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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread
at 16:40 20 Jan 2025
Jonjo Shelvey to Burnley? Scott Parker must be the best supported manager in Championship history! |
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Reply | In other news !!!
at 08:50 20 Jan 2025
Well we tried to win at Leicester last week, got beat 6-2, and you spent the entire following week throwing an enormous strop about it.
Contradictory as ever Mr SE  |
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Reply | In other news !!!
at 21:34 19 Jan 2025
Principles are all well and good when you're winning, but I'd rather win first and get principles later.
Sport, after all, is fundamentally about winning. |
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Reply | Snooker, Golf or Darts
at 21:33 19 Jan 2025
All three require enormous amounts of mental strength and ability as well as game ability.
I'd actually go for Golf, simply because I think financially that is much harder to get to the top level at than the other sports are.
I mean...I know very little about all three, but if you were to ask me which one costs the most money to get to the top (and is therefore going to be the biggest blocker for any budding star) I'd say golf. |
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Reply | Kolli signs new deal!
at 12:35 17 Jan 2025
Is it me or are Nourry's comments in this one coming across a bit pointy?
Great news though, I really like him and he's getting better, his composed finish against Leicester was excellent. |
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Reply | Golazzo!
at 08:45 17 Jan 2025
Sort of on topic but sort of not, but eagles are really impressive birds. That fkr's huge! (The bird, not the prosthetic penis, I can't comment on that...) |
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Reply | Working Mens Clubs/ Constitutional Clubs.
at 08:38 17 Jan 2025
There were some really good podcast series done on BBC Sounds last year around the 40th anniversary of the miners strikes, one series done by BBC Leicester about the "Dirty Thirty" who were the only ones to go on strike in the county and the effect it still has four decades on.
Well worth digging out to listen, there was lots I learned on the social history that I never really knew. |
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Reply | 9 points off 6th, 9 points off 22nd...
at 08:35 17 Jan 2025
It might be the trauma of the last few seasons speaking but I still see us as perfectly capable of going on a 6 match losing streak and hurtling back toward that bottom three.
Far more than I do going on a 6 match winning run and flying up toward the top six anyway! |
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Reply | Working Mens Clubs/ Constitutional Clubs.
at 11:06 16 Jan 2025
This is a really interesting topic, the traditional background of working mens clubs being based around the major local industries/employers are long gone.
I'm thinking the railway clubs, the miners welfare clubs, clubs attached to the major factory in a small town.
And where these clubs have seen major structural, community and demographic changes they've died out.
There is though, as others have said, still a need for third places for people to be in community with each other - it is so unhealthy for our lives to be work -> home -> work -> home etc.
There's a village just outside Leicester called Desford, and there they've got a Sports centre called Sport in Desford. It's got a football pitch and tennis courts there, but its an absolute hub of community activity. There's loads of different sports clubs based there (football teams, running clubs, tennis clubs, indoor sport stuff for the hall, yoga groups, mums & tots etc). Every time I go there its an absolute hub of community activity every day of the week, I think it's a brilliant place.
We need more of this (and those mentioning board game nights etc are just as valid). This is where the traditional club needs to adapt to to survive IMO. |
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Reply | New Match of the Day Presenters...
at 17:08 15 Jan 2025
The BBC got quite annoying in the Olympics coverage last year of missing out athletics action because they were too busy doing all the nostalgic yadda yadda chatter in the studio.
Same with the swimming. There was a desire to turn everything into a soap opera rather than just showing us sport. Diamond League coverage is always excellent because it cuts all that nonsense out. |
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Reply | Blackburn v QPR game off
at 16:34 14 Jan 2025
We did do this in Holloway's second spell didn't we? Had a midweek home match to Burton brought forward to an FA Cup Saturday as we were both out.
We then lost as well. |
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Reply | How do you feel about Marti post-Leicester?
at 09:45 14 Jan 2025
Given the meltdown you've been having here SE I'm amazed you're still alive and didn't self combust when we lost to Vauxhall Motors 22 years ago! |
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Reply | Fog - FA guidance for pitch inspection
at 08:49 14 Jan 2025
It got better just in time to be able to tell as soon as Faes' shot left his boot it was going in the top corner 
Someone said to me that as long as the ref could see all four corners from the halfway line it could go ahead, I didn't know the bit about fans. We definitely spent large parts of the game unable to see anything at the far end, or even the other side on our own end. I can't for a minute believe the linesman could definitely see, as alluded to in Clive's report. |
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Reply | Chelshite song
at 10:52 13 Jan 2025
I had a look at the clock when it got its first airing...2 minutes and 25 seconds was all it took. Predictable really when they sent that email out.
The tannoy announcement was relating to people standing in stairwells and crowding around the back, rather than any chanting. |
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Reply | A mist opportunity as Foxes hit QPR for six – Report
at 10:49 13 Jan 2025
The Tigers game and its associated TV commitments were arranged well in advance of the FA Cup draw even being made so any home tie for City was always going to play second fiddle.
I'm just grateful the game remained on the Saturday, 2pm is hardly much of a move (and its not as if anyone knew weeks in advance when it was agreed that a thick fog would be descending on the place).
We could easily have been shunted off to a Sunday graveyard shift kick off - it would have been easier for the police for them to be on separate days.
Of all things to complain about from Saturday this is a bit of a non-starter. |
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Reply | Just back
at 16:55 11 Jan 2025
I would add the 4,500 travelling support today was great to be in the middle of,loud, raucous, funny (the multiple chants referring to not being able to see anything was hilarious) and they never got on the team's back. Very much kept behind them the whole game. |
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Thread | Just back
at 16:34 11 Jan 2025
Glad to be back in the warm 20 minutes after that!
Didn't really go to plan did it?
I've never been to a game where I genuinely could not see large parts of the game. The fog was ridiculous.
Weird game. I've seen us get battered many times and thought how horrendous we are, I actually thought we mostly played ok for large parts, but gave away cheap chances and got punished repeatedly, we probably got away get away with some of them against Championship players.
At 1-1 we were well on top, two stupid goals given away in quick succession, get back in it, then put ourselves in trouble straight after half time. Frustrating.
Harrison Ashby won't be reliving that game in a hurry for sure.
Oh well, always next year. [Post edited 11 Jan 16:35]
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Reply | Leicester Park and Ride
at 22:02 10 Jan 2025
If you're coming in off the M1 set your sat-navs for a road called Dumbleton Avenue (its off the A5460 Narborough Road) and there is free street parking there or streets either side of it.
Its about a 20 minute walk to the ground from there, and will get you straight back out to the M1 afterwards (with some traffic) without faffing around with buses. |
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