| Book to read... 22:12 - Jan 9 with 9710 views | YorkRanger |
Currently reading The Nowhere Men by Malcolm Calvin, story about the scouting system in football. Highly recommended. Interesting reference to Matty Phillips in it, Dave Bassett reported on a Blackpool game v Watford saying he had played well but not sure he would make it to the very top...... |  | | |  |
| Book to read... on 22:18 - Jan 9 with 5513 views | Jalfrezi_Rs |
I hate cricket, but was given book called Fatty Batter by Michael Simkins. Had me in stitches.
Really recommend that one |  | | |
| Book to read... on 23:06 - Jan 9 with 5453 views | BrianMcCarthy |
I remembered a book today that I used to love:- Life at the Tip by Mervyn Grist.
A comic, fictional season in the life of a Non-Legue manager. I imagine it didn't win a Pulitzer but I loved it. |  |
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| Book to read... on 23:19 - Jan 9 with 5443 views | kropotkin41 |
Currently reading Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut, a very enjoyable read, quite gentle, funny so far. |  |
| ‘morbid curiosity about where this is all going’ |
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| Book to read... on 23:49 - Jan 9 with 5426 views | Metallica_Hoop |
Reading Simon Sebag Montefiore's 'Jerusalem' at home
And Max Hastings 'Catastrophe' at work.
Enjoying both immensely. (you have to enjoy history though obviously) |  |
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| Book to read... on 00:43 - Jan 10 with 5401 views | Northernr |
Loved the Nowhere Men, recommended to me by Neil SI. Good portion of it with our own Mel Johnson. |  | | |
| Book to read... on 01:08 - Jan 10 with 5383 views | MrSheen |
I've seen a few people praising Harry Thompson in the past. His one and only novel, This Place of Darkness, is about Darwin and the skipper of the Beagle, Captain Fitzroy. I'm not a big fan of Patrick O'Brien and naval porn, but this is extraordinary, a great story and fascinating on Darwin deduced the theory of evolution from his observations, and how Fitzroy saw the same things and resisted. Can't recommend it highly enough. What a loss! |  | | |
| Book to read... on 03:59 - Jan 10 with 5354 views | FDC |
Currently reading the Red Mars trilogy, utopian/dystopian sci-fi fare. It's excellent. |  | | |
| Book to read... on 06:38 - Jan 10 with 5330 views | JAPRANGERS |
| Book to read... on 00:43 - Jan 10 by Northernr |
Loved the Nowhere Men, recommended to me by Neil SI. Good portion of it with our own Mel Johnson. |
What happened to Neil I wonder?? He used to write very intelligent interesting posts and now has disappeared off the planet seemingly. Come back Neil, all is forgiven!!
I still have tucked away on my computer somewhere some of those videos he took during games 2 or 3 seasons ago. Superb stuff! |  | | |
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| Book to read... on 06:39 - Jan 10 with 5329 views | JAPRANGERS |
Reading 1984 again. Mega amazing story. | | | |
| Book to read... on 08:08 - Jan 10 with 5301 views | QPRDEL |
Reading John Honneys autobiography Always in motion , hes a big QPR fan, |  | | |
| Book to read... on 08:11 - Jan 10 with 5297 views | Red_Ranger |
| Book to read... on 08:08 - Jan 10 by QPRDEL |
Reading John Honneys autobiography Always in motion , hes a big QPR fan, |
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| Book to read... on 08:14 - Jan 10 with 5294 views | Northernr |
| Book to read... on 06:38 - Jan 10 by JAPRANGERS |
What happened to Neil I wonder?? He used to write very intelligent interesting posts and now has disappeared off the planet seemingly. Come back Neil, all is forgiven!!
I still have tucked away on my computer somewhere some of those videos he took during games 2 or 3 seasons ago. Superb stuff! |
He's still alive and travelling around with LFW, just hasn't been writing. I do have a piece from him to run next week though. | | | |
| Book to read... on 08:45 - Jan 10 with 5262 views | FDC |
I found myself sat directly in front of the Rt Rev Neil SI at Wembley. I introduced myself.
He hasn't posted since.
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| Book to read... on 09:52 - Jan 10 with 5202 views | peejaybee |
The " Shardlake Series" By C J Sansom are very good. |  |
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| Book to read... on 09:55 - Jan 10 with 5197 views | Neil_SI |
| Book to read... on 06:38 - Jan 10 by JAPRANGERS |
What happened to Neil I wonder?? He used to write very intelligent interesting posts and now has disappeared off the planet seemingly. Come back Neil, all is forgiven!!
I still have tucked away on my computer somewhere some of those videos he took during games 2 or 3 seasons ago. Superb stuff! |
Yeah I'm still around. Appreciate the kind words. :)
After winning the Play Off Final and having won The Championship before, I realised I'm satisfied. I experienced what I'd been waiting for and dreaming about my whole life, so selfishly perhaps, feel like I don't have much to contribute by way of posting anymore.
There's a little more to it than that, but generally I've enjoyed the break and needed it. |  | | |
| Book to read... on 12:21 - Jan 10 with 5121 views | JAPRANGERS |
| Book to read... on 09:55 - Jan 10 by Neil_SI |
Yeah I'm still around. Appreciate the kind words. :)
After winning the Play Off Final and having won The Championship before, I realised I'm satisfied. I experienced what I'd been waiting for and dreaming about my whole life, so selfishly perhaps, feel like I don't have much to contribute by way of posting anymore.
