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Reply | False number nine
at 09:02 25 Oct 2024
Also, if we were to go with the OP's suggestion we might as well tell Celar, after just a handful of games in a disjointed team, that he's useless and we're never going to pick him. Not convinced that's a great use of player resources, nor response to his performances, nor use of the money we've invested in him.
We can't keep writing people off like this, even if his early appearances haven't been promising (to put it mildly). |
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Reply | Kolli scores!
at 15:46 24 Oct 2024
Putting to one side what may or may not have happened behind the scenes, I do find the conversation around Kolli interesting. He's scored a goal for the Dev Team against Colchester's Dev Team, and 2 goals for Algeria U20s against....Mauritania. It's not exactly 'banging the door down' form, is it? Yet people are taking really quite polarised positions on him. Odd. |
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Reply | Dev Squad v Sheff U today
at 13:24 10 Sep 2024
Some very young players in that team - Neill and Tarbotton were in the U16s last year and have seemingly by-passed the U18s straight to the Dev Squad. |
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Reply | Liam Morrison
at 15:03 28 Aug 2024
A couple of times in the second half last night their CFs dropped off Morrison and found space between him and Santos and neither of them picked up on it, but he recovered the situation well each time. He's still very young for a CB and obviously learning but he's got good attributes, height, strength, comfortable on the ball. Looks like a very good signing. |
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Reply | John Textor. American owner.
at 10:47 11 Aug 2024
An article in The Guardian last week about this guy possibly buying Everton contained a throwaway line about him having previously looked at QPR and Watford. Probably where this account has nicked the idea. |
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Reply | Paris 2024 Olympics Frederique
at 15:45 2 Aug 2024
Yes, I too wonder why on earth a woman would want to speak up in defence of women's rights... |
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Reply | State Of Origin 2024.
at 12:13 17 Jul 2024
Who in their right mind wants to stand in front of Spencer Leniu running at full steam? |
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Reply | Nrl 2024
at 12:11 17 Jul 2024
Would the outlay for the NRL be worth it? Idk, but I see your point about the game's contraction here having a knock on effect.
I heard somewhere that the clubs now have more control over fixtures, something Sky gave up when making a considerably lower financial offer, and it's them who don't want Thursday games. As you say, absolutely crucial to get a handful of extra bodies in the ground and buying a pie on a Friday.
The small-time thinking infects every level of the game. Such a shame. |
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Reply | Nrl 2024
at 11:17 17 Jul 2024
Lot's of questions about how you'd get it off the ground, structure, which clubs, etc. But my main thought is that Peter V'landys only does things he thinks will make money in the short-to-medium term - hence the push for a PNG team because the Aus government have offered $600m, the Las Vegas season-opener, using profits to buy existing businesses in Australia. Would an NRL Europe make money? Doubtful, but even if it did you'd be looking at a very long-term project. I cant see him wanting to spend time and money on it, especially when they can just use the English game as a source of players. |
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Reply | Nrl 2024
at 10:48 17 Jul 2024
London's a joke of a club, in fact it's not even a club anymore just a first team and a handful of off-field staff. David Hughes has spent £30million to take a club averaging 4,500 at Griffin Park to one averaging 1,000 at Wimbledon, and in the process driven away people who were the bedrock of the club's support and the local community clubs
Even the much-vaunted development work that managed to produce a few England internationals has been destroyed in the last few years - academy team closed and fewer community clubs than at any point in the last 20 years.
And I doubt the other clubs will allow Toulouse the time and space needed to establish themselves, they've already changed the rules so Catalans have to pay for everyone's travel to France once a year. Too many people (owners, players, fans, administrators) really do just want to revert to playing games against teams they can travel to on the local bus network. Eventually, that's what they'll probably get - and wonder why so many young players are desperate to leave for the NRL (just wait until that hits 20 teams and needs more players). |
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Reply | Nrl 2024
at 10:37 17 Jul 2024
Just a little defence of IMG here, I don't think they realised just how resistant the clubs would be to absolutely every suggestion made. They've ended up cobbling together a package that doesn't make a huge difference but was just about all they could get the clubs to agree to. I wouldn't be surprised if IMG walked away, the financial returns just aren't worth the work they have to put in. |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 11:35 12 Jul 2024
Yes, actually, I am. Russia is a fascist state (run by real, actual, genuine, fascists, not the nonsense that gets spouted by some students and online larpers) that has invaded a neighbouring country and would happily do the same to numerous others in the vicinity. Take a look at their behaviour in every Ukrainian town and city they've conquered - the rape, torture and murder they dish out as a matter of course. I am delighted that we are doing something to help the poor buggers defending themselves against these monsters. |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 10:53 9 Jul 2024
It's interesting to me that you think the Liberals are to the left of Labour, given that the only time they've been in government in the past 100 years they actively participated in the wholesale destruction of the social and civic infrastructure that held this country together and paved the way to all of us being financially and socially poorer. [Post edited 9 Jul 10:54]
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 09:47 5 Jul 2024
Not sure that's right on Gaza. 3 or 4 constituencies with very large Muslim communities have elected independents who stood almost exclusively on the issue of Gaza. So Labour have definitely lost votes because of that, and some of the left went to the Greens, but they've countered that by gaining votes from other people in other areas - which likely would be people who voted Tory last time out.
Alongside Reform taking votes across the country but in a haphazard way, the end result is that Labour have basically got the same overall % but a much wider geographical spread and now have a whopping majority (albeit many of those will be small majorities). |
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Reply | Leaving loftus road...
at 13:22 20 Jun 2024
It's simply not true to say that nothing will ever happen. Every year our capacity is reduced further and further - we're probably at about 17.5k now and a good quarter of those are restricted views. And, of course, the old girl has been neglected. So, there will come a point at which we either find ourselves reduced to an even smaller capacity, we find a way to do something with the small spaces around our current site, or we move out entirely. |
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Reply | Rob Burrows Rugby League Hero
at 22:03 2 Jun 2024
I love rugby league, in fact I watch a lot more of it than I do football, and I especially loved watching Rob Burrow play rugby league. He played the game with joy and dash and a smile on his face. And he brought those emotions out in those who watched him play. It was heartbreaking to watch his body wither after his diagnosis, but he fought that battle in the same manner he played the game. An absolute battler from start to finish, loved and adored by everyone who played with and against him as well as the who watched him. Rest In Peace Rob. |
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Reply | End of Term 23/24 – Attack
at 10:14 28 May 2024
'Fallow' would suggest there was something before those years for LF, which there wasn't. Well, there was Hayes, I guess.
When both players were 20, Les had 2 games and no goals. When Les was 21 (ie next season for Sinclair) he had 5 games (3 for Brentford in the 3rd division) and no goals.
Les was very much a development project, over a number of years, jus as SA should have been. Instead, our chronic mismanagement meant we had no option but to throw him into the first team. In that context, he's done very well.
I said outright I wasn't suggesting SA would or could turn into LF, I was trying to put some meat on the bones of player development, especially for players who haven't come through a proper youth set up. |
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