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Reply | Hammersmith Bridge
at 20:30 25 Feb 2025
Yup.
Also see Russia, USA, most of Africa, in fact pretty much every country in the world. |
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Reply | Meanwhile at Man Utd
at 17:08 25 Feb 2025
Same with Ray Jones. At just 18 years old and only having passed his driving test three weeks previous he should not have been allowed a Golf R32.
I think Alex Ferguson had it in players contracts that whilst at the club they could not have a car more than 2.0 until a certain age (23 or 25 IIRC).
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Reply | Random irritations..
at 16:44 25 Feb 2025
Major design flaw with modern cars.... by having DRL's at the front only and are so bright anyway coupled with dashboard lights always being on, drivers forget to turn their actual headlights on meaning the rear lights are never on. If you're going to have DRL's, have them front & back.
Drivers who also 'accidentally' forget to wash their car rendering the rear number plate unreadable (illegal). |
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Reply | Hammersmith Bridge
at 13:57 25 Feb 2025
I use the A4 Hammersmith flyover and Westway every time I go to work and back. If both those close that would probably add 50+% to my journey time using an alternative route and I'm on a motorbike. Any cars, vans, lorries, coaches etc will be fked. |
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Reply | Hammersmith Bridge
at 11:06 25 Feb 2025
I get the need to keep historic things like buildings & bridges going for as long as possible but this has been so detrimental for so long.
It's a lovely bridge but it's way, way, way beyond what it's intended to do.... getting people across the river.
That proposal is awful. As said, knock it down and rebuild it, in the same design too IMO. There are 'historic' buildings in Dresden that were flattened by the Allies and rebuilt, I doubt anyone bats an eyelid that they are only 70 years old, not a couple of hundred.
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Reply | Meanwhile at Man Utd
at 18:24 24 Feb 2025
I remember years ago reading in WSC where a player (in the autumn of his career) had transferred from Newcastle to Blackburn and he couldn't believe the state of the dressing rooms. Carpets peeling and laundry room was full of decrepit washing machines. I guess they don't think of that when they & their agent are screwing every penny they can from the club.
This is what I was alluding to on another thread about clubs needing to have income>player salary ratios at around 60-70%. This is to allow the rest of the club to function properly. If higher all that happens is the players still get their grotesque salaries but cuts are made elsewhere to the detriment of dozens & dozens of people, but we still hail the players as gods. |
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Reply | Marti - Glasgow Rangers.
at 10:50 24 Feb 2025
I could be wrong but if he works back in the UK within 2 years of leaving his Saudi job he might have to pay a mahoosive amount of tax that wouldn't make taking up a job like that worthwhile.
Same reason i think Jordan Henderson went to Ajax rather than back to a UK club. |
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Reply | QPR finances released
at 13:33 22 Feb 2025
The problem with that is with increased income of a new stadium the players (and agents) will just want even more money so we just end up standing still. At some point all avenues of income get maxed out.
The key is to get the income > player salary ratio down. Not sure what it is at the moment but I believe 60-70% is the ideal max threshold. In our PL seasons I think we were at 130%. [Post edited 22 Feb 13:34]
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Reply | LFW historians
at 12:07 21 Feb 2025
Them there early days, including the official QPR message board, was just a craic. Once 'that bloke from down the pub' realised social media was a massive platform for them to get all angry about everything and it become all about them it turned into a minefield. Been on a downward curve for years.
Same with Trump (sorry, trying really hard not to be political but there is context here)... saw a documentary a few years ago about him and he had no idea about or cared for social media, the internet etc. Could just about manage to turn a phone on. Then one day an aide showed him Twitter and he realised how he could use it for his benefit. That's all that mattered to him.
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Reply | The power of the Won
at 17:27 20 Feb 2025
Didn't we have 'clubhouse' shirts for a year or two in the early 90's which were basically us making our own kits? |
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Reply | School End Lower
at 17:25 20 Feb 2025
It is annoying that oppositions fans seem to think it's oh so hilarious to sit in the upper corner, take a photo of the blocked view then go online saying it's ridiculous we sell those seats when they know full well we don't. I guess putting nets on those seats or having a net curtain between the blocks or even removing the seats altogether will stop those people who think they are really 'clever'.
When we got promoted in 2011 we had to create that box for Sky, it was a requirement in the same way Luton had to pretty much rebuild the whole executive stand (cost around £10m IIRC) running down the east side of the ground.
As we are not in the PL, it's no longer used for Sky but is used as a 'premium' executive box type of thing. At a guess I'd say the money we get from hiring it out goes towards any monies lost by not being able to sell the seats behind it.
QPR have said many times that every time they do things to the stadium (replacing club crests, stadium name etc) it compromises the structure so they can't be erecting, taking down, re-erecting etc that corner box every time we get promoted, relegated, promoted etc so that's why it was left as it is, safety.
It is actually being professional despite the problems as a result of leaving it in place. Can you imagine if they did take it down, put it back up, take it down etc then one day something happened and loads of people got hurt.... everyone would be saying 'why didn't they just leave it as it is'.
It's a consequence of an aging ground.
edit: little tweaks to my original reply
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Reply | Richards???
at 12:28 20 Feb 2025
We all laffed back in the day when Winston Bogarde rightly took Chelsea to the cleaners. That was more a case of Chelsea's fault rather than the player but what it shows is their contracts are so watertight the club is fked if the player decides to phone it in and the leagues are full of them. |
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Reply | The power of the Won
at 12:25 20 Feb 2025
Shirt sales in the first month paid for David Beckham's transfer fee from Man Utd to Real Madrid. The money is there if done right. |
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Reply | The power of the Won
at 21:29 19 Feb 2025
Korean fans follow players not clubs so we’re milking it for every penny we can get while he’s here. |
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