There's a little more to it than that, but generally I've enjoyed the break and needed it. |
Well, glad to hear you are alive, well and thriving. All the best! | | | |
| Book to read... on 12:39 - Jan 10 with 5107 views | onlyrinmoray |
| Book to read... on 00:43 - Jan 10 by Northernr |
Loved the Nowhere Men, recommended to me by Neil SI. Good portion of it with our own Mel Johnson. |
Ive read The Nowhere Men interesting comments from Mike Rigg about how unorganised QPR scouting was before he arrived no records of players watched etc He started to get it organised then Hughes left and HR brought in his men etc Seems as if our scouting system will never get sorted Have we ever had a system?
Still worries me about the lack of movement on Warren Farm the club will never move on without proper Academy facilities Dennis Wises son the latest to move on BTW it was DWs father who was an R not the wee shite |  | | |
| Book to read... on 13:17 - Jan 10 with 5079 views | ithastogetbetter |
I'm reading The Circle by Dave Eggers. A modern day 1984 in which a Google/Facebook/Twitter organisation consumes the human race to sell us sh*t that we don't want or ever needed. It will make you think twice about posting selfies, using the cloud (is that a thing?), clicking on those irritating ads on social media. If you've ever worked in an office with w*anker managers you'll laugh out loud but not in a LOL way, if you get my meaning!! | | | |
| Book to read... on 10:26 - Feb 22 with 4855 views | rsonist |
Half way through The Nowhere Men now myself. Fantastic book.
Really eye-opening stuff in particular about the work Brentford have done and the vision they have. It really has convinced me think that Warburton being available is a golden opportunity for us.
What a load of rubbish we've been sold over the years about how hard and expensive it is to run a youth system and what mugs we were to accept it. Fulham and Brentford now both doing it right under our bloody noses.
Painful when the book (published 2013) refers to Warren Farm being open for us 2014/15... |  | | |
| Book to read... on 13:08 - Feb 22 with 4760 views | Discodroids |
currently reading the david peace' red riding 'series of books. '1974', '1977','1980','1983'
to say that im in awe of the bloke would be an injustice...
is the writer i wish i could be.
genius. |  |
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| Book to read... on 13:18 - Feb 22 with 4744 views | MrSheen |
| Book to read... on 13:08 - Feb 22 by Discodroids |
currently reading the david peace' red riding 'series of books. '1974', '1977','1980','1983'
to say that im in awe of the bloke would be an injustice...
is the writer i wish i could be.
genius. |
Peace is hugely influenced, to put it generously, by James Ellroy. His LA quartet books (including LA Confidential, which is much more complex than the film) are astonishingly exciting and horribly inventive. Unfortunately, both Peace and Ellroy seem to have run out of ideas lately, and the style has run far ahead of the content. | | | |
| Book to read... on 13:39 - Feb 22 with 4720 views | CiderwithRsie |
| Book to read... on 12:39 - Jan 10 by onlyrinmoray |
Ive read The Nowhere Men interesting comments from Mike Rigg about how unorganised QPR scouting was before he arrived no records of players watched etc He started to get it organised then Hughes left and HR brought in his men etc Seems as if our scouting system will never get sorted Have we ever had a system?
Still worries me about the lack of movement on Warren Farm the club will never move on without proper Academy facilities Dennis Wises son the latest to move on BTW it was DWs father who was an R not the wee shite |
That's a thing that amazes me about football, the way that whenever a manager moves the entire personnel of the club seem to change.
Assuming Mike Rigg is right, if he had got the scouting organised then why in God's name is that all thrown out when Hughes leaves? I can understand it with the 1st team coaching staff, they work so closely with the manager, but surely the youth team, scouting and general management are institutional things and should carry on under the new guy?
When I was a a manager, I can't imagine what my employers would have thought if as soon as I arrived I proposed to get rid of the entire senior team and bring in a bunch of my own guys. | | | |
| Book to read... on 13:51 - Feb 22 with 4702 views | ade_qpr |
Just finished Tor by Uli Hesse - The Story of German Football.
Best history book on football I have read so far. Knew very little about German football but found this brilliant, very informative and entertaining.
From how clubs started, to getting their names, the effects of the wars, how the Bundesliga started and at the same time as giving club history wove in the National team stuff as well.
Tor meaning Goal in German. |  |
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| Book to read... on 14:13 - Feb 22 with 4679 views | Discodroids |
| Book to read... on 13:18 - Feb 22 by MrSheen |
Peace is hugely influenced, to put it generously, by James Ellroy. His LA quartet books (including LA Confidential, which is much more complex than the film) are astonishingly exciting and horribly inventive. Unfortunately, both Peace and Ellroy seem to have run out of ideas lately, and the style has run far ahead of the content. |
Will check it out mr sheen.
i feel the same about both jake arnott and irvine welsh , buy their books out of a sense of duty theses day, hoping that they will show the form of old. | |
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| Book to read... on 15:31 - Feb 22 with 4628 views | MrSheen |
| Book to read... on 14:13 - Feb 22 by Discodroids |
Will check it out mr sheen.
i feel the same about both jake arnott and irvine welsh , buy their books out of a sense of duty theses day, hoping that they will show the form of old. |
Don't do what I do and read them in the wrong order! They're brilliant, you'll love them. You'll never think of Walt Disney the same way. | | | |
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