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Thread | Next four games
at 09:10 24 Oct 2024
gives us a run of games where we can set up the same for all of them, that is, a rearguard action.
We could have done with Colback out there and without him this could turn into a slaughter.
That said, we’re clueless taking the game to teams so we might do better than expected.
If we can drag a point a game out of this run, it’ll at least keep us in touch. |
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Thread | The 4, the 2 and the 1 ✅ , but the 3??
at 08:41 31 Aug 2024
Got to get that three behind the striker working, let’s be honest it’s was dreadful last night. Nothing stuck between them.
On the plus side, we have Chair, Dembele, Andersen, Smyth, Madsen and Varane to choose from, case of finding the right combination.
Dembele for me is wasted stuck out wide. We haven’t really seen Dembele and Andersen on the same pitch yet, that could be a game changer. We still look like an away side in every fixture. Being brutally honest, I can’t say we’ve looked like we’d win any of the 6 games so far.
We’ve got a defence, a central midfield, a centre forward now, but getting those three positions in the right order will be critical to our season.
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Thread | Retro chanting
at 13:15 29 Aug 2024
May I take this opportunity to thank those in the SAR who enhanced a very enjoyable evening at the Caraboa cup game with their rendition of ‘Luton Town, W*nk-W*nk-W*nk’ whenever there was a lull in the game.
Haven’t heard that one since circa 1974, and there were certainly some puzzled faces as it took off.
Quite addictive too, waiting this morning on an automated call found myself mumbling it away to myself.
As I’d have said, if I’d ever have been arsed to write into Points of View, More please.
I’m all in favour of the introduction of inane retro chanting when things get quiet. |
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Thread | Arse Slot
at 16:20 17 May 2024
Let’s face it, this is not going to go well. |
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Thread | Harry Kane
at 08:28 9 May 2024
Is there such a thing as a Jonah?
Think I read somewhere last time Bayern failed to win the Bundesliga he was on loan at Millwall. |
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Thread | Grand National
at 18:25 13 Apr 2024
I get the desire for the safety of horses but, watching today, they may as well replace the fences with a pile of cushions.
After the first circuit the jumps resembled hurdles with the whacking great holes that bad horses now get away with ploughing through.
The race has completely gone as a unique spectacle. Racing will be finished the way it’s going. |
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Thread | Our esteemed leader
at 14:56 13 Nov 2023
Where is he?
Have I blocked him? Is he asleep at the wheel? Is he pontificating over Kakays marks out of ten? That is a tough one, to be fair.
We need answers.
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Thread | Forwards
at 17:10 21 Oct 2023
Over 50 seasons viewing and I’ve never seen a worst bunch of forwards than we have now.
That’s on the board and Ainsworth. Utterly pitiful. |
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Thread | One home win in a year
at 18:13 7 Oct 2023
That’s ratified now. I’d never imagined that was possible.
Has any team gone an entire year without a home win? |
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Thread | Thames Water
at 14:40 28 Jun 2023
Thames Water on brink of going bust now!
£60bn paid to shareholders over the last 30 years from British water companies but if it folds taxpayers get to pick up the debt of circa £14bn.
I might be a capitalist at heart but even I can see this is plain wrong. Big companies are shafting the public from every angle, it’s amazing people are taking hit after hit in the chin. Somethings got to give.
What a mess this country has got itself in. |
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Thread | Is it worth taking the drop
at 09:48 8 Apr 2023
It’s a gamble but does anyone think another year at this level is going to see any improvement? I can’t
If we did stay up, last years £24m loss added to this years will almost certainly see a points deduction at some point in 23/24.
As the regulations are different in L1 it should be easier to turn the boat around, without said points deduction, using a mixture of the handful of players who are worth keeping a level down and strengthening the rest of the side with new players conducive to that league and it’s finances.
I can’t see anyone being much interested in our outfield players, most of them have one more year left on their contracts, so they might feel compelled to get back to the Championship with this club, bearing in mind if they fail in L1 most of their careers will be over as far as a higher level goes.
Could be the season to do it as well, reduce the losses, galvanise a new side, and with a new TV agreement for 24/25 it might attract the new ownership this club desperately needs. This lot should unload it for quid if they want to get it off their hands.
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Thread | Good news at the World Cup
at 10:40 19 Nov 2022
Fair play to the Qataries, their first taste of Budweiser and they ban it. |
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Thread | UK geologist jailed in Iraq
at 08:48 7 Jun 2022
‘’UK geologist jailed for 15 years in Iraq for collecting pottery shards
A RETIRED British geologist was sentenced to 15 years in an Iraqi jail yesterday after trying to take shards of broken pottery out of the country.
Jim Fitton, 66, collected a dozen stones and bits of ceramics as souvenirs during a recent geology and archaeology tour to Eridu, an ancient Mesopotamian city in southern Iraq.
While he could have faced the death penalty, the verdict shocked the court in Baghdad, including his defence lawyer, who expected a suspended jail term at worst.
The authorities said the sentence was reduced due to Fitton’s age but his son-in-law last night said the tariff amounted to a death sentence.
Sam Tasker, 27, also lambasted the UK Government for what he said was their ‘total lack of action in this case to date’.
Mr Tasker, who is married to Fitton’s daughter Leila, 31, added: ‘We are absolutely shattered. For a man of Jim’s age, 15 years in an Iraqi prison is tantamount to a death sentence. Particularly for such a trivial and dubious crime, a crime that Jim was not even aware of when he perpetrated it.
‘We are completely heartbroken that our own best efforts, a strong legal defence and constant campaigning, have led to this outcome. We are disappointed, indeed stunned, at our government’s total lack of action in this case to date. We are raising an appeal and will continue to fight for Jim’s freedom, and urge the Government to support us in every way possible and to open lines of communication with us at a senior level.’
Father-of-two Fitton, who is originally from Bath but lived in Malaysia with wife Sarijah, was arrested at Baghdad airport on March 20 alongside a German tourist Volker Waldmann, after airport security discovered the items in their luggage.
Mr Waldman’s defence team said the German tourist had been carrying the pieces for Fitton but did not pick them up from the site. He was released by the court. Judge Jabir Abd Jabir found that by picking up the items and intending to transport them out of the country, Fitton had criminal intent to smuggle them.
A report by the Iraqi culture ministry said the pieces were more than 200 years old, without offering any further explanation about their provenance.
The judge did not consider the arguments of Fitton’s lawyer Thair Soud that he was ignorant of Iraqi laws and the value of the items. ‘I thought the worst case scenario would be one year, with suspension,’ the shocked lawyer said. Fitton, who was well travelled during a career working as a geologist for oil and gas companies, collected the items as souvenirs while visiting a site in Eridu, in Iraq’s south east.
He had faced a potential death sentence, although Iraqi officials said that was only a remote possibility. A petition started by his family over the apparent lack of government action has so far been signed by more than 100,000 signatories.
The British diplomatic mission in Baghdad has not commented on its involvement in the case. If the two countries come to an agreement, it is possible Fitton could be sent back to Britain to serve his sentence here.
Eridu is thought to be one of the oldest cities of the ancient Mesopotamian civilisation, dating from 5,400BC until it was abandoned in about 600BC.’’
Seems harsh but if you are a geologist on a geological and archaeological tour to an ancient city and you don’t think picking up and taking home the very artefacts essential to a geological and archaeological tour might be asking for trouble then, at the very least, you’re not a particularly smart geologist.
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