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Reply | Taraabt
at 00:14 23 Jan 2025
Ah, just trying to make sense of it. |
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Reply | Taraabt
at 22:34 22 Jan 2025
I always wondered if the club doctored the count.
Just couldn't figure how the fans would vote for anyone else. |
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Thread | Garth Hudson RIP
at 09:48 22 Jan 2025
The Last of The Band to Die.
What an unreal talent!
Ar dheis Dé. |
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Reply | Hull Is For Heroes match fred
at 08:52 22 Jan 2025
I'd agree that we can't judge him on that particlaur incident. As you say, we don't know what the instructions were at that stage of the game.
I think we can say, though, that so far this season his work-rate has been, shall we say, somewhat erratic? |
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Reply | Hull Is For Heroes match fred
at 08:40 22 Jan 2025
It's not just British fans, either, is it Clive?
Attacking the ball is a key tenet of Cifuentes' Cryuffian model.
Earlier in the season, we were dreadful at it, attacking the ball in ones or twos, with some lads slacking. Madsen looks really bad now because most if not all of his team-mates have got their finger out. |
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Reply | Cold Nights Up North?
at 22:02 21 Jan 2025
Missed tonight's game, but that is a serious result.
Buzzing with that. |
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Reply | Snooker, Golf or Darts
at 14:25 21 Jan 2025
Never knew that about the dominant eye, Robith, but it makes perfect sense now that you've said it.
I threw a lot as a kid and never knew half of those tips. |
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Reply | Hull
at 12:36 21 Jan 2025
Fair enough!  |
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Reply | Cian Dillon goals reel
at 09:41 21 Jan 2025
That seems to be a mixture of Irish youths league and International youths. |
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Reply | A complete unknown
at 09:39 21 Jan 2025
Good to hear, Crowe. I fall in and out of love with his music, but I'm really looking forward to this.
Thanks. |
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Reply | Hull
at 08:07 21 Jan 2025
Aww, thanks. So hard to keep up with modern science fads. |
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Reply | Pat Nevin's The Accidental Footballer
at 08:04 21 Jan 2025
Hi Joe,
Yes, I have read it. Lovely book, he writes about his childhood and teenage years in particular with real beauty and feeling. Gorgeous stuff.
Enjoy! |
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Reply | Hull
at 21:34 20 Jan 2025
Cycling is the obvious example of athletes competing for days on end. Hundreds of kilomotres very day, sometimes for three weeks on end.
So athletes are capable of incredible feats.
Footballers in our division play twice a week, once at the weekend and once midweek. QPR players play 46-50 games from August through to early May, so it's actually far less than twice a week over the season.
I have no knowledge of sports science, but QPR's training surely has to include game-based training as part of most sessions, and those have to be played at high intensity otherwise you're not training for the real thing. So, to play (or to be available to play) those 46-50 games with added pre-season games and inter-squad games and training (short) games our players are probably hitting the red zone 120 times a year.
That's maybe as much as cycling.
Plus, for most of the peleton cycling is more of an endurance sport than a speed sport, so muscle injuries don't seem to be as much of a concern for them as they are for footballers.
For us, it's about avoiding muscle injuries, and allowing enough time to do pre and post-match gym/pool recovery/injury avoidance sessions.
I have no doubt that our sports science people are all over it, and I do try to understand it.
But I still genuinely can't figure how Barry Bannan is 103 years old, and never needs to be rested, whereas we need to throw two cup competitions every year so we can finish mid-table in Division 2. |
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Reply | If a miracle happened and we went up via the playoffs
at 20:51 20 Jan 2025
I can't figure it, Kensal.
We're 6 points (maybe 7 with goal difference) off the playoffs.
We're 9 points (maybe 10 with goal difference) off relegation.
But they think we're twice as likely to be relegated as finishing in the Top 6.
Maybe the bookies are getting heavy money on the Top 6.
Maybe they think they'll spend heavily this month.
Maybe they think their squads are bigger and able to withstand injuries.
All of those things would be vaild, but put it all together and - while I think we're most likely to stay in this division - are we really twice as likely to be relegated as finish Top 6?
Seems skewed to me. |
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Reply | Pat Nevin's The Accidental Footballer
at 18:59 20 Jan 2025
Glad it's a good read, Counsellor.
Having thought about it, I'm still going to give it a miss but thanks for the recommendation anyway. |
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Reply | Random irritations..
at 15:27 20 Jan 2025
"I do miss working in smaller businesses in some ways though that comes with its own challenge. Megalomaniac owners, zero cash flow, cutting corners often etc. but you do get to the end of the week usually feeling like you’ve actually achieved something."
Me too, Watford, and I never thought I'd say that. |
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