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Reply | And breathe... - Simon Dorset's annual deep dive into the accounts
at 18:12 26 Feb 2025
In the 5 or so years before finally reaching the Prem, Brentford sold around 10 players for 5 million plus each...including biggies like Benrahma and Watkins...and replaced them well enough to keep upward momentum and eventually not only go up, but stay there.
Now we all know about Benham's business / advantage with player info etc etc - but it still shows it can be done this way. |
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Reply | 1974/75 Season Memories
at 12:56 26 Feb 2025
Too young to be able to help with fan reaction to Jago etc...but I will always remember my first night match.
FAC 3rd round we drew Notts Co at home. If I remember correctly, Chelsea and Fulham were also drawn at home - policing wise, something had to give, so we played on the Friday night.
3-0 by HT, we tore them apart, real signs of a special team developing. Me & my mum sat in the Paddock, near the dug outs, and I can still hear one Rs wag repeatedly shouting out "you must be 'avin' a nightmare down there Sirrel" to the helpless* Notts boss
(*on the night that is - very much a Meadow Lane legend of course) |
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Reply | emotional qpr....
at 07:47 25 Feb 2025
Loss at Carrow Road in 76. I wasn't there, too young for aways then as my mum & dad weren't Rs, but I remember my dad took me to some other London game. Walking back to the car, I heard the result on someone's transistor (the days when you all tried to walk next to the bloke with the little radio) and was in complete bits.
Relegation from the Prem first time round at Forest. I'd moved to Nottingham a year earlier which didn't help. All those gallows humour chants (Grimsby on a Tuesday night etc) we sang through the game suddenly felt very real at full time. We then all refused to leave til Wilkins came out - felt like it took about half an hour, but was probably a lot less. We knew he'd fckd up but loved him anyway. The prevailing mood was we'd come straight back up - alas my gut feeling that we could be gone for a long time proved more accurate. |
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Reply | The pïss stain coloured kit
at 07:39 25 Feb 2025
Agreed - when did not playing in the home kit wherever possible (in our case with a switch to blue shorts / socks an option) become a thing?
I guess I know the answer to my own question - when clubs realised how much could be made from flogging away kits.
One I don't know...when did they drop that rule that away kits had to be used for a minimum 2 seasons to stop parents being asked by eager kids to fork out for one every year?
We should only have to change for max half the oppo in this division. |
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Reply | The pïss stain coloured kit
at 20:56 23 Feb 2025
Much as I've liked the variations on the Feyenoord kit over the years, and a few others besides...I'm with Brian...hoops is our identity, our USP...so all 2nd and 3rd kits should be hooped...appreciate it doesn't make financial sense to be Dennis every year, so I'm not really fussed what colour combos are hooped together....just keep it da da da da HOOPS. |
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Reply | Neil Warnock on Sky as a pundit for Leeds/ Sunderland
at 11:58 18 Feb 2025
Similar to me Brian.
Early in his tenure, my son asked me why I wasn't joining in with Neil Warnock's blue & white army. I said I wasn't a fan of the bloke - and said I'd sing it if we got promotion...so at Vicarage Road, a year and a bit later, I kept my promise.
Still waiting for my email (glossary entry #827 I believe). |
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Reply | Spurs v Man Utd
at 11:51 17 Feb 2025
The name shout thing irritates me a bit, but other than that, I'd say Drury is the one modern commentator who does still have some nuance, a wide vocabulary, and the ability to do more than spout cliches and state the bleedin' obvious.
Not quite Barry Davies levels, but I prefer him to the rest. [Post edited 17 Feb 17:29]
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Reply | Charlie Kelman’s Leyton Orient
at 14:22 9 Feb 2025
Jan 31 2024 offish announced he'd "extended his contract" (no further details natch) and was off to Wigan for remainder of season.
O's loan announced June 29.
That's all I can find... |
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Reply | Dunne off?
at 15:27 8 Feb 2025
Rob Holding on the Blades bench today.
Ok, I know he hasn’t played a game since the Jurassic era, unlike red hot / injury free Dunne,
But still suspect Jimmy has dodged a Bladed bullet. |
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Reply | 3 points off the play offs
at 18:32 5 Feb 2025
Think I saw Marti say we got 56 points last season, and first evidence of progress is to top that. |
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Reply | Pics from last night
at 17:33 5 Feb 2025
Two highlights there for me:
1. Frey caught perfectly mid-gob.
2. Much-needed photographic evidence that Smyth does NOT possess a long throw. |
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Reply | He Dunne good.
at 13:26 5 Feb 2025
Nice to hear one rendition of "Dunne Dunne Dunne Dunne", his original (in both senses of the word) song...disappointed it's mostly been replaced by the "same as Sam Field" chant |
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Reply | Dunne off?
at 13:20 5 Feb 2025
With you on the principle...but it's not as simple as "sign an extension or be sold." What if there's no buyer? Or only derisory offers? Do we then just continue to pay them their (*salary figure redacted to retain competitive advantage*) while letting them (LFW Glossary klaxon) "rot in the reserves"?
It would appear this where we ended up with Paal after the summer window, we've elected to keep picking him. |
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Reply | Ronnie “ beckenbauer” Edwards
at 09:27 5 Feb 2025
I certainly thought that when I saw the line up. We must have had half a dozen centre back pairings this season - but given that our good run started when Cook & Morrison teamed up, my thinking was: JCS injured, Jimmy back to RB, Fox to the bench, also Edwards as he's not ours...and reunite that proven pairing.
But then he plays like that!
Tough call for Marti tbf. |
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Reply | Dunne off?
at 19:09 1 Feb 2025
Wasn't at the game, but plenty of positive comments about Edwards at RB (incl an MOTM shout) on the match thread... |
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Reply | New Year transfer window rumours
at 18:56 1 Feb 2025
Google Translate has that final sentence as:
"Flu kept 40% of the player's rights."
...is that either a whopper of a sell-on clause...or a Faurlin (Mascherano / Tevez) dodgy dual ownership scenario!? |
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