshing, especially against an in-form team like Sunderland. |
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Reply | Sam Field
at 10:23 3 Nov 2024
He looked completely at home yesterday. |
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Reply | Wireless Earphones Help, Please
at 12:44 1 Nov 2024
I've had a couple of sets of Momentums - the in-ear ones with a neck band for the gym and the over-ear noise cancelling ones for flights, etc. Can't remember the model but in the tests for nice cancelling over ears it's always Sennheiser vs Bose vs Sony.
I had Cambridge Audio buds for years which sounded excellent but tended to have flaky BT connectivity which would drive me to distraction. So I have a go with the Samsung Pro 2s and was impressed; same audio quality along with seamless connectivity.
When I want to go into full audiofile mode I have some Flare in-ear monitors that a studio mate gave me. They look pretty shit and are wired BUT they sound amazing. They used to be mid £200-ish, now £99. If you can put up with wires they're fantastic. |
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Reply | QPR Vs Sunderland pre match chat
at 12:30 1 Nov 2024
My ambition for tomorrow is to get served at the Defectors, to get served at HT and, if I go out after, to get served at the C&S.
Anything else is a bonus. |
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Reply | Wireless Earphones Help, Please
at 10:05 1 Nov 2024
A mate of mine recently bought s set of them for running - I'll ask him how he's getting on with them.
Interestingly, they do a version for swimming - you download your media files onto the headset for that version. Clever idea. |
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Reply | QPR Vs Sunderland pre match chat
at 09:45 1 Nov 2024
Yeah, that must be a lot of fun.
I'm not predicting much from QPR on Saturday but you never know. I'll go along anyway and then head up to Leeds the following week. Not expecting much from that either but stranger things have happened. |
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Reply | Wireless Earphones Help, Please
at 08:03 31 Oct 2024
Everyone in my family has ended up with Samsung Galaxy Pro 2's.
Now down to £80. Fantastic sound for the price plus normal/ambient/noise cancelling modes. |
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Reply | Celar - Nothing Again
at 19:43 29 Oct 2024
I was amazed that he actually managed to get into an offside position against Burnley.
Because the rest of the time he's always and I mean ALWAYS two yards back from whatever ball's being played in for him.
Immensely frustrating to watch. So often he's in the right place and heading in the right direction. He's just always two yards short. |
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